This is America since they allowed money into politics. Then it is no longer a democracy - rule by people, it is a plutocracy - rule by money. USA been like this since the 1980s or so, and it will only get worse until either the county falls apart or into autocracy, or people rise up and change it. Trump is a symptom of people loosing faith in the system, not the cause. It will get worse still until Joe and Jane doe has enough and eat their leaders. Money in politics=national suicide over time.
Yes. One example - everyone should know that No matter how expensive your health insurance is, it doesn't cover extended nursing care - health insurance only covers acute nursing, by its own rules to increase shareholder profits, which could not be done under 1965 health insurance regulations. Just One example out of many: just buying an annuity in almost all cases will disqualify you from nursing care. It is VERY easy to make a mistake that makes the annuity noncompliant. Congress created this trap in 2005, with the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, passed by Dennis Hastert, Darrell Issa and Newt Gingrich This DRA 2005 law is so evil that most lawyers do not understand all of it. A court has called interpreting it as a Serbonian bog. This is just one example. Do not fall into this trap and make sure you consult with an elder law attorney you trust in your state!! If you think long-term care insurance is a solution to nursing care, buy a pre-paid policy. You are paying for nursing that is part of other industrialized countries in the world. LTC insurance is very poorly regulated - again, think of your Congressman. At the least - tell your Congressman they must repeal DRA 2005. If they ignore or deflect, elect someone else and tell and warn your friends! It is the Death act- literally
I really hate the fact that Bernie is considered radical. Not one policy that he supports is in any way radical. I wish my country would get civilized, already, and embrace a better future for itself.
The fact that he is referred to as 'radical' shows the underlying fear of those in power, and the effectiveness of mass brain washing. So long as Americans have an uninformed and fearful idea of 'Socialism', since McCarthyism of the 1950's, nothing much will change. Anyway, I agree with you and hope for the best.
That’s politics baby. When you dislike a politician the most base level argument you can make is a vague “they’re too radical for my liking”. Bernie is disliked by the left’s wealthy establishment and the right’s wealthy establishment so there are people on both a sides arguing he is too radical.
But the SOLD OUT, TRAITOR POS'S whom CONTROL the Democrats is the VERY REASON Bernie LOST BOTH of his elections, because HE SHOULD HAVE WON THEM BOTH! But because of PELOSI & SCHUMER they made SURE that Bernie did not WIN! But I am UPSET with Bernie, because he did NOT CALL OUT these undercover Republicans within PELOSI & SCHUMER and SHOW the American People their VOTING RECORDS!
@@Urketadic no religion is a disqualifying factor, unfortunately. Because the Christian Nationalists are more dangerous than the Jewish population. Unless you live in Israel...
"What makes me angry is the massive inequalities that exist." Said the millionaire, I got 5 seconds into this video before I started smelling bullshit.
@@maxkahlow8622What do you suggest he do? We need politicians on our side, and those politicians need to have money. We can't win with millions of scattered voices, we must be united and funded. It isn't bs to promote socialism and have wealth. I would be happy to elaborate more if you'd like.
The next time you hear somebody say "all politicians are liars" jump on that and don't let them go! The statement IS the lie! There *are* honest politicians and it's the criminals and dictators that want to keep the world from believing in what is good, right and wholesome!
@@YarrBr0 Bernie Sanders has no moral compass. He is gutless. He has no spine. His number one priority is his career. He pledges allegiance to the Democratic party.
Mark Shields, formerly of PBS News, once said something like "republican politicians are very devout Christians, but they belong to a very particular sect of Christianity. They have tremendous compassion for large corporations and the very wealthy. Other people they don't care much about."
I would even say to mr. Bezos that it is almost criminally immoral that he is the wealthiest person in the world, while many of his employees barely make a living. I read that in some Japanese companies there is a rule (it is not law in Japan) that the highest paid person in the company can only earn a maximum of 50 times the wage of the lowest paid employee. Wanting more as a CEO is considered to be bad taste and greedy. I think that would be a very good rule of thumb (make it the law, even). If you think you don't need to pay your employees more than $15 000,- a year (minimum wage in the US) the CEO certainly doesn't need more than $750 000,-.
Bezos hasn't gotten rich from a wage though, he's gotten rich as the owner, who's entitled to the profits. His income wouldn't be affected at all even if the US had the same rule as Japan, his income comes from his ownership now from working as CEO. A CEO is technically an employee working for a wage, but Bezos would keep "earning" money even if he didn't work at all, just owning the company is enough. That works in Japan too.
Why is the owner entitled to ALL the wealth, when it's the workers who actually create the wealth. He doesn't own the employees. They're not his property. I'm not saying it should be equal shares but when these people are worth untold billions and their corporations make untold billions in profit, evading tax, so that the infrastructure is crumbling... while half the population are struggling just to pay for housing, food and bills, terrified to change jobs, for fear of losing shitty health company insurance and when a third of the nation live in poverty... and it's getting worse, the system isn't working! Definitely not "For the people".
@@snapgab I mean, I think the difference in opinion is that people don't think he's entitled to the profits of the employee's labor. I'd be interested to know why you think that's the case.
It doesn’t matter whether a CEO is entitled to his wealth. Fact of the matter is that billionaires flat out shouldn’t exist. As a plutocrat, you can use your vast reserves of money to influence the direction of institutions and public opinion, even those beyond government. No single man should be allowed to have that much power, ever, and time after time we’ve seen that people at that level of wealth and influence have perversely abused the social and political capital privy to them.
It's not radical. What Bezos and The Walton's need to do is give their thousands and thousands of employees a dollar raise and allow employees to participate in "profit sharing." And, guess what, it wouldn't crimp their style. They are just too damn greedy.
There used to be a 91% penalty on those taking more than twenty times the average. Granted they were able *by design* to get that down to 55% while allowing the difference to fall to the working class as living wages AND lower prices or by donating to a very small number of legit charities in aid of the Common Good like subsidizing higher education and hospital care rather than jacking up these costs while simultaneously suppressing wages and fixing prices like today. The real underappreciated beauty of it was that by setting this on a certain multiple of the average income rather than any set dollar figure it essentially forced those at the top to let the average increase to make more themselves before that tax kicked in. The entire post WW2 boom that the red hats pine for was driven by this when the rich were forced to circulate money rather than hoard it away.
@@13bustahyou obviously aren’t paying attention. They used an unequal system that’s skewed to the rich. They’re playing a rigged game that redistributes money from the middle and low income to the rich. It’s a rigged system and they wrote the rules.
@@13bustahNot everyone that is not rich ''sits around''. Some of them actually work for a living. In fact, most of them have worked for a living. And if they are not able to work...what then? I guess those are the ones sitting around, waiting for a ''socialist'' to be president. What do you suggest we do about them?
Senator Bernie Sanders is without a doubt the most honest and fair politician who stands for values that could balance the unequal status of income among all Americans. What he is suggesting is not an unrealistic goal but a very positive correction of what is currently happening in USA today. No person is justified in earning such outrageous amounts of income. 💯👍
Bernie is responsible for the wealth inequality because Bernie and the Democrats have used nonstop open immigration since 1967, high taxes, and over regulation to put slack into the labor market year after year. Which gives all the power to employers, driving down wages, and immigration drives up housing prices at the same time. To the point tens of millions of Americans don't have any money left over at the end of the month. And it's the low wages and lack of power at the bottom that allows the excesses at the top. Causing the wealth gap. Compare that to JFK style conservative policies of using low taxes, smaller government, deregulation, and less immigration to tighten up the labor market. Which gives power back to workers. Raises wages. Allows for advancement. Allows for mobility. Allows people with bad job records or few skills to get jobs. And gives people dignity. If Democrats actually cared about lower income people, and were capable of compassion and empathy, they would be Kennedy/Reagan conservatives. You can’t be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.”.......Ronald Reagan The ever expanding power of the federal government, the absorption of many of the functions that states and cities once considered to be responsibilities of their own, must now be a source of concern to all those who believe as did the great patriot, Henry Grattan that: “Control over local affairs is the essence of liberty.” Commencement Address, University of Notre Dame, January 29, 1950.....John F.Kennedy
@@practicaliching2311 Do you actually know who JFK was? He was not a conservative he created federal assistance for education, medical insurance for the elderly, housing legislation, federal aid to struggling areas, and an increase in the federal minimum wage. I hardly consider he was a trickle down economist. Kennedy also won passage of the Area Redevelopment Act and the Housing Act of 1961. The Area Redevelopment Act, a $394 million program, provided federal funding to economically struggling regions. In fact his administration increased the federal deficit. And it was Johnson who cut the taxes three months after JFK passed away.
