Bloomberg borrows Bernie's rhetoric

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Gone are the former New York City mayor’s strident defenses of the rich for their contributions to the economy, replaced by talk of economic inequality.

By SALLY GOLDENBERG

01/23/2020 05:06 AM EST

Excerpt:

The Democratic presidential primary is turning billionaire Mike Bloomberg, one of the world’s richest men, into an economic populist.

Gone are the strident defenses of the rich for their contributions to the economy, and the spats with working-class unions that came to sculpt Bloomberg's public persona during his three terms as New York City mayor. In their place, the businessman whose extreme wealth has allowed him to circumvent some of the traditional rigors of campaigning is making assertions that sound more like Bernie Sanders than Wall Street’s defender in chief.

“Too much wealth is in too few hands, and too few places as well. We have an economic inequality that’s distributed unfairly across this country," he declared in a speech in Chicago earlier this month. And during a trip to Tulsa, Okla., over the weekend, he said the next president must "make the issue of economic inequality a top priority."

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/23/bloomberg-borrows-bernie-rhetoric-economy-102491

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1. No surprise there! Most of Bernie's fellow Democrats hafta borrow his rhetoric in order to catch him

in the polls!!


Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join the revolution!!

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4. "truth is there are many people in this country who have money but also believe in social justice"

"The truth is there are many people in this country who have money but also believe in social justice.” - Bernie Sanders, October, 2015

Rhetoric like this?



https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2020/jan/09/bernie-sanders/did-biden-laud-paul-ryan-proposal-cut-social-secur/

Some times a picture is worth a thousand words of rhetoric...



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2. yes they have

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3. Sally Goldenberg doesn't know Mike Bloomberg very well.

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5. This sounds very "Etch-A-Sketch" on the part of Bloomberg.