Sen. Bernie Sanders welcomed the thousands of roaring supporters gathered for his mid-July rally at the Phoenix Convention Center.
“Somebody said that Arizona is a conservative state,” Sanders said. “Somebody told me that people have given up on the political process. That’s not what I see here tonight.”
The crowd went wild.
It wouldn’t be the last time. Sanders tossed out plenty of red meat that liberals have wanted to hear for years:
What we are saying to the billionaire class is that their greed is going to have to end and we are going to end it for them!
I want our country to have the best-educated people! More people going to college than any other country! Not more people in jail than any other country!
The American political (system) has been totally corrupted and the foundations of American democracy are being undermined!
I have introduced legislation to make every public university and college in America tuition free!
Climate change is real! Climate change is caused by human activity! Climate change is already creating devastating problems in our country and all over the world!
We are going to pass a Medicare-for-all single-payer program!
If you were picking him out of a lineup of politicians, Sanders seems an unlikely future president of the United States. The 73-year-old Brooklyn-born Jew isn’t even a Democrat, although he caucuses with Democrats in the Senate; he has run as an independent and has called himself a democratic socialist.
Sanders has been politically active all his adult life. He earned a degree in political science at the University of Chicago in the early ’60s and, while he attended the college, he was involved in the civil-rights battles of the time, including protests against segregated housing and the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech.
After losing a few big races in Vermont in the 1970s—governor, U.S. Senate—he finally won a municipal race when he became mayor of Burlington, Vermont, in 1981. He won a seat in Congress in 1990 as an independent and captured Vermont’s Senate seat in 2006.
Since launching his presidential campaign at the end of April, Sanders has been drawing big crowds as he travels the country. His early support has been healthy; although he has said he won’t form a Super PAC, Sanders reported raising more than $15 million in the months of May and June, mostly from small donors who gave less than $200.
On the stump, Sanders makes it clear that he’s ready to raise taxes on the rich to pay for his many proposals, including universal preschool, free college tuition and a government-run, single-payer healthcare system. “We have a message tonight to the billionaire class,” he thundered in his Phoenix speech, “and that message is: You cannot have it all!”
He’s a ferocious critic of what he calls a “grotesque level of income inequality.” He ties his complaints about the rich to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision and the utter disgust many have with the ever-escalating cost of political campaigns driven by corporate campaign spending and dark money. He cites the Koch brothers’ reported plan to spend almost a billion dollars in the 2016 election cycle: “When one family spends more than either of the two major political parties, that’s not democracy,” he said in Phoenix. “That is oligarchy!”
Judging from the crowds that he’s drawing, Sanders’ words are resonating. Justin Besonen, an award-winning Arizona school teacher, has only been following Sanders for a few months but said he likes “everything” about him. In particular, Besonen is behind Sanders’ call for education reform and “getting money away from big businesses and back to the rest of us.”
Mike Gordy, a retired TUSD history teacher and former Tucson Education Association president, said he likes “that Bernie says this isn’t just about an election, it’s about taking back the power from folks who have stolen it from us over he past couple of decades.” Gordy has skepticism about Clinton’s ties to Wall Street and energy companies, although he’d still vote for her “in a heartbeat” over any of the Republicans in the race.
That’s a recurring theme among Sanders’ supporters; it’s not that they would vote against Clinton in a presidential race, but they remain suspicious that she is too cozy with Wall Street, energy companies and other big-money special interests.
Alfredo Gutierrez, a longtime Arizona Latino organizer and majority and minority leader in the Arizona Senate in the 1970s and ’80s, told the Weekly there’s “a certain authenticity” to Sanders. While Gutierrez said he’s likely to vote for Clinton, he’s “very uncomfortable with her almost incestuous relationship with Wall Street and her position on war. It’s antithetical to what I believe. But I think it’s going to be better than Donald Trump.”
Gutierrez remains skeptical about Sanders’ ability to win the White House.
“I don’t think Sanders has a chance,” Gutierrez said. “But look, it’s beginning to change. I’m not sure he can win this thing, but he’s going to be a major force—much more than I anticipated.”
