So glad I finally got to hear this! Every time I heard budget plans, I'd get the old Monty Python "Dennis Moore" song in my head. "He steal from the poor, gives to the rich. Stupid bitch!"
But it is too risky not to stay in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is very dangerous to have soldiers at home with their families instead of being off at war getting sexually assaulted and traumatic brain injury.
I am the poor the dingakings and I am dying and I tired of stupid comments that are foisted my way as means to get me to either change my mind or argue with me..geez I didn't hurt anyone, I simply responded to the stimuli presented, now what?
Now even moderate conservatives are becomming concerned about the out of control greed of those at the top and how most people are suffering because of it.
@UseDaForce I think it will be a much different situation compared to the French revolution, I mean our government is much more complex and our country so much bigger I think we will see factoring and splintering rather than a united front against the rich and the people in Washington who support them...but that's just my opinion
History will wind up repeating itself at this rate. Anyone remember what happened in france when they completely ignored the common people and forced the poor into a corner with no way out? ...it didn't end well... for the wealthy.
To me, government is designed to serve the interests of the PEOPLE. Corporations are not people, and the wealthy are the MINORITY of the people... Simple interpretation, but quite true.
Half the country doesn't even pay taxes, smh at people continuing to act like the government needs to do MORE for the poor. Work in a grocery store and see food stamps in action. Work in the public school system and see who is on public assistance.
@lococow33: Most people work and they are taxed from their paychecks. Tell the wealthy to hire (they have the money to do it) so the county won't have to give out food stamps.
Yes they want to cut medicare remove some money from heap make meds more cost for the elderly and disabled . I know some that had to cut back on there meds where coats over sweater since heap only give 500 which only buys 159 gallons of fuel oil they should change it to get enough oil to last at least 1/2 the season thats not asking much and they want to reduce the little they get now.
Lets call it what it is "Class Warfare" replicans say it is... and there right!!!! Soooo they want to "Transform Medicare & Medicade"... wellllll let's really transform it.... make it "SINGLE PAYER!!!"....
Unbelievable! Not ONE PENNY from the corporations and their selfish investors, because they feel it is more important to feed the money monster rather then care for their fellow human beings. They should be ashamed to be called men.
If we could find out where the 400 most wealthy and the Pentagon generals live, we could use mortars to bomb their homes and slaughter them. This is war. The time for talk has long passed.
They are killing us and our loved ones with war and nuclear pollution and they are stealing our money to give to
Funny to watch the those with no contextual sense of history, or even a rudimentary understanding of economics, use words they do not understand, to advocate against their own interests, in favor for those that wish them dead.
This man you hate, fights for your well being, justly and with integrity, for no great personal gain, and you do nothing to deserve it. Participate in your ''freedumb'', or step aside and let people brighter than you work things out.
We have several wars going on. Traditionally, when a nation goes to war, there is sacrifice. What are we sacrificing? Why do we have tax breaks when we have been at war for a decade now? Just curious...
I am not for giving tax breaks for the rich and I am not on either party side but I also understand that the goverment is broke and 40 cent of every dollar the goverment spends is borrowed money. How or where is the money going to come from to keep all the the programs going. Are we going to get hit with higher taxes to pay for them? How can we spend money we don't have? There has to be some common sense nothing is free. Give us jobs not handouts!
Because taxcuts and handouts to the bankers from the piggy bank of the poor will somehow magiaclly create jobs, and those jobs will automatically trickle down to the poor and the old that will pay taxes from their jobs. Old people and poor and the unemployed working?
Oh, dear!
I wonder how else the GOP is using their logics, or lack of thereof. Except for medicare for anyone else but themselves is commie...
Mr. Sanders, thank you for standing up for VT, for the people, and for social responsibility. I truly wish that others would stop trying to pander to their own pockets, try and make as much as they can before this ship sinks and leave us without anything to keep us afloat. The Tea Party says they stand for what is truly American. The founders of our nation, from the moment they got on ships to leave England, would be appalled. Empires fall this way and we're repeating history.
The BIG LIE is that the republicans have a solution for the debt crisis we face. Under their plan the debt STILL EXPLODES to 20 TRILLION!!! WAKE UP!!!!! Do your homework! Do the damn MATH! Under the Ryan Plan we're still at 20 trillion in debt, do the damn math on that interest! Not only does it do nothing to solve the debt, but it destroys Medicare. If Paul Ryans 'solution' is so great why not enact this medicare voucher system NEXT YEAR, why wait 10 years? The Ryan plan is a BIG LIE.....
I live in a state where mansions overlook the ghetto. People don't live downtown anymore, instead they bull doze my state forest and build their country clubs up there. Then we give them money in the hopes that they'll create jobs. They take that money and move their businesses out of the poor cities that need those jobs, cut down some more orchards and parks and set up shop far away. It's like a ghost town here, and we're always in recession, no matter what's going on in the rest of the country
Bernie Says No Deal to College Aid Cuts; No Deal to Cuts to Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, and Weatherization and No Deal to $1.6 Billion in EPA Cuts
Bernie Says No Deal to College Aid Cuts; No Deal to Cuts to Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, and Weatherization and No Deal to $1.6 Billion in EPA Cuts
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Poor people do not create jobs.
You could confiscate all (100 percent) of the money & property of everyone making over 100 thousand a year & it would only run the government a few months. The problem is SPENDING, not revenue.
Capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. Socialism (like Bernie Sanders likes) is the equal sharing of misery.
America is equality of opportunity NOT equality of outcome. Bad choices have consequences.
@urbanpanhandler America is equality of opportunity??? Are you FN serious.. So everyone who is middle class and below make bad choices???.. You must be a comedian.. but not a very funny one.. I for one would not make a BAD choice to go see your show..
Yes equality of opportunity. Where else can thousands educate themselves & be the first in their families to get to college? Many a success story has risen from the jaws of poverty. Hard work sacrifice & good decisions overcome all obstacles.
@urbanpanhandler The wealthy aren't creating jobs. So what's your solution? Let everyone starve, freeze to death, die in agony, for what purpose? So that a small handful of super-wealthy individuals can continue to enjoy the practice of manufacturing money? Why is it that the free-market types only think in binary, that it's either/or, with no compromise, no innovation, and no way to consider the general welfare? Oh, right. I forgot. You're all social darwinists.
