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What I'm saying is America has a job deficit because hundreds of thousands of jobs went elsewhere. Not because [Barack] Obama raised your taxes. He, in fact, lowered them. They are lower.

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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