In the early primary states, Sanders is picking up steam from where he started out the year—but he started out so far behind that he can gain a lot of ground yet still have a big gap. An NBC News-Marist poll released earlier this week showed that in Iowa, Clinton was leading Sanders by 29 percentage points; the same pollster showed that Clinton was leading by 61 percentage points in February. The same survey showed that in New Hampshire, Sanders was behind by 56 percentage points in February; now it’s down to 13 percentage points.
In a national poll released by Public Policy Polling last week, Clinton’s lead over Sanders had shrunk from 56 percentage points to 35 percentage points—which is still a healthy margin.
That same PPP survey shows Clinton leading all the Republican hopefuls in a general election (ranging from 3 percentage points over Rand Paul to 13 percentage points over the GOP electorate’s flavor-of-the-month Donald Trump). Trump is the only Republican that Sanders leads (by 10 percentage points); Jeb Bush is beating Sanders by 7 percentage points, while Scott Walker is just 1 percentage point ahead.
But a Quinnipiac University poll released last week showed Clinton behind her GOP rivals in swing states Colorado, Iowa and Virginia.
Admittedly, polls this far ahead of the election are not reliable indicators of where voters will be in November 2016. (Does anyone really believe that current GOP primary pack leader Donald Trump with be the GOP nominee?) But the surveys do show that the concerns that Sanders supporters mention about Clinton’s establishment ties and trustworthiness are shared by others along the political spectrum, even if liberals are likely to support her against a GOP candidate should she end up the nominee.
Nate Silver, the polling specialist behind FiveThirtyEight.com, noted last week that Sanders could win Iowa and New Hampshire but lose elsewhere because those two states are “really liberal and really white, and that’s the core of Sanders’s support.” He referenced two polls that showed that “Sanders has so far made very little traction with non-white Democrats. The most recent CNN poll found his support at just 9 percent among non-white Democrats, while the latest Fox News poll had him at only 5 percent among African-American Democrats.”
But Yolanda Bejarano, a Latina union activist with the Communication Workers of America who introduced Sanders before his Phoenix speech, said he won her over when she recently visited Washington to lobby members of Congress to oppose fast-track authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal being negotiated by the Obama administration.M
“I didn’t know much about Bernie Sanders, to tell you the truth,” Bejarano said. “I did some research on him—I wasn’t just going to jump on board just because everyone is on board with Bernie and I wanted to see what he stands for. And what he stands for, to me, makes more sense than any other candidate.”
She said that she is worried about Clinton’s ties to big banks and Wall Street, but like others, said she’d support her over a Republican candidate.
“It was like Hillary against Scott Walker or Jeb Bush, I would definitely vote for Hillary,” Bejarano said.
Sanders’ weakness among people of color was on display in Phoenix. While he had a great night at the Phoenix Convention Center, his morning didn’t go smoothly.
Sanders was in Phoenix to speak at the Netroots Nation Conference, a gathering of lefty activists, bloggers and politicians. He was scheduled to sit down for a one-on-one town hall interview with journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, an undocumented journalist who ran into trouble with ICE in 2014. But before Sanders took the stage, activists with the Black Lives Matter movement disrupted the town hall interview Vargas was conducting with Martin O’Malley, the former Maryland governor who is seeking the White House. O’Malley was forced to watch uncomfortably as his moment to reach out to liberals across the nation was overshadowed by a protest and he was booed by the crowd when he said: “Black lives matter. White lives matter. All lives matter”—a statement he later apologized for.
When Sanders came out for his turn in the spotlight, the group was still rowdy and began to shout questions at Sanders, who launched into a condensed version of his stump speech. He was heckled several times and responded, at one point: “Listen, black lives of course matter. And I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and dignity. But if you don’t want me to be here, that’s OK. I don’t want to out-scream people.”
Vargas questioned Sanders on his immigration record, asking him why he voted against a comprehensive immigration reform bill sponsored by Sens. John McCain and the late Ted Kennedy in 2007 but supported the Gang of Eight’s comprehensive immigration reform bill in 2013.
