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Josh Hawley: “We built the greatest and most prosperous economy in the…”

Featuring: Josh Hawley, Republican | U.S. Senate Missouri

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AI and America's Moral Covenant with Senator Josh Hawley

Published | Video Starts at 08:01

By that vision we've shaped our whole society and our economics. And that history is relevant now for a reason. I know there are those, particularly in my party, who say that We built the greatest and most prosperous economy in the history of the earth by letting nature take its course, by letting the free market and the gods of capitalism do what they will. That's simply not so. We have chosen time and again to shape our economy no less than our society by the moral vision of liberty. We have chosen to put people before money. (08:01–08:13)

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Asserts that the U.S. economy was not built solely by free market forces.

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