I never said I want anyone to starve I am simply putting the numbers out there FROM THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE.
The free market is the great equalizer. People will do better if they make decisions not based on having safety nets. Even a mouse will learn how to run through a maze if there is a reward at the end.
@cacherry1 simple but almost accurate ..politician ='s a small spineless cock roach like animal that feeds on the hosts leftovers, they really are stealing from the poor. And how is the Obama plan gonna be paid for if we are cutting what is already in place?... It will not be and the 56 million that were supposed to be covered will not be.
@MsJustanotherhuman YOU ARE ALREADY - ALREADY - ALREADY (!!!!) paying for health care for indigent and poor!! Good God, WHEN are you people going to get some brains??! The Fed reimburses hospitals for ER visits by poor ppl. How much does THAT cost? Versus a regular doctor visit? You need to think beyond Fox!
@cacherry1 That's exactly right. But don't tell anyone. The Titanic is going down and there aren't enough life boats, Period. We've screwed up this planet and soon there will not be enough natural resources to support our behavior. So who do we need to get rid of? You guessed it. People are being weeded out as we speak.
@urbanpanhandler You think this guy is peddling socialism? You should turn off the corporate news media, pick up a book and find out what socialism is. Look at the list of problems our dependence on the upper class has given America just in the past decade. So far this past year, the private sector has made record profits due to the TARP, and yet your so called "job creators" haven't put the jobs back on, and if they do, just move them overseas. Feudalism isn't democracy dude.
What happens? You die. But, according to Republicans, as long as the Koch brothers and Paris Hilton get more unnecessary millions of dollars, everything is fine and dandy.
The United States as we know it will soon cease to exist. The Middle Class is being systematically dismantled and destroyed. And the GOP is glady helping this to happen. Welcome to a new third world country.
hey we need to give the rich and corporations more tax breaks, They are the folks that provide the jobs to their fellow citizens. It has worked so well the last 10years.
Liar!!! People keeping their own hard-earned money is not stealing. Taking it from them to distribute to other is. Everyone who earns more than the poverty level should pay the same exact PERCENTAGE in income taxes. No deductions, no exemptions. That is the most fair system possible.
@mattowan: These corporations do not pay their workers a living wage, THAT is stealing. They not only do not pay taxes they get a check from the feds. THAT is stealing. Wake up.
@judyleasugar97 Workers are free to work wheverever they choose. In a free society they can shop their skills for the best wage or working conditions of their choice. You make it seem as if they are enslaved to work at their place of employment. That only happens in a Communistic society, which at this point we do not have.
Being forced to take any employment just to make ends meet, regardless of your qualifications, is a form of enslavement. The only choice involved here is between penury and minimum, basic needs.
I have a friend, a PhD. who works at McDonalds for $8.00 an hour. I call that guts on his part, and a bloody shame on the greed and corruption of repukrliklans, coupled with complete disregard for the middle class in America.
@ib422000 That is called choice. No one is legally forced to work anywhere. Sorry about your friend, but that's how it goes. I don't know his situation, so I don't know all the specifics like his qualifications, skills, etc. An advanced degree doesn't, nor should it guarantee anything.
@ib422000 People should have the freedom to succeed or fail based on their own merits. Once we move away from that model into forced income redistribution our inherent freedom is compromised.
People, especially children, 'shouldn't' get cancer, die of starvation, etc., but they do. Wherever your head is, it's definitely not in reality. Get down from your ivory tower and experience life in fact, not from your tired and boring 'shoulds'.
Taking care of the less fortunate, elderly ,disabled, children and the downright poor is not forced income redistribution, but a mandatory part of being a human being. Which, of course, excludes repukeliklans.
@mattowan: Oh, ha ha ha. Not if the corporations get their way and they get rid of minimum wage. Shop their skills for the best wage . . . what a joke. You need to read Charles Dickens because that's what the work place is headed for. You are deluding yourself if you think workers have any power without unions and the govt to force employers to do the right thing.
@mattowan So there is no such thing as social responsibility? Anybody who has more is obliged to give back to make life better for society as a whole! Those with more should be down on their knees in gratitude for the blessings they've been able to achieve and show generosity and unselfishness instead of greed and hard-heartedness! Yes, I agree with a flat tax and a total elimination of deductions, loopholes and shelters for the wealthy!
Bernie Sanders is the conscience of the Senate -- and of the country. Paul Ryan is Attila and his cohort are the Huns. Stand up Mr. President; drive them away from the granaries and the treasury.
thank you for your actual letter and please make these lunatics stop this insanity of gutting the fiber of this country and giving it away to those who created the problems we now face to start with! stop the war(s) bring home the troops and shut down Wall Street before they sell all the way into hell!
I agree with you 100%. All this crying about the deficit and what does he do, cuts taxes even further for business and wealthy. You probably know just as well as I that the deficit can be fixed fairly easy, raise taxes on the wealthy and their corps. He's gaining their support for that $1 billion campaign. I would honestly rather see him in office making his millions than to have some fanatic destroying every social service imaginable. He's gonna cut them, and Rep is gonna destroy them. It's sad
Sen. Sanders in 2012 for President of the Democratic Socialist Party. Since he doesn't believe the Democratic Party and the President are socialist enough.
Like I said earlier, we have a one party system in this country, the business party, it has two factions Dems and Reps. Their main priority is taking care of business interests and they slightly differ on their secondary concerns, us. 99% of the time my vote is no vote. I let people know that my not voting is casting a ballot for political overhaul. Neither party represents my interests. If my vote would matter I would vote for a Dem bc I see them as being less worse than Reps, but only slightly
I also would rather live in a country like cuba or china. But you would be suprised that it is more difficult for an American to become a world citizen than anybody else. Unless you're wealthy of course.
Nobody knows yet who's running for the dem ticket but I imagine no one will have the electability of Obama. To my understanding, estimates project him raising a billion dollars next election cycle. I don't see any other Dems being able to do that and, since elections are generally decided by whoever raises the most money, it'll almost certainly be Barack v. Rep, whoever that may be. With the current conservative fervor it would be suicide not to vote for Obama. Even though he's worthless.
