Bernie Sanders end of 8 1/2 hour speech

Sen. Bernie Sanders has ended his marathon 8 1/2-hour Senate speech railing against President Barack Obama's proposed tax cut compromise.He said "tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires who don't need it" were unconscionable and worsen the national debt.He spoke for long periods in an otherwise empty Senate chamber. He was briefly spelled by Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., who also opposes the bill. Officially an independent, he wrapped up his speech after nightfall, Sanders conceded, "It has been a long day."
And Thanks to Cspan for the following link of the entire event archived @
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/SenateSession4656

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[deeppurple28]

This man will go down in History as one of the few who was actually "Worthy" of holding public office!

[olleigbg]

Bernie Sanders is one of the last true American heroes. USA is going down..

[FroggyHope]

@FroggyHope Now they are raising the gas prices to force people's hand during elections.

[FroggyHope]

@FroggyHope Maybe they are trying to make America a second China. A land bursting with people, forced eventually to enforce a one child law because the U.S.A will be overpopulated. Though they are also going to have to offer their people government healthcare for all, just like China does, so it can be cheap for the companies to employ Americans for pennies on the hour.

[FroggyHope]

Now they want to take away women's choice to use birth control. What are they going to do? They don't have jobs. Their husbands are underemployed. And to top it off now they are trying to force women to bring children, they can't afford, to watch them starve to death. Great way to improve America people.

[Meade556]

@H1TMANactual Nobody is advocating that you are erecting a strawman. We just want the wealthiest among us, the ones who have done the best, because the system was biased in their favor to start paying their fair share, so that the lower and middle class are spared further pain from deficit reduction

[H1TMANactual]

@wangsta25 And why shouldn't they? What exactly did a high school drop out working a minimum wage do to have the same wealth as Bill Gates? You got do a lot better than MSNBC rhetoric to beat me. The wealth disparity has increased but go look up if the real wages of the lowest have also gone up.

Does this sum up your mentality? - /watch?v=okHGCz6xxiw

[wangsta25]

@H1TMANactual Top 1% also own 43% of the total wealth. If u understand basic mathematics then u'll know that they're paying too little

[H1TMANactual]

@BWS1982 Yeah you're such an intellectual heavyweight who couldn't even figure out how to reply to a comment. And a random, retarded, incoherent babble at that. Stay on your meds nut.

[H1TMANactual]

@wangsta25 Yes. Or don't be hypocrite and advocate a higher tax rate on others. And don't cry to me about wealth. You want wealth, go out and work for it. Most millionaires are self made. We have a very progressive income tax. Top 1% also pay 17% of the income tax.

[BWS1982]

Oh FFS teatroll "H1tman" (intellectual moniker confirmed)... Run along with your playground debate repertoire and Reagan wet dreams, kid. Find a klan rally or some Fox orgy to partake in...You're way out of your league. I still have fodder twice as capable as you in the treads of my shoes. ...so typical of you paid tea trolls, just frothing and foaming with adolescent tripe on some comment section. But keep clawing at relevance, you'll be ignored as the vapid challenge you are. Buh-bye