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Jim DeMint: “I think it is starting to hit all of us in the face what government-managed economies feel like.”

On the recordJune 2, 2009
I think it is starting to hit all of us in the face what government-managed economies feel like.
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Jim DeMint
Republican · South Carolina

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DeMint comments on the reality of government involvement in bankruptcy.

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