Watch Bernie Sanders on the new “The Ed Show” on MSNBC

May 13, 2013

The Ed Show is back on MSNBC and Ed’s first guest on Saturday was Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Watch Bernie and Ed discuss the president’s budget and the proposed use of chained CPI to cut cost of living adjustments for seniors and disabled veterans.

Tribune Company: Reject any offer from the Koch Brothers!

May 3, 2013

The Tribune Company is selling its major newspapers and it’s rumored that Koch Industries is interested.

Charles and David Koch are right-wing extremists who already exercise enormous economic and political power in our country.

Join Bernie Sanders and Jim Dean in urging the Tribune Company to reject any offer from Koch Industries.

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Watch Bernie discuss the future of Social Security and Veterans’ benefits (MSNBC)

April 16, 2013

Watch Bernie discuss the federal budget and proposed benefit cuts for disabled vets and Social Security recipients.

“When Social Security is funded by the payroll tax, it is not responsible for the deficit in any way. So we want to deal with the long-term solvency of Social Security, but not through the context of deficit reduction.”

Hear Bernie and others discuss the Keystone XL pipeline on All In with Chris Hayes (MSNBC)

April 2, 2013

“We now have the technology in terms of energy efficiency….If there was a political will in the White House and in the Congress, we can transform the energy system. We can create millions of jobs. We could lead the world and be an exporter around the world of that type of technology. That’s the future; not oil. And that’s why the Keystone pipeline should be defeated.”

Too Big to Jail? (Huffington Post)

April 1, 2013

Read Bernie’s recent op-ed for The Huffington Post, which discusses “too big to fail” financial institutions and legislation that he will soon be introducing to break them up.

“If an institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.”

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