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But while it's a rude question, it's also an easily answerable one. So how did the two senators respond?
Edwards's response was the most disappointing.
"I think the financial markets are an important component of trying to figure out what it is we need to do about the fact that we have 47 million people without health care, 37 million people who wake up in poverty every day," he said.
(Read the transcript here.)
Edwards doesn't answer the question, but merely redirects the inquiry toward the populist message he's undoubtedly been honing over the last four long years.
What he might have offered is the notion that it's the financial markets, hedge funds and capitalism in general that we have to thank for the abundant prosperity that all Americans, even those who "wake up in poverty every day" have come to enjoy.
As we wrote back in 2001, it's the American businessperson to whom the entire world should be grateful.
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