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westerebus

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28. What's $80 million between friends?

Sat May 25, 2013, 08:59 AM

May 2013

We're talking Chicago politics here. The WH can't fill the National Labor Relations Board, but, they can find time to put this nomination forward?
Well the good news is the next recession is scheduled for the spring of 2015.

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