Sen Sanders "You'll Give Billionaires Tax Cuts But No Health Care For The Middle Class!

[seemslikeadream]

Run time: 10:59 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JIqKM-8qCE   Posted on YouTube: March 26, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: March 27, 2009 By DU Member: seemslikeadream Views on DU: 7888

 

[chatnoir]

1. Bernie is my new hero

But reading those YouTube comments made me want to :puke:

[KansDem]

2. Sen. Sanders is a real gem

Wish we had 99 more like him.

Okay, maybe just 40 more like him...

[burning rain]

27. I'd settle for 59.

I'm moderate like that!

[MindMatter]

40. He is more of a true Democrat than half the people with D after their names

[progressoid]

60. Hell, I'm not greedy

I'd settle for a dozen to whip the Senate into shape.


Go Bernie!

[pberq]

3. Go Bernie!

[LaPera]

4. Sanders is absoutely correct - Obama is paying out billions to Billionaires from our taxes, but

says single payer universal health care is too expensive bullshit....He knows it would put these greedy, cheating, preying on the sick health insurance corporations out of business...good riddance...government can do it more efficiently, fairly and far less expensive to all of us the tax payers than what the disgusting insurance corporations demand for little or no benefits.

[ProfessorPlum]

5. GO GET EM Bernie!!!

Damn, he's not playing. Way to go.

[fascisthunter]

6. these people he was talking to and about are disgusting

[OHdem10]

7. This is just as the Ruling Class desires.

Watching Politics for longer than I care to share, all I can say
is what is new???

Our own party after giving Wall Street Hundreds of Billions.
The First ACT OF OUR party was---The Middle Class Taxcuts will
have to go.

2ond out the gate: We cannot afford this Health Care Plan.

How different is that from the Republicans
Send Trillion to Iraq.

Start a War--Give thePrivileged a tax cut.
Make Middle Class Pay taxes and send their kids to war.

Go back as far as you will and one will find a pattern.

[bdamomma]

9. Class War. I am more convinced that is what it is.

it is the ole "I have mine" and to hell with everyone else.

[eagertolearn]

33. I have actually heard a person associated with health care say something

like that "those people who go to the ER for health care need to get a doctor and stop abusing the system". Some people just don't want to believe that people can't afford health care.

[Rebel Scum]

47. That's the GOP motto alright.

[bdamomma]

8. I wish we had more Bernie's and more Sheldon Whitehouse's

Bernie was sitting right next to Sheldon, I wonder what Senator Whitehouse had to say he holds nothing back.

[DebbieCDC]

10. See that slimy fuck Judd Gregg sitting there?

puke bastard. Why in the HELL did he ever approach Obama about being Commerce Sec? Was he thinking he could destroy from in the inside? Sleazy POS. You can see from the video it is KILLING him to sit there and listen to Bernie speak the truth!

[Frisbee]

22. Only to control the census...

Once he realized that he wouldn't get his slimy hands on that, he was gone and back to being the repuke a-hole he really is.

[underpants]

63. He had a look of disdain when it started and then he was fully dismissive of a fellow Senator

Bernie was right as usual

[Overseas]

67. I also think his bid for Commerce was a feint to increase his visibility

Make his face more recognizable so he can get more TV time to spew his venom.

[Raineyb]

11. Go Bernie!

I called Senator Sander's office earlier this week to thank him for putting a hold on that Goldman Sach's person that Obama wanted to put in Treasury. They seemed so glad to have someone call to say thanks even if the person wasn't from Vermont. So if you have a chance, please call Senator Sander's office and give him a thumbs up for standing up for us.

Regards

[GentryDixon]

12. I just sent him a Thank You note.

We definitely need more willing to stand up and challenge these a-holes.

What is it with these Repubs? Are they honestly soulless? It is almost like they are missing the compassion gene. Is that the definition of a Republican? No soul, no compassion, no way?

[jimlup]

50. their rulers are soul-less but

I think most of the repuklian sheep are just ignorant or rich and seeking an intellectual excuse for their own selfishness.

[wildbilln864]

13. k&r and thank you SLaD. nt

[indimuse]

14. BIG K n R

Great clip!! Thx. :)

[avaistheone1]

15. Bernie is one of the few people who serve our government who really

works for the people, and who makes me proud to be an American.

[Overseas]

16. K&R -- Thank You Bernie !!

I've written my senator to support your bill !!

[ihavenobias]

17. K & R n/t

[Jefferson23]

18. Give 'em hell Bernie!

Bernie is watching out for the average American here too:

Stop the Madness: Bernie Sanders Tries to Block Appointment of Latest Wall Street Insider

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. Posted March 26, 2009.

