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"What we collectively decide about how to bail out our economy, how to pull our economy out of a ditch and what rules we put in place to make sure this problem does not happen again, will shape our country for the next 50 years. This is it."
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Source: Interview with Ruth Conniff, progressive.org. December 27, 2009.
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