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On the recordJanuary 27, 2010
We bailed out our friends on Wall Street whose dishonesty and greed has resulted in some 17 percent of our people being unemployed or underemployed, a total economic disaster.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Sanders condemns the Wall Street bailout's impact on unemployment.

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