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In 2008, voters descended on the polls and placed their hopes for the future of our nation on then-candidate Barack Obama. The promise was for “hope and change” in government, a government that would move our country forward and stop what, by the time President Obama was sworn into office, was a financial runaway train.

Unfortunately, the following months saw the word “stimulus” join our daily lexicon. “Too big to fail” became the catch phrase of the moment as the federal government simultaneously bailed out American auto manufacturers, who had finally been broken by organized labor, and Wall Street banking institutions, which were victims of their own greed.

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