Bernie Sanders just posted to FaceBook

[Donnachaidh]

"A last-minute deal was reached near midnight on Friday for $38.5 billion in spending cuts. Another stopgap spending measure will keep the government running until next week when Congress is to vote on the budget agreement. It makes steep cuts in programs for working families, such as Head Start for children and Pell grants for college students."

So working families, Head Start and pell grants got cut. Tell me again HOW this is supposed to help the middle class and poor? Averted a shutdown on the backs of the middle class -- AGAIN.

What are they going to give up NEXT week? Is there anything else that is still left?

"Change We Can Believe In." REALLY?

[Oceansaway]

1. k & r...nt

[City Lights]

2. Dear Rep. Sanders,

[newspeak]

15. Dear Rep. Sanders

will you please toss your hat in the ring!!!! I'll donate my money and time for you!!!!

[fredamae]

27. I can get behind that!

My personal "dream" Sanders/Weiner or Weiner/Sanders.
Perhaps Bernie should "check it out"

[tblue]

60. Me, too!!! Principles, integrity, moral courage.

And LEADERSHIP!!!

[glinda]

78. That is a good combination. No power if not majorities in House & Senate though.

It would have to be a full Kielbasa. All in.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

94. I like that

But how about Sanders/Grayson? That keeps Weiner fighting in the House, and gives Grayson a job.

[femrap]

101. That would be a cool

duo...!

[txlibdem]

107. I second that

Sanders/Grayson or Grayson/Sanders

[kimsarah]

134. Got

my vote!

[Marnie]

125. Good cop Bad Cop Rock

[humanityisfree]

143. YES!

Agree - They would make a great ticket! True progressives - even if they "couldn't win" Imagine all of their ideas out in the public sphere on a regular basis!

[Lorien]

54. +1,000. nt

[Dark]

57. Welcome to DU!

[Raksha]

67. +1000

[nashville_brook]

74. [phone]

[paparush]

97. Excuse me, but FUCK YEAH!!!!!

[INdemo]

103. Bernie Sanders can win ..If we do not have a true progressive

run than we could lose what is left of our Democracy..I don't believe Obama can win in 2012..Obama has lied to us too many times.He obviously plans to buy the Presidency through corporate funding.His goal is to raise 1 billion $$ He cannot raise that amount through grass roots funding.Please Bernie run,run,run.

Draft Bernie Sanders

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/draft-sanders-in-2012 /

[OwnedByFerrets]

112. Although I would LOVE LOVE LOVE it, it will never happen....

you wouldn't believe how man "so called democrats" demean him for being a "socialist". OMG, how dare he.

[AllyCat]

115. Senator Sanders. Senator :)

Just sayin'

[Plucketeer]

117. I would literally sell personal stuff to finance a Sanders campaign!!!

and THAT'S no bullshit!

[NYC Liberal]

144. Dear Rep. Sanders: You're free to run if you want to.

But if you do, I will donate even more of my money and time for President Obama!

[PBS Poll-435]

64. He is a Senator not a House member. nt

[City Lights]

69. My bad. Thanks for the correction.

I should know better.

[rucognizant]

147. If you are that unaware............

Perhaps you should do more homework before you vote for the next President.

Start reading here with the knowledge that rand () Ayn) ( anal?) was theINSPIRATION FOR THE NEW WORLD ORDER BOYS of the last administration who are still lurking in the background with Big Money support!


http://exiledonline.com/atlas-shrieked-why-ayn-rands-ri...

[kooth]

151. Homework ...

Thanks for posting this link, rucognizant! This was an interesting read! It really explains a lot!

[BrklynLiberal]

98. +1000

[emilyg]

123. !!!!!! Amen

[bullwinkle428]

3. I knew Bernie would not stand pat over this horseshit deal. K&R!

[roguevalley]

85. Obama will. I guess since it doesn't affect his family he's good

with all this shit. Nice.

[kimsarah]

135. Did the GOP

even leave enough money for barack to buy a comfortable pair of shoes?

[roguevalley]

157. I don't know, honey.

[piratefish08]

4. hope in one hand, change in the other.

see which one fills up first.

this country is well and truly fucked with a Dem party unwilling to uphold principles and a base more than willing to continue with the giveaways.

[Marnie]

127. Yeah Change you can Believe in

chump change for the middle class is what Obama meant, he just accidentally on purpose forgot to complete the sentence.