Sanders said he voted against the earlier bill because it didn’t contain enough protections for American workers—“I do worry that corporate America and the big money interests want to bring cheap labor into this country with guest-worker programs and continue the race to the bottom”—but supported the 2013 version because it contained a provision that would have provided $1.5 billion to create youth jobs. He added the bill would have brought 11 million undocumented people “out of the shadows where they are living, legitimately, in fear of being deported.” He said he would push further than the Obama administration has in the use of executive action to give undocumented immigrants protection from deportation. “Of course we need a path to citizenship for undocumented workers,” Sanders said. “Of course we shouldn’t be dividing up families. Of course I support the DREAM Act.”
As he discussed the trade-offs of agreeing to more border security measures as part of comprehensive immigration reform, Sanders was heckled by a member of the crowd. He snapped back with a response that acknowledged the challenge of getting legislation passed in the current political environment.
“That’s fine,” Sanders said. “We may want in this room what we want. But you’ve got a United States Congress. Which gets back to my first point. If you want a Congress that begins to address the needs of the American people, we’ve got a lot of work to do. This Congress does not do that.”
The Black Lives Matter activists said they disrupted the presidential town hall with their protest because the conference had focused on immigration issues this year and did not have enough focus on the high-profile issue of police brutality against the African-American community. Just days before the Netroots conference started, a black woman named Sandra Bland was found dead in a Texas jail cell, an alleged suicide, after she was arrested for getting into an altercation with a cop who pulled her over for failing to signal a lane change after he sped up behind her.
The Netroots Nation conference was in Phoenix because organizers wanted to focus on border issues—and Arizona is ground zero when it comes to political battles over undocumented immigrants. Members of the group marched on Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s jail one afternoon and attended a number of panels featuring DREAMers and other immigration activists.
But there were other panels on everything from redistricting to fundraising that were designed to both train activists to turn out voters and inspire them to get to work on the 2016 campaign.
One of the most inspirational speeches came from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the former Harvard professor who helped design the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but was passed over at its director because of Republican opposition. Warren instead ran for one of the Massachusetts’ U.S. Senate seats and defeated Republican incumbent Scott Brown.
Warren is a rock star on the left; Sheila Murphy, a Phoenix resident who decided to check out the Netroots conference because it was in town, is a “huge fan.” Murphy said she likes Warren’s “clarity, specificity and her drive. … she is dynamic.”
Warren—introduced on stage by Southern Arizona Congressman Raúl Grijalva, who praised Warren’s “strength, intellect and the hardest trait of any elected official, consistency”—told the audience that their perspective represented the majority’s view in this country. She cited polls on numerous issues: 73 percent of Americans oppose allowing the federal government to profit on student loans. Seven out of 10 support an increase in the minimum wage. Eight out of 10 think companies should provide sick leave. Three out of four believe that the federal government has gotten too cozy with big business. Eighty percent want better Wall Street regulation. One issue after issue, Warren repeated, “the American people are progressives.”
“I don’t care what Insider Washington says,” Warren said. “They can be oh-so-sophisticated and tell us how our ideas are too progressive, too far left or just not realistic. But here at Netroots Nation, we have news for Insider Washington’—the American people ARE progressive—and our day is coming.”
Warren concluded her speech with a call for the audience to call on a Democratic presidential candidate—and there’s little doubt she was looking in the direction of Clinton—promise to not allow Wall Street insiders to collect bonuses if they take a job as a federal regulator or leave a regulatory gig to return to their old company.
“I need your help, Netroots Nation—the country needs your help,” Warren said. “The only way that candidates for President—or for any office—will slow down the revolving door, the only way candidates will say ‘enough is enough’ is if you—you—demand that they say it.”
She concluded her speech with a call for action.
“Insider Washington isn’t listening,” Warren said. “Insider Washington turns its back. So it’s on us. It’s on us to show that our agenda is America’s agenda—that America’s agenda is a progressive agenda. It’s on us to fight for the values that we believe in. We get what we fight for—so let’s get out there and fight.” ■
This article appears in Jul 30 – Aug 5, 2015.
Socialism is a joke. So is Bernie.
Great photo thanks. Some people just don’t look presidential. Sanders is one of them. Biden will step in for Hillary and we all know just how smart he is. This won’t be won by a democrat.
I think it is interesting that some agree more with Bernie than they do with Hillary, but support Hillary because they think she is more likely to win. There is value in being pragmatic, not to mention supporting the first potential woman president. Perhaps, though, there is even a higher value in supporting and voting for the candidate whose views most align with our own.
