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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBernie Sanders: 'Banks are too big to fail, their CEOs are too big to jail'
Bernie Sanders: 'Banks are too big to fail, their CEOs are too big to jail'
JONATHAN FISHER - March 31 2015
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) is fed up with the state of the country. In his words, "banks are too big to fail [and] their CEO's are too big to jail."
~Snip~
On running for President in 2016: "Anyone who wakes up in the morning and has this passionate desire to become the President of the United States is somebody you should never vote for...Obviously, it's no great secret I am giving thought to being President...The question I have to ask is, if you take on the Koch Brothers, and if you take on Wall Street and call for the breaking up of the largest financial institutions in this country, and if you take on the healthcare insurance industry, and if you take on the pharmaceutical industry that charges us the highest prices in the world for medicine, and if you take on the military-industrial complex and say to them maybe they should not be selling weapons systems to the military for huge costs — you know, if you take on those people you're gonna have a little bit of pushback."
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-discusses-income-inequality-2015-3#ixzz3W1R2Vghg
JONATHAN FISHER - March 31 2015
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) is fed up with the state of the country. In his words, "banks are too big to fail [and] their CEO's are too big to jail."
~Snip~
On running for President in 2016: "Anyone who wakes up in the morning and has this passionate desire to become the President of the United States is somebody you should never vote for...Obviously, it's no great secret I am giving thought to being President...The question I have to ask is, if you take on the Koch Brothers, and if you take on Wall Street and call for the breaking up of the largest financial institutions in this country, and if you take on the healthcare insurance industry, and if you take on the pharmaceutical industry that charges us the highest prices in the world for medicine, and if you take on the military-industrial complex and say to them maybe they should not be selling weapons systems to the military for huge costs — you know, if you take on those people you're gonna have a little bit of pushback."
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-discusses-income-inequality-2015-3#ixzz3W1R2Vghg
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Bernie Sanders: 'Banks are too big to fail, their CEOs are too big to jail' (Original Post)
think
Mar 2015
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99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)1. "Pushback" is putting it mildly.
Ask the families of JFK, RFK, MLK, Paul Welstone, et. al.
think
(11,641 posts)2. Ya, that paragraph says a lot /nt
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)3. Bernie Sanders has my support for this very reason
He is trying to push back against all who have been very successful in taking this country back to the Dark Ages. Because it is so bad, the treatment is not moderation but a radical shift in direction. The DU trope that "Bernie can't win" is nothing but internalized RW/Third Way talking points. Don't buy it. Senator Obama campaigned by appealing to liberals, not as a moderate. He just had no intention of actually governing that way. I want the real deal this time.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)4. Obviously not a Democratic Party leader.