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On the recordOctober 10, 2012
That sense that folks who have contributed to this country but are at the lower ends of the income scale are somehow looking for government to do something for them, or feel some sense of entitlement, is just fundamentally wrong.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Interview with Douglas Brinkley of Rolling Stone

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