Senator Sanders Takes on the Koch Brothers and Their Social Security Lies

[spooked911]

Run time: 03:47 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFymBUsoNWY   Posted on YouTube: June 21, 2011 By YouTube Member: bravenewfoundation Views on YouTube: 379   Posted on DU: June 22, 2011 By DU Member: spooked911 Views on DU: 4622

 
EXPOSE THE KOCHS: The Koch brothers fund multiple think tanks and academic centers to promote their ideology and grow their profits, a Brave New Foundation investigation reveals. Let's create an echo chamber of truth by using YouTube's SHARE tools above to protect Social Security and counter the Koch billions. http://KochBrothersExposed.com/socialsecurity

Via Robert Greenwald and the Brave New Foundation.

[lumpy]

1. Great video- kick up

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[Scuba]

2. Outstanding! Thanks for posting.

[roxiejules]

3. Stregthen Social Security, Don't Cut It

http://strengthensocialsecurity.org/


1. Social Security belongs to you—the workers who contribute to it—not the politicians in Washington.

2. Social Security will never go bankrupt. Its major source of income comes from the contributions of workers and employers; as long as there are workers, Social Security will have income. Closing tax loopholes for wealthy individuals will increase the long term financial health of the program, and protect it for decades to come.

3. Raising the retirement age is a terrible idea and a large benefit cut. If you were claiming benefits as a 66 year-old retired worker and the full retirement age was changed from 66, where it is today, to 69 your benefits would be cut 20 percent. A typical benefit would drop from $14,000 a year to $11,200 a year.

4. Privatizing Social Security would be a disaster. Social Security is so valuable because it provides a guaranteed benefit. Privatizing Social Security would remove this guarantee and have people gamble their retirement savings in the casinos of Wall Street. If the recent financial crisis taught us anything, Wall Street is the last place where our money is safe.


SIGN PETITION HERE:

http://strengthensocialsecurity.org/action

[JAnthony]

4. This is GREAT... needs to go viral!

This Senator should run for President against Obama. We need a real socialist instead of a black Republican President.

[nichomachus]

5. Minutes before I read this post

I was on the phone with a friend who was on his way home from meeting with a financial adviser from his 401K group. The guy told him not to rely on Social Security because "it was a Ponzi scheme from day one and it's going to be bankrupt in a couple of years."

[bulloney]

16. As if the stock market is a safe, secure means of investing with credit default swaps and the like.

As if the highly-manipulated stock markets and the bubble economies they create aren't Ponzi schemes.

It sounds like your friend spends a lot of time listening to CNBC propaganda and the like.

[Dj13Francis]

6. yes

yes, yes, yes and yes! Damn I love Bernie Sanders.

[fascisthunter]

7. Yes, and we have Idiots here Parroting the Same Talking Points

[pnorman]

10. Here? Here on Du?

I never knew!:shrug:

[SoapBox]

8. K & R..n/t

[Pharaoh]

9. Brilliant!

Thanks Bernie!

[Enthusiast]

11. K&R

Why doesn't this have over 100 recommendations?

[dotymed]

17. Most DU'ers already understand this message.

Bernie is the best, but here, he is preaching to the choir.

If we could convince the uninformed of these truths and all of us take action, THAT would be great. I would vote for Bernie in a heartbeat. He is the whole package and if we have any hope of regaining our government, it lies in people like Bernie or better yet, Bernie.

[RBInMaine]

12. Progressives, once and for all, need to get COORDINATED, ORGANIZED, and control a MESSAGE.

This is nothing new. The way the corporate right wing creates and controls their propaganda has been going for years and has been exposed here and there for years. The problem is that Progressives refuse, for some insane reason, to counter by establishing their own think tanks and permanent media presence. They don't create thinktanks of their own. They don't coordinate. They don't frame their messaging well. They know what to do. They just don't do it. Baffling.

[Sportsguy]

13. Done and Shared

Very good information.

[florida08]

14. this should be on the boob tube as well as youtube

Great video and Senator Sanders again leads the fight to protect seniors safety net. He's my hero. Thanks so much for posting and for the links. I tweeted them..again.

:kick: :kick:

[southmost]

15. k & r

great video

[Duck]

18. oversell

The facts here are great but the sound effects and presentation cheapens them. The truth doesn't need that "Political Ad" crap that will turn off the right wingers that should see it. I wish it had been done with the seriousness and dignity the subject deserves.

[Snoutport]

19. +1,000,000

[TheUnspeakable]

20. This needs a kick today!