Bernie Sanders Raised $16 Million From the Unemployed

[UglyGreed]

They’re one of his biggest sources of fundraising.

One of Bernie Sanders talking points on the campaign trail is that the “real” unemployment rate is much higher than the official 4.9% cited by the Labor Department, and he should know.

That’s because Sander’s biggest source of fundraising support comes from the retired or unemployed, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission, as reported by Bloomberg.

$16 million of the $73 million the candidate raised in 2015 came from individual donors who said they were without jobs, according to the report.

http://fortune.com/2016/02/19/bernie-sanders-unemployed/

These are the people who were left behind in the "recovery" some here have boasted about.....

[nichomachus]

1. There are three measures of unemployment

One measures only people actively looking for work -- that's about 4.9 percent

The second measures discouraged workers, no longer actively looking for work -- who have been unemployed for less than a year. That's about 10 percent.

The third measures discouraged people who have been unemployed for more than a year. That's about 23 percent.

But of course, politicians don't get to pat themselves on the back for saying that real unemployment is 23 percent.

[UglyGreed]

3. Plus the fact that

the longer you are out of the workforce you are less likely to find a job due to lack of work......

[nichomachus]

5. Or age

[UglyGreed]

8. .

[Skwmom]

2. It is from the unemployed and retired. Retired people are worried about the future for their

children and grandchildren.

[UglyGreed]

7. I understand what you are saying but I just copy

the original article title whenever possible.

[Skwmom]

15. So you copy a misleading title from a corporate owned publication.

[UglyGreed]

19. Please

read my other reply SMH!!!!

[MohRokTah]

4. I don't know if I'd be bragging about that.

Seems to me the Repukes would turn that fact around on Sanders.

[nichomachus]

9. Is that better than bragging about being the Golden Girl of the criminal banksters

Or unindicted war criminal Henry Kissinger?

[jeff47]

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[desmiller]

29. .......

This jury system has been a tool to exploit insecurity as of late. *smh*

[UglyGreed]

31. More fun with the jury system

SMH!!!!

[TTUBatfan2008]

32. Sheesh...

No one said she was a criminal.

[cali]

10. Retired people. Disabled people. People with independent incomes.

[MohRokTah]

12. The OP put it all on unemployed people

I guarantee you the Repukes will too.

[jeff47]

16. Are you operating under the illusion that retired people are employed? (nt)

[MohRokTah]

18. Are you operating under the illusion that retired people are counted as unemployed in statistics? eo

[jeff47]

23. Are you operating under the illusion that there is only one "unemployed" statistics?

U1, U2, U3, U4, U5 and U6 all use different metrics. Then there's the workforce participation rate.

Again, are you claiming a retired person is employed? No? Then they're unemployed. So's my wife, who's staying at home to care for our kids.

"Unemployed" does not only mean the people who fall into U3.

[MohRokTah]

25. Are you oeprating under the illusion that any statistic other than the reported statistic matters

to the voting public?

Do you honestly think explaining that during a general election campaign will be helpful?

If you're explaining, you're losing.

[jeff47]

33. Which reported statistic? I gave you 7 reported statistics.

Do you honestly think explaining that during a general election campaign will be helpful?

What, specifically, needs explaining?

Are you arguing that unemployed people are not allowed to donate to political campaigns now?

[UglyGreed]

30. I've been disabled

for over 25 years and yes I've been unemployed the whole time. It is what it is....

[cali]

21. And he can throw that right back.

[Logical]

39. Oh FFS, I predicted some foolish person would use this line. What a load of crap. nt

[cali]

6. That includes people who are retired and people who are disabled and

people like me who have an independent income.


Your op is far from honest.

[UglyGreed]

11. please check my

reply #7

[Skwmom]

13. Your title is misleading. It's includeds retired people and students.

[UglyGreed]

17. That is the title of the

article. People can read the article just as you have and make their own conclusions..... Perhaps it is best to see how the media chooses to frame certain subjects.

[in_cog_ni_to]

14. That just shows how desperate people are for a political revolution. People have had it with the

Greedy 1%! We're taking back what is rightly ours.

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[Go Vols]

28. yes

[liberal_at_heart]

35. damn right!

[Avalux]

20. Yes because he's the best candidate for those struggling financially.

He is working for the people, for all of us who make small contributions, not a few people who dole out big donations to PACs.

[UglyGreed]

22. Of course

glad you can look past the title and see the real meaning behind these people's motives

[Half-Century Man]

26. There was a recovery?

I must have missed it; was it on a weekend? Weekends I tend to be busy.

[UglyGreed]

27. Many people have missed

it that is why Bernie's message is reaching millions

[Orsino]

34. So where are his transcripts?

How do we know he wasn't collaborating with the unemployed as they wrecked the economy?

Oh. Wait.

[mhatrw]

36. The vast majority of Clinton's campaign money come from freeloaders who

inherited vast sums of unearned wealth.

[UglyGreed]

37. Or stole it

from vulnerable people......

[mhatrw]

38. Yep. One or the other or both. nt