AMY GOODMAN: Independent Senator Bernie Sanders is attempting to block President Obama's nominee to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Gary Gensler, who is a former Goldman Sachs employee. Sanders said in a statement that Gensler worked to deregulate electronic energy trading and exempt from regulation credit default swaps from regulation, which led to the collapse of AIG and has resulted in the largest taxpayer bailout in US history.

Senator Sanders joins us now from Washington, D.C., independent senator from Vermont, elected to the Senate in 2006 after serving sixteen years in the House, the longest-serving independent member of Congress in American history.

remainder here:
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/133474/stop_the_madne...

[Dinger]

19. Wish He Was My Senator!

Feingold is good, Kohl sucks. He could replace Kohl, that's work for me!

P.S. I'm not smoking anything. I'm just dreaming.

[KoKo]

20. Incredible...and well worth the watch of this....K&R!

It's :thumbsup:

[ej510]

21. Sanders is the best Senator in the Senate. Too bad the majority of the public

cannot see it.

[KoKo]

23. We only get one or two "Truth Tellers" in every couple Decades..

We need to be thankful for him and support him. WELLSTONE IS DEAD...

Gotta keep LOOKING!

[KoKo]

24. Another Kick....

[OwnedByFerrets]

25. Senator Bernie Sanders is the very best Senator the US has had

in my lifetime. If only we could clone him and his courage.

[stevedeshazer]

26. K & R for America's Senator.

[gristy]

28. I've never heard him before.

He's a very good speaker. Love his voice.

[burning rain]

29. Sanders isn't being quite fair to the Republicans.

They do care about some ordinary Americans. For instance, during the presidential campaign, they took up the cause of Cindy the Heiress, John the Kept Man, and Meghan the Trust Fund Baby.

[KoKo]

30. LOL's Too True!

:rofl:

[momdogz]

31. he's my Senator

and he rocks!

[defendandprotect]

32. An old hero of mine . . . and the kind of thinking we need in White House -- !!!

[eagertolearn]

34. Great job Sen Sanders! Keep up the good work. We're behind you and Obama!

[Iwillnevergiveup]

35. Rec #42

Even though he's always right, Sen. Sanders is always fighting uphill. I sent him a thank-you note mentioning that thousands (if not millions) of other people would wholeheartedly agree with him if they were paying attention. I told him even if you're not hearing from these folks, they would be grateful and appreciative of his efforts.

He's on Thom Hartman's show every Friday in the first hour, and also puts out a newsletter a couple times a month to keep us in the loop.

That's either a Brooklyn or Bronx accent!

He's simply the best.

[and-justice-for-all]

36. Bernie is true rep. of the people..! nt

[Oilwellian]

37. Great video

Senator Sanders is a gem.

[BrklynLiberal]

38. Bernie Sanders is a patriot!!!!

[Joe Bacon]

39. NO MORE SOCIALISM FOR THE RICH!

Bernie nails them cold. Since the rich bullshit so much about Free Enterprise, give it to them and cut off all their aid, and let them crash and burn.

Give the aid to those who need it, not those who greed it!

[mr_smith007]

41. Sanders is one of the only

true and sincere champions of progressive ideals that we have in Washington. Ted Kennedy is close also but none can beat Sanders. He is a true champion for the people!

[cooolandrew]

42. Imagine a senate full of Bernie Sanders, the GOP wouldn't know where to run. >

He's really coming into his own in a more liberal era. Shows he knew where the real fight was in the senate. In the end he can't help but have a positive influence.

[cooolandrew]

43. Sanders made it pretty clear there people have never had it so good in an honorable leader>

and named and shamed the GOP decisively. Don't be silenced Bernie you're speaking for the people it's their voice it's their outrage. WTG Bernie they need the wake up call.

[Grinchie]

44. I like his limit of three items to pursue...

Unlike the Republicans that want to cover every problem immediately, even thoug that approach has caused disaster and unforseem problems for the last eight years.

The short term approach is flawed when you have a world populated bu 5 billion people and growing.

[tomm2thumbs]

45. RISE Senator Sanders - RISE!!!!!!!! woo hoo - way to get 'em

Glad someone is speaking their mind - hope this gets more air play.

K&R

[HughBeaumont]

46. What's telling is the number of people walking out as he speaks.

Also telling is the obvious thoughts going through the seated ones heads while Sanders sprays them with the fire hose of Truth:

"Oh God. When's the commie going to get done talking already. Blah blah blah health care blah blah blah I'm a commie . . . same old shit. We GOT to get a Bush back in the White House. Screw the damned middle class."

