When Bernie speaks, he speaks the TRUTH (capital TRUTH)
And though his words are not sugar coated he says five words that every American should hear Loud and Clear.
"The Middle Class is Collapsing"
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For Wall Street it is the Roaring 20's. For everyone else it is the Great Depression 2.0. Between the two you have the Great Recession (brought to you by Reagan/Bush/Clinton/BushJr).
In the real world, what is going on is that the middle class is collapsing. Unemployment is through the roof, consumers are STILL not consuming on the whole and wages are shrinking for 95% of Americans. But Wall St is going to enjoy huge subsidized.bonuses while everyone else is struggling to get by with less in this "jobless recovery".
What is recovering is the system that eats EVERYTHING produced by society and hands it over to the Vampire financial sector. Wall St may be Too Big To Fail in theory, but Main Street IS FAILING, HAS FAILED and NEEDS JOBS NOW, and it is NOT going to come form investors, who have gone back to the same slot machine they were playing before the economy went kablooey and reverted America to a 1930's kind of statistical anomoly where things are worse than they have been in the last 80 years, but not all that bad for some reason.
It is because there is a WORKING Depression now. It WORKS for some, the few, the priveledged, the super rich. Everyone else is FAILABLE, being not Too Big enough To Care about.
I take what Sen. Sanders says here as a clarion call we should heed, because it s not only powerful, it is absolutely true.
"One of the thing's we have to place on the table, as progressives, is to say there is something profoundly and morally wrong when the top 1% earns more income than the bottom 50%, when the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 90%, when CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. This is NOT what America is supposed to be."
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"Please, do not forget about what is happening to tens of millions of our brothers and our sisters, who our struggling hard to keep their heads above water."
Say on! Brother Bernie. The TRUTH shall set you free.
And if you can't point out the problem, you CAN NOT begin to fix it.
If you haven't done so yet, visit sandersunfiltered.com, where Bernie does a weekly video. This is a REAL Progressive, and I suggest we heed his words. He is NOT bought off, and we need more like him.
Cheers
Crossposted at Docudharma.com and The Progressive Electorate.com