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Scott Garrett: When a private business loses money, when the institution that we are all in right here is losing billions of dollars…

On the recordJune 18, 2012
When a private business loses money, when the institution that we are all in right here is losing billions of dollars literally every day--there was no shortage of outrage from my friends on the other side of the aisle when the private sector loses money.
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Scott Garrett
New Jersey

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Garrett questions the lack of outrage over private sector losses compared to public sector issues.

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