Mr. Hopper, a 52-year-old construction company co-owner, questioned the notion of training talented store workers, noting that nowadays, he no longer needs them to decide what he wants to buy.

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Because these banks don't know, and what the government - what Paulson is saying he wants to do is buy these assets.

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Rather than seeing temporary low price as an opportunity to buy something he will need in the future, he wants to dump what he has.

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