Washblog

Yes, Youtube videos are allowed.  It's possible to do because I went in and changed the codes to allow it.  And I embed Youtube clips myself.  

I would recommend a more descriptive title for the diary, and a quick description.  That will affect how many people actually open up the diary to read it.  

What Bernie says -- in 2005 the top 1% of earners made more than the bottom 50% in the United States.

That means 300,000 people made more than 150 million people.

That's just income.  The unfair distribution of wealth is even more severe.  The most wealthy 400 people are worth $1.54 trillion.  And we have the highest percentage of childhood poverty in the world, he says.  18% of the children are in poverty in this country -- almost one in 5 children.

Those people who make between 100 million and a billion per year in the US spend an average of $182,000 on watches.

Yeah, this is disgusting, creepy.  Sanders says to the richest in the country: "President Bush has given you hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks and yet we have children in this country who are hungry, we have millions of children who lack health insurance."

by noemie maxwell on Sun Aug 17, 2008 at 11:36:38 AM PST

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