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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsB.Sanders: It's time that corporate America created jobs in this country, not in low-wage countries
AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)polichick
(37,152 posts)He was awesome - this quote might be from that visit.
Wish he got more coverage too!
AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)polichick
(37,152 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)who knows his stuff.
polichick
(37,152 posts)appalachiablue
(41,184 posts)Autumn
(45,120 posts)Bernie Sanders is. I post Bernie's quotes on my FB. The Independent Senator from Vermont ALWAYS gets likes from them and a quote on Veterans from him always get's a nice long chat going. I just save these little quotes to my hard drive and upload them to my FB.
AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)Autumn
(45,120 posts)will know who he is. I post the quotes on mine and like I said, I get a good response
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Above everything else we want an honest man that isn't out to fuck us over. That's Bernie.
The others, well you already know what they're about.
The American people are clear done with the bullshit.
appalachiablue
(41,184 posts)Autumn
(45,120 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Not negotiable.
If they aren't an advocate for us then they don't have my vote.
No one else even comes close!
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)TPTB will have to knock Bernie off or cheat in the election. I can tell when I'm being lied to. Bernie is an honest man.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)without some sort of unconstitutional law?
We could quit buying their stuff of course, and buy it more expensively from home industries. Oh wait, we could have done that all along.
Consumers just don't do that. We've seen efforts to get it to happen but it's so far not catching on widely.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)a lot of guillotine drops and the confiscation of every last dime of the fortunes of the plutocracy. I take no pleasure in saying this.
AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)Have a bigger part of how such info can travel via the airways and for some cases so instantly, and yet others a mere drip on the radar....
kentuck
(111,110 posts)kick
benld74
(9,911 posts)whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)Geronimoe
(1,539 posts)He needs to announce his candidacy in Detroit, then Baltimore and on to Camden.
I have so many friends returning from travel overseas, saying American looks worse than third world countries with failing infrastructure, broken healthcare system and shuttered factories.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)I'm with you, Geronimoe.
hunter
(38,339 posts)I didn't choose to be born in California and I don't think anyone born elsewhere is any less deserving than I am, be they born in Texas or Haitai.
I do think everyone deserves a living wage and freedom of speech and association and we shouldn't be dealing with nations where that's not possible.
Unfortunately the U.S.A, itself is still largely a regressive nation. We are not a "first world" nation but the top dog banana republic of the banana republics.
Telling a boss here in the U.S.A. to "take this job and shove it," or a bad cop to go fuck himself, can have very dire and sometimes fatal consequences.
Nope, sorry, I don't buy into U.S. American "exceptionalism."
Working people are working people everywhere on earth.
AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)Countries, granted we have our share of slave wage jobs but can still at least pretend we have more of a way to fight against the corps who so gleefully love to run their businesses By earning the most profits regardless of whom gets trampled on in that process..
I view this TPP as a way for these company's to ensure the same practices become acceptable to a degree here on our shores...
I do agree though we should be our brothers keeper, all humans regardless of where one resides but I honestly never see that happening, our species simply cannot get along in the way we would need to...greed and power will always darken our doors...
zentrum
(9,865 posts)liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)nationalize the fed
(2,169 posts)People are really getting angry: How Bernie Sanders just electrified Iowa and what it means for 16
http://www.salon.com/2015/02/24/people_are_really_getting_angry_how_bernie_sanders_just_electrified_iowa_and_what_it_means_for_16/
Initech
(100,114 posts)It will turn the billionaires into trillionaires and it will create an economic disasters worse than 2008. It must be stopped.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Yay, Bernie!
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Other countries pay much less than we do for the same meds. With TPP, they can sue those governments for loss of profit. Ain't it great
Scuba
(53,475 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)Low wages, no opportunity, no representation, and sheer misery for workers worldwide, with 99.9% of wealth going to our corporate masters and owners.
Run, Bernie, Run!