‘Poverty is a death sentence,’ Sanders declares during Baltimore stop

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BALTIMORE — Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders used a campaign stop Saturday in this economically challenged city to decry the difference between the life expectancies of the nation’s rich and poor, declaring that “poverty is a death sentence.”

“If you are born in Baltimore’s poorest neighborhood, your life expectancy is almost 20 years shorter than if you’re born in its wealthiest neighborhood,” the senator from Vermont said, adding that “15 neighborhoods in Baltimore have lower life expectancies than North Korea. Two of them have a higher infant mortality rate than Palestine's West Bank.”

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During his appearance Saturday, Sanders suggested that Baltimore’s challenges were a result of the country’s misplaced priorities.

“How do we always seem to have trillions of dollars for a war in Iraq or elsewhere, but we don’t apparently have the money to rebuild inner cities in America?” he asked.”How do we have money for tax breaks for billionaires, but not money to feed hungry children in Baltimore? Together we are going to change those priorities.”

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[rhett o rick]

1. These are facts that the Conservative Wing of our party want to ignore. The greed

of the wealthy 1% is literally killing people. High infant mortality rates is shameful but the other side is more interested in seeing that Goldman-Sachs makes a profit. Clinton's solution is to grow the economy which is code for more of the same.

[Baobab]

6. If you get sick it is. Study after study shows this is the worst developed country to get sick in

if you are poor.

Around 100,000 excess deaths each year who would not die if we had a better health care system like the civilized countries do..

[rhett o rick]

8. And the Conservative Wing of our party will rationalize that by saying that we on the Left

must be pragmatic and support Goldman-Sachs profits first.

[Hydra]

2. He's absolutely right

Don't here at the bottom, one crisis can be your end...and nobody seems to care. Supposedly, we deserve it.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. some of my students don't get a meal when they get home

yet there is money for clusterbombs

[Baobab]

4. Hillary may make it much worse

She thinks that working Americans are paid much too much. I can tell from the way she puts things.

I've spoken with a lot of people who take that point of view and I can just tell, she is one of them.

Its not acceptable to take high skill, relatively high wage jobs from working Americans and give them to people, no-matter how highly skilled they are, from developing countries.

That's what I think is going to happen.

Its been in the makings for a very long time.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. how can they vote for a do nothing multimillionaire?

[Baobab]

7. I don't know.

nt

[rhett o rick]

9. It's kinda like the Stockholm Syndrome. They been told to revere the wealthy for

so many years they don't care about the consequences.