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Joe Crowley: Do you think that we owe a debt to those individuals? Do you think that your company could have survived had America not…

On the recordJuly 18, 2012
Do you think that we owe a debt to those individuals? Do you think that your company could have survived had America not survived, had those soldiers failed in their attempt to maintain our way of life, our capitalist way of life?
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Joe Crowley
Democratic · New York

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Crowley questions the importance of veterans' sacrifices for business survival.

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