Acts speak louder than words and his doesn't Act like a Democrat should. Obama is the antithesis of Democrats like FDR and LBJ who were activist Democrats.

[ProSense]

5. Details of the deal

here

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[SidDithers]

11. Welcome to DU...

Sid

[Autumn]

6. The man speaks out,

really like that. K/R

[myrna minx]

7. At least Cheney can afford to buy another skull island or something.

I'm feel so sick.

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[newspeak]

14. well, they want to privatize medicare

yeah, give the corrupt corporates more of our money while those who have lost their decent jobs have to pay corporates even more moolah so they can make more of a profit on us. Feckin vampires!!!!!

[polmaven]

16. I don't see

a link for where you "hear" that.

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[newspeak]

45. it was repug Ryan's budget proposal

in his proposal was to privatize medicare.

[polmaven]

52. That doesn't put it "on the table"

for discussion in the future. Your post made it sound like the president and Congress would take that seriously.

[tekisui]

9. knr for the only person I trust in DC.

[MissDeeds]

55. Ditto

Bernie in 2012.

[patrice]

12. How many people here think we pretty much turned onto this path when the House voted

in support of extension of the Bush Tax Cuts for the Middle Class, but not for the Upper Class, thus limiting the President's options in dealing with those upper bracket cuts to one and only one thing, extension.

[fredamae]

13. Change?

I know as a 3rd gen dem, I am "changed" today. Indeed it is obama that is responsible for this "change".
Today, I consider myself a person without a party affiliation, after 40+ Years of Democratic party loyalty; my parents and grandparents strong commitment to Dem Party values, I am done. I am so deeply Ashamed of my party today.

There is no difference between Dem's and pubs.

Democratic Party: R.I.P. 2012

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[SidDithers]

20. There is no difference between Dem's and pubs....

Elena Kagen and Sonia Sotomayor would disagree with you.

Elizabeth Warren too.

Sid

[fredamae]

23. Would they disagree, today?

If we had more "identified democrats" working toward the future as progressively as these honorable women do, we wouldn't have need for this conversation.

I don't apologize for my disappointments with the collective decisions the dems have made on my behalf.
I am very politically active, so I Am working to change that which I do not like.

[Donnachaidh]

25. welcome to DU fredamae!

There are plenty of folks here who agree with you.

[fredamae]

31. Thank you and Thanks!

The tax cut extension last Dec left me at the "edge of the cliff" and yesterday left me off the edge and hanging on to a branch just below.

[SidDithers]

33. They'd still be in their old jobs if there were no difference between the parties...

there may not be as much difference as you'd like, but to say that there's no difference is foolish.

Sid

[fredamae]

36. Ok, that's fair

I take responsibility for my sense of disappointment, but I do not accept the far too frequent bi-partisan similarities in the absence of representation for those of us who are not members of "the corporate person-hood" club.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

28. Welcome to DU. I have 30008 posts and agree with you.

Apparently, the folks questioning the number of your posts started magically with 1000 and never had to go through the dreaded 4.

[fredamae]

32. Thanks :)

Well, I am now past the "magic 4". They can relax now

[TahitiNut]

47. As a life-long INDEPENDENT liberal ...

... I've never been deluded by some partisan label and, therefore, I easily escape the disillusionment that seems to run rampant on DU.

[Lorien]

56. Welcome to DU! I feel much as you do, though repugs still have the

fundie insanity as a huge negative, the parties are otherwise extremely similar. At this point they just are playing a "good cop/ bad cop" routine; the Dems pretend to object while paving the way for the repugs to succeed behind the scenes.

[MissDeeds]

61. I know how you feel

I come from a long, long line of Democrats - going back to my great-grandparents, if not beyond, and I don't recognize this lame party that is more concerned with building consensus (caving in to repukes) than standing and fighting for the middle class. I too am ashamed of this Dem-lite mentality. The sprint to the right is disgusting and abhorrent. I am from the left wing of the Democratic party and will remain so for the rest of my life. I am proud of the time honored issues that the Dems once stood for and will never bend or yield to lesser values.

BTW - Welcome to DU, thank your for being a real Dem, and prepare yourself for the onslaught that is sure to come your way.

[Raksha]

70. 3rd generation Democrat here too.

About the same age as you are, and just as disillusioned.

