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On the recordMarch 9, 2011
If we have picked winners and losers in this country, 20 years ago, we picked finance as the winner and manufacturing as the loser.
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Mark Kirk
Republican · Illinois

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Mark Kirk critiques past economic policies favoring finance over manufacturing.

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