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why are you defending billionaires?cool, but kinda misleading on some of them...
"allows billionaire hedge fund managers"
implying its only billionaires that will be hit by this... there are an approximated 536 billionaires in the US
"The advantages or disadvantages of a progressive tax system can certainly be debated"
that debate is only ongoing in USA. Other industrial countries all run progressive taxation, just like the USA did decades ago.
why are you defending billionaires?cool, but kinda misleading on some of them
"allows billionaire hedge fund managers"
implying its only billionaires that will be hit by this... there are an approximated 536 billionaires in the US
Bernie is for real. After this debate he joined the big leagues.
Shillary is in for a fight of her life
Agreed. He got off some nice zingers, especially "only one of us ran against Obama" one. That said, I don't think there were any voters stolen on either side.Bernie is for real. After this debate he joined the big leagues.
Shillary is in for a fight of her life
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Most of his zingers had no aplauses though.
This was a boring debate that ended up in a tie imo.
She had the crowd fully behind her back all night long. Owned him on a few points too.
Sure but most of her "zingers" were half truths.
She is the one that seemed to be doing talking points a la Rubio IMO. LGBT this, black lives that, miners, unions.
Yet CNN all accuse Bernie of being the Rubio candidate. De able CNN group of liars and assholes.
Bernie won. It was close but he didn't even try to attack Shillary.
On and his foreign policy is pretty solid. Similar to Obama the 1st yet he speaks more truths about US imperialism. Reminds me of dear Dr Paul
She was sucking Obama's the entire debate and accusing Bernie of critizicing Obama. Then Bernie says "one of us ran against him and it wasn't me"
lol trump supporter
lol are you serious gtfoh
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A lot of the pundits are saying how important it is she binds herself to Obama for these upcoming half-black voting populations. I mean, how much obvious can that be as pandering? Yet it's ignored and even praised. Bernie at least is straight up - he's had his disagreements, and as a senator with a long history, is it really surprising?
Trump doesn't support a flat tax.
Yeah that was her Goldman Sachs dress tbqh. Noticed it the moment she showed her fat ass all over my screen
Nice strawman. The USA would still be a mixed economy even if every single one of Sanders' reforms went through. Sanders says we should learn from these countries. Not be socialist like these countries, lol. Everyone knows Denmark is a mixed economy as well. The entire western world is dominated by mixed economies.
Sanders Campaign Statement on Clinton’s Immigration Comments
FEBRUARY 12, 2016
LAS VEGAS — Bernie Sanders’ National Latino Outreach Director Arturo Carmona on Friday issued the following statement on Secretary Hillary Clinton’s comments on unaccompanied minors at last night’s Democratic debate:
“Secretary Clinton is wrong. We should never put children back into harm’s way to ‘send a message’ to anyone. That’s why Sen. Sanders has put forward a serious immigration plan that focuses on protecting kids and keeping families together. It is time for Secretary Clinton to do the same.
“Sen. Sanders believes we must end inhumane deportations and strongly opposes the summary expulsion of Central American immigrant children. He will expand access to health care for aspiring Americans and will strengthen the rights of immigrant workers. He’s the best choice for Democrats who believe our immigration policies must put families first.”
To read Sen. Sanders’ immigration plan, click here.
https://berniesanders.com/press-rele...tion-comments/
Hillary Clinton’s ‘Southern Wall’ Just Crumbled
Hillary Clinton’s 20+ point lead over Bernie Sanders in Nevada just evaporated.
In a new poll released by TargetPoint Consulting, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are in a dead heat, with both pulling 45% of the vote in the next state in the Democratic nomination process.
This is the first poll conducted in the state since December, which matched national trends in finding Clinton defeating Sanders by an average of 20 points. In that time, Sanders has made huge gains in his publicity, virtually tieing the former Secretary of State in Iowa, and roundly defeating her in New Hampshire by a margin of 22.4%.
The poll used a sample size of 1,236, which is a large number of respondents for a poll of this kind, resulting in a very reliable margin of error of only 2.9 percentage points.
Furthermore, this poll was conducted February 8-10, before last night’s debate, which found Bernie Sanders the clear victor, according to a Nevada focus group that favored the Vermont senator over Clinton 25-9 despite being evenly split prior to the debate.
