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Showing Original Post only (View all)Bernie Sanders Annihilates Mitch McConnell and Delivers a Lesson in Compassion [View all]
http://www.politicususa.com/bernie-sanders-annihilates-mitch-mcconnell-delivers-lesson-compassion.htmlBernie Sanders Annihilates Mitch McConnell and Delivers a Lesson in Compassion
By: Jason Easley
Jan. 7th, 2013
Sen. Bernie Sanders went on MSNBC today and completely leveled Sen. Mitch McConnell for claiming that revenue is not the issue, and explained that the government is spending money to keep people from starving.
Here is the video (at link):
Sanders said, The question that we have to debate as a nation is that deficit reduction is a very important point, but we have to understand that today at 15.7% our revenue as part of GDP is the lowest thats it has been in sixty years. So when Sen. McConnell says revenue is not the issue, he is dead wrong. Revenue is very much the issue. The American people have been very clear. They do not want to cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. They do want to ask the wealthy and corporations to pay more in taxes.
Sen. Sanders explained why the government is spending so much money right now, Do you know why we are spending a lot of money? Because we are in the midst of a terrible Wall Street caused recession. Where real unemployment is close to 15%, and if we do not expand the Food Stamp program children in America go hungry. And if you do not provide unemployment compensation, workers will be out on the street having lost everything. Historically what happens when you are in the midst of this terrible, terrible recession, and again real unemployment close to 15%, what the American society has got to do as a society, is take care of people in need. As the economy improves, as fewer people are on unemployment, those spending programs should go down. But you cant leave fellow Americans out there on the street.
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Mitch McConnell is dead wrong, and his insistence on cuts without revenue will lead to more suffering for millions already in need. Republicans has tossed aside their responsibility to our society. All they can see is their own ideology. Conservatives want spending cuts because their ideology tells them cuts will grow the economy.
This is why, in the face of an onslaught spearheaded by blind ideology, it is the responsibility of the left to speak for the voiceless and fight for those most in need during these difficult days.
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Bernie Sanders Annihilates Mitch McConnell and Delivers a Lesson in Compassion [View all]
babylonsister
Jan 2013
OP
He increased it while balancing it if I recall correctly. Then Bush peed in the pool. n/t
Ed Suspicious
Jan 2013
#8
That's all the bushes do is pee in the pool; they turn everything they do in to a crime.
Dont call me Shirley
Jan 2013
#48
Thanks to the NRA and GOP well armed poor, hungry, desperate and pissed off people in the streets
stultusporcos
Jan 2013
#4
But the real problem with that is Fox Noise telling them that their hurt is all the liberals fault!
Trailrider1951
Jan 2013
#14
So you have a choice now prepare for possiable RW blowback againt liberals or don't
stultusporcos
Jan 2013
#17