@senortonyful A vote for Obama is a vote for the Too Big To Jail banksters. Obama is a puppet for the criminal bankers. One way we could save a whole bunch of money on the budget is to just "lay off" (and quit giving them paychecks) most of the Obama administration and most of congress. Leave Mr. Saunders to battle the criminal banks and the wealthy special interests by himself. I might be committing suicide, but I WILL NOT vote for the puppet of the criminal banks.
@DanDenali its not wealth distribution, its taking back scores of money that has been stolen from us for the last 100 years! Coming on money in a way that shows complete lack of morals does not mean that you deserve that money! These people have been getting away with nickel and dimming us to death has come to an end, time to revolt and take back what is rightfully ours! DID YOU NOT LISTEN TO WHAT THIS MAN HAD TO SAY???
As always, I appreciate what you're doing Mr. Sanders. However, we are living in fascism & shyster 'Bama is an integral part of this regime. If he is the only "option" for the Democratic party (when he's far, far more republifascist than Nixon), I will move out of this country (should have done so when Bush2 was reelected). I'm middle-aged & can't bear the thought of growing old in this horrid culture. Frankly, I'd rather live in an islamic country & wear a burka (& I'm a feminist).
Absolutely, I love Bernie. If more congressman were like him and would really, honestly stick up for their constituents, rather than business and the wealthy, they would get elected and this would be a better place. I think it's great that he's a democratic socialist, I would consider myself one and wish that more people would realize what it means instead of freaking out when they hear the word. Bernie's a great man, I just wish we had more politicians like him.
Often the argument for Obama's impotence is the pressure exerted by the radical conservative movement. I don't buy it. Obama's trying to stay above the fray and be a non-partisan mediator. He's letting Republicans push him around on issues that are so far removed from what the population wants it's unreal. If he wanted to he could easily appeal to the people on these issues. For whatever reason he doesn't. Now he passes a budget giving tax breaks to the rich so he can guarantee re election.
@senortonyful Obama likes it at the White House. Pretty nice gig. If he plays golf with Jamie Dimon, appoints one of Jamie Dimon's henchmen to be chief of staff, and gives the criminal banksters everything they want, they in turn will supply him with the BILLION dollars it is said he needs to win the election. So he can continue playing golf with the biggest criminals in human history, take nice vacations and hob nob with the rich and famous. I don't blame him a bit. Any means to his ends.
Bernie - the reason the billionaires get tax breaks is because half of the federal government is staffed by former executives from those very corporations. You guys write the laws, so why not start going after these guys and forcing a wedge back between government and corporations and break the Fascism? A huge percentage of the executives at these companies are registered as and support the Democrat Party. The magic trick of blaming for distraction is OVER. We have woken up to it.
I wasn't sure about Obama in the first place but I certainly thought he'd be better than McCain. Now that I've seen his policies ie. cutting taxes for the rich, cutting social programs for the poor/middle class/early childhood education/college students all while giving us a neutered version of health care reform, keeping Gitmo open and not doing shit about our two wars. I don't see any real differences between him and McCain. I hope he does better next term but I'm not holding my breath.
One of the all too few exceptions to the worst legislature that money can buy.
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness" - John Kenneth Galbraith
Everyone in this country needs to watch this video. Our nation is facing a crucial, critical moment and everyone who is NOT a millionaire or billionaire needs to listen and take action!!!
Why realistic politicians like Bernie Sander, Ron Paul and Anthony Weiner ever be taken into account! These guys truly care for the well being of this country.
Fortunately we have the internet so information is out there, it just seems to be taking time for people to find it. One of the main problems is that no one cares, especially young people who have traditionally been most active. I'm a 26 year old college student and don't see the slightest bit of activism or intelligence in my fellow students. They don't care about anything. Perfect example, the huge Pell Grant cuts in the budget, anywhere else students would be rioting in the streets, not here.
I know we used to have a very strong labor/ socialist movement up too WW2. It paid off in the 40's and 50's up into the 60's but after that it kind of died, or at least went dormant. I really do hope that I'm wrong. I want to see a strong labor movement in this country and I know we CAN do it, it's just a matter of whether we WILL or not. One of the main problems is lack of real media. Back then you had a strong, non-corporate media that wasn't afraid to attack. Today 99% of media is garbage.
The rightists and the fake-left (Clinton/Obama) want conservatives and liberals to fight amongst each other while they retain complete control. Conservatives can either join true Liberals in the anti-corporate revolution or become the a**holes of history second only to the Germans of 1933. Snap out of it conservatives and stop "hating liberals" more than you love this country and her values of decency, tolerance and a respect for the rule of law. It's the Corporatism, stupid.
sorry you can't reason with obama if you're a democrat. he only negotiates with himself and the republicans. obama's probably just as bought out as scott walker but he tries to hide it by having a (D) next to his name
This is simple insane. What the tea party maybe be doing is destroying the middle classin order to force them into millitary; so they will have more soldeirs to fight overseas for the corporation's commodities wars.
@rickbar123 I wonder how many present day Tea Baggers realize, that the farmers & ranchers in this country started the first socialist parties in America? They only repeat the rhetoric instead of actually reading the bios and letters of real people from America's past. :(
@rickbar123 Sadly true. If Wisconsin is any example, their numbers are actually small. We just have to keep communicating with each other as people to counter the misinformation sponsored by the few.
Class war? more like a Civil War (& trust me there will be nothing civil about it) The odds are stacked against the people. They already have created their own private armies who are most of the time better equipped & trained than the US Army in the form of "private contractor" AKA state licensed mercenaries or dogs of war. They have the National Guard, Army, Marine Corps, Air National Guard, & USAF in their back pocket.
@Phenixtri And trust me it would not be the 1st time that US forces would be ordered to fire on US civilians. Dont Believe me look up the Ludlow Massacre just to name one of many such incidents both domestic & abroad through out US history.
@rickbar123 Nobodies gonna do anything. We've been getting the shaft every year for a lifetime. No doubt it's getting a hell of a lot worse now but nobodies gonna do a damn thing. As long as they keep people poor, desperate, feeling helpless and load them up on fast food and reality shows we'll all sit back and be quiet like we always do. This is America, we don't stand for shit.
