The burden is being carried almost exclusively by the American military and the American taxpayer. And we have been joined by 2 colleagues, our friend, the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Larson), and, again, one of the original members of the Iraq Watch, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Strickland). I yield, since he is one of the originals I have to yield first of course, to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Strickland) and welcome him.
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I think it says something about our system, our political system and how, you know, how there are powerful interests that oftentimes, I believe, don't really understand their own interests in the long term.
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God forbid they have a total collapse on the real estate market, we are going to be back to where we were in September of 2008.
We didn't get here because of government. We got here because government didn't do its job.
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