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Bernie Sanders: “Exactly. The point cannot be understated. What Senator Landrieu is saying is that if you have a collapsing middle class…”

On the recordDecember 10, 2010
Exactly. The point cannot be understated. What Senator Landrieu is saying is that if you have a collapsing middle class and people are unable to purchase anything, it impacts the entire economy. The economy can't grow. We can't grow jobs if people don't have enough money to buy products made by other people. If all or a substantial part of the wealth in this Nation accrues in the hands of a few, they get three yachts and eight airplanes, I guess, but there is a limit to what they can purchase.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont
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govinfo.gov
Dec 10, 2010

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Senator Sanders discusses the impact of wealth inequality on the economy and the middle class.

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