@senortonyful History says otherwise. Post depression America was a very different place. America was for the most part Socialist for many years after the Depression and WW2. The Business Class was laughed at by the masses. "Freedom" and crys of "Liberty" by the Filthy Rich ment nothing to the Working Class. It was Class War and the Middle Class knew it. The Business Class has spent a trillion dollars on propaganda the last 60-70 years to snow job the people.
Full agreement here, mate. He has political courage, which few people do. One congressman I know with some political courage is Anthony Weiner. We need more blokes and women like these men.
@Hereticbooks It absolutely amazes me how this man has stayed in Congress as long as he has. I can't understand why there hasn't been a huge attack campaign, funded by all the biggest corporations and richest people, to get him out. I guess it goes to show if you're a real progressive, and don't try to compromise and make friends with the Republicans and wealthy, you can actually get elected and stay in office. Hint Hint President Obama.
here,here. Don't get me wrong. I love Obama. But he's given in far too much and from far too early. Now, I think he might be getting it, and I hope his second term is more gratifying to the other 98% of us.
@senortonyful Bernie is a pretty unique guy--my friend worked in his office for years. When in the House, he worked with the more libertarian wing of the GOP on certain issues, for example trying to (they almost did it) repeal parts of the PATRIOT ACT. He really is independent, though also unabashedly Democratic Socialist. His opponent in 2006 did have more money than him, but Bernie is just too popular in VT, probably even among some conservatives who see him as sticking up for the little guy.
So glad I finally got to hear this! Every time I heard budget plans, I'd get the old Monty Python "Dennis Moore" song in my head. "He steal from the poor, gives to the rich. Stupid bitch!"
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Robin Hood in reverse = dooh nibor = Do Neighbor = fuck neighbour = fuck (your) neighbour
dahvisibleinvisible 6 months ago
But it is too risky not to stay in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is very dangerous to have soldiers at home with their families instead of being off at war getting sexually assaulted and traumatic brain injury.
choobie12 7 months ago
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lokke341 8 months ago
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lokke341 8 months ago
Robin Hood in reverse = dooh nibor = Do Neighbor?
1337Cyndicate 9 months ago
I just don't know how anyone can continue to be a Republican.
judyleasugar97 9 months ago 4
I am the poor the dingakings and I am dying and I tired of stupid comments that are foisted my way as means to get me to either change my mind or argue with me..geez I didn't hurt anyone, I simply responded to the stimuli presented, now what?
MsJustanotherhuman 10 months ago
Now even moderate conservatives are becomming concerned about the out of control greed of those at the top and how most people are suffering because of it.
judyleasugar97 10 months ago
@UseDaForce I think it will be a much different situation compared to the French revolution, I mean our government is much more complex and our country so much bigger I think we will see factoring and splintering rather than a united front against the rich and the people in Washington who support them...but that's just my opinion
JoshFisheriscool 10 months ago
Seems to me that Senator Sanders is one of the few incorruptible people out there....we need more politicians like Mr. Sanders!
JoshFisheriscool 10 months ago
History will wind up repeating itself at this rate. Anyone remember what happened in france when they completely ignored the common people and forced the poor into a corner with no way out? ...it didn't end well... for the wealthy.
UseDaForce 10 months ago
To me, government is designed to serve the interests of the PEOPLE. Corporations are not people, and the wealthy are the MINORITY of the people... Simple interpretation, but quite true.
TheJohnferris 10 months ago
god bless senator sanders
IDOLODORO2 10 months ago
Half the country doesn't even pay taxes, smh at people continuing to act like the government needs to do MORE for the poor. Work in a grocery store and see food stamps in action. Work in the public school system and see who is on public assistance.
lococow33 10 months ago
@lococow33: Most people work and they are taxed from their paychecks. Tell the wealthy to hire (they have the money to do it) so the county won't have to give out food stamps.
x0PUNKER0X 10 months ago
Yes they want to cut medicare remove some money from heap make meds more cost for the elderly and disabled . I know some that had to cut back on there meds where coats over sweater since heap only give 500 which only buys 159 gallons of fuel oil they should change it to get enough oil to last at least 1/2 the season thats not asking much and they want to reduce the little they get now.
Please stop the cuts!!!
ncrdisabled 10 months ago
I like Senator Sanders and what he's saying, but I dislike that he has to say it. Do I like or dislike? Decisions...
disismcsquared 10 months ago
God bless you, Senator Sanders, for telling the truth!
beasimer 10 months ago 3
How many libertarians does it take to change a light bulb?
None. They sit in the dark, waiting for the invisible hand to do it for them.
shelackula 10 months ago
Lets call it what it is "Class Warfare" replicans say it is... and there right!!!! Soooo they want to "Transform Medicare & Medicade"... wellllll let's really transform it.... make it "SINGLE PAYER!!!"....
Car50wru 10 months ago 4
Unbelievable! Not ONE PENNY from the corporations and their selfish investors, because they feel it is more important to feed the money monster rather then care for their fellow human beings. They should be ashamed to be called men.
kj6bbs 10 months ago 2
@cmfluteguy
You are not mice? but you follow obama & other libtards like they are pied pipers.
How is that possible? LOL!!
urbanpanhandler 10 months ago
@urbanpanhandler Obama is a corporate right wing politician like most in America today. Sanders is not.
talabardio 10 months ago
Democracy is the problem.
VeryHugeAss 10 months ago
Democracy is broken. We must take matters into our own hands. Gather together with your neighbors and discuss, think, and ACT!
OurFadedGarden 10 months ago
@OurFadedGarden
Absolutely.
If we could find out where the 400 most wealthy and the Pentagon generals live, we could use mortars to bomb their homes and slaughter them. This is war. The time for talk has long passed.
They are killing us and our loved ones with war and nuclear pollution and they are stealing our money to give to
the generals and super wealthy.
Obama is simply their enabler.
cmfluteguy 10 months ago
@cmfluteguy I think you are going a step or two to far ahead there. ;)
OurFadedGarden 10 months ago
Funny to watch the those with no contextual sense of history, or even a rudimentary understanding of economics, use words they do not understand, to advocate against their own interests, in favor for those that wish them dead.
