Bernie Sanders Blasts The GOP With Reality: It Wasn’t Immigrants Who Caused The Great Recession

[DonViejo]

By: Jason Easley
Thursday, September, 3rd, 2015, 5:00 pm

While being interviewed by the Des Moines Register editorial board, Sen. Bernie Sanders slapped Republicans the reality of their failed policies while calling out their racist attacks on immigrants.

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While speaking to the Des Moines Register editorial board, Sen. Sanders said:

In the year 2015, candidates for President Of The United States should not be making racist remarks about people who come from Latin America or from Mexico. I would have hoped that we have gone beyond that. I would also hope that we would not be engaging in demagoguery against undocumented people in this country.

If tomorrow, every person who in this country who is undocumented left this country, your agricultural system would likely collapse as well as many other aspects of our economy.

So for a start, it was not undocumented people in this country whose greed and recklessness on Wall Street drove us into the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression.

It wasn’t undocumented people in this country who got us into a war in Iraq that we never should have gotten into.

It wasn’t undocumented people in this country who gave huge tax breaks to billionaires and are fighting to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. And I think they’re being used as a punching bag, and I resent that.

We can have differences of opinion on how we proceed in terms of immigration and treating undocumented people, but let’s not demagogue the issue. Let’s have the courage to stand up to the people who really have power in this country. The Wall Street people and the corporate America people, and not just beat on people who are without legal status.

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Full article + video:
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/09/03/bernie-sanders-blasts-gop-reality-immigrants-caused-great-recession.html

[LuvNewcastle]

1. Tell it like it is.

People who live in cities, especially, should be outraged by all this anti-immigrants talk. A lot of urban dwellers would fucking starve without them, and people in the rural areas would have no one to help them get their product out of the ground and on the shelves.

[Betty Karlson]

2. I love this man's righteousness.

Unfetteredly administrated truth. Thanks to Mr. Sanders for speaking out for those who have little to no voices.

[J_J_]

13. [phone]

nt

[NCjack]

3. Our problems: CEO thieving thieves and GOP lying liars. /nt

[Duppers]

4. K & R

[Yallow]

5. I Know To Admire Bernie

When he starts saying what I have been saying all along.

Beating down on undocumented immigrants is evil.

It is the kind of crap the most evil men have done throughout history.

(See I didn't say Hitler)

Our problems are caused by hoarding, not immigrants.

Hoarding, and having oligarchs run our government for their own benefit.

And Iraq?

Saddam was no threat, except to oil companies who wanted to control more
resources with Cheney's evil hand.

Saddam was no threat. Period. Thousands died in Iraq for no good reason. Like
that is ok in Republican world. 5,000 were our own troops. All because of lies.

Republicans are evil.

Period.

I just wonder if they were born evil, or if they one day decided
"I will install hate, greed, and intolerance in everything I do" or something.

Go Bernie.

Keep telling it like it is.

They will not be able to handle it.

I want to watch their heads explode for myself.

[Dustlawyer]

6. +1!!!! ^^^^This^^^^!!!

[libodem]

15. Totally agree with dustlawyer

You got it 100% correct!

[senz]

16. +1000 Complete agreement.

[SmittynMo]

7. Bernie is so awesome, in so many ways

I don't see how he can lose. Sooner or later, "Corporate media" will have to cover him. The people have the right to know.

[SoapBox]

8. I love Bernie!

[Fred Sanders]

9. Immigration and immigrants have always been the targets of demagoguery by evil men with ambition.

The racism and bigotry behind that demagoguery, the GOP, must be attacked relentlessly and endlessly and constantly until they are fully exposed for public view.

This is Bernie Sanders. This is Hillary Clinton. This IS the Democratic Party and on this we are all united.

And this is the week to celebrate what has been accomplished to date, and a lot just this week, so spare little time for the gloom and doom...at least for this week?

[L0oniX]

10. Nailed it again.

[rhett o rick]

11. His popularity is growing every day. American know we need change from the status quo

that is controlled by the 1% and their puppets.

[stage left]

12. Republicans are using immigration as a distraction for the easily distracted.

Once again Sanders reveals the man(men) behind the curtain.

[libdem4life]

14. I hope and pray that the non-voters, for whatever reason, will be reached

and come out and vote. It will take someone like Bernie to do it. If it works, it's going to be an amazing time in our country.

[PatrickforO]

17. Bernie just keeps getting better and better.

He opens his mouth and truth comes out while the rest of them vomit out lies, half-lies and poll-tested mumblings.

[BeanMusical]

18. +1000

[jfern]

19. And rather than going to prison

the Wall Street bankers who destroyed the global economy did things like get elected governor of Ohio.

[YabaDabaNoDinoNo]

20. Truth!

[LWolf]

21. So many of us have been waiting

a lifetime to hear a potential POTUS speak straightforward truth.