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On the recordJune 2, 2009
You think if we have a private institution the size of $5.6 trillion, that there is not an implicit statement that the United States Government has to come in and rescue it when it fails or else it brings the entire system down?
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Paul E. Kanjorski
Pennsylvania

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Kanjorski questions the need for government intervention in large private institutions.

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