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Bernie Sanders to the richest: via Youtube

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. (I spent $30 on a watch in 2000, and it keeps on ticking.)

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."

Please watch the video after the fold:

What are we willing to do, people?  What are you willing to do? This is why I'm political involved at the national level.  This is what has gotten many of us involved.  It's what too few people think about, talk about, and do something about.

This is what the Progressive Movement has been arguing about and trying to fix and prevent in North America since 1776.  Yes, you read that right.  The American Revolution was about what Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is talking about in this video.  Preventing the accumulation of corrupting levels of wealth, power and authority, and thus preventing the creation of poverty, destitution and unfairness that comes with that.

Power corrupts.  From wealth comes power.  Whether that power is over your own life or over the lives of others depends on the level of that wealth and thus the level of that power. [editor's note, by chadlupkes] Thanks, Noemie. You said it better than I did, so I copied the primary portion of your comment into the header section.[/ED]

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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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Top of the recommended list and let some oldies mercifully drop off.

by dinazina on Sun Aug 17, 2008 at 08:14:58 PM PST

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