@@practicaliching2311 that is total BS. You can cherry-pick statements but the truth is the reasons for this mess are Reagan´s trickle down economics, GOP deregulation policies and the SCOTUS Citizens United decision.
Isn't it amazing that among our elected federal, state, and local representatives Bernie is largely a lone, unhesitating voice informing us of the harm to all caused by historically radical wealth inequality? Where are all the others?
@@13bustah Currently, there are 331 million people in the U.S. One percent (3.1 million) own 38.7 trillion dollars ($38,000,000,000,000). If each of those 3.1 million wealthiest Americans accumulated that ungodly extraction of wealth from our economy by working *80* hours per week for *500* years, they would have been paid at a rate of $306/hour. Do you make $306 per hour, work 80 hours per week, and have you worked for 500 years (which is equivalent to *20* generations)?
@@OneAmongBillions Maybe after the first few years of working 80 hour weeks they decided it was time to use their carefully saved, hard-earned money to hire employees. Who pays your wages? (If you have a job) Probably someone that has a lot more money than you. Do you want to earn more than you are right now? To get a raise someone would have to have more money to pay you with. Man am I so glad there are really successful geniuses that make a lot more money than me. Because maybe they'll pay me to work for them.
@@jameshetherington1 Absolutely cheaper. Because everybody benefits from preventaative care. In the US nobody profits from preventative care so almost nobody gets it.
We'll get right on that once we pass that bill for term limits...its just gotta be written into law by....the same people that are making millions off of corporate welfare.
3 people with more than the bottom 50% is another way of saying "Everyone below 50% could have double their income if those three didn't take more than their fair share and paid their fair share of taxes". Remember the French revolution!
@ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958 .. because of the way Musk earns his money he paid 11 billion last year in taxes. How much did Bozos pay? These guys don't pay taxes on their stock holdings unless they sell them. Then they pay capital gains tax which is generally at a lower rate than Joe the Plumber.
@@13bustah You mean they inherited their wealth and exploited the system and the people working for it? It always blows my mind when people try and defend the people who own more than 50% of the USA population xD
So let me get this straight, if Israel agrees to a "temporary ceasefire" you still want to support their genocide? Bernie, you still support sending weapons to Israel after they've murdered 30,000 innocent people?!? Even if the IDF stops murdering people tomorrow and lets in aid, it's projected to be another $50,000 people minimum who will die as a result of the blockade today over the next 6 months. How can you possibly justify sending more weapons to a state that continues to murder innocent women and children?
He's telling the truth - and I only wish it mattered. Wealth has been concentrated, more and more, in the hands of ever-fewer for decades, now. There used to be a saying: "A rising tide [productivity] lifts all boats." That used to be how things were, in this country, until the 1980s to-the-present. The wealthy influence Congress with campaign donations, so that Congress makes rules that further benefit the wealthy (like the huge tax cuts under Trump).
Bernie Sanders supported this massive money printing that significantly drove up the assets of the rich in value. That means most non homeowners have been turned into eternal renters. If houses were expensive before they are impossible to afford now. And he advocated for this.
And yet those people are still better off then those in 3rd world nations, who has no clean water, barely any food, and maybe make about $2 a year, maybe.
@@samueltakac8436 That is why people want to come here. The insanely high wages. Nurses here live in huge mansions and drive the latest Mercedes. Policemen own multiple houses. In Slovakia they would live in apartments and barely get by
Maybe then it would be wise to consider why Bernie and all other progressives caucus with the democrats. Just as inspiration to get an idea of where they're coming from.. 1940-1980 Median wage growth rose 260%. 1981-2020 Median wage growth rose 5.4%.
Alternative Vote system (where you can vote more than 1 person in the ballots in order of preference, like they do in Australia) would eliminate the two party system where independent candidates have to put themselves under one of the two major to have a chance. Change your voting system asap
Bernie is responsible for the wealth inequality because Bernie and the Democrats have used nonstop open immigration since 1967, high taxes, and over regulation to put slack into the labor market year after year. Which gives all the power to employers, driving down wages, and immigration drives up housing prices at the same time. To the point tens of millions of Americans don't have any money left over at the end of the month. And it's the low wages and lack of power at the bottom that allows the excesses at the top. Causing the wealth gap. Compare that to JFK style conservative policies of using low taxes, smaller government, deregulation, and less immigration to tighten up the labor market. Which gives power back to workers. Raises wages. Allows for advancement. Allows for mobility. Allows people with bad job records or few skills to get jobs. And gives people dignity. If Democrats actually cared about lower income people, and were capable of compassion and empathy, they would be Kennedy/Reagan conservatives. You can’t be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.”.......Ronald Reagan The ever expanding power of the federal government, the absorption of many of the functions that states and cities once considered to be responsibilities of their own, must now be a source of concern to all those who believe as did the great patriot, Henry Grattan that: “Control over local affairs is the essence of liberty.” Commencement Address, University of Notre Dame, January 29, 1950.....John F.Kennedy
Inequality is part of the human experience. My problem with Bernie is he thinks he should be the purveyor of redistribution. That has never worked. It’s called socialism and it has failed every single time.
The press is convincing people that this is right. And many people hope they'll be rich one day and don't want their money going in taxes. But what Bernie said is right: poor people don't have money to buy things, so industries go under. Much better to make sure everyone has money to spend.
Yep, far too many people live under the illusion that they *_might_* actually profit from the current system. As a certain someone from a certain sci-fi-series so accurately said: "[They] don't want to stop the exploitation - they want to become the exploiters."
Guys guys guys. We all work for a living self--employed or not. Hence it is fittingly called "earned income". The other guys live without working they live on your work. It is fittingly named "unearned income" because they didn't lift a finger for it. That's the real divide.
@@AaronOkeanos exactly -- the bourgeoisie make money through owning the means of production, meanwhile workers, self-employed or not, make money through labor. That is the key distinction
Greed and stupidity. Two things that have become revered in the US. I can't see this country coming back from those two chronic illnesses we collectively suffer from. Figure out away around those because getting people to quit being either is an exercise in futility.
Sure, they are not breaking the law because they make the laws. The Oligarchy makes the laws by owning congress and the Supreme Corrupt. In a society founded on economic inequality, following the law is meaningless.
I’m a senior working part time and they are saying I’m making too much money and cutting me off insurance. What kind of Democracy is this , but your giving money to quote on quote allies!! Hush money!!!😮😮😮
Apples and oranges. Don't even try to equate domestic spending with foreign policy. The reason that you are getting screwed is because the so-called conservatives would rather make a few rich men richer than let millions like you have financial security in your retirement.
My future scares me. I'm 53 now. I did not do as well as Bezos . yeah , we need to regulate your income while giving Bezos a tax break . Brillant idea !
Why were you cut off your insurance? Was it because to get your policy you had to be poor and you were working and making too much money to qualify? If so you might want to look into Obamacare which has affordable premiums.
@@deadwingdomain You should look into it with a more open mind, before Reagan took over, UBI's were a bipartisan platform, even Nixon spent 2 years trying to pass one that Democrats wouldn't let through finance committee only because they wanted it larger. Studies performed in the US by Republicans showed statistically 0% of people who received UBI's quit their jobs, and every single metric of success rose drastically.
@@deadwingdomain : Why support a multi-class hierarchical system of wealth distribution that massively supports the mere whims of the wealthy elite Capitalist over literally everything else? It's a system that instills greed/fear into people and makes being able to live a decent life some sort of sick competition. Competition is cool in sports and games, but a very twisted metric for deciding a persons chance to live a good life.
In general, not just as a biased Canadian, Canadian politicians are not millionaires like in the states either, generally many come from very humble beginnings
I think if the rich want to glut up all the the money they could at the very least pay taxes on it. It not like they leave enough for the rest of the country to survive on, they should pay taxes so the poor can be fed and housed.
