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Bernie Sanders: “We bailed out our friends on Wall Street whose dishonesty and greed has resulted in some 17 percent of our people being…”

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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