Bernie Sanders Tells You A Secret The GOP Would Rather You Didn't Know

[Playinghardball]

Found on Facebook

[broiles]

1. I love me some Bernie Sanders.

[hifiguy]

2. Bernie always tells it like it is.

As Harry Truman once said, "I don't give them hell. I tell the truth and they think it's hell."

[eyewall]

17. I hadn't heard that one before.

I like it, and it certainly fits Senator Sanders.

[Broderick]

3. That is chilling that 400 have the wealth of the bottom 150 MILLION

[Rex]

4. It is what the GOP wanted to happen.

And so it did. They call it 'trickle down' but it is more like 'get pissed on' economics. Basically, the GOP stands for a plutocracy and hates our democracy and totally hates a well regulated market - it makes it harder to steal from taxpayers.

[Martin Eden]

8. The 1% wanted it to happen, then they bankrolled politicians to make it happen.

The GOP wants whatever their corporate masters tell them.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. What's worse is

that it used to be only a handful of billionaires on the Forbes 400 list (13 when it was first published in 1982). Now all 400 and then some, are billionaires, with a combined worth (as of 2010) of almost $1.4 trillion.

[Broderick]

6. Simply staggering to me

How much would that be for every American? 1.4 Trillion? 4,666 dollars at 300 million? And that is just the top 400.

My math might be off.

[digidigido]

16. That could be because the bottom 150 MILLION don't have squat

[Beartracks]

19. And then their apologists in the GOP have the gall...

... to act amazed that so many Americans don't even pay Federal income tax, and question why the rich and the corporations should pony up more until all those other millions of people start paying "their fair share." Here's the rub: most of those people don't pay taxes because they don't earn enough money, which really speaks to two things: those that are unemployed need to be HIRED, and those that are already working need to be PAID MORE. The goal: get everyone up into the income levels where they can pay taxes again. The rich/corporations need to either HIRE people and increase INCOMES, or they can PAY MORE TAXES. Their choice. They should not be allowed to avoid both.

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[Moosepoop]

25. +1

You summed it up perfectly!

[CAPHAVOC]

26. Eliminate the limits on Social Security tax and Medicare tax.

And give Medicare to all. Obamacare and Romneycare are not the answer. Defending them is a loser.

[pansypoo53219]

7. DUH!

THEY only cry class warfare WHEN WE FIGHT BACK.

[lark]

9. Bernie for president

He's not afraid that someone might not like him if he takes a stand and tells it like it is.

[MissDeeds]

14. I agree completely

We need Bernie Sanders, or someone who shares his values and integrity, in the White House.

[CAPHAVOC]

27. Wish he would run.

We need people who are honest in there. K street is our worst problem.

[JNelson6563]

10. Well said, sir!

[progressoid]

11. That's not a secret.

[Iliyah]

12. The tea brats

and supporting the 1%.

[gopiscrap]

13. Right on Bernie!!!

[barbtries]

15. good find nt

[eyewall]

18. I remember 40 years ago it was said that $3 billion could end world hunger.

I don't know how much it would take today but the IMF recently disclosed there is $17 trillion hidden in Cayman Island accounts. That number doesn't include the money squirreled away in Switzerland. The insane acquisition of personal wealth takes money out of the pool of resources for the entire world. It's a serious issue, for America and for the world.

[a simple pattern]

23. I believe that it has gone beyond simple psychotic greed.

It is now about mass murder by war, slavery, environmental poisoning, and starvation.
These amoral, nihilistic, inbred fucks have decided that they are the future of the human race.

[CAPHAVOC]

28. Real Hunger

I have seen it in Haiti. It isn't pretty.

[eyewall]

29. As the money flows away from where it's needed

and into private vaults where it will do no one any good, the element of sadism increases.

It's like there are people for whom this is theater.

[WillyT]

20. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

[unkachuck]

21. K&R....n/t

[tex-wyo-dem]

22. Love Bernie! Speaking truth as always....

The incredible irony is that the RW screams about the left wanting "wealth redistribution," but the reality is we have been in a mode of wealth redistribution for more than 30yrs...problem is it's all been redistributed upwards to the 1%.

[patrice]

24. Howard Zinn says it's older than that. Perhaps it's more deliberate in the last 30 yrs.