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Bernie Sanders, spare the rich, spoil the poor?

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http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2008/09/23/sanders_surtax_on_wealthy_draws_support/

WASHINGTON, Vt.—Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., says his proposal for a new surtax on the wealthy to pay for a bailout of the financial services industry is drawing support.

Sanders says he posted a letter to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson about the proposal on his Web site, and that it drew more than 8,000 citizen co-signers in the first 24 hours.

The Vermont independent says the bailout should be paid for with a surcharge on taxes paid by individuals making more than $500,000 a year or couples earning more than $1 million a year.

The senator says he doesn't want the costs of the bailout to be borne by the middle class
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uYrhh935h0I&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uYrhh935h0I&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

The lone socialist senator shaking things up.:banana:
 
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JohnE

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He looks like an old man at teh pharmacy trying to get his prescription filled...yelling at the pharmacist not to give him those damn child proof caps again...
 

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He looks like an old man at teh pharmacy trying to get his prescription filled...yelling at the pharmacist not to give him those damn child proof caps again...
Yeah, pretty much, but instead of ranting about prescriptions, it is about the U.S

 

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He is a Jewish socialist... go figure.

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EDIT: Original post updated with video of Bernie laying down the law.
 
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rockwool

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He is a Jewish socialist... go figure.

:rofl:

EDIT: Original post updated with video of Bernie laying down the law.
No, many Jews have/are porminent socialist thinkers, I belive Immanuel Wallerstein among others, the state of Israel was built on socialist ideas. The kibutz's for example. It wasn't until the early 70's, maybe a bit later, that Israel went right.


Bernie laying mac n'cheese above!
 

rockwool

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...if you can belive this, the wealthiest 400 families in America have had an increase of their wealth by 670 billion dollars under GWB...
-Bernie Mac
There's your 700 bee's!


A thing that worries me though, is that he on the last two clips only mentions the wealthy and the middleclass. I expect a socialist also to mention the workingclass, and the underclass that infact exists in your country, at the same time he mentions the middleclass.
 

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/magazine/21Sanders.t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

In this regard, Sanders has not always been smart, especially when he was first elected to the House in 1990. He called Congress &#8220;impotent&#8221; and dismissed the two major parties as indistinguishable tools of the wealthy. He said it wouldn&#8217;t bother him if 80 percent of his colleagues lost re-election &#8212; not the best way to win friends in a new workplace.

&#8220;Bernie alienates his natural allies,&#8221; Representative Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat, said at the time. &#8220;His holier-than-thou attitude &#8212; saying in a very loud voice he is smarter than everyone else and purer than everyone else &#8212; really undercuts his effectiveness.&#8221; The late Joe Moakley, another Massachusetts Democrat, waxed almost poetic in his derision for Sanders. &#8220;He is out there wailing on his own,&#8221; Moakley said. &#8220;He screams and hollers, but he is all alone.&#8221;
haha