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Bernie Sanders is an American politician and activist who has served as the junior United States senator from Vermont since 2007. A member of the Independent party, Sanders is known for his progressive policies and advocacy for social justice, healthcare reform, and income equality. He previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, where he was the first independent elected to the House in 40 years. Throughout his career, Sanders has been a vocal critic of economic inequality and corporate influence in politics.
What this legislation would do is, at a time when, for the second consecutive year, seniors and disabled veterans have received no cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, on their Social Security, this legislation would provide the equivalent…
The reality today is that millions of senior citizens and disabled vets are hurting. They are spending a whole lot of money on prescription drugs, a whole lot of money on health care. Yet for the last 2 years they have not gotten any COLA…
what this debate is about is whether we continue to take money from the middle class and working families of this country who are struggling in a way they have not struggled since the Great Depression and force their kids to borrow huge…
there is a war going on in this country, and I am not referring to the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. I am talking about a war being waged by some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in this country against the working families of the…
What you're saying, essentially, is that permanent damage is now being caused to many very, very young children, and we're asking schools to do something which is extraordinarily difficult because the damage has already been caused.
Let me tell you a happy story. This is from a terrible earmark that I got that went to schools in Vermont--low-income schools.
Somehow, you know, the Government of the United States hasn't quite caught on that the world has changed since the 1950s.
Compared to the rest of the industrialized world, we are failing, failing, failing our children. The way we treat our children in this country is a national disgrace.
yes, we've got to deal with the deficit, but not on the backs of poor people and the middle class.
If this great country has a future, there's one thing we have got to do, is completely change our attitude toward kids; they are the future of America, and we cannot continue to ignore them.
By not attending to early childhood education in this country and early childhood development, I think we do do damage.
makes no sense whatsoever, not, really at any time, given this economic history, but especially now.
If we just keep children at the core, and families, and what they need; and then how do we forge the right policy...
Would you want to comment on a billionaire, who made his money in Wall Street, now suggesting spending a huge sum of money to convince the American people that the way to save Social Security is to cut benefits?
But this is an important point that we don't talk about enough. You know, we always lump everybody together.
What happens to the 8 million people currently receiving Social Security who have disabilities and the 4.5 million widows and widowers and 4.3 million kids who are receiving Social Security if we make cuts in Social Security?
Most Americans don't realize that someone with a salary of $300,000 or even $30 million a year pays no more in Social Security taxes than someone earning roughly $107,000.
A couple of years ago, as a result of the greed and illegal behavior on Wall Street, this country has been plunged into a horrendous recession.
They also understand something else very profoundly, and that is while the middle class is collapsing and poverty is increasing, virtually all of the income, new income created in recent years has gone to the people on top.
if the United States of America exists, your Social Security will exist because it is backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.
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