Bernie Sanders: This Bill is Too Damn Long! (7/30/1997)

[think]

Bernie tells it like it is.

Published on Aug 11, 2015
Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) blasts a Republican tactic of producing an impossibly long bill right before a vote to obscure the radical cuts to benefits programs, such as Social Security, Medicare, and veterans health, underneath additional tax breaks for the wealthy.

(Found on the Sanders for President sub Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/ .)

[Ed Suspicious]

1. Same shit different day for Senator Sanders. He just keeps fighting and fighting and fighting.

[merrily]

2. I think he meant "The bill is too damned lousy."

Had the bill proposed expanding social programs, I suspect Bernie would not have had problems with the length.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

4. Social program bills usually don't come with as many riders

Donors don't like social programs, so the bills are much easier to say no to- even when they have overwhelming public support- But destined-to-pass upper class tax cuts have lots of room for extra pork and special exemptions for worst offenders. Rule of thumb: The longer a bill is, the less there is in it for the peasants.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

3. Well, he pretty much nailed it, didn't he?

[sabrina 1]

5. It's too bad that not every one of our Reps didn't call out their dirty trickery as Bernie always

has.

If EVERYONE, at least in our party, would just stand up and back people like Bernie, what a different country this would be.

[MrMickeysMom]

6. Didn't take him long, once in the House to call it out, won't take him long to sort it out...

And that's exactly why we need him in the White House.

We can't afford to let anyone in our current House districts continue this kind of budgeting, which is how we got to ridiculous forms of passing things like the ALEC legislation. They don't even WRITE this stuff anymore!

[passiveporcupine]

7. He just takes the ball and hits it out of the ball park

each and every time.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

8. They would stick a tax cut for the rich to a bill renaming a post office.

[bluestateguy]

9. I guess in 1997 they didn't have pdf documents

Was that the bill that cut capital gains taxes?

Republicans gave Clinton SCHIP in that bill in exchange for a capital gains taxcut.

SCHIP is a great program, but it came at a high price: We had to cut taxes for the rich to get health insurance for lower-middle class children.

[Dont call me Shirley]

10. Nearly 2 decades ago, Bernie predicted the economic collapse of 2008.

[JDPriestly]

12. My thought precisely.

[Enthusiast]

11. Kicked and recommended to the Max!

[JDPriestly]

13. Everything Bernie said in 1997 in that speech is still true today.

Nothing has changed. The oligarchs still take big bites out of the national economy, build up lots of national AND PERSONAL debt, imprisoning our country in debt. They still moan and groan about Social Security and Medicare. They still don't pay their fair share.

And they still pay their candidates, candidates like Hillary, the entire Republican slate and now they are offering Biden, and our votes still don't count.

Finally, now, NOW, we have a candidate who sees through it all and echos our cry:

"Enough is Enough."

It's time for Bernie. No one else will do.

Trading big tax breaks for the super-rich for SCHIP.

Let's just get single payer and be done with SCHIP and all the other financial rigging models the MBAs and their bankers can "create" to scam and damn the little hard-working people.

Enough is enough is enough.

Feel the Bern.

Have the courage to vote for Bernie.

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