Jr. from Vermont wants middle-squeeze stories

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3105359

Oh my.

The great socialist born in the Lap of Privilege, Jr. from Vermont:

rurallib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-04-08 12:39 PM
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Bernie Sanders wants your middle class squeeze story
   
I am listening to the Thom Hartmann show. Every Friday he has an hour with Senator Bernie Sanders(I-Vt). Sanders is asking for your story of current economic hardship. He intends to read them on the floor of the Senate next week.

You can go here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/qa/meetingqs.cfm to submit your story. This is not only for Vermont residents. Sanders is asking for stories from all over the country.

Hmmm.

I haven't heard anything about Jr. from Vermont wanting to lower taxes on the middle-class.....or on anybody.

alyce douglas  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-04-08 12:46 PM
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1. what a great idea, but with all of our stories will anything be done?
   
action does speak louder than words, that is for us and for them.

rurallib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-04-08 01:02 PM
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6. I could go into a long rant on that question
   
Sadly, we have two parties who have an allegiance to their funders which in both cases are corporate. Bernie Sanders is the one person in either house who consistently stands up for the little guy. So Bernie will do what he can.

Also sadly those who could use help the most continually vote against their own interests in order to vote for 'morals'.
At least there is one senator who is trying to break the corporate stranglehold.

I dunno.

From required filings, it appears the socialist Jr. from Vermont has quite a capitalistic corporate retirement fund.

Ichingcarpenter  (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-04-08 12:47 PM
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2. Good Idea... this thread should get some nominations
   
Bernie is a true progressive.

Jr. from Vermont is a true hypocrite.

fasttense  (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-04-08 01:06 PM
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8. Some idiot asked him if he had any business experience in an effort to denigrate his remarks.
   
As if only people with business experience should be allowed to be Senators or comment on the economy. Gee we have an AWOL National Guard Officer and a five deferment draft dodger making decisions about war and the military but right wing idiots don't have a problem with that.

No matter how economists and CEOs would like to obfuscate the facts, economics is not rocket science.

I dunno.  It's true economics isn't rocket science, but it's w-a-a-a-a-a-a-y beyond the understanding of "socialists" and primitives.

Lint Head  (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-04-08 01:18 PM
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9. Reading anything on the floor of of the Senate or Congress does nothing anymore. We are living in a fascist country. The only way to end this fiasco is to arrest and indict the criminals in the White House and throw them into jail. Negotiation and diplomatic approaches will no longer work when dealing with these criminals. Be careful what you say or do because your country can now torture you, your father, your brother, your sister or anyone else you may love for simply exercising your freedom of speech. :dem:

I have to say I've been fascinated, utterly fascinated, with Jr. from Vermont ever since he showed up in the U.S. House of Representatives in the early 1980s.

And then when C-Span came along, while other people were watching Donahue, I was always watching Jr. from Vermont, expressing his indignant indignation about something.  Jr. from Vermont has a very clear body and facial and gestural "language," which is perhaps why I was so entranced by him.

The big problem with Jr. from Vermont is that he spitters and sputters as he rageously rants; his liquid projectiles are remarkable.  I don't even know tobacco-chewers who can eject as forcibly as Jr. from Vermont.

[Chris_]

Lint Head  (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-04-08 01:18 PM
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9. Reading anything on the floor of of the Senate or Congress does nothing anymore. We are living in a fascist country. The only way to end this fiasco is to arrest and indict the criminals in the White House and throw them into jail. Negotiation and diplomatic approaches will no longer work when dealing with these criminals. Be careful what you say or do because your country can now torture you, your father, your brother, your sister or anyone else you may love for simply exercising your freedom of speech. :dem:

Okay, let me see if I understand...reading things on the floor of the congress...the place where laws are actually made, where there is more direct representation than in any other branch does nothing because of BUSH? With all he has to do everyday at home and abroad he still has time to send a memo to the congress telling them to do NOTHING to help the people they represent (especially those dirty hippies)...or else?

We live in a fascist state where citizens are tortured for exercising their free speech rights. We know this because DUmmies, continually exercising their free speech rights by saying thus constantly remind us. On wonders how it is, as they bravely speak truth to power from their basement command centers, that they manage to avoid being dragged away in the middle of the night.

Cindie

[Carl]

Lint Head  (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-04-08 01:18 PM
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9. Reading anything on the floor of of the Senate or Congress does nothing anymore. We are living in a fascist country. The only way to end this fiasco is to arrest and indict the criminals in the White House and throw them into jail. Negotiation and diplomatic approaches will no longer work when dealing with these criminals. Be careful what you say or do because your country can now torture you, your father, your brother, your sister or anyone else you may love for simply exercising your freedom of speech. :dem:

Okay, let me see if I understand...reading things on the floor of the congress...the place where laws are actually made, where there is more direct representation than in any other branch does nothing because of BUSH? With all he has to do everyday at home and abroad he still has time to send a memo to the congress telling them to do NOTHING to help the people they represent (especially those dirty hippies)...or else?

We live in a fascist state where citizens are tortured for exercising their free speech rights. We know this because DUmmies, continually exercising their free speech rights by saying thus constantly remind us. On wonders how it is, as they bravely speak truth to power from their basement command centers, that they manage to avoid being dragged away in the middle of the night.

Cindie

But Cindie,it satisfies their desire to FEEL like oppressed victims as well as sets up the scenario to fulfill their messianic complex of being the saviours of humanity through Socialism.

[USA4ME]

rurallib

Also sadly those who could use help the most continually vote against their own interests in order to vote for 'morals'.

What if upholding 'morals' is what you believe is in the country's best interest?

Last thing any of us need is some lib deciding what is and isn't in someone's best interest.

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[BlueStateSaint]

I wonder if Bernie would like the story about how the Bush tax cuts allowed us to be able to pay for my wife's master's, with an absolute minimum of student loans . . . Probably not, eh?