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Related: About this forumBernie Sanders Blasts The GOP With Reality: It Wasn’t Immigrants Who Caused The Great Recession
By: Jason Easley
Thursday, September, 3rd, 2015, 5:00 pm
While being interviewed by the Des Moines Register editorial board, Sen. Bernie Sanders slapped Republicans the reality of their failed policies while calling out their racist attacks on immigrants.
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While speaking to the Des Moines Register editorial board, Sen. Sanders said:
In the year 2015, candidates for President Of The United States should not be making racist remarks about people who come from Latin America or from Mexico. I would have hoped that we have gone beyond that. I would also hope that we would not be engaging in demagoguery against undocumented people in this country.
If tomorrow, every person who in this country who is undocumented left this country, your agricultural system would likely collapse as well as many other aspects of our economy.
So for a start, it was not undocumented people in this country whose greed and recklessness on Wall Street drove us into the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression.
It wasnt undocumented people in this country who got us into a war in Iraq that we never should have gotten into.
It wasnt undocumented people in this country who gave huge tax breaks to billionaires and are fighting to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. And I think theyre being used as a punching bag, and I resent that.
We can have differences of opinion on how we proceed in terms of immigration and treating undocumented people, but lets not demagogue the issue. Lets have the courage to stand up to the people who really have power in this country. The Wall Street people and the corporate America people, and not just beat on people who are without legal status.
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Full article + video:
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/09/03/bernie-sanders-blasts-gop-reality-immigrants-caused-great-recession.html
LuvNewcastle
(16,860 posts)People who live in cities, especially, should be outraged by all this anti-immigrants talk. A lot of urban dwellers would fucking starve without them, and people in the rural areas would have no one to help them get their product out of the ground and on the shelves.
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)Unfetteredly administrated truth. Thanks to Mr. Sanders for speaking out for those who have little to no voices.
J_J_
(1,213 posts)nt
NCjack
(10,279 posts)Duppers
(28,127 posts)Yallow
(1,926 posts)When he starts saying what I have been saying all along.
Beating down on undocumented immigrants is evil.
It is the kind of crap the most evil men have done throughout history.
(See I didn't say Hitler)
Our problems are caused by hoarding, not immigrants.
Hoarding, and having oligarchs run our government for their own benefit.
And Iraq?
Saddam was no threat, except to oil companies who wanted to control more
resources with Cheney's evil hand.
Saddam was no threat. Period. Thousands died in Iraq for no good reason. Like
that is ok in Republican world. 5,000 were our own troops. All because of lies.
Republicans are evil.
Period.
I just wonder if they were born evil, or if they one day decided
"I will install hate, greed, and intolerance in everything I do" or something.
Go Bernie.
Keep telling it like it is.
They will not be able to handle it.
I want to watch their heads explode for myself.
Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)You got it 100% correct!
senz
(11,945 posts)SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)I don't see how he can lose. Sooner or later, "Corporate media" will have to cover him. The people have the right to know.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)The racism and bigotry behind that demagoguery, the GOP, must be attacked relentlessly and endlessly and constantly until they are fully exposed for public view.
This is Bernie Sanders. This is Hillary Clinton. This IS the Democratic Party and on this we are all united.
And this is the week to celebrate what has been accomplished to date, and a lot just this week, so spare little time for the gloom and doom...at least for this week?
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)that is controlled by the 1% and their puppets.
stage left
(2,966 posts)Once again Sanders reveals the man(men) behind the curtain.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)and come out and vote. It will take someone like Bernie to do it. If it works, it's going to be an amazing time in our country.
PatrickforO
(14,595 posts)He opens his mouth and truth comes out while the rest of them vomit out lies, half-lies and poll-tested mumblings.
BeanMusical
(4,389 posts)jfern
(5,204 posts)the Wall Street bankers who destroyed the global economy did things like get elected governor of Ohio.
YabaDabaNoDinoNo
(460 posts)LWolf
(46,179 posts)a lifetime to hear a potential POTUS speak straightforward truth.