Something happened in the mid to late 80's. I worked for a company with 10K employees in one location. Every March was when we got the BONUS. The whole town/region advertised everything from appliances to furniture to cars on sale in anticipation of the bonus. Our health insurance was mostly covered by the company, we were the highest paid nonunion workers in the region, we had a pension plan. Then everything changed, the bonus went away, we started paying more and more for health insurance, the pension went away. Now everybody's retirement is dependent on how much they invest in their 401K. The company is still prospering. The employees not so much. It used to be that a HS graduate could hire in cleaning toilets knowing that they were going to get a raise every 4 months and a promotion to a manufacturing job at their one year aniversary. Now that person who cleans the toilets works for a contractor and has no opportunity for a promotion within the company unless they go to work for a different contractor who has the contract for the lower paying production jobs. SO there is no hope of climbing the ladder anymore.
@@BS-detectorunder capitalism it is good, if you’re not greedy some bastard will out greed you and put you out of business. “It’s just business” ie you don’t matter.
I’m incredibly appreciative of Stephen Colbert for consistently giving Bernie the platform to speak about his policies, even after his presidential campaigns ended. Stephen is a Catholic, and the Catholic Social Teaching emphasizes the importance of helping the most downtrodden people in society and uplifting them. Regardless of anyone’s religious or spiritual beliefs, that should be the moral code of conduct across the country. Love you both ❤
_"the Catholic Social Teaching emphasizes the importance of helping the most downtrodden people in society and uplifting them."_ Too bad they're not practicing what they preach. Hypocrites sitting on more wealth than most _countries..._
The wealthy and powerful who need not ONE MORE THING to enjoy an amazing life, continuously tilt the playing field to favor their policies. It's no secret conspiracy. It's out in the open. To change things, congress needs to adjust the economic structure. It's just that simple. If we had 400 Bernies in congress it'd be fixable.
@@WhiteFang111 : Can you name even a country that was ever _classless, moneyless,_ or _stateless?_ Let alone all three of the core principles of Communism? Just making clear that no such country exists. Communism is nothing but a far off dream of a utopia. One day we will evolve that far but it's certainly nothing anyone alive now needs to worry about. lols
@@WhiteFang111 : The choices now are Socialism and Capitalism. If you want to "balance" those, then you seek Centrism, and that's the best direction. But as a Socialist I understand Capitalism exists just to create different classes, so I don't advocate for stopping there. We need to get there, but keep going. Not support People being used to benefit the few. But if we can't reach centrism, we can't even give Leftism a try.
I'm 76 years old Bernie When I grow up I want to be just like you! 😅 Don't give up. Don't stop fighting for the millions of people who count on you being there, doing what you do. I have never given up either. It is worth the sacrifice and sometimes the heart 2:3ache.
_"ALL NEEDS THAT ARE GIVEN FREE BY EARTH."_ Not for billions of people, not even on very basic levels (like how people are living in many regions of Africa). You'd need to let the global population die out by probably somewhere around 75-90% (at least those are the numbers I've heard/read in various sources).
@@ayyybob ; Warren folded and took corporate money as soon as her war chest started drying up, and we all know that corporate funds always come with strings attached.
Corporate politic and corporate politicians would never let Sanders or anyone like him to become president, decency has no place in politics. It’s a very sad truth
I also live in denmark and i completely disagree with him. 50-60% tax will never be ,,fair''. Construction workers make just a little less than pilots or other profesions after university how is it fair?
He should have said " Hey Jeff , how about you pay everyone of your employees a living wage to start and only allow companies who pay all of their employees a living wage to sell on your platform " !!!
Finland, once again, is placed as number one in happiness, with other Scandinavian countries just below. Why? More equality and trust. America! You’ve got it all wrong!
HOW ODD THAT THAT VERY HANDFUL CAN LITERALLY DICTATE TO THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT WHAT BERNIE PLEADS FOR. A FEW $MILLION IN THE RIGHT POCKETS AND A HUGE TAX BREAK IN RESPONSE JUST MAY WORK. DURING TRUMP'S TIME IN OFFICE THESE WERE ACTIVATED (WITHOUT ONE SECOND OF BENEFIT TO AMERICANS)!!!
That is definitely not acceptable Bernie, as a working in class citizen in America. I find it very concerning that I don’t have the proper medical and dental insurance and as now retired woman, and I am very concerned about this. Welfare people living better than me,seem to have it better than me and I My husband died in the military, and this is so unfair and bias that something has to be done about it and everybody that I have connection with,we’re not voting for anyone.Politicians are big liars. Miss leaders, we looking for people with integrity to run this country this time around.
I think you need a body buddy!!! Love you for all the work you've been doing! I wish more people were are on your side!! I love that you've been going for as long as i can remember!❣️❣️ I all ways believed everything said was true!! Thank you❣️ and the woman behind the scenes!! I'm 68, and cant belive how fast time slips away!!! Every little person i tell them make a dream now!!! Then live your life in the dream!!and make it your truth!! Some of them have a spark!! It's weird to see a spark in there eyes!!!😂 Thank you Berney!!!
I love Bernie and voted for him in 2 primaries - but this isn't the election for a protest vote. Trump has said outright that he wants to be a dictator on day one. He has talked about getting rid of parts of the Constitution. He has already led an insurrection and tried to stay in power, despite losing the election. Anyone who wants to have the right to vote in the future needs to vote for Biden to preserve our democracy.
"It's good and right for a homeless man to lose all his fingers to hypothermia because homeowners need to protect the value of their investment" is something that basically everyone believes through their actions, but no one admits. It's good and right for losing health insurance to be a death sentence. We love it when children go to sleep hungry, that's why businesses throw out so much food. It's just awesome that underpaid teachers buy supplies with their own salary while Bezos builds a superyacht. Heavy sarcasm, if it wasn't clear. But this _is_ our world, and our complacency is as good as express approval to continue. I cannot _believe_ that Bernie's viewpoint is considered radical and making people sleep on the streets is not.
I wish he had the verbal agresiveness of George Galloway or Donnald Trump.... Stuck to his guns policy wise like Galloway or Corbyn. US citizens need a fire breathing advocate.
Someday it may be safe to be a socialist in US politics. God knows, if voters were more savvy, they would make socialism popular for their own self interest.
@@jvcyt298 I do like to argue symantics when people say 'socialist'.... Arguably what was a called capitalist back in the day is now called socialist... I like to say that what we are expiriencing is a anti-capitalist revolutoon which people now call capitalism.
@@deadwingdomain I think they gain people. I rather like George Galloway's in your face oritory style as well as his policies. I done voted for Trump in the primary but I wish we had someone who sold Bernie's policies with as much of a hard line as Trump.
@@urrywest ; Did you listen to a word that Bernie said? Musk, Besos, they are capitalists in the truest sense. They became so obscenely wealthy because conservatives took their money and in return, removed regulations and financial guardrails. How you could in any way confuse capitalism with socialism makes me suspect that you are either a troll, or russian bot.
I honestly wouldn't be _that_ surprised about such a law in the USA... One of the main reasons why I'll probably never set foot on US soil if I can avoid it, I'll stay on this side of the pond where the EU is at least occasionally fighting back against this madness....
I respect Bernie’s views, but he absolutely pussied out when our country needed him the most. At least he didn’t pull an Elizabeth Warren though, and absolutely turncoat…🙄🤦🏻
I watch from Italy, he talks about some protections that we Europeans take for granted, such as free public health and universities and colleges accessible to all. From what he himself admits, I think that corporations, with their enormous power of influence over the masses, will never allow such an intelligent man with the right ideas to become the potus. And this is very sad.
