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Harold Volkmer: “So it is all right to take care of them someplace else, but we cannot do it for our own people. We have got to cut them…”

On the recordMarch 16, 1995
So it is all right to take care of them someplace else, but we cannot do it for our own people. We have got to cut them out. Our people have to make all these sacrifices, and no one else does. We are going to take care of the rest of them, but we are not going to take care of our own. Is that correct?
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Harold Volkmer
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the allocation of resources for domestic versus foreign needs.

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