Sanders on Bush

During our regular jaunts between Arkansas and our daughter's college in Missouri, we frequently listen to now-Senator Bernie Sanders on the Thom Hartmann radio program. Satellite radio is a wonderful thing - no more searching for something to listen to every 50 miiles!  Hartmann is, in my estimation, one of the most intelligent progressive talk show hosts around.  He's written books, he researches his material and he converses easily with listeners.  Sanders has impressed me since his days in the House.  He's over on the Senate side now, but still stirring things up as a true Independent.  via Iin These Times - a great example.

Earth to Bush

Ground control to Mr. Bush: What planet are you living on? Today, tens of millions of Americans are experiencing a declining standard of living and yet you continue to insist that our economy is "strong" and "robust." Rather than acknowledge the economic anxieties of American workers, you insist that they don't know how good they have it. Since you have been president, 5 million more Americans have slipped into poverty; hunger and homelessness have increased. Because you refused to raise the minimum wage for six years, millions of workers are continuing to work full time and live in desperation. Low-wage workers are often unable to find quality childcare and their kids enter school at a special disadvantage--many of them never to catch up. It is no coincidence, Mr. President, that we have both the highest rate of childhood poverty in the industrialized world as well as the highest rate of incarceration. But it's not only the poor who are suffering under your "thriving" economy. The next generation will be the first to have a lower standard of living than their parents. From 2001 to 2005, all of the income growth in our country has accrued to the top 5 percent,[…]

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