This man you hate, fights for your well being, justly and with integrity, for no great personal gain, and you do nothing to deserve it. Participate in your ''freedumb'', or step aside and let people brighter than you work things out.
RealBoston 10 months ago 3
We have several wars going on. Traditionally, when a nation goes to war, there is sacrifice. What are we sacrificing? Why do we have tax breaks when we have been at war for a decade now? Just curious...
akirakhan 10 months ago
ITS THE BANKERS
ARREST THE GOD DAMN BANKERS
centurion180ad 10 months ago 3
@centurion180ad
The justice department protects them from that.
We have to find our where their homes are so we can bomb them.
cmfluteguy 10 months ago
What's it going to take?!?
SJDISSIDENT 10 months ago
@SJDISSIDENT
They are going to have to be killed by we the people.
cmfluteguy 10 months ago
I am not for giving tax breaks for the rich and I am not on either party side but I also understand that the goverment is broke and 40 cent of every dollar the goverment spends is borrowed money. How or where is the money going to come from to keep all the the programs going. Are we going to get hit with higher taxes to pay for them? How can we spend money we don't have? There has to be some common sense nothing is free. Give us jobs not handouts!
neutrodyne 10 months ago
Bernie is irreplaceable. The heart and soul of the left.
sscoppettone 10 months ago 2
Cut the military budget.
Cut imperialism.
Don't be evil!
RobertWhitlock 10 months ago 4
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RobertWhitlock 10 months ago
we do tell them-They dont listen to the people anymore!
goodguymassage 10 months ago 2
Because taxcuts and handouts to the bankers from the piggy bank of the poor will somehow magiaclly create jobs, and those jobs will automatically trickle down to the poor and the old that will pay taxes from their jobs. Old people and poor and the unemployed working?
Oh, dear!
I wonder how else the GOP is using their logics, or lack of thereof. Except for medicare for anyone else but themselves is commie...
bohemianwriter1 10 months ago
Mr. Sanders, thank you for standing up for VT, for the people, and for social responsibility. I truly wish that others would stop trying to pander to their own pockets, try and make as much as they can before this ship sinks and leave us without anything to keep us afloat. The Tea Party says they stand for what is truly American. The founders of our nation, from the moment they got on ships to leave England, would be appalled. Empires fall this way and we're repeating history.
shinyuy 10 months ago
The BIG LIE is that the republicans have a solution for the debt crisis we face. Under their plan the debt STILL EXPLODES to 20 TRILLION!!! WAKE UP!!!!! Do your homework! Do the damn MATH! Under the Ryan Plan we're still at 20 trillion in debt, do the damn math on that interest! Not only does it do nothing to solve the debt, but it destroys Medicare. If Paul Ryans 'solution' is so great why not enact this medicare voucher system NEXT YEAR, why wait 10 years? The Ryan plan is a BIG LIE.....
ytremixerabout 10 months ago
I live in a state where mansions overlook the ghetto. People don't live downtown anymore, instead they bull doze my state forest and build their country clubs up there. Then we give them money in the hopes that they'll create jobs. They take that money and move their businesses out of the poor cities that need those jobs, cut down some more orchards and parks and set up shop far away. It's like a ghost town here, and we're always in recession, no matter what's going on in the rest of the country
seanjazzguitar 10 months ago
224 likes...and one fascist
seanjazzguitar 10 months ago
Bernie Says No Deal to College Aid Cuts; No Deal to Cuts to Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, and Weatherization and No Deal to $1.6 Billion in EPA Cuts
Go Bernie GO!
ddoorn1 10 months ago
Bernie Says No Deal to College Aid Cuts; No Deal to Cuts to Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, and Weatherization and No Deal to $1.6 Billion in EPA Cuts
ddoorn1 10 months ago
That's right. The wealthy are NOT creating jobs here in the USA. They are creating jobs in China, Viet Nam, India, Mexico...........
mnob1122 10 months ago 3
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Poor people do not create jobs.
You could confiscate all (100 percent) of the money & property of everyone making over 100 thousand a year & it would only run the government a few months. The problem is SPENDING, not revenue.
Capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. Socialism (like Bernie Sanders likes) is the equal sharing of misery.
America is equality of opportunity NOT equality of outcome. Bad choices have consequences.
urbanpanhandler 10 months ago
@urbanpanhandler America is equality of opportunity??? Are you FN serious.. So everyone who is middle class and below make bad choices???.. You must be a comedian.. but not a very funny one.. I for one would not make a BAD choice to go see your show..
Kgthrow 10 months ago 3
@Kgthrow
Yes equality of opportunity. Where else can thousands educate themselves & be the first in their families to get to college? Many a success story has risen from the jaws of poverty. Hard work sacrifice & good decisions overcome all obstacles.
urbanpanhandler 10 months ago
@urbanpanhandler The wealthy aren't creating jobs. So what's your solution? Let everyone starve, freeze to death, die in agony, for what purpose? So that a small handful of super-wealthy individuals can continue to enjoy the practice of manufacturing money? Why is it that the free-market types only think in binary, that it's either/or, with no compromise, no innovation, and no way to consider the general welfare? Oh, right. I forgot. You're all social darwinists.
cacherry1 10 months ago 36
@cacherry1
I never said I want anyone to starve I am simply putting the numbers out there FROM THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE.
The free market is the great equalizer. People will do better if they make decisions not based on having safety nets. Even a mouse will learn how to run through a maze if there is a reward at the end.
urbanpanhandler 10 months ago
@cacherry1 simple but almost accurate ..politician ='s a small spineless cock roach like animal that feeds on the hosts leftovers, they really are stealing from the poor. And how is the Obama plan gonna be paid for if we are cutting what is already in place?... It will not be and the 56 million that were supposed to be covered will not be.
