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In the best known blunder, Greg Mankiw, the Chairman of the White
House Council of Economic Advisers, told reporters that outsourcing
American jobs to other countries is "a good thing" because "more things
are tradable than in the past." .....

Asked why Americans should help Iraq achieve universal health coverage
when we still don't have it here, Thompson explained: "Even if you don't
have health insurance, you are still taken care of in America. That
certainly would be defined as universal coverage."