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[Dokkie]

90. get your head out of the sand

Nothing has been cut yet, they just agreed on a number. Now they have to figure out where the $38b should come from and theres a chance if Obama plays hardball, they would all come from the war department. Also if the tax cuts for the rich didn't make you mad enough, maybe were never a democrat as you stated.

PP, NPR were saved and people are getting their panties up in a bunch. Get over it newbie

[pacalo]

126. I don't see Obama making any cuts in military spending when he just started a third war.

I don't think he's a hardball player. He's a consensus player, which is dangerous when the Republicans will not compromise. Obama's policies & procedures manual is missing the chapters on leadership & backbone. Too bad LBJ didn't leave his manual with margin notes behind for Obama to pick up some useful pointers.

[newspeak]

159. yeah, well today is Monday

and this morning on Good morning america-what was the big talk? Cutting "entitlements" and how the repukes want to privatize medicare--and I wanted to scream at the TV when they kept tying social security to the budget. So, now the talk is Obama is going to make a speech about entitlements, let's just see how that goes, shall we.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

19. Head Start and Pell Grants?.........

so much for the value of education in this country.

[newspeak]

22. well now, who stated without education

there is no democracy? Could it be one of the founders--Thomas Jefferson?

[BobbyBoring]

24. There's always home schooling

Appears to be working well so far

[kimsarah]

136. And more

taxpayer-funded charter schools!

[eqfan592]

26. Hey, so long as rich people still get massive tax breaks on their vacation homes...

...then Head Start programs and Pell grants were a worthy sacrifice. A sacrifice that clearly has the better, long term interests of our nation at heart.

[ProSense]

34. Head start was not cut

<...>

In addition, money will not be taken from programs the president favors, such as Head Start, but instead from the automatic "mandatory spending" appropriated for departments such as the Pentagon and the Department of Transportation.

link

[Donnachaidh]

43. so you're calling a Congressional rep a liar?

[MrMickeysMom]

129. "money will not be taken from prog's the prez favors..."

... as liberty continues to be taken away from the middle class...

I don't believe in his change anymore.

[in_cog_ni_to]

29. He's what this country needs as a LEADER.

He's the ONLY politician who really DOES CARE about us.

I wish he would run for Prez.

HEAD START??????&^%$# Pell Grants????*&^%$ seriously? The Dems are going to let that happen? SHAME ON THEM, IF THEY DO!!!

[ProfessionalLeftist]

82. I'll say it again (posted yesterday) - Sanders needs to run for President (n/t)

[in_cog_ni_to]

102. Totally agree, but he won't. n/t

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[Zax2me]

35. ANOTHER mocking of the Obama slogan...

Sigh...
So now Obama is somehow an enemy of the middle class and poor?
Give me a break.
Don't overstate.

[tekisui]

48. Did Sanders call him an enemy? I certainly wouldn't call him a champion

of the middle class and poor.

Sanders, however, is.

[Donnachaidh]

50. when one's slogans are diametrically opposite of your actions

You -DESERVE- to be mocked. At every possible reflection of the truth.

[tpsbmam]

66. FYI: that didn't come from Bernie, that was added in the OP. Here's Bernie's

whole FB post:
Bernie Sanders

A last-minute deal was reached near midnight on Friday for $38.5 billion in spending cuts. Another stopgap spending measure will keep the government running until next week when Congress is to vote on the budget agreement. It makes steep cuts in programs for working families, such as Head Start for children and Pell grants for college students.

Obama has certainly been no friend to the middle class and poor. He's capitulated every step of the way to the right-wing and his corporate overlords and he has screwed America and 98% of Americans in the process.

[nashville_brook]

75. I want to believe...

[liberation]

79. Yes We Can...

... tell you why he can't.

Better?

[Zax2me]

80. I just don't like the side-slamming of Obama

When the repugs here are CLEARLY in the wrong. It's 100% on them, not Obama.

[kimsarah]

137. Nice try!

[MrMickeysMom]

130. No....

Just the handmaiden of the enemy of the middle class

That's an understatement.

[tomp]

148. So now Obama is somehow an enemy of the middle class and poor?

Not "now". Always was. think trojan horse and look at the facts.

[sarcasmo]

37. All the while 8 billion a month in Afghanistan continues.

[fredamae]

40. Yes, as the 99'rs

seniors, poor, women and kids slowly disappear.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

Not to worry. The fierce advocate for the people will veto the budget.

