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Chuck Schumer: “When a country, year after year, consumes more than it produces, imports more than it exports, borrows more than it…”

On the recordFebruary 25, 2009
When a country, year after year, consumes more than it produces, imports more than it exports, borrows more than it saves, the chickens always come home to roost.
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Chuck Schumer
Democratic · New York

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Schumer discusses the consequences of economic imbalance in the country.

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