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Bernie Sanders: “We have put as taxpayers $10 billion to bail him out, and we have no say about whether or not he should stay on the job?”

On the recordJanuary 7, 2009
We have put as taxpayers $10 billion to bail him out, and we have no say about whether or not he should stay on the job?
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Sanders questions the lack of accountability for executives after a taxpayer bailout.

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