Bernie Sanders The Week in Review: This week Sen. Bernie Sanders praised Pope Francis for condemning the unrestrained capitalism that has caused income inequality and poverty around the world. Pope Francis warned that our economic systems will “devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market.” Later in the week, CBS’ 60 Minutes aired a critique Sen. Sanders made of the program’s recent report called The Giving Pledge. In the report, 60 Minutes applauded billionaires such as Pete Peterson for their so-called philanthropy. Sanders wrote to 60 Minutes saying, What Pete Peterson has done is throw hundreds of millions of dollars into lobbying campaigns to cut Social Security, Medicare and disabled veterans’ benefits. That, to my mind, is not philanthropy.” In an interview with MSNBC this week Sen. Sanders discussed his work on the budget conference committee saying “Poll after poll shows that large profitable corporations have got to contribute to help reduce the deficit.” Continue reading here: sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/the-week-in-review-112913
Posted on: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 05:31:56 +0000
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