Where We Go From Here, by Bernie Sanders: on Budget & Economy


Bernie Sanders: 2016 election is about ending decline of the middle class

The election is about--and must be about--the needs of the American people, and the kind of future we create for our children and grandchildren. This election is about ending the forty-year decline of our middle class and the reality that 47 million men, women, and children live in poverty. It is about understanding that if we do not transform our economy, our younger generation will likely have a lower of standard of living than their parents.

This election is about ending the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality that we currently experience, the worst it has been since 1928. It is not moral, not acceptable, and not sustainable that the top one-tenth of one percent now own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent, or that the top 1 percent in recent years has earned 85 percent of all new income. That is unacceptable. That must change.

Source: Where We Go From Here, by Bernie Sanders, p.25 Jul 26, 2016

  • The above quotations are from Where We Go From Here
    Two Years in the Resistance,
    by Bernie Sanders    .
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2020 Presidential contenders on Budget & Economy:
  Republicans:
Gov.John Kasich(OH)
V.P.Mike Pence(IN)
Pres.Donald Trump(NY)
Gov.Bill Weld(MA) 		Democrats:
V.P.Joe Biden(DE)
Sen.Bernie Sanders(VT)
Sen.Elizabeth Warren(MA)

2020 Third Party Candidates:
Gov.Gary Johnson(L-NM)
Howard Schultz(I-WA)
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