MsJustanotherhuman 10 months ago
@MsJustanotherhuman YOU ARE ALREADY - ALREADY - ALREADY (!!!!) paying for health care for indigent and poor!! Good God, WHEN are you people going to get some brains??! The Fed reimburses hospitals for ER visits by poor ppl. How much does THAT cost? Versus a regular doctor visit? You need to think beyond Fox!
semisweeet 10 months ago
@cacherry1 That's exactly right. But don't tell anyone. The Titanic is going down and there aren't enough life boats, Period. We've screwed up this planet and soon there will not be enough natural resources to support our behavior. So who do we need to get rid of? You guessed it. People are being weeded out as we speak.
rdaught 10 months ago
@rdaught Some ideas for change:
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casperguylkn 10 months ago
@urbanpanhandler You think this guy is peddling socialism? You should turn off the corporate news media, pick up a book and find out what socialism is. Look at the list of problems our dependence on the upper class has given America just in the past decade. So far this past year, the private sector has made record profits due to the TARP, and yet your so called "job creators" haven't put the jobs back on, and if they do, just move them overseas. Feudalism isn't democracy dude.
seanjazzguitar 10 months ago
@seanjazzguitar
He is a socialist. We are all socialists.
LIE PIG li CONs are socialists for the rich.
cmfluteguy 10 months ago 2
@urbanpanhandler Please don't parrot cliches. Educate yourself.
phenomenologist674 10 months ago
@phenomenologist674
The cliches as you call them are fact. Get your head out of the sand.
urbanpanhandler 10 months ago
Right on Sanders! Thanks!
Sagina1999 10 months ago
What happens? You die. But, according to Republicans, as long as the Koch brothers and Paris Hilton get more unnecessary millions of dollars, everything is fine and dandy.
dizzymasekela 10 months ago 3
Stand up for us, Senator!! STAND UP!!
jaimelyngray 10 months ago 4
When will the working class TEA Partiers realize they are voting to enrich the rich, at their own expense?
beeblmeyer 10 months ago 4
Sen. Bernie Sanders: Republicans Are Robbing The Poor To Give To The Rich
CLEVELTECH 10 months ago 2
The United States as we know it will soon cease to exist. The Middle Class is being systematically dismantled and destroyed. And the GOP is glady helping this to happen. Welcome to a new third world country.
stlgtrace 10 months ago
hey we need to give the rich and corporations more tax breaks, They are the folks that provide the jobs to their fellow citizens. It has worked so well the last 10years.
O no wait.....
watch the movie-One Percent
sumwhut 10 months ago
I love this guy. I only wish that everyone in our legislative branch had his passion about this country.
Justavian 10 months ago
Bernie Sanders a true Democratic Socialist and a true champion of the working class poor....
Ezra1977 10 months ago 3
Liar!!! People keeping their own hard-earned money is not stealing. Taking it from them to distribute to other is. Everyone who earns more than the poverty level should pay the same exact PERCENTAGE in income taxes. No deductions, no exemptions. That is the most fair system possible.
mattowan 10 months ago
@mattowan: These corporations do not pay their workers a living wage, THAT is stealing. They not only do not pay taxes they get a check from the feds. THAT is stealing. Wake up.
judyleasugar97 10 months ago
@judyleasugar97 Workers are free to work wheverever they choose. In a free society they can shop their skills for the best wage or working conditions of their choice. You make it seem as if they are enslaved to work at their place of employment. That only happens in a Communistic society, which at this point we do not have.
mattowan 10 months ago
@mattowan
Being forced to take any employment just to make ends meet, regardless of your qualifications, is a form of enslavement. The only choice involved here is between penury and minimum, basic needs.
I have a friend, a PhD. who works at McDonalds for $8.00 an hour. I call that guts on his part, and a bloody shame on the greed and corruption of repukrliklans, coupled with complete disregard for the middle class in America.
ib422000 10 months ago
@ib422000 That is called choice. No one is legally forced to work anywhere. Sorry about your friend, but that's how it goes. I don't know his situation, so I don't know all the specifics like his qualifications, skills, etc. An advanced degree doesn't, nor should it guarantee anything.
mattowan 10 months ago
@mattowan
You are a very deluded person. Read the 'choice' part again.
"..that's how it goes" is such a classic copout!
ib422000 10 months ago
@ib422000 People should have the freedom to succeed or fail based on their own merits. Once we move away from that model into forced income redistribution our inherent freedom is compromised.
mattowan 10 months ago
@mattowan
People, especially children, 'shouldn't' get cancer, die of starvation, etc., but they do. Wherever your head is, it's definitely not in reality. Get down from your ivory tower and experience life in fact, not from your tired and boring 'shoulds'.
ib422000 10 months ago
@mattowan
Which would be a fine response, if that's what this was about.
beeblmeyer 10 months ago
Taking care of the less fortunate, elderly ,disabled, children and the downright poor is not forced income redistribution, but a mandatory part of being a human being. Which, of course, excludes repukeliklans.
ib422000 10 months ago 32
@ib422000 The funny thing is it's all the Jeebus lovers who thump their bible the hardest who don't want to give a dime to the "lazy."
aluisious 7 months ago
@mattowan: Oh, ha ha ha. Not if the corporations get their way and they get rid of minimum wage. Shop their skills for the best wage . . . what a joke. You need to read Charles Dickens because that's what the work place is headed for. You are deluding yourself if you think workers have any power without unions and the govt to force employers to do the right thing.
judyleasugar97 10 months ago 2
@mattowan So there is no such thing as social responsibility? Anybody who has more is obliged to give back to make life better for society as a whole! Those with more should be down on their knees in gratitude for the blessings they've been able to achieve and show generosity and unselfishness instead of greed and hard-heartedness! Yes, I agree with a flat tax and a total elimination of deductions, loopholes and shelters for the wealthy!
stlgtrace 10 months ago
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kwshoes 10 months ago
Bernie Sanders is the conscience of the Senate -- and of the country. Paul Ryan is Attila and his cohort are the Huns. Stand up Mr. President; drive them away from the granaries and the treasury.
kwshoes 10 months ago
thank you for your actual letter and please make these lunatics stop this insanity of gutting the fiber of this country and giving it away to those who created the problems we now face to start with! stop the war(s) bring home the troops and shut down Wall Street before they sell all the way into hell!
MsJustanotherhuman 10 months ago 3
Dude, Sanders man I love you but that comb over's gotta go!