Hillary is a fraud. So many are fooled by the Clinton’s.
I’m an independent and an ABC kinda guy (Anyone But Clinton). Bernie is, and has been, the anti-politician, not afraid to tell the truth as he sees it. If I were keen on voting for the first woman president, I’d be disappointed – Elizabeth Warren, a better candidate than Bernie (or Hillary), is not running. Sanders cannot win the nomination, the Democratic machine will grind him up and spit him out in favor of her inevitableness.
Sanders has been unabashedly independent and socialist, I wish he were running as a third party candidate – he’d get my vote. And to those Democrats who swoon with the vapors at the thought of a Democratic candidate who is not Hillary, get a grip. As Nintzel says, it is far to early in the season to declare a winner and there is at least an even chance that Clinton’s candidacy will deflate in the coming months as she is pressed on her vote in favor of Bush’s invasion of Iraq, her ties to Wall Street and her indefensible use of a private email server as SOS. She is vulnerable. Oh, and as a presidential candidate what was her position again on the recent free trade agreement? Bernie and a lot of Democrats came out in force against it. Hillary refused to take a stand.
The question for Democrats today is, if not Hillary or Bernie, than who? Think hard, you might have to come up with a viable candidate on the left side of the issues.
Rick Spanier, you underestimate Bernie. So does Nate Silver.
I’m afraid you and others have over estimated Bernie Sanders.
Coming from the horse’s mouth, Sanders views on economics and class warfare echo the works of Marx, Lenin, and pretty much any other socialists populist leader you can think of. If Sanders secures the Democratic nomination, we are going to hear harsher rhetoric than Obama’s “if you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that, somebody else did…” statement, Sanders is not afraid to be open with his agenda.
You see, socialism is the politics of envy. The problem isn’t the unequal distribution of wealth, because honestly, why do you care if someone makes MORE money than you, as long as you have the potential to earn MORE money?
Read more: http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/top-five-dumbest-quotes-from-socialist-presidential-candidate-bernie-sanders/2/#ixzz3hOTsS9Ic
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“What we are saying to the billionaire class is that their greed is going to have to end and we are going to end it for them!”
Bernie needs to stop judging others thoughts that he does not know. What makes him think billionaires are greedy, their level of success?
What a failure of cognitive thought Bernie. he just wants to spend their money.
And that my friends is envy.
I believe Bernie Sanders wants the opportunity to continue the work undertaken 82 years ago when Franklin Roosevelt, Frances Perkins and others allied with them set out to ‘make a country in which no one is left out’, as FDR wrote to Perkins before his inauguration. His views are in much closer conformity to those espoused by popes from Leo XIII to Francis than to those of Marx, Engel and Lenin.
Please, please nominate Bernie. George McGovern repeat ( without the McGovern military service)
Carly Fiorina is a better candidate than Hillary or Elizabeth ( ” I’m part Cherokee”) Warren. Of course conservative women don’t count as real women to progressive TW readers. Ben Carson is a fine candidate but we know that any conservative black is a ” sell out” in the liberal mindset.
Even if he was raised in a Detroit ghetto by a single mom and became a world renowned pediatric neurosurgeon, he is still an evil Republican.
Oh yeah, I remember Carly Fiorina. She’s the one who put my employer, Lucent, into the crapper before she moved on to HP to do the same. Please, please nominate Carly.
…and I am not even a Fiorina fan…but come on.
Lucent reported a stream of great results beginning in 1996, after Fiorina, who had been a vice-president at AT&T T 0.03% , helped oversee the company’s spin-off from Ma Bell. By the time she left to run HP in 1999 revenues were up 58%, to $38 billion. Net income went from a small loss to $4.8 billion profit. Giddy investors bid up Lucent’s stock 10-fold. And unlike HP, where Fiorina instituted large layoffs—a fact Senator Boxer loves to mention whenever possible—Lucent added 22,000 jobs during Fiorina’s tenure.
Like I said, Rat, I worked at Lucent … from the day it opened to the days it circled the drain. This was a great company until Fiorina and company decided to cook the books to wow the stockholders (and the BOD). If you liked Enron, you had to love Lucent in its decline. There were others running the show before Fiorina responsible for the profits (on paper) she claims. She was an unmitigated disaster.
