Bernie Sanders "We're Tired Of Babies Saying Give It To Us All Or We're Gonna Wreck The Whole House"

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Lawrence interviews Bernie Sanders. Title says it all!


Senator. Bernie Sanders

http://sanders.senate.gov/

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell airs Mondays through Fridays at 8pm ET on MSNBC

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The GOP's corporate masters have already told them:

A)You WILL vote to raise the debt limit or we'll have all of you little pinheads whacked. GET IT? And that goes for the junior tea party kids in the peanut gallery, too.

B) You can play a few little soundbyte games with this if you want to, but NOT MANY. We don't want you talking about voting against raising the limit ANYWHERE NEAR the time when the vote will be called, or you'll scare away business. That means you have until July to bluster about spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt limit, and then we expect all you little flying monkeys to STFU and vote for it. A few Democrats will probably vote against raising the limit, just for show, so you'd better get the whip to make sure you've got a WIDE MARGIN of GOP votes. We don't want this to be even close.


Those are their marching orders. The Republicans know it, the Democrats know it, the beltway press entertainers know it. EVERYBODY knows it except Joe Average. So, why this silly charade?

I think of anal leakage.

That's like getting advice from Hitler on how to end WW II.

The leaches from Wall Street are the biggest reason why we're in the financial mess we're in.

Does anybody actually believe that raising the debt limit doesnt increase US debt? Its just like me asking my credit card company to increase my limit so I can pay off my monthly due. Also the arguement that it has always been raised is not a good arguement, cut the damn militarilism and pay your bills.

Please can someone explain to me how borrowing money to pay off our debt would keep the US debt unchanged. And before O'Donnel start pointing fingers, every senate democrat and a majority of house democrat voted against raising the debt limit in 2006. Its all politics and its the republican's turn to play it. The problem is that we all should have listened to the arguments made by the 2006 democrats and find areas in the budget to cut (hint - Defense) instead of taking the easy path and leaving our grandchildren with trillions in debt.

A) No, nobody believes raising the limit will not result in more debt. That was a slight straw-man on Sanders' part.

B)You make a good point about all the Democrats voting against the debt ceiling in 2006 and all the Republicans voting for it, with the situation being exactly the reverse now. In fact, the debt ceiling has been raised ten times since 2002, going from 6 Trillion to 14 Trillion.

Here are the sordid details of each vote, and who voted for the increase and who didn't. It's pretty depressing.


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ac8_1301690184


C) Agreed on the military cuts. How about capping military spending to 2% of GDP, rather than closer to 4% as it is now? I'm sure nobody would mind if we only spent as much as the next FOUR largest military spenders combined, rather than the next EIGHT.

D) Can't completely agree with your argument on the Democrats' 2006 reasons for not extending the limit. The only people who ever talked any common sense about the national debt were the Clinton/Gingrich gang who, before the foolish tax cuts for the rich, and before the elimination of the PAYGO rules had the Congressional Budget Office forcasting that the national debt would be completely gone by 2010.

That seems pretty simple to me. Where did we go wrong? Eliminating PAYGO, cutting taxes for the rich (which did NOTHING to create jobs), and charging two wars on the credit card. What's the solution? Bring back PAYGO (which they did), put taxes in the top bracket back up to 35% (or higher), and pass a law saying that no war (or military action) can be undertaken WITHOUT a compulsory tax hike to pay for it. It would definitely cut down on the number of stupid "blood for oil" wars we'd end up fighting if the CEOs of the oil companies that profit from them would realize that every time you drop a bomb on an Arab country you get a compulsory tax hike. If we're dreaming, how about reinstating the lottery draft, and that too kicks in automatically if there is a military action. NO COLLEGE DEFERMENTS this time. Let's face it, if we'd had a compulsory tax hike and a compulsory draft every time we got involved in a major military conflict WE WOULDN'T HAVE HAD A SINGLE WAR SINCE KOREA.

The financial elites who run this plutocracy would no longer have the option of starting wars to increase their profit margin, while getting the working class to both pay for and fight it.