Bernie Sanders

In this way, our political democracy would also support our economic democracy.

Tom, thank you very much.

Thank you for championing the cause of ESOPs in Washington.

We see the pressing need and support the bills Senator Sanders is proposing.

Bill, thank you very much, and thank you for the pioneering work you guys have done in Ohio.

The U.S. Employee Ownership Bank Act that you just heard about can play an important role in facilitating such deals

I think we have an economic model now that millions and millions of working people will be interested in.

I visited Steve's operation at King Arthur over a year ago and he had a whole lot of workers out there.

In my view, the concept of employee ownership can and will be an important tool for addressing all of these goals.

Well, or maybe the campaign contributors play a role.

Unless we rally the American people, working-class, low-income, middle-class people, it will be dealt with.

I think when you have a society which is moving in many ways toward oligarchy.

Shouldn't we be focusing on creating jobs in infrastructure, stopping the absurdity of importing $350 billion a year of foreign oil?

That is a reality. It is going to be a reality in Europe, a reality in the United States. People are getting older. Health care becomes more expensive.

The American Society of Civil Engineers tells us that we have a $2.2 trillion need for investment in infrastructure in the next 5 years alone.

The rich and wealthy and large corporations have enormous influence over this institution.

During the Bush years, median family income for the average American went down by $2,200.

We now have a situation where the top 1 percent earn more income than the bottom 50 percent.

We have got a huge debt. We have got to deal with it.

About $100 billion a year in taxes are avoided by large corporations and the wealthy by going to tax havens in the Cayman Islands.

This year--ExxonMobil last year had a bad year. They only made $19 billion in profits. You know how much they paid in taxes this year? Zero.

As a result of the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United, they are going to get more of their friends to be here representing.

But Medicare is part of our health care system, and as you well know, we end up spending almost twice as much per capita on health care as any other major country on Earth, and our outcomes in some cases are not as good.

Should we really raise the Social Security age to 70 for those people?

We all acknowledge that we have a very large national debt, $13 trillion, an unsustainable situation.