ErikBarmon 10 months ago
1:55
LAWL HE SAID "HARD ON"
roach1229 10 months ago
I agree with you 100%. All this crying about the deficit and what does he do, cuts taxes even further for business and wealthy. You probably know just as well as I that the deficit can be fixed fairly easy, raise taxes on the wealthy and their corps. He's gaining their support for that $1 billion campaign. I would honestly rather see him in office making his millions than to have some fanatic destroying every social service imaginable. He's gonna cut them, and Rep is gonna destroy them. It's sad
senortonyful 10 months ago 2
Sen. Sanders in 2012 for President of the Democratic Socialist Party. Since he doesn't believe the Democratic Party and the President are socialist enough.
FRSFreeStateES 10 months ago
Like I said earlier, we have a one party system in this country, the business party, it has two factions Dems and Reps. Their main priority is taking care of business interests and they slightly differ on their secondary concerns, us. 99% of the time my vote is no vote. I let people know that my not voting is casting a ballot for political overhaul. Neither party represents my interests. If my vote would matter I would vote for a Dem bc I see them as being less worse than Reps, but only slightly
senortonyful 10 months ago 2
You are witnessing the end of American superiority. We are as we have been known internationally for a long time. "A land of crooks"
NickThomas1983 10 months ago 3
@NickThomas1983 EXACTLY!
fastpupdogtraining 10 months ago
I also would rather live in a country like cuba or china. But you would be suprised that it is more difficult for an American to become a world citizen than anybody else. Unless you're wealthy of course.
NickThomas1983 10 months ago
Nobody knows yet who's running for the dem ticket but I imagine no one will have the electability of Obama. To my understanding, estimates project him raising a billion dollars next election cycle. I don't see any other Dems being able to do that and, since elections are generally decided by whoever raises the most money, it'll almost certainly be Barack v. Rep, whoever that may be. With the current conservative fervor it would be suicide not to vote for Obama. Even though he's worthless.
senortonyful 10 months ago
@senortonyful A vote for Obama is a vote for the Too Big To Jail banksters. Obama is a puppet for the criminal bankers. One way we could save a whole bunch of money on the budget is to just "lay off" (and quit giving them paychecks) most of the Obama administration and most of congress. Leave Mr. Saunders to battle the criminal banks and the wealthy special interests by himself. I might be committing suicide, but I WILL NOT vote for the puppet of the criminal banks.
fastpupdogtraining 10 months ago
Entitlement. Wealth distribution. Socialization. Isn't that what he's saying?
DanDenali 10 months ago
@DanDenali its not wealth distribution, its taking back scores of money that has been stolen from us for the last 100 years! Coming on money in a way that shows complete lack of morals does not mean that you deserve that money! These people have been getting away with nickel and dimming us to death has come to an end, time to revolt and take back what is rightfully ours! DID YOU NOT LISTEN TO WHAT THIS MAN HAD TO SAY???
MrJessyAnderson 10 months ago
As always, I appreciate what you're doing Mr. Sanders. However, we are living in fascism & shyster 'Bama is an integral part of this regime. If he is the only "option" for the Democratic party (when he's far, far more republifascist than Nixon), I will move out of this country (should have done so when Bush2 was reelected). I'm middle-aged & can't bear the thought of growing old in this horrid culture. Frankly, I'd rather live in an islamic country & wear a burka (& I'm a feminist).
OrwellsDaughter 10 months ago
@OrwellsDaughter Can we just move to Vermont?
scrubjay93 10 months ago 2
Absolutely, I love Bernie. If more congressman were like him and would really, honestly stick up for their constituents, rather than business and the wealthy, they would get elected and this would be a better place. I think it's great that he's a democratic socialist, I would consider myself one and wish that more people would realize what it means instead of freaking out when they hear the word. Bernie's a great man, I just wish we had more politicians like him.
senortonyful 10 months ago 3
Often the argument for Obama's impotence is the pressure exerted by the radical conservative movement. I don't buy it. Obama's trying to stay above the fray and be a non-partisan mediator. He's letting Republicans push him around on issues that are so far removed from what the population wants it's unreal. If he wanted to he could easily appeal to the people on these issues. For whatever reason he doesn't. Now he passes a budget giving tax breaks to the rich so he can guarantee re election.
senortonyful 10 months ago
@senortonyful Ironically, I think it's going to make him a one-term president. We'll see, though.
rainydaze1212 10 months ago
@senortonyful Obama likes it at the White House. Pretty nice gig. If he plays golf with Jamie Dimon, appoints one of Jamie Dimon's henchmen to be chief of staff, and gives the criminal banksters everything they want, they in turn will supply him with the BILLION dollars it is said he needs to win the election. So he can continue playing golf with the biggest criminals in human history, take nice vacations and hob nob with the rich and famous. I don't blame him a bit. Any means to his ends.
fastpupdogtraining 10 months ago
Bernie - the reason the billionaires get tax breaks is because half of the federal government is staffed by former executives from those very corporations. You guys write the laws, so why not start going after these guys and forcing a wedge back between government and corporations and break the Fascism? A huge percentage of the executives at these companies are registered as and support the Democrat Party. The magic trick of blaming for distraction is OVER. We have woken up to it.
PwaiChung 10 months ago
I wasn't sure about Obama in the first place but I certainly thought he'd be better than McCain. Now that I've seen his policies ie. cutting taxes for the rich, cutting social programs for the poor/middle class/early childhood education/college students all while giving us a neutered version of health care reform, keeping Gitmo open and not doing shit about our two wars. I don't see any real differences between him and McCain. I hope he does better next term but I'm not holding my breath.
senortonyful 10 months ago
Bernie, you are awesome! please keep speaking for us.
shoecat42 10 months ago
One of the all too few exceptions to the worst legislature that money can buy.
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness" - John Kenneth Galbraith
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reasonjr1960 10 months ago
America should be watching this, but they're not.
fiorentina5 10 months ago
Bernie, you have a new fan in Puerto Rico!
dandangt3 10 months ago
2012
Fusionx916 10 months ago
Everyone in this country needs to watch this video. Our nation is facing a crucial, critical moment and everyone who is NOT a millionaire or billionaire needs to listen and take action!!!
evolveordissolve 10 months ago
Why realistic politicians like Bernie Sander, Ron Paul and Anthony Weiner ever be taken into account! These guys truly care for the well being of this country.
