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In reply to the discussion: While Bernie Was Talking About the Poor, Hillary Was Eating with the Rich - Protest at $350k dinner [View all]Bubzer
(4,211 posts)5. Oh, right. THATS what hillary was doing... raising money for down-ballot Democrats...
Do you think we were born yesterday? Anyone who's bothered to follow what's happening with the money knows the money is flowing into the DNC where it's magically free of all campaign donation restrictions, then redirected back into Hillary's coffers. It's legalized money laundering.
And while you're crook of a candidate was engaging in legalized money laundering, Bernie actually was bringing attention to the poor...like he's done this WHOLE CAMPAIGN!
Sanders at Vatican says rich-poor gap worse than 100 years ago
U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, addressing a Vatican conference on social justice on Friday, decried the "immoral" gap between the world's rich and poor that he said was worse than a century ago.
The Democratic hopeful from Vermont has campaigned on a vow to rein in corporate power and level the economic playing field for working and lower-income Americans who he says have been left behind, a message echoing that of Pope Francis.
The trip is inconveniently timed for 74-year-old senator, coming four days before a Democratic party primary in New York. A loss there would blunt his momentum after winning seven of the last eight state contests and give front-runner Hillary Clinton a boost in her drive to the partys presidential nomination.
Sanders said in his speech to the Pontifical Academy of Social Science that the Roman Catholic Church's first encyclical on social justice, written in 1891 by Pope Leo XIII, lamented the enormous gap between the rich and the poor.
"That situation is worse today. In the year 2016, the top 1 percent of the people on this planet own more wealth than the bottom 99 percent," the self-described democratic socialist said.
"At a time when so few have so much, and so many have so little, we must reject the foundations of this contemporary economy as immoral and unsustainable," he said.
U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, addressing a Vatican conference on social justice on Friday, decried the "immoral" gap between the world's rich and poor that he said was worse than a century ago.
The Democratic hopeful from Vermont has campaigned on a vow to rein in corporate power and level the economic playing field for working and lower-income Americans who he says have been left behind, a message echoing that of Pope Francis.
The trip is inconveniently timed for 74-year-old senator, coming four days before a Democratic party primary in New York. A loss there would blunt his momentum after winning seven of the last eight state contests and give front-runner Hillary Clinton a boost in her drive to the partys presidential nomination.
Sanders said in his speech to the Pontifical Academy of Social Science that the Roman Catholic Church's first encyclical on social justice, written in 1891 by Pope Leo XIII, lamented the enormous gap between the rich and the poor.
"That situation is worse today. In the year 2016, the top 1 percent of the people on this planet own more wealth than the bottom 99 percent," the self-described democratic socialist said.
"At a time when so few have so much, and so many have so little, we must reject the foundations of this contemporary economy as immoral and unsustainable," he said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-sanders-vatican-speech-idUSKCN0XC1V9
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While Bernie Was Talking About the Poor, Hillary Was Eating with the Rich - Protest at $350k dinner [View all]
tomm2thumbs
Apr 2016
OP
Oh, right. THATS what hillary was doing... raising money for down-ballot Democrats...
Bubzer
Apr 2016
#5
Bernie won't be able to do squat unless the Dems take back Congress and
lexington filly
Apr 2016
#20
Maybe you just don't get this - yeah, we believe Hillary could get things done - things like war and
djean111
Apr 2016
#28
Hate to burst your bubble, but candidates fly all over the place every day, nothing illegal
FailureToCommunicate
Apr 2016
#25
*Changing Times: Rising New Progressives Contesting Third Way Politics, the Inevitable.*
appalachiablue
Apr 2016
#35