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Tommy Thompson: “If you would have taken my plan back in 2005, we wouldn't be…”

Featuring: Tommy Thompson, Conservative | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 04:48

You know, there's so many of those individual people that are putting their lives at stake and we don't have the capacity to take care of them. And If you would have taken my plan back in 2005, we wouldn't be in the situation we are today. But I can't criticize any person because Congress, you know, probably said they had other things to put their money in. And lo and behold, we didn't Take care of what should have been done. (04:48–04:55)

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Asserts that following his 2005 plan would have prevented the current situation.

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