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Kit Bond: Throwing billions of taxpayer dollars at the banks without cleansing the toxic assets is simply throwing money down a…

On the recordJune 1, 2009
Throwing billions of taxpayer dollars at the banks without cleansing the toxic assets is simply throwing money down a rat hole.
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Kit Bond
Republican · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Criticism of the government's approach to the financial crisis and the PPIP program.

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