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On the recordJanuary 7, 2009
we will pass on to our children in the very near future, at about the end of 4 years from now, a debt-to-GDP ratio which is unsustainable
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Kent Conrad
Democratic · North Dakota

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Kent Conrad discusses the impending unsustainable debt-to-GDP ratio for future generations.

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