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Bernie Sanders: “It is very easy to get up on the floor of the Senate and to announce how you are in favor of cutting Social Security…”

On the recordOctober 17, 2011
It is very easy to get up on the floor of the Senate and to announce how you are in favor of cutting Social Security, cutting Medicare, cutting Medicaid, cutting heating assistance, but it may be a little bit harder to learn what the impact of those cuts will mean on real human beings.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Sanders criticizes the ease of proposing cuts without understanding their real-life consequences.

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