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Bill Delahunt: “We didn't get here because of government. We got here because government didn't do its job.”

On the recordDecember 10, 2009
We didn't get here because of government. We got here because government didn't do its job.
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Bill Delahunt
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Delahunt argues that the housing crisis was due to government negligence, not overregulation.

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