“They're going to put y'all back in chains”

— Joe Biden

Criticizing Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, and the Republican speech, campaign speech http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/vp-biden-says-republicans-are-going-to-put-yall-back-in-chains/ in Danville, Virginia (August 14, 2012).
2010s
Context: We got a real clear picture of what they all value. Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the — he said in the first hundred days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, 'unchain Wall Street'. They're going to put y'all back in chains.

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