Sanders Op-Ed: Billions for Bailouts! Who Pays? -- 09/19/2008 By Senator Bernie

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Sanders Op-Ed: Billions for Bailouts! Who Pays? -- 09/19/2008

By Senator Bernie Sanders

The current financial crisis facing our country has been caused by the extreme right-wing economic policies pursued by the Bush administration. These policies, which include huge tax breaks for the rich, unfettered free trade and the wholesale deregulation of commerce, have resulted in a massive redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the very wealthy.

The middle class has really been under assault. Since President Bush has been in office, nearly 6 million Americans have slipped into poverty, median family income for working Americans has declined by more than $2,000, more than 7 million Americans have lost their health insurance, over 4 million have lost their pensions, foreclosures are at an all time high, total consumer debt has more than doubled, and we have a national debt of over $9.7 trillion dollars.

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1. We're going to blow past $10T straight to $11T.

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2. Bernie Sanders...

By far ..the best Senator we have as a nation.

#1 ..nobody is above Berine, they are all below.