Sen. Sanders: Do Republicans Want America to Become a Third World Country?

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The federal Highway Trust Fund is expected to go broke in early August unless Congress comes up with a new source of revenue to augment the federal gasoline tax. If the fund dries up, road and bridge construction projects could be put on hold across the country during the peak of the summer construction season. Altogether, an estimated 112,000 construction projects could be cancelled and 700,000 jobs lost. The Vermont Transportation Agency already has announced that it is poised to delay 38 bridge, rail and road projects.

What do the Republicans in Congress want to do? How much are they prepared to invest in our crumbling infrastructure? “Unbelievably,” said Sen, Bernie Sanders, “the answer is NOTHING. At a time when we have massive income and wealth inequality, and one out of four corporations pays nothing in federal income taxes, the Republicans are rejecting all efforts to raise new revenue to rebuild our country and create jobs.”

Sanders is a member of the Senate public works committee. “For most of our history,” he said, “the United States led the world in transportation innovation, from a network of canals, to the transcontinental railroad to the interstate highway system. These innovations gave our economy a competitive advantage and our workers a decent standard of living. These investments made us the economic leader of the world.

“Unfortunately, however, right-wing Republicans have a different vision. Their anti-government, anti-tax ideology is so extreme that they are prepared to allow America to descend into a Third World infrastructure and, in the process, sabotage our economy and job growth.

“Now is the time for the American people to say NO to Republican extremism and demand that we build a modern and productive infrastructure which supports a growing economy.”

[Hekate]

1. Pretty much my conclusion from the Dubya administration onwards. nt

[Rod Beauvex]

9. It's been happening since the sixties...

..but I think it began in earnest with Reagan.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Yes, of course they do.

Or, more accurately, a feudal society in which most people are penniless serfs who are totally dependent on their aristocratic masters for the tiny pittance they are paid that is just barely enough to keep them alive and working.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

5. +1000. nt

[treestar]

3. They believe their own crap

If the government would get out of the way and the free market prevail, we'd all get rich. Reality is optional for them.

[LiberalElite]

4. Yes. nt

[rhett o rick]

6. The President doesn't argee with Sen Sanders. He isn't concerned about wealth inequality.

We just need to give the middle classa min wage of $10.15 per hour and call it square.

Mr. President, we need to stop and reverse the wealth gap and $10.15 per hour isn't even a good start.

[eShirl]

7. As a colonial power treats its colonies, so they treat their own country

[freshwest]

8. YES! Exercising their liberty to enslave us. GOP = Feudalism.

Note the colors. We are being extorted by robber barons. And the people they are employing. Yes, they can't do it alone. Whether you love or hatef feudalism, you can thank your local Libertarian and GOP grifters.

Regarding the roads, the break down of infrastructure is being done to isolate us because it makes it easier to stea the land. Wonder what took Sanders so long to voice this, as it's been obvious for years.

[Phlem]

10. One thing we can do is

cancel all oil company subsides. Why are we paying these ass hats to ruin our environment on top of the bajillions they're raking right now. We're #1 on oil exports and gas is $4.50 a gallon right now, wtf! Yeah I know Iraq oil fields under siege, etc......

Then maybe we should stop exporting and bring the price down to something reasonable. No?

The oil industry has a main line into the heart and soul of the US and we're all brainwashed to think that oil is the only viable plan.

So the cycle continues.

[KentuckyWoman]

11. NO

They do not care one way or the other. So what if we starve. There are 6 billion other humans they can exploit. So what if we do well enough to eat pie and ice cream every day. Eventually they will suck every single fiber from our bones....... and there is 100 ways to exploit our dead bones.

We are mere losses on their balance sheets.

[glinda]

12. Of course. Drill drill drill, exploit exploit exploit.

[diane in sf]

13. yes