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‘You Are Being Asked to Choose Between Bread and Freedom ... the American People Have Chosen Freedom’

  • 9/29/08 at 2:21 PM

Michigan Republican Thaddeus McCotter paraphrased Dostoevsky when explaining his "Nay" vote to the Journal. "These interests who want your money threaten your prosperity," he said of Wall Street. "You are being asked to choose between bread and freedom, and I suggest the American people have chosen freedom." [WSJ]

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