In this video, Senator Bernie Sanders describes how the government shutdown was engineered by billionaires including the Koch brothers. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said the 2010 ruling in the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission allowed the rich and powerful to threaten House members with well-funded campaign challengers unless they got their way on an agenda to roll back progressive legislation. Sanders said the fight against the health care reform law was “just the tip of the iceberg” in the right-wing agenda to gut government programs that protect the most vulnerable members of society, including the sick and the elderly. It’s not a question of opposing the extension of health insurance through Obamacare — that’s not enough for them,” Sanders said. “What they want to do is end Medicare as we know it. Sanders warned that conservative activists and the Republican lawmakers they support intend to roll back Social Security and eliminate minimum wage laws, among other cuts to social services programs. “We have got to do everything that we can to overturn this disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision so that a handful of billionaires cannot dictate public policy,” Sanders said. youtube/watch?v=fNj8bpY2PEY rawstory/rs/2013/10/08/bernie-sanders-citizens-united-ruling-led-to-the-government-shutdown/ huffingtonpost/mansur-gidfar/this-is-the-supreme-court_b_4086269.html?utm_hp_ref=politics nytimes/2013/10/06/us/a-federal-budget-crisis-months-in-the-planning.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Posted on: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 19:48:51 +0000
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