Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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40 yrs ago America took a terrible turn, initiating a massive transfer of wealth into the hands of 1% of us. Through a reworking of tax laws to favor the already rich, union busting, deregulation & every other tool of oligarchy imaginable, we have economically tyrannized a nation
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We’re fighting for a $2000 one time payment, and even that is essentially crumbs. It should have been $2000 a month from the beginning of the pandemic, lasting through the end of it. No other advanced country has seen its people so systematically neglected during the pandemic.
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The denial of monthly #DirectCashRelief during a pandemic that’s gone on for almost a year is unconscionable. I doubt any of us can fully imagine the depth of suffering this has caused & is causing throughout our country. We’ll be reaping the consequences of this for many years.
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I do think we need disruptive leadership outside as well as inside, so I don’t agree with my own past tweet there. We need both.
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The greatest irony is that we could afford to do this! The richest country in the world has no need to choose between wealth and economic justice. The only reason we have chosen wealth at the expense of economic justice is pure unadulterated greed. We can choose another way.
McDonald’s worker in the US: $9/hr
McDonald’s worker in Denmark: $22/hr, 6 weeks of annual vacation, a union, 1 year of paid family leave, life insurance and pension.
America must join the rest of the industrialized world and ensure that our working class can live with dignity.
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No one has spoken about the $2k more than I have. You can twist my words all you want, but you can’t make that not true.
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“You have the Great Library of Alexandria in your smartphone but we haven’t developed the wisdom of the heart.”
Discussing our true nature, which is loving awareness with @JackKornfield and @TrudyGoodman on this week’s #TheMWPodcast.
Full video: youtube.com/q08gXlY5kjo
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Republicans who say a $1.9T Covid Relief Bill is too big had no problem passing a $$2T tax cut (that will never pay for itself)where 83% of $ went to richest corporations & individuals. People are literally hungry. What do they think that money is for if not to serve the people?
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