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Bernie Sanders: “I think in Vermont, and I am sure in Philadelphia, most people do not think it makes a lot of sense every year to be…”

On the recordOctober 27, 2009
I think in Vermont, and I am sure in Philadelphia, most people do not think it makes a lot of sense every year to be spending hundreds of billions of dollars making the sheiks in Saudi Arabia a little bit richer.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Sanders questions the rationale behind U.S. spending on foreign oil.

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