It’s the love of money or greed that is the root of all evil. The wealthy learned their lessons from past times they tried to get control, like the 20s under free marketer Hoover which led to our Great Depression. FDR put controls to stabilize the economy on banks and corporations which lasted until Reagan and the republicans started tearing them down for the tickle down bs. Clinton helped by getting rid of Glass Siegal which allowed the banks to go crazy with derivatives and other tricks in the market leading to the 2008 recession that without the fdic and bailing out large banks and the car companies would have dropped us right into a massive depression. They basically kicked the can down the road. Clinton also led together with the end of the fairness doctrine, the deregulation of media which had led to broadcasters being controlled by six companies and it’s getting worse and the calculated rise of right wing entertainers to propagandize people. The red team blue team emedia driven bs is also calculated by the corporations to keep us divided as they reap ratings and up share prices fir their investors. Doesn’t matter. Right wing, left wing. They’re all controlled by the same conglomerates. Basically, there’s nothing Putin and the Chinese would love more than to see us collapse. The Chinese would become the next superpower with the Russians as allies. Electing Trump would be the last nail in the coffin of this democratic republic as he is beholden to Putin, the Saudis, and the Chinese for helping his kid and her business. Here’s Jefferson “If the American people ever allow the banks to control its wins of their currency, first, by inflation, and then, by deflation, the banks and corporations that grew up around them, will deprive the people of all prosperity until their children wake up, homeless on the very continent that their fathers occupied.” Here’s Nazi Herman Goering just before he committed suicide in jail “Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice, or no voice, the people can always be bought to the bedding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they’re being attacked and denounce the pacifist for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. “ And finally TR “The great corporation, which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trust, are the creatures of the state, and the state not only has the right to control them, but is duty-bound to control them, wherever, and whenever the need of such control is shown. “ Citizens United what’s the beginning of the end for America. Giving corporations the power to run our elections through money and pacs gave control of our political process to them. It is no longer we the people, it’s the oligarch and the corporation conglomerate. But, that’s been the plan all along. They got better at it. U
It is true US has these issues but it's hard to fix these issues. Bernie is absolutely right, but having concrete and functional solutions is hard. Also who let this man cook 🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥
As a true Bernite I'm voting RFK Jr in 24, dump the 2 party monopoly. Unity instead of division, honesty, integrity and people first instead of lies, corruption and party friends first. Kennedy is the Remedy !
Very well said Senator Sanders. In the 20th century corporations took care of their employees with great perks and protections. My parents' employers offered a fixed pension, retiree insurance coverage (medicare supplement), annual bonuses, decent pay and other benefits. Today these offerings to employees are no longer in order to vastly increase the wealth at the top 1% of these corporations such as the Elon Musks, Jeff Bezos and other CEO billionaires and top executives. Capitalism is great when there are innovations, improvements, inventions and monetary returns and rewards afforded to and benefit to all and not just to a selected minority financially elite that we are witnessing today as Senator Sanders clearly points out.
America had ONE chance to elect this guy, and went for the orange guy instead. Well done America, well done. Hopefully you'll get another like Sanders soon!
Poor criminals break the law, wealthy criminals make the law.
Wealthy ppl break the law too they’re just not caught
@@chessw1zard866And, when they get caught, they still don't suffer any real consequences.
@@SPR_NAPALM cuz they can just pay their way off of it
Wow! Very profound. Who wrote/said that?
@@firstnamelastname9918 I paraphrased from someone else in the comment section. But don't tell anyone that.
They don't break the law - mostly - because they don't have to. They make the law. They pay to have it made to suit them.
Exactly. Why do you have to break the law when you can simply change the law.
In the rare occasions they can't make the law, they make the consequences.
"Oh no I did an illegal?" *holds out wrist to be slapped*
This is America since they allowed money into politics. Then it is no longer a democracy - rule by people, it is a plutocracy - rule by money. USA been like this since the 1980s or so, and it will only get worse until either the county falls apart or into autocracy, or people rise up and change it. Trump is a symptom of people loosing faith in the system, not the cause. It will get worse still until Joe and Jane doe has enough and eat their leaders. Money in politics=national suicide over time.
Yes. One example - everyone should know that No matter how expensive your health insurance is, it doesn't cover extended nursing care - health insurance only covers acute nursing, by its own rules to increase shareholder profits, which could not be done under 1965 health insurance regulations.
Just One example out of many: just buying an annuity in almost all cases will disqualify you from nursing care. It is VERY easy to make a mistake that makes the annuity noncompliant. Congress created this trap in 2005, with the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, passed by Dennis Hastert, Darrell Issa and Newt Gingrich
This DRA 2005 law is so evil that most lawyers do not understand all of it. A court has called interpreting it as a Serbonian bog. This is just one example. Do not fall into this trap and make sure you consult with an elder law attorney you trust in your state!!
If you think long-term care insurance is a solution to nursing care, buy a pre-paid policy. You are paying for nursing that is part of other industrialized countries in the world. LTC insurance is very poorly regulated - again, think of your Congressman.
At the least - tell your Congressman they must repeal DRA 2005. If they ignore or deflect, elect someone else and tell and warn your friends! It is the Death act- literally
All three billionaires started with nothing. They didn't have any power until after they were wealthy.
I really hate the fact that Bernie is considered radical. Not one policy that he supports is in any way radical. I wish my country would get civilized, already, and embrace a better future for itself.
It's because half the country has been bamboozled into believing that greed is good. Capitalism is just a sanitary word that is used to promote greed.
The fact that he is referred to as 'radical' shows the underlying fear of those in power, and the effectiveness of mass brain washing. So long as Americans have an uninformed and fearful idea of 'Socialism', since McCarthyism of the 1950's, nothing much will change. Anyway, I agree with you and hope for the best.
Being a good person is too radical for this rotting country.
That’s politics baby. When you dislike a politician the most base level argument you can make is a vague “they’re too radical for my liking”. Bernie is disliked by the left’s wealthy establishment and the right’s wealthy establishment so there are people on both a sides arguing he is too radical.
"Radical" is media speak for "wants the masses to have adequate representation"!
This man should be our president. Nobody else comes close .
He would have been president but we were not allowed to vote for him in the primaries so it was Hilldog or Trump.
u want jew for a president
But the SOLD OUT, TRAITOR POS'S whom CONTROL the Democrats is the VERY REASON Bernie LOST BOTH of his elections, because HE SHOULD HAVE WON THEM BOTH! But because of PELOSI & SCHUMER they made SURE that Bernie did not WIN!
But I am UPSET with Bernie, because he did NOT CALL OUT these undercover Republicans within PELOSI & SCHUMER and SHOW the American People their VOTING RECORDS!
@@Urketadic no religion is a disqualifying factor, unfortunately. Because the Christian Nationalists are more dangerous than the Jewish population. Unless you live in Israel...
@@Urketadic whyd your parents fail?
A government of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations have crushed the will of the people.
Exactly !
@@phillipellison4758 I wish the milquetoasty Democrats could imitate some of Senator Sanders fiery strength!
Don't forget about the lobbyists too!
"What makes me angry is the massive inequalities that exist." Said the millionaire, I got 5 seconds into this video before I started smelling bullshit.
@@maxkahlow8622What do you suggest he do? We need politicians on our side, and those politicians need to have money. We can't win with millions of scattered voices, we must be united and funded. It isn't bs to promote socialism and have wealth. I would be happy to elaborate more if you'd like.
Rare to find a politician that has a moral compass.
rare to find a moral compass that has a politician
Never a truer statement!
The next time you hear somebody say "all politicians are liars" jump on that and don't let them go! The statement IS the lie! There *are* honest politicians and it's the criminals and dictators that want to keep the world from believing in what is good, right and wholesome!
Bernie has always had the same views, no wavering
@@YarrBr0
Bernie Sanders has no moral compass.
He is gutless.
He has no spine.
His number one priority is his career.
He pledges allegiance to the Democratic party.
Mark Shields, formerly of PBS News, once said something like "republican politicians are very devout Christians, but they belong to a very particular sect of Christianity. They have tremendous compassion for large corporations and the very wealthy. Other people they don't care much about."
look how wealthy bernie got in the last 8 years. wake up, he is one of them!
I would even say to mr. Bezos that it is almost criminally immoral that he is the wealthiest person in the world, while many of his employees barely make a living.
I read that in some Japanese companies there is a rule (it is not law in Japan) that the highest paid person in the company can only earn a maximum of 50 times the wage of the lowest paid employee. Wanting more as a CEO is considered to be bad taste and greedy.
I think that would be a very good rule of thumb (make it the law, even). If you think you don't need to pay your employees more than $15 000,- a year (minimum wage in the US) the CEO certainly doesn't need more than $750 000,-.
