March 8, 2019

Bernie Sanders 1989 on Media and Environmental Issues

Published on Apr 19, 2017

In this excerpt of a 1989 C-SPAN interview with then Mayor Bernie Sanders, he made a point in regards to the media and how environmental issues are addressed.

March 8, 2019

Sanders' 'Medicare-for-all' expands long-term care benefits

BY RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR ASSOCIATED PRESS

MARCH 08, 2019 01:52 PM,
UPDATED 37 MINUTES AGO

WASHINGTON

Sen. Bernie Sanders is raising the stakes of the "Medicare-for-all" debate by expanding his proposal to include long-term care. That could force other Democratic presidential candidates to decide whether to continue supporting the bill given the high cost of providing long-term care coverage.

"Medicare-for-all" is unlikely to advance in the Republican-controlled Senate, but it's become a defining issue in the early days of the Democratic primary. Candidates point to their support of Sanders' legislation as proof of their progressive politics.

Some moderate Democrats have criticized the cost. By adding the long-term care provision, Sanders could further expose that divide.

So far, 2020 candidates Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Kamala Harris of California say they'll support the revised Sanders' bill.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/article227310724.html

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His office says a new edition to be introduced in coming weeks will include added coverage for home- and community-based services, available to people of any age as Medicare for All benefits. Such services can include adult day care, a housekeeper, or home improvements like grab bars in the shower.

The shift by Sanders and his House counterparts came after intensive lobbying from disability rights advocates. The groups were a central part of the coalition that defeated President Donald Trump’s effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act and restrict federal financing for Medicaid.

The activists realized during that effort that even Medicare for All came up short on the needs of disabled people, said Nicole Jorwic, policy director for The Arc, which serves people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

“If you don’t include long-term supports and services, it cannot be considered a bill that is for all people because it leaves out huge portions of the population, including people with disabilities and aging Americans,” she said.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/sanders-medicare-for-all-expands-long-term-care-benefits/

March 8, 2019

Photos: Today we said hello to seniors in Iowa and heard about their pressing concerns.

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1104101994371915781

March 8, 2019

Jimmy Carter offers to visit North Korea to try to break nuclear stalemate

By CARLA MARINUCCI 03/07/2019 06:49 PM EST Updated 03/07/2019 07:31 PM EST

Excerpt:

SAN FRANCISCO — Former President Jimmy Carter — who once brokered a nuclear agreement with Kim Jong Un’s grandfather in the 1990s — is offering to travel to North Korea to try and break President Donald Trump's deadlock with the North Korean dictator.

The offer was described to POLITICO by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who met with the former president in Atlanta on Thursday.

In 1994, Carter became the first U.S. president ever to visit North Korea when he met with Kim Il Sung, the founder of North Korea and grandfather of the current leader, Kim Jong Un. Together, the two developed a bilateral, “step-by-step plan to get to the point of peace and work toward denuclearization,’’ Khanna said.

Carter, now 94, no longer travels but told Khanna that he would go to North Korea if the Trump administration wanted his assistance. Khanna noted that Carter is “perhaps the only person in the nation” who had direct contact and negotiations with Kim’s grandfather, a revered figure in North Korea. And with that “weight of history," he added, Carter may be in a unique position to assist Trump in his nuclear talks with the current North Korean dictator after the two leaders left a recent summit in Vietnam with no agreement on how to move forward.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/07/jimmy-carter-north-korea-1210723


https://twitter.com/RepRoKhanna/status/1104018762641166336

March 8, 2019

Here's to the Crazy Ones ...

March 8, 2019

Here's @BernieSanders plan for rural America

https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1103837642251100165

March 8, 2019

Read Sanders' full speech from Council Bluffs, Iowa:

David Choi Mar 8, 2019, 1:10 AM

Excerpt:

Thank you for being part of a campaign which is not only going to win the Democratic nomination, which is not only going to defeat Donald Trump, the most dangerous president in modern American history, but with your help is going to transform this country and, finally, create an economy and government which works for all Americans, and not just the one percent. Today, I want to welcome you to a campaign which says, loudly and clearly, that the underlying principles of our government will not be greed, kleptocracy, hatred and lies. It will not be racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia and religious bigotry. All of that is going to end.

The principles of our government will be based on justice: economic justice, social justice, racial justice and environmental justice. Tonight, I want to welcome you to a campaign which tells the powerful special interests who control so much of our economic and political life that we will no longer tolerate the greed of Wall Street, corporate America and the billionaire class - greed which has resulted in this country having more income and wealth inequality than any other major country on earth.

No. We will no longer stand idly by and allow 3 people in this country to own more wealth than the bottom half of America while, at the same time, nearly 20 percent of our children live in poverty, veterans sleep out on the streets and seniors cannot afford their prescription drugs. We will no longer accept 46 percent of all new income going to the top 1 percent, while millions of Americans are forced to work 2 or 3 jobs just to survive and over half of our people live paycheck to paycheck, frightened to death about what happens to them financially if their car breaks down or their child becomes sick.

Together, we are going to create a political system which is based on the democratic principles of one person - one vote - and end a corrupt system which allows billionaires to buy elections. Yes. We are going to overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections.

Today, we fight for a political revolution.

https://amp.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-iowa-2020-rally-speech-transcript-2019-3

March 8, 2019

''This man is absolute love through & through.''

https://twitter.com/gurglingdragon/status/1103843114702258177

March 8, 2019

Ari Rabin-Havt: Looking good Council Bluffs, Iowa.

https://twitter.com/AriRabinHavt/status/1103828800322838529

March 8, 2019

🔥 LIVE - Bernie Returns to Iowa to Continue the Political Revolution.

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In 2016, our campaign began the political revolution. Now, it is time to defeat Donald Trump, complete that revolution and implement the vision we fought for. Tonight, we’re in Council Bluffs to kick off the first of three Iowa rallies this week for our historic campaign.