The economic inequality that's run rampant in this country has run its course. We can no longer tolerate its harmful effects: enforced poverty, homelessness, the destruction of our environment, blatant injustice, the rise of a racist and brutal police state and the corruption of our political process and government.
It's time we get serious about the change we desperately need, the change we were promised then denied. Bernie Sanders says it better than I ever could:
If we are serious about transforming our country, if we are serious about rebuilding the middle class, if we are serious about reinvigorating our democracy, we need to develop a political movement which, once again, is prepared to take on and defeat a ruling class whose greed is destroying our nation. The billionaire class cannot have it all. Our government belongs to all of us, and not just the one percent.
We need to create a culture which, as Pope Francis reminds us, cannot just be based on the worship of money. We must not accept a nation in which billionaires compete as to the size of their super-yachts, while children in America go hungry and veterans sleep out on the streets.
Today, in America, we are the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, but few Americans know that because so much of the new income and wealth goes to the people on top. In fact, over the last 30 years, there has been a massive transfer of wealth – trillions of wealth – going from the middle class to the top one-tenth of 1 percent – a handful of people who have seen a doubling of the percentage of the wealth they own over that period.
Unbelievably, and grotesquely, the top one-tenth of 1 percent owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent.
Sen. Bernie Sanders
Lobbyists for Monsanto, ExxonMobil Raise Money for Hillary Clinton Registered lobbyists brought in more than $2 million in fundraising for the Clinton campaign, recent filings show.Wall Street and the mega-corporations that are funding the Clinton campaign have wreaked havoc on our nation. The fossil fuel industry, the too big to fail banks, the chemical companies, the pharmaceutical companies and all the others who have dodged taxes, exported jobs, paid lobbyists to subvert democracy and done irreversible harm to our shared ecosystem are all backing Hillary Clinton. It says a lot about the Democratic Party if it turns out that they prefer this corporate shill to Bernie Sanders.
Clinton tops 2016 field in drug industry donations
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton has received more campaign cash from drug companies than any candidate in either party, even as she proudly declares the industry is one of her biggest enemies.
Clinton, who takes their millions, will serve their interests and do their bidding. Sanders, who refuses their money, will reform them.
BERNIE SANDERS ON CORPORATE REGULATION
Bernie Sanders believes we cannot continue to allow our nation’s wealthiest corporations to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. These companies stash tens of billions of dollars in overseas tax havens while at the same time receiving billions in subsidies. Bernie believes this is unfair and damages our economy. Instead, he argues, we should invest this money in America’s small businesses and working people.
End Offshore Tax Havens: Corporations must begin paying their fair share in taxes.
End Subsidies to Big Business: The most profitable corporations do not need to be subsidized by American taxpayers.
Overturn Citizens United: Bernie wants to overturn the Citizens United ruling to prevent corporations from having an outsized influence on our democracy.
Support Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses: Instead of helping multinational corporations, Bernie wants to support small and medium American businesses by providing them with the low-interest loans.
So, don't vote for the problem, vote for the solution.