💯 Yes we need that now.
Bezos hasn't gotten rich from a wage though, he's gotten rich as the owner, who's entitled to the profits.
His income wouldn't be affected at all even if the US had the same rule as Japan, his income comes from his ownership now from working as CEO.
A CEO is technically an employee working for a wage, but Bezos would keep "earning" money even if he didn't work at all, just owning the company is enough. That works in Japan too.
Why is the owner entitled to ALL the wealth, when it's the workers who actually create the wealth. He doesn't own the employees. They're not his property. I'm not saying it should be equal shares but when these people are worth untold billions and their corporations make untold billions in profit, evading tax, so that the infrastructure is crumbling... while half the population are struggling just to pay for housing, food and bills, terrified to change jobs, for fear of losing shitty health company insurance and when a third of the nation live in poverty... and it's getting worse, the system isn't working! Definitely not "For the people".
@@snapgab I mean, I think the difference in opinion is that people don't think he's entitled to the profits of the employee's labor. I'd be interested to know why you think that's the case.
It doesn’t matter whether a CEO is entitled to his wealth. Fact of the matter is that billionaires flat out shouldn’t exist. As a plutocrat, you can use your vast reserves of money to influence the direction of institutions and public opinion, even those beyond government. No single man should be allowed to have that much power, ever, and time after time we’ve seen that people at that level of wealth and influence have perversely abused the social and political capital privy to them.
It's not radical. What Bezos and The Walton's need to do is give their thousands and thousands of employees a dollar raise and allow employees to participate in "profit sharing." And, guess what, it wouldn't crimp their style. They are just too damn greedy.
It wouldn't hurt if some of these billionaires paid SOME taxes. We've all read of these big corporations and CEOs who don't pay any taxes, zero.
Unless Walmart has changed since I worked there, Walmart does allow employees to participate in their profit sharing plan.
There used to be a 91% penalty on those taking more than twenty times the average. Granted they were able *by design* to get that down to 55% while allowing the difference to fall to the working class as living wages AND lower prices or by donating to a very small number of legit charities in aid of the Common Good like subsidizing higher education and hospital care rather than jacking up these costs while simultaneously suppressing wages and fixing prices like today.
The real underappreciated beauty of it was that by setting this on a certain multiple of the average income rather than any set dollar figure it essentially forced those at the top to let the average increase to make more themselves before that tax kicked in. The entire post WW2 boom that the red hats pine for was driven by this when the rich were forced to circulate money rather than hoard it away.
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What profit 📈 sharing 🤔? They let you go 🚶♂️ before the pay out!!!
Bernie Sanders points out the #1 thing behind most of our problems is income inequality.
in other words people that applied themselves got rich or are well to do and people that don't sit around wanting a socialist for a president.
@@13bustahyou obviously aren’t paying attention. They used an unequal system that’s skewed to the rich. They’re playing a rigged game that redistributes money from the middle and low income to the rich. It’s a rigged system and they wrote the rules.
@@13bustahNot everyone that is not rich ''sits around''. Some of them actually work for a living. In fact, most of them have worked for a living. And if they are not able to work...what then? I guess those are the ones sitting around, waiting for a ''socialist'' to be president. What do you suggest we do about them?
@@13bustah So which PR firm are YOU working for anyway?
@@firstnamelastname9918 America
Bernie should be president. NO QUESTION ASKED! 💯
well I mean you have to ask the voters
@@YarrBr0 idk how it works but he would be 100% more popular than biden
@@tikket10and 100% more hated by MAGA
@@peterdefrankrijkeractually many conservatives hate big corporations
@@thomas.thomas Then why vote for a “billionaire”?
Senator Bernie Sanders is without a doubt the most honest and fair politician who stands for values that could balance the unequal status of income among all Americans. What he is suggesting is not an unrealistic goal but a very positive correction of what is currently happening in USA today. No person is justified in earning such outrageous amounts of income. 💯👍
Bernie is responsible for the wealth inequality because Bernie and the Democrats have used nonstop open immigration since 1967, high taxes, and over regulation to put slack into the labor market year after year. Which gives all the power to employers, driving down wages, and immigration drives up housing prices at the same time. To the point tens of millions of Americans don't have any money left over at the end of the month. And it's the low wages and lack of power at the bottom that allows the excesses at the top. Causing the wealth gap.
Compare that to JFK style conservative policies of using low taxes, smaller government, deregulation, and less immigration to tighten up the labor market. Which gives power back to workers. Raises wages. Allows for advancement. Allows for mobility. Allows people with bad job records or few skills to get jobs. And gives people dignity.
If Democrats actually cared about lower income people, and were capable of compassion and empathy, they would be Kennedy/Reagan conservatives.
You can’t be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.”.......Ronald Reagan
The ever expanding power of the federal government, the absorption of many of the functions that states and cities once considered to be responsibilities of their own, must now be a source of concern to all those who believe as did the great patriot, Henry Grattan that: “Control over local affairs is the essence of liberty.” Commencement Address, University of Notre Dame, January 29, 1950.....John F.Kennedy
@@practicaliching2311 Do you actually know who JFK was? He was not a conservative he created federal assistance for education, medical insurance for the elderly, housing legislation, federal aid to struggling areas, and an increase in the federal minimum wage. I hardly consider he was a trickle down economist.
Kennedy also won passage of the Area Redevelopment Act and the Housing Act of 1961. The Area Redevelopment Act, a $394 million program, provided federal funding to economically struggling regions. In fact his administration increased the federal deficit. And it was Johnson who cut the taxes three months after JFK passed away.
@@practicaliching2311Bernie is not a Democrat.
@@practicaliching2311 that is total BS. You can cherry-pick statements but the truth is the reasons for this mess are Reagan´s trickle down economics, GOP deregulation policies and the SCOTUS Citizens United decision.
Immigration does not drive up housing prices, it drives up demand. The government not building houses is the problem there@@practicaliching2311
Isn't it amazing that among our elected federal, state, and local representatives Bernie is largely a lone, unhesitating voice informing us of the harm to all caused by historically radical wealth inequality? Where are all the others?
you can work for it like most successful people do.
In their pocket.
@@13bustah Currently, there are 331 million people in the U.S. One percent (3.1 million) own 38.7 trillion dollars ($38,000,000,000,000). If each of those 3.1 million wealthiest Americans accumulated that ungodly extraction of wealth from our economy by working *80* hours per week for *500* years, they would have been paid at a rate of $306/hour. Do you make $306 per hour, work 80 hours per week, and have you worked for 500 years (which is equivalent to *20* generations)?
@@OneAmongBillions wow that sure makes them smart
@@OneAmongBillions Maybe after the first few years of working 80 hour weeks they decided it was time to use their carefully saved, hard-earned money to hire employees. Who pays your wages? (If you have a job) Probably someone that has a lot more money than you. Do you want to earn more than you are right now? To get a raise someone would have to have more money to pay you with. Man am I so glad there are really successful geniuses that make a lot more money than me. Because maybe they'll pay me to work for them.
RESPECT... Bernie Sanders. Thank You.
UNIVERSAL GDAMMED HEALTHCARE FOR ALL
Some people will say, "NO! I paid for health insurance for twenty years, now everybody is going to get it for free!?! They don't deserve it."
@@xhagast hence: America's Problem....Selfishness Greed and RACISM ,,,,"The Hidden History of the American health Care System" by thom Hartmann
In the UK. It works. It's worked for 70 years. It's not perfect, but nobody, rich or poor, is going bankrupt for being sick. And it's cheaper
@@jameshetherington1 Absolutely cheaper. Because everybody benefits from preventaative care. In the US nobody profits from preventative care so almost nobody gets it.
Move to the UK? Its not perfect but no one goes bankrupt because of their health here...
You won’t see much change until politicians get off of corporate welfare.
The *real* "welfare queens" huh? Shame on Reagan for his "welfare queen" bs!
You won't see much change until there are no more monopolistic corporations and no more politicians
lol 'no more politicians'? They are the only ones who can keep monopolies from forming other than a dictator@@radiCarlikoff
@@radiCarlikoffcompletely agree.
We'll get right on that once we pass that bill for term limits...its just gotta be written into law by....the same people that are making millions off of corporate welfare.