But we agree on Hillary.
I didn’t think anybody was more elusive with the truth than Hillary. Except Bill.
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2015/07/29/author-on-bill-clinton-he-has-a-blonde-busty-mistress/
And just maybe she is a party to the goings on and they are both lying to us.
I did find this interesting:
How could a large successful American company with such powerful fundamental research and technology disintegrate so quickly? And how could Wall Street pundits not see it coming?
Lucent’s story exposes a national affliction destroying America’s future. It speaks to the contemporary American world, a harbinger of many other company futures. Perhaps the global future.
No analysis to date fully describes the forces that drove Lucent to the brink. Some illuminating articles did probe aspects of the situation (for example, http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/07/07/345538/index.htm , as well as the book: Optical Illusions ). But they didn’t reveal the entire real dirty story.
Retrospective interest focused on the Lucent accounting events, the financial reporting fiascoes, and executive actions during the last brief critical period, and not the longer-term underlying problems that guaranteed Lucent’s ultimate demise. Optical Illusions would have one believe it was the transmission product area failure to deliver the needed products. But that simply attempted to shift responsibility away from Wall Street and McGinn.
In key respects, what happened to Lucent and AT&T mirrors cultural, political and social shifts that were occurring in the U. S. at the same time. If there are lessons to be learned, it is that America is changing for the worse, and is losing its ability to cultivate talented, dedicated engineers and scientists. It is losing its nurturing, supportive managers, and the corporate cultures that inspire true invention and innovation.
Companies can no longer afford the luxury of big science and long term research and development projects. Conditions are progressively deteriorated over time. With every transition, the changes become more destructive……
The commercial real estate bubble resulted in the Resolution Trust Corporation Savings and Loan bail-out that cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. The Clinton era Telecom Reform Act of 1996 fueled the dotcom bubble that led to Lucent’s demise. Clinton era legislation deregulating banking and investment fueled the subsequent mortgage bubble. Subprime only contributed to the problem slightly.
http://usphoenix.net/science,%20technology/what_really_happened_to_lucent_t.htm
if socialism is such a joke, why is it working quite well in denmark, norway, sweden, switzerland, finland, belgium, netherlands, germany, france, england, ireland, new zealand, australia, and canada. ask those countries what they think of their socialistic ideas, and values. you might also ask how happy they are, as in polls all rank higher in general happiness than we do. could that be because thanks to socialism all have healthcare as a right, and most have free education. FEEL THE BERN
He speaks the truth I love to hear and dream of becoming reality. Socialism is not a dirty word It is only feared and ridiculed by those who would use public funds (our hard earned funds) for their own gain instead of the betterment of all United States citizens, rich or poor. “Bring me your tired your poor your teeming masses yearning to breathe free” sound familiar> That’s part of the inscription on the Statue of Liberty where most of our great grandparents and grandparents passed by on their journey to this country to improve their lives and in so doing, the lives of each of us! They were not offered a handout but worked diligently to make their lives better and our government better by passing “socialist” laws like Social Security, Medicare, Disability assistance, food stamp assistance and the myriad of other services any country should provide for the health and well being of its citizens without regard to race, religion or economic status.
Hey Larry
You think it might be because we have to play “policeman of the world” and shoulder most of the free world defense costs. Of course the countries that you mentioned have more money for social programs. We are still in Korea 60 years later. Germany also.
This is starting to change however and we will see how our friends do with weak militaries and no personal gun ownership when Putin or China or ISIS make their moves.
I was going to ask this question but what’s the point? Chris Matthews couldn’t get an answer.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/07/30/dnc-chair-grilled-on-msnbc-whats-the-difference-between-a-democrat-and-a-socialist/
TRUMP/NUGENT 2016 !
Change is coming.
What about the billionaire class, David W? If you were really in favor of a free market (a fiction of course to those who know the foundations of capital growth) you would oppose the shameless grab for the reigns of power by the Kochs and other billionaires to promote corporate welfare, off-shoring of American jobs, off-shoring of corporate profits, unfettered destruction and degradation of public resources, and the socialization of costs like the Waltons putting all their employees on welfare while privatizing their profits.