And, demand that the cuts be restored.

Won't he?

[hfojvt]

38. head start got cut ? - that is great news

at least long term. In the next election every voter should hear that Republicans cut $5 billion from Head Start and that they also voted to give $10 billion in tax cuts to the 400 richest Americans. (except using real numbers). Given a choice between educating children or givig money to multi-millionaires, most voters are gonna side with the children.

[quakerboy]

76. But thats not what they will hear

And we all know it. What they will hear is "Obama cut this, Obama cut that, and your taxes are still too high!"

[xmas74]

111. I'd like to hope so

but I hear plenty of people in my area bitching and moaning about how it's not fair that any money is spent on Head Start. Don't ask me why they complain; I tend to block them out.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

39. Bernie, you of all people should know, that until there is campaign finance reform, we are screwed.

Catch 22

We need campaign finance reform but the people voted into office got there with corporate/wealthy bootstraps, so why would they want campaign finance reform?

[Enrique]

41. I'll tell you how it helps the middle class and the poor

because spending cuts create jobs! I learned this from the Republicans!

[newspeak]

49. you're being sarcastic, aren't you?

These spending cuts are going to leave thousands without decent jobs. And the more money they take from the public, the worse our economy will go.

[and-justice-for-all]

42. because repukes do the very opposite of what they say...

they are not for the majority of the American peoples well-being, they are corporate whores and they can all kiss my ass. repukes are vile cretins. If there was a hell, the road to it would be paved with these fuckers.

[ecstatic]

44. The Pell grant and Head Start cuts are sick

Just plain sick.

[Stinky The Clown]

46. What we have is a failure to lead.

[kestrel91316]

99. I agree 100%. If he has a single failing, it is his failure to take hold

of the reins of power and lead the charge to the LEFT.

Yes, he is my president, and yes, he is far better than the alternative would have been, but he falls far short of my expectations.

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[kenny blankenship]

53. In the end people of different parties & different beliefs came together to shaft avg Americans

Our system works.

[avaistheone1]

59. Kumbaya

Screwing the little people is holy work.

[saorsa]

105. ! oh man, thanks for that, I nearly spit-laughed my whole mouthful

of wine ( sacrificial, of course) onto the keyboard. Thank goodness I did not have my pipe, would've aspirated it for sure

[Logical]

58. Wow, depressing. n-t

[OhioChick]

62. K&R n/t

[Harriety]

63. Trust Bernie to tell it like it is

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[MissDeeds]

71. Ditto

He represents what the Democratic party used to stand for. Go Bernie!

[FourScore]

68. Please run for President. n/t

[radhika]

72. So we can expect the same theatrics NEXT week too?

Sort of turning into a sordid mini-series. With a plot that goes nowhere and no characters we can root for.

[Love Bug]

73. And we wonder why the poor and working class don't vote...

They don't think anyone in DC speaks for them.

[HankyDubs]

77. only the middle matters! The left will do what we tell them!

until they don't.

[kimsarah]

138. Ooops!!!

[Maineman]

81. I wish there was some way to have a good progressive ready to jump in.

Too much of the time Obama is some sort of middle of the road guy who wavers between right wing war monger and blue dog democrat. He is everyone's president including robber banks, corporate millionaires, and Bush era war criminals.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

83. Ask Sanders - he's right there. n/t

[treestar]

84. Voting in a republican House meant we were going to get a different

type of change. Why blame anything on Obama when there is a Repuke House. How about blaming them?

[HankyDubs]

86. this started a long time

before the last election.

[babsbunny]

87. please be our next President!

[Enthusiast]

88. Bernie is my favorite. nt

[Taverner]

91. The republicans need to GO AWAY

By ANY means necessary

[jillan]

92. Why won't this man run for President??? To me he is a perfect as we could get.

[2banon]

108. What's the point of running, when the game is rigged in favor of Korporate Whores?

And that's an insult to Whores!

[billymayshere]

93. Dean Sanders2012 / Sander Dean 2012

Either one sounds good to me.

[russspeakeasy]

95. How many of us really need to eat ?

We could give up food. Or wars. Nope, go with the food.

[Beartracks]

96. k and r. n/t

[davidthegnome]

100. Thank you Sanders

Keep telling the truth, no matter who it pisses off...

If you run in 2012, you can count on my vote and you can count on me being motivated as never before.