During the debate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Clinton defended the Obama administration’s policy of deporting Central American families, including children, saying that it was necessary to “send a message” to those families back in Central America that it was not safe to send them. Sanders retorted that children should not be used to “send a message.”
Given that 27% of Nevada’s population is Latino and 35% of caucus-goers were minorities in 2008, immigration policy is of paramount concern to voters in that state, though it is unknown how severe the reaction will be to Clinton’s comments.
This new from Nevada follows a powerful endorsement video for Bernie Sanders featuring Erica Garner, daughter of Eric Garner, which was released by the senator’s campaign in an attempt to erode Clinton’s vast lead in South Carolina among African American voters.
Furthermore, it seems that Clinton’s national edge is also slipping, as a Quinnipiac poll found Clinton leading by only 2 percent nationally, though most other polls still show her with a sizeable lead.
After Iowa and New Hampshire, Sanders clearly holds the momentum, and Clinton is making changes in both her strategy and campaign staff to attempt to stop another presidency from slipping through her fingers.
The Democratic caucus in Nevada is scheduled for February 20.
http://usuncut.com/news/bernie-sande...ton-in-nevada/
Feel the Bern..
this bull . a social democracy like the euro countries still run have plenty of free markets. None of them are pure planned economies.
And Bernie is not promoting a pure socialist, planned economy, with state running everything.
yes, the Danish PM is full of . The Scandinavian govts do play huge role in taking care of social issues, but the economies are still mostly open, market economies.
Here are 19 ways Bernie Sanders has stood up for civil and minority rights
Here are 19 ways Sanders has stood up for civil and minority rights, starting in the early 1950s up to the present year.
1. Raising Money For Korean Orphans: International solidarity was an unusual concept for any American to have in the 1950s, let alone a high school student. But one of Sanders’ first campaigns was to run for class president at James Madison High School in New York City. His platform was based around raising scholarship funds for Korean war orphans. Although he lost, the person who did win the campaign decided to endorse Sanders’ campaign, and scholarships were created.
2. Being Arrested For Desegregation: As a student at the University of Chicago, Sanders was active in both the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1962, he was arrested for protesting segregation in public schools in Chicago; the police came to call him an outside agitator, as he went around putting up flyers around the city detailing police brutality.
3. Calling For Full Gay Equality: 40 years ago, Sanders started his political life by running with a radical third party in Vermont called the Liberty Union Party. As a part of the platform, he called for abolishing all laws related to discrimination against sexuality.
4. Standing Up For Victims Of U.S. Imperialism In Latin America: While mayor of Burlington, Vermont, Sanders formally protested the Reagan government’s policy of sending arms to Central America to repress left-wing movements. In 1985, he traveled to Nicaragua to condemn the war on people there. He writes about it in his book Outsider In The House: “The trip to Nicaragua was a profoundly emotional experience….I was introduced to a crowd of hundreds of thousands who gathered for the anniversary celebration. I will never forget that in the front row of the huge crowd were dozens and dozens of amputees in wheelchairs – young soldiers, many of them in their teens, who had lost their legs in a war foisted on them and financed by the U.S. government.”
5 Condemned And Opposed Welfare Reform and Dog Whistle Politics: While President Bill Clinton and most Democrats in Congress supported so-called welfare reform politics, Sanders not only voted against this policy change, but wrote eloquently against the dog whistle politics used to sell it, saying, “The crown jewel of the Republican agenda is their so-called welfare reform proposal. The bill, which combines an assault on the poor, women and children, minorities, and immigrants is the grand slam of scapegoating legislation, and appeals to the frustrations and ignorance of the American people along a wide spectrum of prejudices.”
6. Vocally Condemned and Opposed Death Penalty and Prisons His Entire Political Career: Sanders has long been a critic of “tough on crime” policies. Here he is in 1991condemning a crime bill for promoting “state murder” through expansion of the death penalty:
“My friends, we have the highest percentage of people in jail per capita of any nation on earth….What do we have to do, put half the country behind bars? Mister Speaker, instead of talking about punishment and vengeance, let us talk about the real issue. How do we get to the root causes of crime? How do we stop crime? … I’ve got a problem with a president and Congress that allows five million people to go hungry, two million people to sleep out on the street, cities to become breeding grounds for drugs and violence. And they say we’re getting tough on crime. If you want to get tough on crime, let’s deal with the causes of crime. Let’s demand that every man, woman, and child in this country have a decent opportunity and a decent standard of living. Let’s not keep putting poor people into jail and disproportionately punishing blacks.”
