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Bernie Sanders

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Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Bernie Sanders Rips DC Corruption, The Israel Lobby, & Reveals How Billionaires Buy Politicians

Someday you can be a multi-billionaire. Is that where we want to go as a nation? And what's the alternative?

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Bernie Sanders Rips DC Corruption, The Israel Lobby, & Reveals How Billionaires Buy Politicians

is what the melting pot city, in a sense, where my father came from Poland. He dropped out of school at 14. He came here at the age of 17, really incredible, without any money. All right, and that's the story of millions and millions of families. We all came different ways. But what I'm getting at is should the goalβ€”and everybody wants to live comfortably, right? Yes, absolutely.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Bernie Sanders Rips DC Corruption, The Israel Lobby, & Reveals How Billionaires Buy Politicians

is what the melting pot city, in a sense, where my father came from Poland. He dropped out of school at 14. He came here at the age of 17, really incredible, without any money. All right, and that's the story of millions and millions of families. We all came different ways. But what I'm getting at is should the goalβ€”and everybody wants to live comfortably, right? Yes, absolutely.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Bernie Sanders Rips DC Corruption, The Israel Lobby, & Reveals How Billionaires Buy Politicians

is what the melting pot city, in a sense, where my father came from Poland. He dropped out of school at 14. He came here at the age of 17, really incredible, without any money. All right, and that's the story of millions and millions of families. We all came different ways. But what I'm getting at is should the goalβ€”and everybody wants to live comfortably, right? Yes, absolutely.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Bernie Sanders Rips DC Corruption, The Israel Lobby, & Reveals How Billionaires Buy Politicians

There's nothing to be ashamed of. You don't have to worry about whether you can pay the electric bill. You want to make sure your kids get an education. Absolutely. All right. But does the culture have to suggest that to be a success, you need to be a billionaire? What I'm getting at is, you know, I'm the former chairman of a committee that deals with all this stuff.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Bernie Sanders Rips DC Corruption, The Israel Lobby, & Reveals How Billionaires Buy Politicians

There's nothing to be ashamed of. You don't have to worry about whether you can pay the electric bill. You want to make sure your kids get an education. Absolutely. All right. But does the culture have to suggest that to be a success, you need to be a billionaire? What I'm getting at is, you know, I'm the former chairman of a committee that deals with all this stuff.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Bernie Sanders Rips DC Corruption, The Israel Lobby, & Reveals How Billionaires Buy Politicians

There's nothing to be ashamed of. You don't have to worry about whether you can pay the electric bill. You want to make sure your kids get an education. Absolutely. All right. But does the culture have to suggest that to be a success, you need to be a billionaire? What I'm getting at is, you know, I'm the former chairman of a committee that deals with all this stuff.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Bernie Sanders Rips DC Corruption, The Israel Lobby, & Reveals How Billionaires Buy Politicians

So we don't have enough doctors in America. We don't have enough nurses. We don't have enough dentists. I brought in several billion dollars into the state of Vermont for infrastructure to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure. We did that all over America. We don't have enough construction workers who make good money, by the way. You want to be a sheet metal worker. You want to be a welder.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Bernie Sanders Rips DC Corruption, The Israel Lobby, & Reveals How Billionaires Buy Politicians

So we don't have enough doctors in America. We don't have enough nurses. We don't have enough dentists. I brought in several billion dollars into the state of Vermont for infrastructure to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure. We did that all over America. We don't have enough construction workers who make good money, by the way. You want to be a sheet metal worker. You want to be a welder.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Bernie Sanders Rips DC Corruption, The Israel Lobby, & Reveals How Billionaires Buy Politicians

So we don't have enough doctors in America. We don't have enough nurses. We don't have enough dentists. I brought in several billion dollars into the state of Vermont for infrastructure to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure. We did that all over America. We don't have enough construction workers who make good money, by the way. You want to be a sheet metal worker. You want to be a welder.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Bernie Sanders Rips DC Corruption, The Israel Lobby, & Reveals How Billionaires Buy Politicians

You want to be an electrician. You want to be a – we don't have enough. What I'm saying is I would like to see us say, you want to make America great? Good. Dude, I want to have doctors so you can have to wait two months to get into a doctor's office.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Bernie Sanders Rips DC Corruption, The Israel Lobby, & Reveals How Billionaires Buy Politicians

You want to be an electrician. You want to be a – we don't have enough. What I'm saying is I would like to see us say, you want to make America great? Good. Dude, I want to have doctors so you can have to wait two months to get into a doctor's office.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Bernie Sanders Rips DC Corruption, The Israel Lobby, & Reveals How Billionaires Buy Politicians

You want to be an electrician. You want to be a – we don't have enough. What I'm saying is I would like to see us say, you want to make America great? Good. Dude, I want to have doctors so you can have to wait two months to get into a doctor's office.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Bernie Sanders Rips DC Corruption, The Israel Lobby, & Reveals How Billionaires Buy Politicians

And then you go even deeper than that. And that is, I mean, now you're going really deep, is you get into the issue of human happiness. All right. These guys sit in Wall Street. They get up, you know, four o'clock in the morning to see what the stock market is in Japan. And they make zillions of dollars doing crap. I mean, what's the usefulness of the society? Yeah.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Bernie Sanders Rips DC Corruption, The Israel Lobby, & Reveals How Billionaires Buy Politicians

And then you go even deeper than that. And that is, I mean, now you're going really deep, is you get into the issue of human happiness. All right. These guys sit in Wall Street. They get up, you know, four o'clock in the morning to see what the stock market is in Japan. And they make zillions of dollars doing crap. I mean, what's the usefulness of the society? Yeah.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Bernie Sanders Rips DC Corruption, The Israel Lobby, & Reveals How Billionaires Buy Politicians

And then you go even deeper than that. And that is, I mean, now you're going really deep, is you get into the issue of human happiness. All right. These guys sit in Wall Street. They get up, you know, four o'clock in the morning to see what the stock market is in Japan. And they make zillions of dollars doing crap. I mean, what's the usefulness of the society? Yeah.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Bernie Sanders Rips DC Corruption, The Israel Lobby, & Reveals How Billionaires Buy Politicians

And you got a kindergarten teacher here in New York City. Who is nurturing and making life better for some low-income kid, right? Yeah. Who's doing more important work?

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Bernie Sanders Rips DC Corruption, The Israel Lobby, & Reveals How Billionaires Buy Politicians

And you got a kindergarten teacher here in New York City. Who is nurturing and making life better for some low-income kid, right? Yeah. Who's doing more important work?

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Bernie Sanders Rips DC Corruption, The Israel Lobby, & Reveals How Billionaires Buy Politicians

And you got a kindergarten teacher here in New York City. Who is nurturing and making life better for some low-income kid, right? Yeah. Who's doing more important work?

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Bernie Sanders Rips DC Corruption, The Israel Lobby, & Reveals How Billionaires Buy Politicians

That's exactly the question I want. I want, I mean, again, getting to the, it seems to me, you know, you talk to, I'll tell you something. We do a thing in Vermont. It's called the Burning Buzz. It's a newsletter that goes out. Did a interview with a woman who works in a nursing home. God knows what she makes. It's not a lot of money.