10 Shocking Economic Facts that Power the Sanders Insurgency

[99th_Monkey]

Reading this list is a great reminder of why we need Bernie in the Oval Office asap.

10 Shocking Economic Facts that Power the Sanders Insurgency
These facts provide the glue for the Sanders message.
Nov. 10, 2015 * By Les Leopold * AlterNet

Why are so many drawn to the Sanders message? It's not because he's a political outsider. (He's a Senator who has spent his entire adult life in politics.) It's not because he's a good Jewish boy from Brooklyn. (Jews make up only about 2% of the American population.) And it's not because he's a self-declared socialist. (Few of us have any idea what that means in today's global economy.)

Rather, it's because so many of us want to stop our entire society from crumbling beneath the destructive power of runaway inequality.

Here are 10 crucial economic facts that provide the glue for the Sanders message. (The charts are taken from Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice.)

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/10-shocking-economic-facts-power-sanders-insurgency

[jwirr]

1. And these ten facts are something everyone knows from

their own experience and are hurting because of it.

[99th_Monkey]

2. So true. Bernie's doing an awesome job of educating the American public

on his way to the WH.

[jwirr]

5. And it is about time - for the last 40 years we have been told

that "It's okay. We have got this." But it is not okay.

[azmom]

3. The kicker is that none of this happened

By accident. Our own elected officials sold us out.

[Scuba]

6. ...

[cantbeserious]

4. When We Stand Together - No Citizen Need Settle For The Lesser Of Two Corporate Evils - Go Bernie Go

eom

[w0nderer]

7. hey...

if he wins i won't need my sweet MMe La Guillotine!

i likes it a lot!

[ljm2002]

8. Great article...

...big K&R!!

[daleanime]

9. K&R.....

[in_cog_ni_to]

10. GREAT article!

Bernie's right! We not only will take on the Repubs, but also TPTB and the neo-libs - and we will win because we're on the right side of every issue! This campaign is about the PEOPLE. The Corporations have overstepped their boundaries and have gotten waaaaaaaay too GREEDY.

At some point, enough money has to be ENOUGH MONEY! How many billions does one Corporation, one family, or one person need?

Greed is ugly. It always has been and still is.


"This campaign is sending a message to the billionaire class: Yes, we have the guts to take you on[/b]."

[bvar22]

11. Depressing DURec!

Everyone should go read the Alternet article.

5. We lead the developed world in child poverty

Nothing more clearly reflects the values of a country than how it treats its children. And nothing is more painful and inexcusable than children living in poverty.

Shame.

[99th_Monkey]

12. Bernie's campaign is We the People's Dutch Boy with his Finger in the Dike

Dutch boy saves his country by putting his finger in a leaking dike. The boy stays there all
night, in spite of the cold, until the adults of the village find him and make the necessary repairs.