[BlancheSplanchnik]

48. great video, glad I watched K&R

So Gregg says, "we actually have health care planes on our side of the aisle..."!!

What nerve!!! :puke:

..and all the political obsfucation he uses to couche his remarks.
UGH!! double :puke:

(geez it's good to see some of what's actually going on, since we gots no cable here--thanks for posting it)

[mntleo2]

49. After Watching Bill Moyers Last Night ...

...I really am beginning to see, it is time to get out the torches and the pitchforks. Moyer's guest, William Greider of The Nation, was also advocating torches and pitchforks in peaceful assembly to get the points out that Senator Sanders is trying to make. You can see Grieders' comments here: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/index-flash.html.

I have participated in protest and I am haunted by what Naomi Wolf said about it and why is seems so ineffective. She said that this ineffectiveness is because you have to break laws before it becomes affective. This does *not* mean you have to be violent. Choosing the laws that are unjust and wrong then deciding to openly violate them and then TELLING the authorities you are going to violate them, is hard to do when these laws are about the health and financial world. How can you violate laws that are about having billions while you have little or nothing? Also being willing to take the consequences of those violations is also hard when you have jobs and families to consider the impact and what it will do to them, if you have to go to jail. Or if you are beaten so badly, you are incapacitated ...

Here is what is haunting me: How do you violate some tax law that benefits the rich and tells us we are nothing? How do we violate a law about health care that favors the drug companies and tells the user that killing them while charging an arm and a leg is ok? How do you violate a bail-out package that is going to burden our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren while enriching the already rich while impoverishing the rest of us?

Still, torches and pitchforks seem to be the only way as anything else seems to be moot. While the protests I have participated in were fun and full of life and intelligent people, they were often put down even by the people who participated ~ and I could not help but notice how Bernie's very accurate description of our plight was put down by those disgusting elitists. They sat there in thier smugness trying to rationalize why they voted for Welfare DeFormed (which took away an entitlement) because well, it was the right thing to do ~ but to whom? It bars desperate single mothers from even going to school and forces them into slave labor that does not even pay the rent! But hey, their votes WILL and HAVE enriched more of those elitists, like the Waltons who owns Walmart who blatantly and proudly exploit women and elders every day in order to enrich themselves. I know a woman, a nun who broke the law by breaking into the School of the Americas to bring attention to the killing machine and unrest that "school of murder" teaches. She was in her 70's and is doing 6 years in prison for that. She will probably die in there. How could a single mother be able to force her kids to pay the price of foster homes and living without her to make that stand?

So yeah, as an old social justice supporter, I am mad as hell and I don't want to take this crap anymore. But how do you organize this? It is time!

Cat In Seattle

[Better Believe It]

51. K & R

[sellitman]

52. Bravo!

Thank you for posting.

Senator Sanders is a national treasure.

[Maestro]

53. Excellent commentary!

Way to go!

[antimatter98]

54. No Democrat other than maybe Kucinich, would stand up like Sanders has done here.

The Democrats in Congress are all bought off by big health and pharma, not to mention
the banks.

There has been some writing, and I can't remember where to find it now, about the
idea that "Democrats hate Populism and Progressives," and that there is an internal
war on to marginalize populist thought and action by Democrats.

I think this is very important to keep in mind--that Democrats have declared war
on the populist movement, progressive movement and were actually complicit in the
demise of the middle class, starting with Reagan.

Do we dare, as a statement, start calling our party the deprecating 'Democrat' Party?
They are not Democrats in my view, but GOP-lite.

imho. Good Luck.

[cadaverdog]

55. K&R We need more like Bernie

in Congress. "Democratic socialist" Works for me.

[vinylsolution]

56. Bernie is THE MAN!!

He nails the looters, time after time.

No wonder the corporate media keeps pretending he doesn't exist.

[Serial Mom]

57. He is the best...

He tries to REPRESENT the people and isn't that what it is supposed to be!?!?

[Cleita]

58. We're sorry this video is no longer available?

Fuck YouTube!

[xxqqqzme]

59. I just watched it.

[Cleita]

61. Thanks. It looks like they put it back up.

I just watched it. I wish all our Senators were good people like Bernie Sanders.

[sandyd921]

62. Bernie is a true hero! n/t

[Quantess]

64. .

[wildbilln864]

65. kick! nt

[mzmolly]

66. Excellent

remarks by the good Senator! :toast: