Sanders Speech Before Bernanke Confirmation Vote

[Meade556]

America is a conservative country my rear.

[AwesomeBeatles]

Business as usual. The rich get much , much richer, and the middle class and poor pay for it.

[mit26chell]

@AwesomeBeatles This is a key characteristic of fiat money and inflation. They are literally designed to cause a vast transfer of wealth from the poor/working middle class to the upper, wealthy class. Inflationary monetary policy *always* erodes, then completely destroys, the middle class of civilizations.

Allowing unregulated competition in money by repealing the legal tender laws would significantly help restore the poor-working middle class, & aid in competitively eliminating the Fed.

[OptOutAffiliate]

Bernanke and everyone who recieved our money ought to give it back. It obviously wasn't needed, as several top members of AIG and Goldman Sachs recieved huge bonuses. We want our money back, and we want our government to stop disregarding the US Constitution, our HIGHEST LAW, that was written by the men who founded this great nation. They are supposed to do as We the People tell them to do, not the other way around.

[slowmanEF]

Good words from Mr. Sanders!

[carlxmorales]

GO,GO Bernie, we got your back.

[Dragonfly6160]

A continuation of Bush policies that you can believe in.

[IcedEarth426]

Senator, I give you credit for having the guts to stand up to Bernanke, but getting a new Fed Chairman isn't going to save the middle class. The problem is the Fed itself. The fact that the US Government has to rely on a PRIVATE BANK to produce it's money and then borrow it with interest on top is asinine. When an institution like the Fed is constantly increasing the money supply (and creating it out of thin air, with nothing of value to back it) there is always going to be inflation.

[mit26chell]

@IcedEarth426 It's a system, created by6 men, only 2 of whom being public officials. The others were: Frank A Vanderlip, president of the National City Bank of New York (most powerful bank in 1910) & representative of William Rockefeller & the international investment house Kuhn, Loeb, & Company, Henry P Davidson, a senior partner of J.P. Morgan, Benjamin Strong, head of J.P. Morgan's Bankers Trust Co, and Paul M Warburg, a representative of the Rothschild banking dynasty in England and France.

[jacobworth]

Why do you worship the founding fathers like almighty demigods?

[joeneedstosleep]

I wish every Senator was like this guy.

[W1F3B34T3R]

Mr. Sanders is an awesome dude.

[whereismybailouttv]

I'll give Sanders credit on one thinf. His office is the ONLY Congressional one where people actually treat you like a human being (and not a number).

[whereismybailouttv]

What everyone who's pissed off about this needs to do is non-violent civil disobedience (from the comfort of your own home).

All Congresspeople have phones, email and faxes, correct? How d you get their attention? Tie all of these up (and don't back down) until they act.

This is NOT rocket science. Why do you think God invented VOIP calling (ex. Skype)? It's endless and thankless activism for no pay, no glory, no syndicated talk show, etc.

Now, how come nobody wants to do this?

[whereismybailouttv]

Party and maintaining party power come first. At all times.

[whereismybailouttv]

This means it's a perpetual money machine for everyone. The politicians. The firms. The MSM. The pundits who write books about how this is so hard to understand. And more.

[whereismybailouttv]

Bernie's wrong. it's not so hard to understand.

Goldman Sachs and the other banks are some of the most powerful lobbyists in D.C. Thse firms continue to pay millions in "campaign donations" to the top two parties. Which means you won't do anything to piss off your donors.

And these parties know that people will bitch about it. But (unlike other countries), nobody will go anything here because "that's politics".

[frc1968]

@shooterca51 Bernanke took office on Feb 1, 2006. Sanders took office as a senator on Jan 3, 2007 and therefore could NOT have voted on the first Bernanke confirmation. And as for the Fed being created by "progressives" Woodrow Wilson was definitely NOT a progressive.

[bigzoyt]

<<<Vermonter who knows what true patriotism is, thanks Bernie for having the Balls to stand against the Tyrants of Wall St and Virginia Ave......

[sirus10]

we cant pay off the debt ever no mater how much tax they charge you all that crap paying off the debt is crap it will nvr happen we must destroy the creature from jeckyl island that simple andrew jackson did it he had the same problem he solved it they way we can get the new money out kennedys executive order is still good called eo 11110 its time

[No3Patriot]

@sirus10 I agree. The Federal Reserve has to die. It is our debt based monetary system that causing this country to sink deeper into the abyss. It is also reason we have so many LIARS in government--its because the system itself is a big fat LIE. It causes people to be lazy, stupid, irresponsible, greedy, immature and dependent on the government.

If there is a Satan, it the Federal Reserve. System.

[sirus10]

you see you ppl are wacked why should we pay protection money the 2%vad tax that the stupid neocons like glenn beck want us to pay why dont we just pay the burgler some money that robbed us its simple and the nerocons and the demorats wont save you the only way out is end the fed open a prison max security just for tyrants awaiting there trials for robbing us blind arrest them all put them in thats what you have to do to criminals you dont pay the mob protection money so he can rob us again

[Gioxtream]

I am so sad to see my country go down....I totally lost hope in America.

America on their knees soon.And wait until the president of Iran and his big anouncement on America on feb 11.

[H8RbyN8URE]

Corporate cannibals. Legalized criminals.

[buddcinder]

Sad and there is no avenue ro correct this shit.

Bye bye America.

This should have been stopped when they started moving the jobs to China. Now its far too late to fix anything.

GREED KILLED THE USA!!

[buddcinder]

There is no hope for a society that puts the criminals that screwed up back in place.

