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5. Ben Bernanke to Congress: Get America's fiscal house in order. Please. (+video)

Fri Jun 8, 2012, 04:39 PM

Jun 2012

SO, NOW HE'S ASKING....WHERE WAS HE 10 YEARS AGO?

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2012/0607/Ben-Bernanke-to-Congress-Get-America-s-fiscal-house-in-order.-Please.-video

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told lawmakers Thursday that the Fed alone can't put Americans back to work. 'I'd be much more comfortable if Congress would take some of this burden,' he said, bluntly...

Members of Congress had plenty of things to ask Ben Bernanke on Thursday, but he also had a plea to them: H-E-L-P!
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