Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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I founded an organization that feeds homebound critically ill people. It has now served over 11 million meals.
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I'm proud to pay my taxes. Every patriotic American should feel that way. I just wish they were spent in more noble ways.
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I ran a church for six years. The idea that the churches of America can take up the slack after the government stole billions - now trillions - from the public treasury just to put it in the hands of our richest citizens, is ludicrous.
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I don't know one rich person -- and I know many -- who honestly believes that line. They know the joke being played here, but some of them are happy that you're falling for it.
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No, I'm not. I'm simply saying that everything you just said is as true of some rich people in America as it is true of some poor. The difference is that in the case of the rich, our govt. now says "Okay, here, take it."
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No. Those kids are citizens too, just like you and I are. Do you drive on roads? Govt. paid for it. Have you ever called 911 or the fire dept? Govt. paid for it. Did you go to public school? Govt paid for it. What makes you or I more worthy than a poor child?
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You can find within any group of people, an example of their shadow element. But that is not who the people ARE. The person you mention is exhibiting behavior none of us would support, but that is NOT the face of poverty in America.
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Spirituality isn't a category of experience separate from all other areas of our existence; it's the underpinning of them all. If love should prevail anywhere, it should prevail everywhere. Given its deep effect on the lives of millions, you can't leave economics out of the mix.
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Okay, Danny. I'll go with that. Absolutely. But surely you realize there's no economic evidence to suggest that the money just given to the richest people and corporations is going to go back into job creation! Trickle-down economics is a myth. (I appreciate that we're talking!)
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Several years ago, one of the richest men in America said to me "My taxes are so low it's obscene." Important to remember many of our richest citizens are champions of economic justice. This is not rich vs. poor, it's only justice vs. injustice. Everybody wins when everybody wins
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If you don't know the poor in America, I hope you will research it yourself. See John Fugelsang's film Dream On pbs.org/wnet/dream-on/. Because of the undue influence of $ on our politics, financial interests of the wealthiest Americans are unfairly served before those of others
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Everyone should be accountable! But the poor are not leaching on our system nearly so much as the wealthiest are leaching on our system. In the words of MLK Jr: "If they give it to the rich they call it a subsidy; if they give it to the poor they call it a handout."
Promises, promises. Meanwhile, the reality...google.com/amp/amp.nymag.com…
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We're a democratic republic. America is the greatest place in the world if you make it into the club, but what's happened in the last few years is that not enough people can make it into the club. They're systematically left out. That is undemocratic, un-American & unsustainable.
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Over the last few years too many of America's best became disconnected from politics, lost or never developed the "habits of democracy" necessary to foster and maintain a government "of the people, by the people and for the people." Now we have to hurry and play catch up.
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