He also voted for an amendment in the crime bill to eliminate the death penalty with life imprisonment.
7. Voted Against Cutting Off Prisoners From Federal Education Funds: In the 1990s, there was a successful effort to end the Pell Grant program for prisoners, which was one of the most effective ways to reduce recidivism. Only a handful of members of Congress voted against the legislation, and almost all of them were members of the Black Caucus. Sanders was one of the few white members who opposed this effort. It passed by 351 to 39. Of those in the House who opposed that vote, few are still serving; Reps. John Lewis, Jose Serrano, Charlie Rangel, and Bernie Sanders stood together at that time and continue to serve today.
8. Took IMF To Task For Oppressing Developing World Workers: In a 1998 committee hearing, Sanders took Clinton administration official Robert Rubin to task for not enforcing a provision to protect the rights of workers in Indonesia. “Tell the world now that no more IMF money goes to that country, goes to [dictator] Suharto!” he thundered to Rubin, who later went on to be the chief architect of policies that led us to the Great Recession. “The IMF historically does not have a good record in terms of the poor people of various countries,” he noted, standing up for the poorest black and brown people on the planet, tackling an ins ution few in Congress dare to criticize.
9. Achieved High Ratings From Leading Civil Rights Organizations: A frequent critique of Sanders is that he is from a very white state. While this is true, he certainly has not ignored issues that matter to people of color. In 2002, he achieved a 93 percent rating from the ACLU and a 97% rating by the NAACP in 2006.
10. Voted Against the PATRIOT Act: The USA PATRIOT Act was passed in a 98-2 vote in the Senate and a 357-66 vote in the House. Sanders voted against it, and has voted against renewing it every single time. The law has been used to violate the rights of Arab and Muslim Americans, but few know how extensively it has been used in the drug war; from 2009 to 2010, the law was invoked for 3,034 narcotics cases and only 37 terrorism cases.
11. Opposed Both Iraq Wars on Moral Grounds: Sanders was opposed to U.S. involvement in both Iraq wars. While many simply talked about the war in terms of the impact it would have on the United States, Sanders went further, saying that the “death and destruction caused” would “not be forgotten by the poor people of the Third World.”
12. Traveled to Costa Rica to Defend Exploited Workers: Sanders traveled to Costa Rica to help organize workers opposing the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). While many critics of trade agreements do so on the grounds that Americans deserve jobs that could be lost to foreign countries, Sanders instead practices a form of solidarity politics, saying that workers in both countries are being exploited by corporations and so we must organize workers in both countries.
13. Endorsed Jesse Jackson, Spoke Up For Palestinians: In 1988, Jesse Jackson was the first compe ive black candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency. He came under fierce attack for his advocacy of Palestinian statehood. Sanders came to his aid, organizing Vermonters and winning the state for Jackson. Sanders was asked about Jackson’s comments on Palestine and defended him, saying that the Israeli assault on Palestinians was “reprehensible.”
14. Strongly Condemned Police Violence Over the Past Year: One criticism of Sanders is that he avoids talking about police violence in favor of talking about the economy. While the economy forms the bulk of his pitch, he has repeatedly condemned police violence during the duration of the Black Lives Matter movement. Here he is in mid-August 2014, before frontrunner Clinton ever spoke about the issue. Here (8/20/14) are (8/24/14) a (8/18/14) few(6/6/2015) more (4/30/2015) examples (6/2015).
15. Embraced Immigrants When Hillary Clinton Refused To Talk To Them: In 2014, young immigration activists repeatedly tried to talk to Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton to ask her about executive action. While Clinton did not talk to them, Bernie Sanders was not only willing to talk, but agreed with their call for executive action.
16. Defended Voting Rights Against Voter Suppression Efforts: Sanders earned the endorsement of radical rapper Killer Mike by his leadership on defending the Voter Rights Act and calling for expanding voting rights.
17. Fought Against Employment Discrimination: Sanders was a strong supporter of legislation to end workplace discrimination against LGBT Americans.
18. Called For End to War On Drugs, For-Profit Prisons and Migrant Detention Quotas: Sanders supports decriminalizing marijuna, and believes the war on drugs to be a failure. Additionally, he has vowed to end for-profit prisons and immigrant detention quotas.