3 people with more than the bottom 50% is another way of saying "Everyone below 50% could have double their income if those three didn't take more than their fair share and paid their fair share of taxes". Remember the French revolution!
they worked for it and yo can too now that is a fair share.
@ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958 .. because of the way Musk earns his money he paid 11 billion last year in taxes. How much did Bozos pay? These guys don't pay taxes on their stock holdings unless they sell them. Then they pay capital gains tax which is generally at a lower rate than Joe the Plumber.
I don't agree that those three worked for it. Many people worked and the capital created was inequitably distributed.@@13bustah
@@13bustah You mean they inherited their wealth and exploited the system and the people working for it? It always blows my mind when people try and defend the people who own more than 50% of the USA population xD
@@JohnnyChapman-jp1ej so three people are smarter than 1/2 the American all right got it thank.
Thanks Bernie Sanders ❤
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So let me get this straight, if Israel agrees to a "temporary ceasefire" you still want to support their genocide?
Bernie, you still support sending weapons to Israel after they've murdered 30,000 innocent people?!? Even if the IDF stops murdering people tomorrow and lets in aid, it's projected to be another $50,000 people minimum who will die as a result of the blockade today over the next 6 months. How can you possibly justify sending more weapons to a state that continues to murder innocent women and children?
God Bless Bernie
He's telling the truth - and I only wish it mattered. Wealth has been concentrated, more and more, in the hands of ever-fewer for decades, now. There used to be a saying: "A rising tide [productivity] lifts all boats." That used to be how things were, in this country, until the 1980s to-the-present. The wealthy influence Congress with campaign donations, so that Congress makes rules that further benefit the wealthy (like the huge tax cuts under Trump).
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Love you, Bernie, for speaking up for people( going against "massive inequality ").🔥💚💙👍🏻👍👍🏽👍🏿
a MAJORITY of this nation is making under 40k a year. This is intentional starvation.
Bernie Sanders supported this massive money printing that significantly drove up the assets of the rich in value. That means most non homeowners have been turned into eternal renters. If houses were expensive before they are impossible to afford now. And he advocated for this.
And yet those people are still better off then those in 3rd world nations, who has no clean water, barely any food, and maybe make about $2 a year, maybe.
dude thats like 3 times more that you can make as a doctor in slovakia
@@samueltakac8436 That is why people want to come here. The insanely high wages. Nurses here live in huge mansions and drive the latest Mercedes. Policemen own multiple houses. In Slovakia they would live in apartments and barely get by
@@luperamos7307 I don't know any policemen or nurses that owns multiple houses and mansions. They make good money, but not that much.
Love you Bernie💗💗 you are a true humanitarian!!!
Bernie was the only Democrat I ever considered voting for. 2016 was an eye-opening year for a lot of people.
Maybe then it would be wise to consider why Bernie and all other progressives caucus with the democrats.
Just as inspiration to get an idea of where they're coming from..
1940-1980 Median wage growth rose 260%. 1981-2020 Median wage growth rose 5.4%.
I still voted for him, unfortunately I had to write his name on the ballot
He's independent
Alternative Vote system (where you can vote more than 1 person in the ballots in order of preference, like they do in Australia) would eliminate the two party system where independent candidates have to put themselves under one of the two major to have a chance. Change your voting system asap
@@1qtaz He is now, but he ran as a Democrat in 2016, which I assume is what they're talking about (since they named 2016 and all)
Thank you Bernie. I share your anger
you mad there are rich people also?
@13bustah just put on your Red Hat and go stand in the corner.
😂😂 He shares his anger but not his money. 😂😂
Bernie is responsible for the wealth inequality because Bernie and the Democrats have used nonstop open immigration since 1967, high taxes, and over regulation to put slack into the labor market year after year. Which gives all the power to employers, driving down wages, and immigration drives up housing prices at the same time. To the point tens of millions of Americans don't have any money left over at the end of the month. And it's the low wages and lack of power at the bottom that allows the excesses at the top. Causing the wealth gap.
Compare that to JFK style conservative policies of using low taxes, smaller government, deregulation, and less immigration to tighten up the labor market. Which gives power back to workers. Raises wages. Allows for advancement. Allows for mobility. Allows people with bad job records or few skills to get jobs. And gives people dignity.
If Democrats actually cared about lower income people, and were capable of compassion and empathy, they would be Kennedy/Reagan conservatives.
You can’t be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.”.......Ronald Reagan
The ever expanding power of the federal government, the absorption of many of the functions that states and cities once considered to be responsibilities of their own, must now be a source of concern to all those who believe as did the great patriot, Henry Grattan that: “Control over local affairs is the essence of liberty.” Commencement Address, University of Notre Dame, January 29, 1950.....John F.Kennedy
Inequality is part of the human experience. My problem with Bernie is he thinks he should be the purveyor of redistribution. That has never worked. It’s called socialism and it has failed every single time.
The press is convincing people that this is right. And many people hope they'll be rich one day and don't want their money going in taxes. But what Bernie said is right: poor people don't have money to buy things, so industries go under. Much better to make sure everyone has money to spend.
The more disposable income the bottom half have the more prosperous we are together.
Yep, far too many people live under the illusion that they *_might_* actually profit from the current system. As a certain someone from a certain sci-fi-series so accurately said: "[They] don't want to stop the exploitation - they want to become the exploiters."
Bernie should have been our President! Thanks for fighting for all of us!!❤
He was winning the primary, then they took it away from him.
@@deborahwhit118 absolutely true!
This wealth inequality is far in excess of what can be justified by the need for incentives for hard and smart work.
United we love Bernie a great leader with solutions
what solutions like confiscating someone else's wealth and giving it to bums?
Speak for yourself.
@@13bustah Going to take economic advice from someone named 13busta. You are the bum busta.
@@phillipellison4758 made my own job made my own future and do don't need assistance like bums do.
@@13bustah it helps grows the economy
Bernie, bless you❤
Just a reminder: Working class = Everyone who works for a living (including self-employed)
And most self-employed people work just as hard or harder than the rest of the working class.
No. Self employed are petit borgeoisie. Self-employed by me are the ones with the Trump 2024 stickers on their company's truck.
@@philquota7405 are workers at co-ops petit bourgeoisie?
Guys guys guys. We all work for a living self--employed or not. Hence it is fittingly called "earned income". The other guys live without working they live on your work. It is fittingly named "unearned income" because they didn't lift a finger for it. That's the real divide.
@@AaronOkeanos exactly -- the bourgeoisie make money through owning the means of production, meanwhile workers, self-employed or not, make money through labor. That is the key distinction
Greed and stupidity. Two things that have become revered in the US. I can't see this country coming back from those two chronic illnesses we collectively suffer from. Figure out away around those because getting people to quit being either is an exercise in futility.
Sure, they are not breaking the law because they make the laws. The Oligarchy makes the laws by owning congress and the Supreme Corrupt. In a society founded on economic inequality, following the law is meaningless.
I’m a senior working part time and they are saying I’m making too much money and cutting me off insurance. What kind of Democracy is this , but your giving money to quote on quote allies!! Hush money!!!😮😮😮
Apples and oranges. Don't even try to equate domestic spending with foreign policy. The reason that you are getting screwed is because the so-called conservatives would rather make a few rich men richer than let millions like you have financial security in your retirement.
yup, if yo want it screwed up let the Government be in charge.
@@13bustahbigger the government bigger the screw up.
My future scares me. I'm 53 now. I did not do as well as Bezos . yeah , we need to regulate your income while giving Bezos a tax break . Brillant idea !
Why were you cut off your insurance? Was it because to get your policy you had to be poor and you were working and making too much money to qualify? If so you might want to look into Obamacare which has affordable premiums.
we need universal basic income and free healthcare!!!!
Disagree with the first part. An the second is a bigger issue.
@@deadwingdomain You should look into it with a more open mind, before Reagan took over, UBI's were a bipartisan platform, even Nixon spent 2 years trying to pass one that Democrats wouldn't let through finance committee only because they wanted it larger. Studies performed in the US by Republicans showed statistically 0% of people who received UBI's quit their jobs, and every single metric of success rose drastically.
