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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said were living in an ugly moment in American history because of income inequality in the country.
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We have right now in real terms almost 13 percent of our people are unemployed. We have not extended unemployment benefits, long-term unemployment benefits. So you have folks out there now who have virtually no income coming in. They have families. They have kids. How are they going to eat? We have veterans out there who are trying to get into the food stamp program, Sanders said.
So to me what youre looking at is an ugly kind of class warfare where the people on top want more and more and more. And theyre pushing down in an incredibly terrible way the most vulnerable people in our country.
Tax breaks to billionaires and cuts to nutrition programs for kids. If a kid does not have enough food to eat, how is that child going to do well in school? He or she is not going do well in school, he continued.
So youre attacking the most vulnerable people in this country. There is a rise in poverty among senior citizens, elderly people. They dont have enough to eat. What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we cant take care of the elderly and the children?
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/03/26/sanders-were-living-in-a-very-ugly-moment-in-american-history/
MindMover
(5,016 posts)TBF
(32,090 posts)it's really very disgusting.
polichick
(37,152 posts)dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)A captured one. Deep state. To a large extent, power does not change hands with elections, the same invisible forces are behind the new bosses. And they are no friend of equitable income and wealth distribution.
K & R for Bernie, who speaks the truth.
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)Phlem
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