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On the recordApril 3, 2016
This campaign is listening to the African-American community. What they are telling me is how does it happened that we have trillions of dollars to spend on a war in Iraq that we never should have gotten into but somehow we don't have the funds to rebuild inner cities in America, including Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Senator Sanders addresses the disparity in funding for war versus urban development.

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