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Ann Marie Buerkle: “We have reached a point in this country--and when I listen to your testimony, Mr. Pollock, what you went through with…”

On the recordApril 19, 2011
We have reached a point in this country--and when I listen to your testimony, Mr. Pollock, what you went through with all of your audits--we begin to wonder what's happened to the United States of America in our free enterprise system and our capitalist system, where we have an understanding that the government can't create jobs. It is the private sector.
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Ann Marie Buerkle
New York

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Buerkle questions the impact of regulations on the free enterprise system.

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