19. Put Out Detailed Plan to End Economic Crisis in Minority Communities: Many argue that Sanders views the issue of racial justice in too myopic a fashion by focusing on the economy. But polling of both Latinos and African Americans shows that jobs and the economy is either their top concern or tied for their top concern. Gallup polling shows that 13 percent of Hispanics say immigration is their top concern; 47 percent say the economy is. Meanwhile, among black Americans, 13 percent say “race relations” is their top concern, tied with “unemployment/jobs,” an additional 10 percentage points go to the “economy in general.” Combined, economic concerns make up 23 percentage points while race relations compose 13 percent. If you add in healthcare, at 6 percent, another major Sanders theme, it gets you up to 29 percent. Add in poverty at 7 percent and education at 5 percent and you’re up to 41 percent of African Americans naming Bernie Sanders’ top issues as their top issues.
This validates Sanders’ strategy of looking to the economy as the top concern of minority communities. He has put out a detailed strategy to target unemployment across America and particularly to attack Hispanic and black youth unemployment, which he introduced in August 2014, long before he announced for president.
https://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/her...nority-rights/
Blacks voting for Hillary, just like rednecks voting for Repugs, is voting against their best interests.
The DNC Just Declared War on Bernie Sanders’ Political Revolution
The Democratic National Committee, headed by the massively unpopular Debbie Wasserman Schultz, has just lifted the last restrictions preventing the DNC from receiving direct contributions from Wall Street and special interest lobbyists.
Under the new rules, political action committees (PACs) and other corporate lobbyists and special interests are now free to donate unlimited sums to the DNC itself. The previous restrictions were put in place by President Barack Obama after his own election, which he marked by saying, “We are going to change how Washington works.”
He continued by affirming that corporate PACs “will not fund my party. They will not run our White House. And they will not drown out the voice of the American people when I’m president of the United States of America.”
These changes in the campaign finance and fundraising system of the DNC (and of the election process in general) are a cornerstone of the campaign of Bernie Sanders, who in his victory speech in New Hampshire referenced corruption in the campaign financing system no less than five times. He has also touted the fact that he has no super PACs funding his campaign and that the average contribution he receives is just $27.
However, some have speculated that these new rules will provide a boost to Hillary Clinton’s fundraising efforts, as Clinton has set up a joint fundraising committee with the DNC, the Hillary Victory Fund. Sanders created his own to match Clinton’s, but it has raised only $1,000 compared to the $26.9 million raised through the Hillary Victory Fund.
This change in policy was preceded by a decision to allow PACs to donate to the annual nominating conventions, after Congress cancelled the $20 million it previously provided in federal funding to both parties’ conventions.
Robert Reich, who was Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Labor and is a harsh critic of Wall Street and vocal supporter of Bernie Sanders, was aghast at the DNC’s decision, posting a scathing Facebook post in which he accuses the DNC of being a “siphon for more corruption.”
http://usuncut.com/news/the-dnc-open...treet-funding/
Bernie Sanders is right: The biggest banks in America have gotten bigger
In one of his many references to the country's financial schism during Thursday night's Democratic debate, Bernie Sanders argued for splitting up "too big to fail" banks because, since almost failing, they'd only gotten bigger.
"When you have three out of the four largest financial ins utions in this country bigger today than they were when we bailed them out because they were too big to fail," Sanders said, "when you have six financial ins utions having assets equivalent to 58 percent of the GDP of America, while issuing two-thirds of the credit cards and a third of the mortgages -- look, I think if Teddy Roosevelt were alive today, that great trust-buster would have said 'break them up.'"
All three have gotten bigger -- even outpacing the size of the banks from 2006, once adjusted for inflation. Of the 15 banks that received the most bailout money, 11 are now bigger than they were before the recession, even after adjusting for inflation. Two are bigger than they were prior to the recession if you don't adjust for inflation, and one, Alabama-based Regions Financial Corporation, is smaller.
Correction: The above chart originally included Citibank, a subset of Citigroup, the larger ins ution. Citibank's insured assets grew between 2006 and 2015, but Citigroup, the umbrella, contracted from $1.9 trillion to $1.7 trillion.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...gotten-bigger/
And of course, the 99% have become poorer as the banks and capitalists have become incredibly richer.
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