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Mon Feb 29, 2016, 11:49 AM Feb 2016

As expected: The billionaires lanch anti-Sanders propaganda

As The Intercept reports “A Super PAC called Future 45 started airing an ad this week saying Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders would hurt small businesses and kill jobs by raising the minimum wage and increasing taxes.

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it is remarkable how the dominant system of the neoliberal lunacy uses the same arguments everywhere. In Greece, the parties of the establishment (mostly New Democracy and PASOK), were attacking Tsipras (when SYRIZA was in opposition), by saying that he will destroy more jobs by increasing taxes, in case he get elected.

What they didn't say to the people, is that tax reliefs dictated by Greece's creditors, concern exclusively the big capital. During the five years of the most brutal neoliberal policies imposed by the troika creditors, the small-medium businesses have been eliminated through more taxes. These are policies designed to destroy the small-medium sector, opening the road to the multinational cartels. Nothing has been done accidentally. Everything is well designed.

Eventually, the euro-dictatorship proceeded in a financial coup against Greece, in order to force Tsipras to surrender, signing a third catastrophic memorandum according to creditors' desires.

Now, the billionaires in the US have been mobilized, using the propaganda mechanism in full force against Bernie Sanders. They use exactly the same arguments. Just think of it: Bernie was the one who forced the Fed to reveal that it supplied, in total, more than $9 trillion (!) to Wall Street firms, commercial banks, foreign banks, corporations and some highly questionable off balance sheet entities. Yet, these unbelievable hypocrites still wonder about where he will find the money to fund his social program! At this point, common sense falls to zero.

http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2016/02/as-expected-billionaires-lanch-anti.html

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As expected: The billionaires lanch anti-Sanders propaganda (Original Post) no more banksters Feb 2016 OP
Well, then clearly, the GOP WANTS to run against Hillary, not Bernie. 99th_Monkey Feb 2016 #1
They'd much prefer a Clinton loss than a Sanders win, that's for sure! n/t arcane1 Feb 2016 #2
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