It's kind of sad testament to the times when the sort of things Berny Sanders suggests are considered radical. At one point ensuring a modicum of equity and relatively even distribution of wealth, and attempting to care for your weakest citizens was considered good public policy. And that was before the US was even a $17 trillion dollar behemoth of a super power. Shit, FDR knew what was up:
[QUOTE=Franklin Roosevelt, 2nd Inaugural Address (1937)]But here is the challenge to our democracy: In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens--a substantial part of its whole population--who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life.
I see millions of families trying to live on incomes so meager that the pall of family disaster hangs over them day by day.
I see millions whose daily lives in city and on farm continue under conditions labeled indecent by a so-called polite society half a century ago.
I see millions denied education, recreation, and the opportunity to better their lot and the lot of their children.
I see millions lacking the means to buy the products of farm and factory and by their poverty denying work and productiveness to many other millions.
I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
It is not in despair that I paint you that picture. I paint it for you in hope--because the Nation, seeing and understanding the injustice in it, proposes to paint it out. We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country's interest and concern; and we will never regard any faithful law-abiding group within our borders as superfluous. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. [/QUOTE]
"We need to invest in infrastructure, not in war."
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Infrastructure in the US is dogshit.
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