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Tim Ryan: “Like you said, what is our benefit? We get to fund our deficit and that is about it. We do not go belly up. But what is…”

On the recordMarch 1, 2006
Like you said, what is our benefit? We get to fund our deficit and that is about it. We do not go belly up. But what is our benefit? We do not have more money to invest in education as Ms. Wasserman Schultz pointed out. We do not have more money to invest for our veterans. This is money that is going to pay the interest on the money that we are borrowing.
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