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Tim Ryan: “How many times do we hear from our friends on the Republican side that government needs to run like a business, it needs…”

On the recordMarch 1, 2006
How many times do we hear from our friends on the Republican side that government needs to run like a business, it needs to be flexible and this and that? This is an atrocity. This business would be bankrupt if you ran it the way we are running FEMA. If that was a business, it would be bankrupt. The war in Iraq, in that execution, the administration of that war, after we conquered Baghdad, that business would be bankrupt. It would go belly up.
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Tim Ryan
Democratic · Ohio

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