@@deadwingdomain : Why support a multi-class hierarchical system of wealth distribution that massively supports the mere whims of the wealthy elite Capitalist over literally everything else? It's a system that instills greed/fear into people and makes being able to live a decent life some sort of sick competition. Competition is cool in sports and games, but a very twisted metric for deciding a persons chance to live a good life.
Ahh the good life, to be free and explore the unknown…
If you want that immigrate to Australia become an Australian citizen and it's all yours.
I am not sure but I think Canada has a cap on political donations to avoid "buying" politicians...does anyone know?
Yes, we do. We learned that lesson from watching Americans destroy their political system.
In general, not just as a biased Canadian, Canadian politicians are not millionaires like in the states either, generally many come from very humble beginnings
Not just Canada, I think the USA may be the only (at least "Western") nation that allows this level of corrup... sorry, "political donations"...
Thankyou Bernie ❤ I wish we had more leaders like you 💕 I agree 1000 percent!
I think if the rich want to glut up all the the money they could at the very least pay taxes on it. It not like they leave enough for the rest of the country to survive on, they should pay taxes so the poor can be fed and housed.
Yes, absolutely Bernie.
I agree 100% with Bernie. ❤ That guy..!!
🇺🇸🇺🇸 BERNIE BACKER FOREVER 🇺🇸🇺🇸
In a world full of Donald Trumps, we need more Bernie Sanders’
Something happened in the mid to late 80's. I worked for a company with 10K employees in one location. Every March was when we got the BONUS. The whole town/region advertised everything from appliances to furniture to cars on sale in anticipation of the bonus. Our health insurance was mostly covered by the company, we were the highest paid nonunion workers in the region, we had a pension plan. Then everything changed, the bonus went away, we started paying more and more for health insurance, the pension went away. Now everybody's retirement is dependent on how much they invest in their 401K. The company is still prospering. The employees not so much. It used to be that a HS graduate could hire in cleaning toilets knowing that they were going to get a raise every 4 months and a promotion to a manufacturing job at their one year aniversary. Now that person who cleans the toilets works for a contractor and has no opportunity for a promotion within the company unless they go to work for a different contractor who has the contract for the lower paying production jobs. SO there is no hope of climbing the ladder anymore.
Neoliberalism. u will find what is behind all that
Someone said "greed is good" and everyone dumped their moral compasses like tea in Boston. It's disgusting what corporations have done.
@@BS-detectorunder capitalism it is good, if you’re not greedy some bastard will out greed you and put you out of business. “It’s just business” ie you don’t matter.
Always honest and to the point. Thanks for not insulting my intelligence
I’m incredibly appreciative of Stephen Colbert for consistently giving Bernie the platform to speak about his policies, even after his presidential campaigns ended. Stephen is a Catholic, and the Catholic Social Teaching emphasizes the importance of helping the most downtrodden people in society and uplifting them. Regardless of anyone’s religious or spiritual beliefs, that should be the moral code of conduct across the country. Love you both ❤
_"the Catholic Social Teaching emphasizes the importance of helping the most downtrodden people in society and uplifting them."_
Too bad they're not practicing what they preach. Hypocrites sitting on more wealth than most _countries..._
Maximum wage and maximum personal wealth would be a good start.
Love you so much Mr. Sanders. You are one of the few willing to speak truth to power.
please run again bernie, we need you!
The wealthy and powerful who need not ONE MORE THING to enjoy an amazing life, continuously tilt the playing field to favor their policies. It's no secret conspiracy. It's out in the open. To change things, congress needs to adjust the economic structure. It's just that simple. If we had 400 Bernies in congress it'd be fixable.
Bernie is brilliant. He says what others (politicians) are afraid to say
"We have the best government money can buy." Mark Twain
You are the best Bernie. You speak the truth!!
Thks.for standing up for everyone Bernie a very honable man.
Honorable and RICH
I was sitting on a bench in Baltimore inner harbor and I seen a guy pull up and get out of a brand new BMW and a guy eating out of a garbage can
If we had more equitable tax policies, the yuppie in the BMW would be more likely to share.
F capitalism...... we broke ppl need help
try being a capitalist it works
I believe between capitalism and communism what balance them all it's national socialism maybe u should get that.
@@WhiteFang111 : Can you name even a country that was ever _classless, moneyless,_ or _stateless?_ Let alone all three of the core principles of Communism? Just making clear that no such country exists. Communism is nothing but a far off dream of a utopia. One day we will evolve that far but it's certainly nothing anyone alive now needs to worry about. lols
@@WhiteFang111 : The choices now are Socialism and Capitalism. If you want to "balance" those, then you seek Centrism, and that's the best direction. But as a Socialist I understand Capitalism exists just to create different classes, so I don't advocate for stopping there. We need to get there, but keep going. Not support People being used to benefit the few. But if we can't reach centrism, we can't even give Leftism a try.
Capitalism is going to burn us all. F*** CAPITALISM!
Bernie is a hero of humanity! You summed it up quite nicely Sir!
Thank you Big Bernie for pointing it out .
Honest decent man with a good heart. Greatest politician in American history.
you can buy a lot of politicians & supreme court members when your rich - I feel the BURN!!
I'm 76 years old Bernie When I grow up I want to be just like you! 😅 Don't give up. Don't stop fighting for the millions of people who count on you being there, doing what you do. I have never given up either. It is worth the sacrifice and sometimes the heart 2:3ache.
FREE FOOD, FREE CLEAN WATER, AND FREE HOUSING. ALL NEEDS THAT ARE GIVEN FREE BY EARTH.
_"ALL NEEDS THAT ARE GIVEN FREE BY EARTH."_
Not for billions of people, not even on very basic levels (like how people are living in many regions of Africa). You'd need to let the global population die out by probably somewhere around 75-90% (at least those are the numbers I've heard/read in various sources).
thats not how ressources work
@@dantemcedgelord9331 With the right mindset, yes, it is. Be optimistic.
@@kat_chats no, be realistic! everything is finite, nothing infinite! i agree with the right mindset, a lot is possible.
@@dantemcedgelord9331 Everything is finite if we over indulge. If everything is portioned out truly equally, everything I said is capable.
Just a few billions a year in TAXES could solve the first problems he addresses.
Who will the torch be passed to?
There is no torch
the torch is out
Agreed, a great man should have a protégé to carry his legacy, and further his cause.
warren
@@ayyybob ; Warren folded and took corporate money as soon as her war chest started drying up, and we all know that corporate funds always come with strings attached.
Corporate politic and corporate politicians would never let Sanders or anyone like him to become president, decency has no place in politics. It’s a very sad truth
That is why they installed Biden
As a Danish man living in Denmark I completely agree with you.
I also live in denmark and i completely disagree with him. 50-60% tax will never be ,,fair''. Construction workers make just a little less than pilots or other profesions after university how is it fair?
@@Saltywengiell I only agree with the points raised in this video, not most of his other policies.
I love you, Bernie. Thank you for still fighting.
Thank you Bernie. Well said.
Dear Mr Sanders: excellent answer to the final question! Greetings from Mexico CDMX
He should have said " Hey Jeff , how about you pay everyone of your employees a living wage to start and only allow companies who pay all of their employees a living wage to sell on your platform " !!!
Finland, once again, is placed as number one in happiness, with other Scandinavian countries just below. Why? More equality and trust. America! You’ve got it all wrong!
Thank you Bernie for inspiring us all.
HOW ODD THAT THAT VERY HANDFUL CAN LITERALLY DICTATE TO THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT WHAT BERNIE PLEADS FOR. A FEW $MILLION IN THE RIGHT POCKETS AND A HUGE TAX BREAK IN RESPONSE JUST MAY WORK. DURING TRUMP'S TIME IN OFFICE THESE WERE ACTIVATED (WITHOUT ONE SECOND OF BENEFIT TO AMERICANS)!!!
Bezos looks like doctor evil in Austin powers.
I'll say it yet again: this man should be POTUS. He'd without a doubt be our new FDR -the *Greatest POTUS in history!*
Bernie is a man that was cheated out of being POTUS
ALWAYS on Message and YET, Nothing Changes..SOOOO SAD!!!!
Bernie boils it down for anyone with a modicum of intelligence. Period.