As you say “What makes him think billionaires are greedy? … He just wants to spend their money.” Bernie’s retort would be, ‘It is ALL Their money’ since “99 percent of percent of profit growth is going to the top 1%”
The vast majority of the public has a problem with the direction of this Country and economy. And “envy” isnt the word for working 2 or 3 jobs and not getting out of poverty.
Don’t vote for who you think will win. Vote for who you believe in. I’m voting for Bernie.
Josh I see you missed the expiration date on your talking points. Kochs don’t have any more votes than you and a spouse. I believe they are brothers. Walmart raised pay and added health insurance. Your Congressman is responsible for corporate welfare. So is President Obama. Ever hear of solar panel debacles? Unions, and benefits ran many jobs offshore. Just take a look at pension plans. The government is the only one offering them. They have to use our infrastructure repair money to fund them, so expect bridges to fall down. Did I mention we adopted Mexico?…. and global warming is a lie.
Working two or three jobs sounds like numerous diagnosed and undiagnosed problems. Would that be 2.5 hours per job per day? They do need some professional counseling.
Next time check the date on the bottom. That stuff is spoiled.
Thank You David W.
It’s in my jeans. Can’t help it.
Yes thanks David. You have “Trumped” me. I cant respond (politely) to an incoherent stream that includes calling an established scientific theory “a lie”.
But I can highlight a few economic facts: Since 1979 worker productivity has grown 800 percent more than wages. That means that workers are producing more and pay is scarcely reflecting that. As Bernie says, “99 percent of new profits are going to the top %1” Here is the graph showing the huge growth in profits for the top %1 since 1949: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/01/26/how-the-1-percent-won-the-last-several-decades-in-almost-every-state/
If you look closely, since 2009 actually more than 100% has gone to the one-percenters since everyone else has lost income! Is this just the way the “free market” works, or is there some institutional advantage that the corporations have extracted from us thru government policy and regulation (corporate welfare)?
These are issues that the American Public and Bernie Sanders both care about.
For your edification, here are 12 steps that Bernie Sanders would take – Measures that the public approves, on average, by over 70%:
1. Rebuild our crumbling infrastructure
2. Reverse climate change
3. Create worker co-ops
4. Grow the trade union movement
5. Raise the minimum wage to a $15 living wage
6. Pay equity for women
7. Trade policies that benefit American workers
8. Make public universities tuition-free (paid-for by enacting a financial transaction tax on Wall Street trades), and lower interest rates on current federal student loans
9. Break up the big banks
10. Medicare for all
11. Expand Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and nutrition programs
12. Crack down on offshore tax havens, return to a progressive tax code, and eliminate corporate tax loopholes
Not enough time in the day. Russia has made great progress on many of those, but they still wait in line for meat and bread. Bus leaves in an hour.
You can join society or oppose it. Still a free country, if you’re a 99%er huh?
13. Confiscate the individual retirement accounts of all Americans and redistribute the money more fairly. It is the last great pool of wealth which can be grabbed to help with our 18.4 trillion dollar debt.
14. Keep blaming the wealthy for all of our societal ills. ( You can tax them at 100 per cent and it would
not make a dent in our debt)
!5. Send all of us problem types who won’t buy into man made climate change, give up our guns, or live with even bigger central government off to a happy place to get re-educated.
16. Teach the militant Muslim extremists the lyrics to John Lennon’s “Imagine and “Give Peace a Chance” That way after Bernie disarms the homeland we can trust them not to behead us.
Maybe handing out “co-exist” bumper stickers would calm them down too.
We will be part of the Soros one world government with the U.N. handling everything, so we really won’t need a military anyway.
Josh you might want to check out the 1958 Communist Agenda. The similarities are eerie.
I don’t understand most of your anti socialism rhetoric. First off he isn’t a socialist, he is a democratic socialist. You are already in the midst of it, you pay for cops, firemen, roads.
What he means, is that the wealthiest among us need to pay their fair share. It is not right that GE paid zero taxes but got a tax return over 3 billion.
http://www.trueactivist.com/18-ceos-called-out-by-bernie-sanders-for-taking-trillions-in-bailouts-evading-taxes-and-outsourcing-jobs