Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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The good thing about the exposure of a sick system is that it makes it easier to imagine a healthy one. Seeing how our current system is failing us is prerequisite perhaps for enough people rising up to change it. Other generations did that and we can too.
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Look at these pharmaceutical CEO salaries and look at the millions of people who have to choose between food and a life-saving drug - then tell me this is not capitalism gone amok. American capitalism must claim a conscience and our government must claim a soul. #repairamerica
Pharmaceutical CEO salaries:
Merck: $55 million
Pfizer: $50M
Eli Lilly: $30M
Johnson & Johnson: $26M
AbbVie: $23M
This greed must end. The function of prescription drugs must be to protect and improve human health—not make corporate executives unfathomably rich.
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He is exactly the kind of person who needs more support right now. And there are many millions more like him.
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In meantime, I think Jesus would have us do more than twiddle our thumbs and tell people not to worry because ultimately this will all be gone anyway.
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Anyone who votes with Mitch McConnell whether they’re Democrat or Republican, since he’s the one who epitomizes my words.
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If you’re not supporting all the small businesses who need it & you’re not giving more direct support to individuals trying to get through this & you’re not creating other jobs for people to do at home, then by what moral authority or political legitimacy do you remain in power?
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“it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world.” - Mary Oliver
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We couldn’t build them, but we could design them. A lot of the architecture and engineering could be done now, from home.
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4/ Today’s politicians extraordinarily entrenched within a system that simply does things the way it has always done them. The lack of imagination in DC is stunning, yet an unimaginable catastrophe demands we imagine new solutions. Oldthink is the problem; newthink is the Answer
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3/ From scientists to computer techs to mechanics to architects to environmental experts to artists to engineers to inventors, there’s an endless number of jobs people could be doing from home right now that would add immeasurably to our new beginnings on the other side of this.
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2/ Instead of suggesting that people die in order for us to avoid a Depression, we should do with others have done to bring us out of one. The government right now can start creating jobs that people could do from home. We need an at-home version of FDR’s WPA public works program
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1/ Few want to say it out loud because it’s terrifying, but the fact is that we’re teetering on the verge of a Depression. Some would say we’ve entered one already. That’s why there are those who want people to go back to work no matter what.
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