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1 trillion in spending and cuts for the poor (MSNBC)
June 20, 2012
“…What people have to understand is this is part & parcel of the Republican’s vicious attack against middle income & low income people. This is not unrelated. These attacks that we’re going to see from the Republicans in massive cuts in food stamps is directly related to the attacks you’re going to see on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid & education.”
Republicans fawn over JP Morgan CEO at hearing (MSNBC)
June 13, 2012
On the Ed Show, Bernie talks about Wall Street’s cozy ties with some legislators.
“I think the real story is – and everybody should understand this – this is not a question of Congress regulating Wall Street, this is much more a question of Wall Street & all of their money regulating Congress.”
‘A no-brainer’: Bernie Sanders decries Jamie Dimon conflict of interest, demands Fed reform (CurrentTV)
Bernie talks with Eliot Spitzer on CurrentTV about the Fed & Wall St reform.
“But at the end of the day, if we are serious about trying to rebuild the middle class of this country, rebuild our manufacturing sector, etc., no question we need real Wall Street reform. To get Wall Street reform, we need Fed reform. To get Fed reform, we’ve got to get the bankers off of the regional Feds.”
Sanders: JPMorgan a ‘Gambling Casino’ (CNBC)
Bernie talks about conflicts of interest at the Fed on CNBC.
“The issue here is not hard to understand. The fed plays a very important roll in our economy… Do you really want people like Jamie Dimon, representing JP Morgan Chase, sitting on the New York Fed, which is supposed to be regulating Wall St? I think that that is a very obvious and apparent conflict of interest.”
Bernie talks about latest news on JP Morgan blunder (MSNBC)
June 12, 2012
“This is not just Jamie Dimon… According to the GAO… you have 17 other individuals, past and present members of Feds, who collectively – 18 of them collectively – their financial institutions received $4 trillion in very low interest loans during the bailout period. So, again, if this is not the fox guarding the hen house, then I don’t know what is.”
Crumbling US infrastructure a missed opportunity for jobs, renewal (MSNBC)
“It’s not only roads, it’s not only bridges, it’s not only water systems, it’s mass transportation. It is rail. China is building high-speed rail all over the place. We are not… we have an enormous amount of work that is ready to go right now & it is beyond comprehension that our Republican friends will not support infrastructure legislation.”
What’s going on with the economy? (MSNBC)
June 7, 2012
Watch Bernie discuss Ben Bernanke & the Fed on MSNBC’s Jansing & Co.
“We need a Fed that starts representing ordinary people, the middle class; Main St, not Wall St. We have to get the bankers off of the Fed.”
What’s at stake in Wisconsin (MSNBC)
June 6, 2012
Bernie talks about the Wisconsin election with MSNBC’s Al Sharpton.
“…This is really the tip of the iceberg. What is going on now is class warfare, to an unprecedented degree, is being waged against the middle class & working families of this country.”
Sen. Sanders on Wall Street Now: ‘Insane Gambling Casino’ (Bill Press Show)
June 5, 2012
Bernie talks with Bill Press on his radio show about Wall Street greed.
“The lesson to be learned from the recent fiasco at JP Morgan Chase is that these guys have learned nothing since Wall Street drove this country into the worst recession since the 1930s.”
Obama calls Romney speech ‘cow pie of distortion’ (MSNBC)
May 25, 2012
Bernie & MSNBC’s Ed Schultz talk about Mitt Romney’s economic “plan.”
“What Romney’s economics is about is ‘trickle-down’ economic theory. That’s what George W. Bush practiced for 8 years & we lost during that time 600,000 jobs, median income went down, the rich got richer, & poverty increased.”
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