[Modern_Matthew]

104. The Pell grant cut went through? Well, there goes my plan of finishing up school. Sigh...

Will work my fingers to the bone and retire at death. It's their plan for me.

[2banon]

109. Not all of the plan. No Grants, Lot's of Loans to owe until death do your part

that's one goal of the Korporate Whores in office.

[Eyerish]

106. K&R

[xmas74]

110. So the cut in Pell grants

means I might not be able to complete the degree I've been fighting for so many years to complete. I work full time and raise a child. I cannot afford to take off to finish college so I take courses part time.

Without a Pell grant I'm screwed. My only chance at getting out of our situation is a degree and if I can't get funding it'll never happen.

[amborin]

113. K&R

[Imagevision]

114. Dammit! - Bernie Sanders should run for president!

[center rising]

120. Bernie Sanders wouldn't get 5% of the vote

Please stop this Sanders for president crap!!

[Raksha]

155. Even 5% of the vote would make the corporate Democrats sit up and take notice,

but it could easily be at least 15% if not more. Bernie is one of the very few who represents the REAL interests of the majority of the American people. The only thing that really keeps him from winning the presidency in 2012 is all the "pragmatic" people like you who keep telling everyone else it's impossible--and everyone who believes them. But *WHAT IF* all the Democrats now planning to hold their noses and vote for Obama again voted their conscience instead?

So NO...I will NOT "Stop this Sanders for president crap"!

[center rising]

158. Fine, then don't stop

I though will not wish for a presidential run from a man, who by his own admission, couldn't win.

[Roci]

116. Where was the money cut from, specifically?

“Am I the only one who finds this "puff piece"
http://www ­.whitehous­e.gov/blog­/2011/04/0­9/details-­bipartisan­-budget-de­al

a little too general?
I want to see an itemized list of how much is being cut from which programs and agencies. If the White House is going to crow about it, they ought to do a better job of letting people know about it. Or is there something buried way down deep in it that's going to end up killing people, like the cuts for heating oil money for poor folks in the middle of a New England or Montana winter?
I've heard a lot of numbers being sliced up and tossed around by the talking heads, but I think that people deserve to know who gave up what in this mess, and I'll bet I'm not alone.

If the White House and the President are so "proud" of what they have "accomplis­hed" let them lay it out in plain English, for everyone to see.”

[HankyDubs]

122. Right, the piece we're looking at talks about details

but there are no details.

[Riley18]

118. Wish I could afford to move from Florida to Vermont.

It would really be nice to have Sanders in charge

[gateley]

119. Wow -- he's pissed. Good for him! I love Bernie!! nt

[nc4bo]

121. I'd like to tell the lot of them responsible for causing so much grief, pain and desperation

to go to hell.

For whatever good that will do....

[Marnie]

124. What you said Bernie.

[midnight]

128. How can more tax cuts for the rich be ok, but feeding children and paying for

education is not?

[ooglymoogly]

131. Bernie; you are looking more like FDR every day.

You and a bare few are all we can count on for any common sense.

We love you.

[obxhead]

132. The wealthy stay plump and fat, the poor give yet again.

Change we can believe in!

Hope sure is a crushing burden to carry.

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[Tripod]

140. k / r.

[libmom74]

141. What did the Republicans

have to compromise on?

[B Calm]

142. Bernie Sanders 2012

[txlibdem]

145. Bernie, please mentor a few hundred people to continue this fight

America needs you and your ideals.

[dotymed]

146. Bernie, I went to your face book page

there was no place to post.
Will you please "Primary" Obama in the upcoming election? Your country needs you now.

[democracy1st]

150. He wouldn't have a chance in the world to win,politics is so corrupt right now he wouldn't

last but a state or two.

[dotymed]

156. Even that is better than doing nothing.

[bluethruandthru]

149. Run Bernie Run!! n/t

[tcaudilllg]

152. This doesn't even touch the people who aren't working

-- It's the working poor who are getting the shaft!

[mm44sas]

153. at least there is one democrat supporting working people.. oh wait..

he is an independent... so much for the DNC..

[bvar22]

154. Obama co-signs the Republican Plan for America,

and declares "VICTORY"!!!

The RICH deserve MORE money,
and The Working class & The Poor should pay for it!
----co-signed by President Obama & the "Centrist" Dem Leadership

Mission Accomplished!