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Related: About this forum(BAM!!) Wages in America are too damn low!- Bernie Sanders
DAMN RIGHT!!
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(BAM!!) Wages in America are too damn low!- Bernie Sanders (Original Post)
Playinghardball
Dec 2015
OP
"Speaking to people about what effects their everyday lives most is never a bad idea."
Jack Rabbit
Dec 2015
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tech3149
(4,452 posts)1. Amen! but be careful
Someone will come along and compare Bernie to the "rent is too damned high" perpetual candidate.
merrily
(45,251 posts)2. Well, wages ARE too damned low and rent IS too damned high.
The candidates are not the same, but both are telling the truth.
bread_and_roses
(6,335 posts)3. exatly so! & here in NY, some of us love the "rent" candidate
I only remember him from one election, so didn't know he was a "perpetual" runner, but a lot of us loved him - if you think about it, a lot is encapsulated in that one sentence. And it's true - and NOT just in NYC - i live in a small upstate city and rents here are also out of reach.
Speaking to people about what effects their everyday lives most is never a bad idea.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)5. "Speaking to people about what effects their everyday lives most is never a bad idea."
It sure beats trying to explain the strategy and tactics of 11-dimensional chess,
bread_and_roses
(6,335 posts)7. Second that! (n/t)
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)4. Every other candidate (R) is a "The Taxes are Too Damn High" candidates.
Or "The Government is too Damn Big" candidates. So why the hell not?
Duval
(4,280 posts)6. Ha! Bernie just tells it like it is!!
Hi, Playinghardball! Thank you for the post.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)8. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!