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In reply to the discussion: Senator Bernie Sanders Real Time with Bill Maher [View all]ehrnst
(32,640 posts)26. Um... 1971 was before any Sanders Campaign
https://khn.org/news/kennedy-health-care-timeline/
Perhaps you should google what Bernie was doing in 1971.
I seem to recall that it was LBJ that got Medicare and Medicaid implemented even before that.
Perhaps you aren't familiar with Pell Grants for college education. Educate yourself:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/pell-grants-college-costs_n_1835081.html
But, I'll bite, which Sanders campaign?
Was it before Hillary's '93 healthcare for all initiative?
CHIP actually got affordable healthcare expanded. That was Hillary and Ted Kennedy's doing. Actions speak louder than words, even if they are repeated endlessly.
https://thinkprogress.org/ted-kennedys-record-on-health-care-reform-9118c3ee077c/
So, tell me about how the Sanders campaign was the begining of the fight for the minimum wage increase....
June 4, 2007
After a Ten Year Battle, Democrats Raise the Minimum Wage for American Workers
https://www.dpc.senate.gov/dpcdoc.cfm?doc_name=fs-110-1-88
Just because you weren't paying attention before Bernie doesn't mean he is the genesis of those ideas.
Perhaps you should google what Bernie was doing in 1971.
I seem to recall that it was LBJ that got Medicare and Medicaid implemented even before that.
Perhaps you aren't familiar with Pell Grants for college education. Educate yourself:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/pell-grants-college-costs_n_1835081.html
But, I'll bite, which Sanders campaign?
Was it before Hillary's '93 healthcare for all initiative?
CHIP actually got affordable healthcare expanded. That was Hillary and Ted Kennedy's doing. Actions speak louder than words, even if they are repeated endlessly.
https://thinkprogress.org/ted-kennedys-record-on-health-care-reform-9118c3ee077c/
So, tell me about how the Sanders campaign was the begining of the fight for the minimum wage increase....
June 4, 2007
After a Ten Year Battle, Democrats Raise the Minimum Wage for American Workers
https://www.dpc.senate.gov/dpcdoc.cfm?doc_name=fs-110-1-88
Just because you weren't paying attention before Bernie doesn't mean he is the genesis of those ideas.
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Another brilliant appearance by Bernie... no one articulates the progressive message better!!
InAbLuEsTaTe
Jun 2018
#1
He just does to for attention, and for the money, which he hides from the IRS.
bahrbearian
Jun 2018
#7
Healthcare for all? Affordable education? Strengthen Social Security? Raise the minimum wage??
liberalnarb
Jun 2018
#8
Healthcare for All was not part of the mainstream Democratic agenda until Sanders' campaign
liberalnarb
Jun 2018
#25
What I took from it is we need to appeal to deplorable trump voting racists to get votes
Eliot Rosewater
Jun 2018
#4
Yes, saying that we need a strong progressive economic message is all coded pandering to
liberalnarb
Jun 2018
#6
You mean the people who were unhappy that he didn't assuage their white fragility? (nt)
ehrnst
Jun 2018
#13
maybe, I don't know their feelings about their "white fragility" or Obama's response to it
aikoaiko
Jun 2018
#14
You brought them up. Why do you think that white people voted for Trump after voting for Obama? (nt)
ehrnst
Jun 2018
#15
I no longer think you're interested in a genuine conversation so I'll bow out.
aikoaiko
Jun 2018
#22