That is definitely not acceptable Bernie, as a working in class citizen in America. I find it very concerning that I don’t have the proper medical and dental insurance and as now retired woman, and I am very concerned about this. Welfare people living better than me,seem to have it better than me and I My husband died in the military, and this is so unfair and bias that something has to be done about it and everybody that I have connection with,we’re not voting for anyone.Politicians are big liars. Miss leaders, we looking for people with integrity to run this country this time around.
I think you need a body buddy!!! Love you for all the work you've been doing! I wish more people were are on your side!! I love that you've been going for as long as i can remember!❣️❣️ I all ways believed everything said was true!! Thank you❣️ and the woman behind the scenes!! I'm 68, and cant belive how fast time slips away!!! Every little person i tell them make a dream now!!! Then live your life in the dream!!and make it your truth!! Some of them have a spark!! It's weird to see a spark in there eyes!!!😂 Thank you Berney!!!
My God, I'm gonna have to do a Write-In in November.
I love Bernie and voted for him in 2 primaries - but this isn't the election for a protest vote. Trump has said outright that he wants to be a dictator on day one. He has talked about getting rid of parts of the Constitution. He has already led an insurrection and tried to stay in power, despite losing the election. Anyone who wants to have the right to vote in the future needs to vote for Biden to preserve our democracy.
"It's good and right for a homeless man to lose all his fingers to hypothermia because homeowners need to protect the value of their investment" is something that basically everyone believes through their actions, but no one admits. It's good and right for losing health insurance to be a death sentence. We love it when children go to sleep hungry, that's why businesses throw out so much food. It's just awesome that underpaid teachers buy supplies with their own salary while Bezos builds a superyacht. Heavy sarcasm, if it wasn't clear. But this _is_ our world, and our complacency is as good as express approval to continue.
I cannot _believe_ that Bernie's viewpoint is considered radical and making people sleep on the streets is not.
I wish he had the verbal agresiveness of George Galloway or Donnald Trump.... Stuck to his guns policy wise like Galloway or Corbyn. US citizens need a fire breathing advocate.
I dont have any respect for people with mouths like that. You lose as many people as you gain.
Someday it may be safe to be a socialist in US politics. God knows, if voters were more savvy, they would make socialism popular for their own self interest.
@@jvcyt298 I do like to argue symantics when people say 'socialist'....
Arguably what was a called capitalist back in the day is now called socialist... I like to say that what we are expiriencing is a anti-capitalist revolutoon which people now call capitalism.
@@deadwingdomain I think they gain people. I rather like George Galloway's in your face oritory style as well as his policies. I done voted for Trump in the primary but I wish we had someone who sold Bernie's policies with as much of a hard line as Trump.
@@urrywest ; Did you listen to a word that Bernie said? Musk, Besos, they are capitalists in the truest sense. They became so obscenely wealthy because conservatives took their money and in return, removed regulations and financial guardrails. How you could in any way confuse capitalism with socialism makes me suspect that you are either a troll, or russian bot.
In the near future, refusing to spend at least 300 dollars a week on Amazon will be a crime punishable with up to 5 years of prison time.
I honestly wouldn't be _that_ surprised about such a law in the USA... One of the main reasons why I'll probably never set foot on US soil if I can avoid it, I'll stay on this side of the pond where the EU is at least occasionally fighting back against this madness....
It is cannibalism now, not "free market capitalism ".
I was calling it this recently. Thank you.
I respect Bernie’s views, but he absolutely pussied out when our country needed him the most. At least he didn’t pull an Elizabeth Warren though, and absolutely turncoat…🙄🤦🏻
we love bernie and we hate bezos ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
aww poor thing got brain washed by a socialist.
I watch from Italy, he talks about some protections that we Europeans take for granted, such as free public health and universities and colleges accessible to all. From what he himself admits, I think that corporations, with their enormous power of influence over the masses, will never allow such an intelligent man with the right ideas to become the potus. And this is very sad.
The greater the inequality, the greater the violence. Money is not the root of evil, inequality is
I've tried telling people this for 10 years now. The more inequality the more crime.
Money is the root of all evil
It’s the love of money or greed that is the root of all evil.
The wealthy learned their lessons from past times they tried to get control, like the 20s under free marketer Hoover which led to our Great Depression. FDR put controls to stabilize the economy on banks and corporations which lasted until Reagan and the republicans started tearing them down for the tickle down bs. Clinton helped by getting rid of Glass Siegal which allowed the banks to go crazy with derivatives and other tricks in the market leading to the 2008 recession that without the fdic and bailing out large banks and the car companies would have dropped us right into a massive depression. They basically kicked the can down the road.
Clinton also led together with the end of the fairness doctrine, the deregulation of media which had led to broadcasters being controlled by six companies and it’s getting worse and the calculated rise of right wing entertainers to propagandize people. The red team blue team emedia driven bs is also calculated by the corporations to keep us divided as they reap ratings and up share prices fir their investors. Doesn’t matter. Right wing, left wing. They’re all controlled by the same conglomerates.
Basically, there’s nothing Putin and the Chinese would love more than to see us collapse. The Chinese would become the next superpower with the Russians as allies.
Electing Trump would be the last nail in the coffin of this democratic republic as he is beholden to Putin, the Saudis, and the Chinese for helping his kid and her business.
Here’s Jefferson
“If the American people ever allow the banks to control its wins of their currency, first, by inflation, and then, by deflation, the banks and corporations that grew up around them, will deprive the people of all prosperity until their children wake up, homeless on the very continent that their fathers occupied.”
Here’s Nazi Herman Goering just before he committed suicide in jail
“Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice, or no voice, the people can always be bought to the bedding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they’re being attacked and denounce the pacifist for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. “
And finally TR
“The great corporation, which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trust, are the creatures of the state, and the state not only has the right to control them, but is duty-bound to control them, wherever, and whenever the need of such control is shown. “
Citizens United what’s the beginning of the end for America. Giving corporations the power to run our elections through money and pacs gave control of our political process to them. It is no longer we the people, it’s the oligarch and the corporation conglomerate.
But, that’s been the plan all along. They got better at it. U
@deborahwhit118 no, inequality is the root of evil, our violence, fighting gor our place in the hierarchy... money is the symbol of control
If more politicians were like Bernie just imagine how much better this country could be.
If more people had voted for Bernie, the country would actually be much better today!
BRICS vs The Reich
Troll.
@@jvcyt298
...says a pathetically powerless IMF nazi.
you will regret being addicted to money, very soon...we all will.
It is true US has these issues but it's hard to fix these issues. Bernie is absolutely right, but having concrete and functional solutions is hard. Also who let this man cook 🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥
I feel like Stephen wanted to go there but it didn’t happened. What does the work look like for us to actually get there?
Yes, ❤😊
Make Bernie your VP, PRESIDENT BIDEN, please..what a ticket!!
Get rid of WordSalad Harris
Bernie is too sincere for Bidenamics, Biden was never a great choice and now he's a walking mummy
Not part of the Elite Party's plan
he accomplishes more in the Senate
❤❤❤Love you, Bernie!
Big Shout out to Bernie! 👏👏👏
As a true Bernite I'm voting RFK Jr in 24, dump the 2 party monopoly. Unity instead of division, honesty, integrity and people first instead of lies, corruption and party friends first. Kennedy is the Remedy !
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Very well said Senator Sanders. In the 20th century corporations took care of their employees with great perks and protections. My parents' employers offered a fixed pension, retiree insurance coverage (medicare supplement), annual bonuses, decent pay and other benefits. Today these offerings to employees are no longer in order to vastly increase the wealth at the top 1% of these corporations such as the Elon Musks, Jeff Bezos and other CEO billionaires and top executives. Capitalism is great when there are innovations, improvements, inventions and monetary returns and rewards afforded to and benefit to all and not just to a selected minority financially elite that we are witnessing today as Senator Sanders clearly points out.
We love you BERNIE❤❤
America had ONE chance to elect this guy, and went for the orange guy instead. Well done America, well done.
Hopefully you'll get another like Sanders soon!
The law is fair and just. It punishes the rich and the poor alike for stealing bread and sleeping under bridges.
Bernie is probably one of the remaining sane politicians out there that would actually make a decent prez
A man like him, with his common sense and just moral compass should be POTUS