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Showing posts with label Bernie Sanders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bernie Sanders. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Video: Setting it straight... Bernie Sanders on health care



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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Representative Bernie Sanders to the Fed Chairman: Who got the money?


On who got the 2.2 trillion of taxpayer dollars...

Sanders: Can you tell us who they are?

Bernake: No because the reason is it's counter productive and will destroy the value of the program is that banks will not come to the...

Sanders: Well isn't that too bad...
Well. You just gotta watch it.



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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

I like Bernie Sanders



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Friday, March 27, 2009

Bernie Sanders Rocks! He's a Senator you know?


If 'Reconciliation' is such a good idea in order to give tax breaks to billionaires, why is it such a bad idea to give health care to all of our people or make this country energy independent?


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Bernie Sanders: What we need to combat big money interests is a strong grass roots movement


If you want the President's budget to pass, you are going to have to squawk about it to your representatives, because it is clear that those who oppose it are going to doing plenty of squawking of their own.




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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Independent Senator Bernie Sanders on 'The Culture of Greed'


Here's a smidgen of what Senator Sanders has to say...

We don't need on the front pages of our newspapers as heroes people who have done nothing else with their lives but accumulate but billions and billions of dollars. These people don't produce anything but more and more money for themselves.

Second of all, obviously, we need a Wall Street which is interested in creating an investments in productive capabilities in our economy, that improves the lives of people, rather than just making relatively small number of people extraordinarily rich.




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Saturday, October 18, 2008

Real Time: Bill Maher, Bernie Sanders, Ben Affleck and Martin Short

Fortunately, or unfortunately
nobody from the 'Right'
in this segment



Bill Maher: What I feel out there is that the old guard feels power slipping away. They have had their claw, their boney cancer-ridden claw on the levers of power for a long time, and they finally feel it being...

Martin Short: You know it was like when they added Oliver to the Brady Bunch to that last season...
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The (new) West Wing

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