Sanders talks income inequality in front of overflow crowd in Salem
A nice article that actually mentions issues. Imagine that.
Sanders talks income inequality in front of overflow crowd in Salem
By ELLA NILSEN Monitor staff - Aug 23, 2015
Bernie Sanders took the microphone at Woodbury School in Salem on Sunday night and didn’t relinquish it for the next hour and a half – his stump speech covering everything from income inequality to international trade to free public education without so much as a break.
At the end, the Democratic presidential candidate apologized to the crowd of about 1,000...
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To do so, he’s proposing ideas like raising the minimum wage to $15, making public universities free for students by taxing Wall Street speculation, going to a single-payer health care system and putting millions of Americans back to work by investing $1 trillion of federal money into rebuilding the country’s roads and bridges.
While many of the Republicans running in 2016 would scoff at all of those ideas, to Sanders they are the basic ways to get the United States back on track.
“Remember that radical socialist Dwight D. Eisenhower who built the interstate system?” Sanders boomed, referencing the former Republican president and revered World War II general. “We need ideas like that again.”
Full article:
https://politics.concordmonitor.com/2015/08/politics-election/sanders-talks-income-inequality-in-front-of-overflow-crowd-in-salem/
Side note: Bernie has three town meeting events schedule for today in New Hampshire:
Conway, NH Town Meeting
August 24 @ 10:30 AM EDT
Berlin, NH Town Meeting
August 24 @ 2:30 PM EDT
Littleton Town Meeting
August 24 @ 7:00 PM EDT
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