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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.
Watch Bernie’s recent interview with PBS’ Tavis Smiley
April 18, 2013
“I think the president has made a huge mistake…. For the average American…Social Security has been…the pillar of the social safety net. It’s what the Democratic Party, historically, has been most proud of. And when you surrender that…what you are doing is surrendering to the Republican ideology rather than standing up and doing…what the vast majority of the American people want.”
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.”
Watch Bernie discuss the budget on MSNBC’s The Cycle
March 15, 2013
“Are we a nation or are we moving, in fact, to an oligarchic form of society where a handful of people on the top have it all? Middle class declines. Poverty stays at a very high level.”
Watch Bernie and Ed Schultz discuss proposed cuts to Social Security (MSNBC)
March 13, 2013
“I am prepared to work with other progressives to do everything that we can to make sure that the budget is not balanced on a collapsing middle class and on 46 million people who are living in poverty and on many elderly people who are barely keeping their heads above water economically.”
It would be criminal to cave on this issue. (MSNBC)
March 8, 2013
Watch Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Ed Schultz discuss the disastrous effects the Chained CPI would have on seniors, working families and disabled vets.
“Do we really want to balance the budget on the backs of disabled vets and seniors making $15,000 – $20,000 a year on Social Security? I think not.”
There is nobody who believes the sequestration makes a lot of sense. (MSNBC)
February 27, 2013
Watch Bernie on Jansing and Co. discuss the impending sequestration.
“The fact is that if we went forward in this way, the economy would contract. We’d lose about 700,000 jobs at a time when we’re in the midst of a severe recession. We’d cut programs a lot of working families and low-income people need.”
Watch Bernie’s Interview with Tavis Smiley on PBS
February 7, 2013
Tavis and Bernie discussed their impressions of the president’s inauguration speech, and looked ahead to next week’s State of the Union address.
They also discussed something which is not heard on TV very much — and that is the grossly unfair distribution of wealth and income in the country and what that means for our political and economic life.
The will of the American people will not be carried out. (MSNBC)
January 24, 2013
Watch Bernie Sanders and Ed Schultz discuss filibuster reform and what it will mean for the 113th congress.
“If we don’t have the talking filibuster, if we don’t have 41 votes having to maintain the filibuster then we’re simply not going to be able to address the serious problems facing the American people.”
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