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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

And also, and then getting back to economics, is we are looking at a nation today, not only with massive income and wealth inequality, but incredible concentration of ownership. Want to hear a fact? Yeah. You got three Wall Street investment firms BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard. Vanguard, yes. Who combined are the major stockholders in 95% of the corporations in America.

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

And also, and then getting back to economics, is we are looking at a nation today, not only with massive income and wealth inequality, but incredible concentration of ownership. Want to hear a fact? Yeah. You got three Wall Street investment firms BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard. Vanguard, yes. Who combined are the major stockholders in 95% of the corporations in America.

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

Go look at your favorite corporation, see who owns it. It'll be one of those. Who's the major stockholder? They'll be there. What do you think about that? That's power. What is the impact of that? How does that power wield? It means that you have three entities with boards of directors who have significant control of every major corporation in America. What that means is, do they stay in America?

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

Go look at your favorite corporation, see who owns it. It'll be one of those. Who's the major stockholder? They'll be there. What do you think about that? That's power. What is the impact of that? How does that power wield? It means that you have three entities with boards of directors who have significant control of every major corporation in America. What that means is, do they stay in America?

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

Go look at your favorite corporation, see who owns it. It'll be one of those. Who's the major stockholder? They'll be there. What do you think about that? That's power. What is the impact of that? How does that power wield? It means that you have three entities with boards of directors who have significant control of every major corporation in America. What that means is, do they stay in America?

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

Do they go abroad? Do they pay their workers a decent wage or do they treat them like crap? That's what it means.

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

Do they go abroad? Do they pay their workers a decent wage or do they treat them like crap? That's what it means.

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

Do they go abroad? Do they pay their workers a decent wage or do they treat them like crap? That's what it means.

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

That's right. That's your retirement goes into Vanguard. But that's one thing. But the other thing is that Vanguard, State Street and BlackRock have enormous economic power, which is not a good thing. And they're not using it benevolently. They're not. They're using it to make more money. So the issue is that we got to take a look at.

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

That's right. That's your retirement goes into Vanguard. But that's one thing. But the other thing is that Vanguard, State Street and BlackRock have enormous economic power, which is not a good thing. And they're not using it benevolently. They're not. They're using it to make more money. So the issue is that we got to take a look at.

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

That's right. That's your retirement goes into Vanguard. But that's one thing. But the other thing is that Vanguard, State Street and BlackRock have enormous economic power, which is not a good thing. And they're not using it benevolently. They're not. They're using it to make more money. So the issue is that we got to take a look at.

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

is we ought to ask questions that I got to tell you in Congress is very rarely asked and in the media is very rarely asked. In the wealthiest country on earth, should everybody have a decent standard of living? Americans, yes and no. Some people will say, no, hey, it's a tough world out there. I'm sorry. I'm smarter than you. I work harder. My dad gave me a lot of money. You don't have it.

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

is we ought to ask questions that I got to tell you in Congress is very rarely asked and in the media is very rarely asked. In the wealthiest country on earth, should everybody have a decent standard of living? Americans, yes and no. Some people will say, no, hey, it's a tough world out there. I'm sorry. I'm smarter than you. I work harder. My dad gave me a lot of money. You don't have it.

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

is we ought to ask questions that I got to tell you in Congress is very rarely asked and in the media is very rarely asked. In the wealthiest country on earth, should everybody have a decent standard of living? Americans, yes and no. Some people will say, no, hey, it's a tough world out there. I'm sorry. I'm smarter than you. I work harder. My dad gave me a lot of money. You don't have it.

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

Tough crap. At least they're honest. Yeah, that's what some people will say. Most people will not say that. Most people will say, you know what? Yeah, I don't think anybody should be sleeping out on the street. I don't think anybody should not be able to go to a doctor. That's what most people will say. Okay? What does that mean in terms of practical politics?

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

Tough crap. At least they're honest. Yeah, that's what some people will say. Most people will not say that. Most people will say, you know what? Yeah, I don't think anybody should be sleeping out on the street. I don't think anybody should not be able to go to a doctor. That's what most people will say. Okay? What does that mean in terms of practical politics?

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

Tough crap. At least they're honest. Yeah, that's what some people will say. Most people will not say that. Most people will say, you know what? Yeah, I don't think anybody should be sleeping out on the street. I don't think anybody should not be able to go to a doctor. That's what most people will say. Okay? What does that mean in terms of practical politics?

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

Uh, it means among other things that we need an educational system, which is very strong from childcare to graduate school. All right. You want to become, I know your dad wants you to become a doctor, but if you want to become a doctor, you may leave school half a million dollars in debt. You know that? Absolutely. All right. Does that make sense? We need doctors.

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

Uh, it means among other things that we need an educational system, which is very strong from childcare to graduate school. All right. You want to become, I know your dad wants you to become a doctor, but if you want to become a doctor, you may leave school half a million dollars in debt. You know that? Absolutely. All right. Does that make sense? We need doctors.

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

Uh, it means among other things that we need an educational system, which is very strong from childcare to graduate school. All right. You want to become, I know your dad wants you to become a doctor, but if you want to become a doctor, you may leave school half a million dollars in debt. You know that? Absolutely. All right. Does that make sense? We need doctors.