B. Sanders tells our new GOP overlords: Work for the middle class, not just the rich who control you

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ndependent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday advised Republicans not to use their newly-won control of Congress to only serve the wealthy donors that had financed their campaigns.

“The American people are extremely dissatisfied for good reasons at the state of the economy,” Sanders told CNN host Wolf Blitzer. “The middle class continues to collapse. That’s been a 30-year collapse. The gap between the very, very rich and everybody else is growing wider. Real unemployment is close to 12 percent.”

According to the self-described socialist, the Republicans won big in Tuesday’s midterms because they were able to blame President Barack Obama for the country’s problems.

“What they also managed to do — and a brilliant political strategy — is not tell us what their agenda is,” he explained. “All over the country in conservative states, people said let’s raise the minimum wage to, at least, a living wage. What’s the Republican position on that? They’re against that.”

“Is the Republican Party going to do what the American people want?” Sanders asked. “The American people do not want more tax breaks for the wealthy and large corporations. Is the Republican Party going to poison the well by going forward at a time of massive wealth and income inequality, giving more tax breaks to people who don’t need it?”

The senator agreed that bipartisan legislation on things like immigration reform was the “preferable route” to executive action if Republicans were willing to work with the president.

“But let’s not turn our backs on the middle class of this country and ignore the enormous economic problems they’re facing,” he said. “Let’s not simply work for the rich and the big campaign contributors who control the United States Congress. If we can do that, and respond to the needs and the pain of the American people, you know what, I think you’ll suddenly find Congress is regarded a lot more favorably.”

Sanders said that he was seriously thinking about a 2016 presidential run, but he wanted to be sure that his supporters were ready to take on powerful conservative donors like the Koch brothers.

More here: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/bernie-sanders-tells-our-new-gop-overlords-work-for-the-middle-class-not-just-the-rich-who-control-you/

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