You deserve everything you get.

Your politicians are twisting the knife in your back.

So much for the greatest country in the world. And it happened from within. No outside enamy, just crooked politicians and bankers.

Jefferson was right.

[ReliableInsider]

"If they're 'too big to fail', then they're too big to exist."

We should be marching through the streets shouting that with torches and pitchforks.

I can't believe we've entered into a civil war between well-paid criminals and honest citizens, but that seems to be the case.

[johnny718bravo]

God bless Bernie Sanders!

[kryptoart87]

Sanders/Kucinich 2012!!!!!!!!!

[PopeKurt]

I'd join that campaign.

[kryptoart87]

@PopeKurt

My presidential perfect presidential race in 2012 would be between:

Bernie Sanders/ Dennis Kucinich VS Ron Paul/Alan Grayson VS Ralph Nader/Jesse Ventura

No matter who wins WE win

[MazdakTV]

@kryptoart87

Ron Paul has some whacko financial policies...

He is quite right-wing. The only point I agree on with him is foreign policy...

[PopeKurt]

I have to disagree with you on Ron Paul, but I've learned my lesson from the last election on being openly critical of him on the internet.

[sirus10]

defently gonna be in there for another term mr saunders your the greatist

[unholyevili]

Thanks Mr. Sanders for speaking the truth once again.

[PFB1994]

Bernanke as head of the Fed again, let's appoint a Civll War reenactor as head of the Joint Chiefs, while we are appointing people who have no concept of the reality on the ground.

[TainaAtheist1]

Most Americans have more economic knowledge in their thumbs than would 500 Ben Bernanke's. As long as people like Bernanke are rewarded for failure, I have no incentive to work ethically for my income.

[Shameonfed]

I don't agree with everything that Mr. Sanders believes in. Nor do I agree with everything Mr. Kucinich believes in, but they are patriots. The founding fathers did not all agree, but they DID agreed on one issue - America. Thank you Mr. Sanders for speaking the will of the people.

[MazdakTV]

@Shameonfed

Glorifying "The Founding Fathers" is ill-advised.

In fact, the constitution of USA is undemocratic.

The senate is undemocratic...

You should read up on Madison (Noam Chomsky has some info on it).

[No3Patriot]

@MazdakTV I couldn't agree more. The Founding Fathers were hypocrites. It was propaganda that put them on a pedestal and in the spotlight. Then the propagandists hired people just like them to write our in our history books about how great they were.

Boy, if I only had a time machine, I'd go back in time and shoot everyone of them

[MazdakTV]

@No3Patriot

Thomas Jefferson & Benjamin Franklin weren't so bad... But you'd have my approval of killing Madison ^.-

Who we really should have killed early on was Ayn Rand & Milton Friedman & Keynes...

And maybe even Nietzsche.

[No3Patriot]

Benjamin Franklin was a liar. In his response to the question below, he implied that the people already had a Republican form of government and it was their sole responsiblity to keep it.

"Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?

B. Franklin: A Republic, if you can keep it."

Had the United States Government kept its Article 4 section 1 guarantee to the States a Republican form of Gov, we might have been able to keep it.

[MazdakTV]

@No3Patriot

Well... the question is: "What is a republic?"...

[No3Patriot]

@MazdakTV That answer can be found at lysanderspooner . com /node39

Start at section III

III.

Another proof that the general government must determine for itself, independently of the State governments, who are, and who are not, citizens of the United States, is found in that provision of the constitution, which declares that the United States shall guarantee to every State of this Union a republican form of government.

[No3Patriot]

@MazdakTV

I gave you the wrong website address. Here is the correct one:

lysanderspooner. org/node/39

[TheTruePooka]

Actually, Bernanke wasn't just incompetent. He was willfully criminal at stealing taxpayer money and giving it to the bankers.

We all now know that what he did was not necessary. At the very least, the manner he did it wasn't necessary.

Care2Petition website and sign the;

"Hey Bailout Bankers! We Want Our Money Back!" petition.

[mit26chell]

@TheTruePooka It's not even 'was,' he's STILL robbing the taxpayers and this country, day by day, and in broad daylight!

[mit26chell]

@IcedEarth426 These two public officials, knowing well at the time that there was a strong distaste for ANY type of central bank throughout the country, especially among liberal democrats like William Jennings Bryan, purposely met in private with the Money Trust of the nation. The people were seeking legislation AGAINST the money trust, so the money trust, with the help of two public officials, disguised themselves in the Federal Reserve Act, lied to the public & Congress, and enslaved the ppl.

[mit26chell]

@IcedEarth426 Point being, when you realize the extreme lengths these six men actually went to, to travel to Jeckyll Island, GA, in order to secretly draft up this plan, you quickly see that their actions alone should have been criminal. For God's sake, they didn't even go by their real names on the train, took a private car on the train, were instructed not to dine with one another the night before their departure, were instructed to pretend like they didn't know one another at the station, etc

[Mr16Chevy]

70 to 30 vote on his confirmation are you fucking kidding me. Once again proof these fucking guys were bought along time ago. Enjoy it while you can you greedy fuckers because you will be judged.

[bungerman1000]

sadly somehow that was the most of all time.

[FriedDaisy]

The United Corporate States of America-- Wall Street, Big Business & the Banksters-- are a direct threat to our country's ability to maintain a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, & secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves & our posterity in that, like vacuous black holes, they're being allowed to suck off 80% of our wealth & resource to benefit only 2% of the population. REGULATE the @! out of them!