Bomyster3000 10 months ago
Fortunately we have the internet so information is out there, it just seems to be taking time for people to find it. One of the main problems is that no one cares, especially young people who have traditionally been most active. I'm a 26 year old college student and don't see the slightest bit of activism or intelligence in my fellow students. They don't care about anything. Perfect example, the huge Pell Grant cuts in the budget, anywhere else students would be rioting in the streets, not here.
senortonyful 10 months ago
I know we used to have a very strong labor/ socialist movement up too WW2. It paid off in the 40's and 50's up into the 60's but after that it kind of died, or at least went dormant. I really do hope that I'm wrong. I want to see a strong labor movement in this country and I know we CAN do it, it's just a matter of whether we WILL or not. One of the main problems is lack of real media. Back then you had a strong, non-corporate media that wasn't afraid to attack. Today 99% of media is garbage.
senortonyful 10 months ago
Bernie nails it again!!
urbanhack 10 months ago
Thanks you, Senator Sanders.
EPRVa62 10 months ago
The rightists and the fake-left (Clinton/Obama) want conservatives and liberals to fight amongst each other while they retain complete control. Conservatives can either join true Liberals in the anti-corporate revolution or become the a**holes of history second only to the Germans of 1933. Snap out of it conservatives and stop "hating liberals" more than you love this country and her values of decency, tolerance and a respect for the rule of law. It's the Corporatism, stupid.
ThisWeekInFascism 10 months ago 3
sorry you can't reason with obama if you're a democrat. he only negotiates with himself and the republicans. obama's probably just as bought out as scott walker but he tries to hide it by having a (D) next to his name
grasd2 10 months ago 3
This is simple insane. What the tea party maybe be doing is destroying the middle classin order to force them into millitary; so they will have more soldeirs to fight overseas for the corporation's commodities wars.
omolivera 10 months ago
Bernie Sanders: For the People, By the People. UNITED WE STAND
16Sammie 10 months ago 4
It seems to me, the Tea Baggers should be behind Mr. Sanders not the Koch Brothers.
rickbar123 10 months ago 4
@rickbar123 Yea, but Sanders really is a Socialist and proud of it.
celainea 10 months ago 2
@celainea So am I.
rickbar123 10 months ago
@rickbar123 I wonder how many present day Tea Baggers realize, that the farmers & ranchers in this country started the first socialist parties in America? They only repeat the rhetoric instead of actually reading the bios and letters of real people from America's past. :(
celainea 10 months ago 3
@celainea Reading is something only intellectuals do, Tea Baggers will have none of that !!!
rickbar123 10 months ago 2
@rickbar123 Sadly true. If Wisconsin is any example, their numbers are actually small. We just have to keep communicating with each other as people to counter the misinformation sponsored by the few.
celainea 10 months ago
Class war? more like a Civil War (& trust me there will be nothing civil about it) The odds are stacked against the people. They already have created their own private armies who are most of the time better equipped & trained than the US Army in the form of "private contractor" AKA state licensed mercenaries or dogs of war. They have the National Guard, Army, Marine Corps, Air National Guard, & USAF in their back pocket.
Phenixtri 10 months ago
@Phenixtri And trust me it would not be the 1st time that US forces would be ordered to fire on US civilians. Dont Believe me look up the Ludlow Massacre just to name one of many such incidents both domestic & abroad through out US history.
Phenixtri 10 months ago
The Repubs want Class War. No problem, these cut will bring it on.
rickbar123 10 months ago 52
@rickbar123 Nobodies gonna do anything. We've been getting the shaft every year for a lifetime. No doubt it's getting a hell of a lot worse now but nobodies gonna do a damn thing. As long as they keep people poor, desperate, feeling helpless and load them up on fast food and reality shows we'll all sit back and be quiet like we always do. This is America, we don't stand for shit.
senortonyful 10 months ago
@senortonyful History says otherwise. Post depression America was a very different place. America was for the most part Socialist for many years after the Depression and WW2. The Business Class was laughed at by the masses. "Freedom" and crys of "Liberty" by the Filthy Rich ment nothing to the Working Class. It was Class War and the Middle Class knew it. The Business Class has spent a trillion dollars on propaganda the last 60-70 years to snow job the people.
rickbar123 10 months ago
Sanders/Weiner 2012!!!
06mustangCE 10 months ago 83
@06mustangCE Now there's a good combo. Course, I still like Dennis Kucinich and Elizabeth Warren.
celainea 10 months ago
@06mustangCE on Republican side, Ron Paul/Jesse Ventura. Then we'd have a real election =)
Dimefan91 10 months ago
THIS man can do NO WRONG in my book! He is what a politician SHOULD be! -_-
tamarack1pines 10 months ago 8
@tamarack1pines
Full agreement here, mate. He has political courage, which few people do. One congressman I know with some political courage is Anthony Weiner. We need more blokes and women like these men.
Hereticbooks 10 months ago 3
@Hereticbooks It absolutely amazes me how this man has stayed in Congress as long as he has. I can't understand why there hasn't been a huge attack campaign, funded by all the biggest corporations and richest people, to get him out. I guess it goes to show if you're a real progressive, and don't try to compromise and make friends with the Republicans and wealthy, you can actually get elected and stay in office. Hint Hint President Obama.
senortonyful 10 months ago
@senortonyful
here,here. Don't get me wrong. I love Obama. But he's given in far too much and from far too early. Now, I think he might be getting it, and I hope his second term is more gratifying to the other 98% of us.
Hereticbooks 10 months ago
@senortonyful Bernie is a pretty unique guy--my friend worked in his office for years. When in the House, he worked with the more libertarian wing of the GOP on certain issues, for example trying to (they almost did it) repeal parts of the PATRIOT ACT. He really is independent, though also unabashedly Democratic Socialist. His opponent in 2006 did have more money than him, but Bernie is just too popular in VT, probably even among some conservatives who see him as sticking up for the little guy.
bigtimepeace 10 months ago 2