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Why do you make it look like it’s a broken, dysfunctional system? The reason is to get people to lose faith in the system and then you can give it over to Wall Street.

That's one of the things we have to consider. We're dealing with people, many of whom, I suspect, think a shutdown would be a good thing," King said, "and they could prolong it and use it to expand the president's power even beyond what…

That's one of the things we have to consider. We're dealing with people, many of whom, I suspect, think a shutdown would be a good thing.

Let's be clear: the Dept. of Ed. provides resources to 26 million children living in high-poverty school districts; Pell Grants to over 7 million students; & funding for millions of children with disabilities. Closing its doors would be a…

I mean, it is really unspeakable. It really is and I think the American people are sick and tired of the wealthiest guy in the world running the United States government and calling, in this case, a guy who put his life on the line to…

So, I would say without any doubt that you have a government right now. You know, Lincoln talked about a government of the people, by the people, for the people. I think it's fair to say you have a government today of the billionaires, by…

The idea that we have oligarchs, people with incredible wealth trashing programs that working people desperately need is, I think, unacceptable to the vast majority of the American people.

I think this is a prelude not only to cutting benefits, but to privatizing Social Security itself.

That will be a disaster. That will mean that millions of people who are, you know, calling up, they're not going to get an answer.

They have already laid off 2,500 employees of the Social Security Administration.

I think all of those questions creates a lot of economic uncertainty.

Cutting off humanitarian aid to millions of civilians is a war crime.

This country belongs to all of us, not just the few. We must fight back.

Today, the oligarchs and the billionaire class are getting richer and richer and have more and more power.

The change that we have experienced over hundreds of years of our nationhood only occurs when ordinary people stand up against oppression and injustice and fight back.

We're up against a phenomenon that we have never seen, and that is the Big Lie.

Instead of a government of the people, by the people and for the people, we have now become a government of the billionaire class, for the billionaire class.

We have an administration that is leading us to oligarchy, an administration that is leading us to an authoritarian form of society, an administration that is leading us towards kleptocracy.