One of the most horrifying examples of poverty I've seen in front of me was the kids sleeping on the bridge over the Rio Grande. They weren't begging for anything, they were only trying to get some sleep and had nowhere else to go.
Apparently some think this is different from living in some rundown tenement in New York or in the mining regions of Appalachia ... or many other places people can so easily and blithely ignore.
When Bernie Speaks on Poverty in McDowell County, WV, we know he speaks the truth.
We don't need sentimental smokescreens and we damn sure do not need business as usual. Those kids won't last long enough, they never do.
As Sanders observes, the life expectancy between rich counties and poor ones differs by as much as eighteen years.
The rich will take their money at the expense of eighteen years of life for these people who were crushed by this economic system and still the richies manage to sleep at night. We don't want to know how they do it, we're stunned they can even consider it.
Oh, oh, taxes are too high, it costs too much. What would you pay for eighteen more years of life. Apparently most of you already did and there is little evidence many have any concern whatsoever about those who did not.
We want someone who sees the problem and will do something about it. This has gone on far, far too long already. The problem isn't as racist as it seems as there are enormous numbers of white people in deep poverty as well. It shouldn't make any difference but many of those children are white.
For me it makes no difference what you do and my major concern is what you will do for them. I'm not going to make it but they will ... if you just help them a little bit. It doesn't even take that much and the arithmetic has been done multiple times for how the poverty of the entire world could be eliminated with only a relatively-small reduction in military spending.
But we need to spend more than the next fifteen countries in aggregate because we're afraid ... of something. No-one is even really sure what it is. They're just afraid of something and they need all those things ... only to remain just as afraid as they were so they keep making more. The problem isn't the military but rather the fear which is never satisfied no matter how much is spent.
Apparently some think this is different from living in some rundown tenement in New York or in the mining regions of Appalachia ... or many other places people can so easily and blithely ignore.
When Bernie Speaks on Poverty in McDowell County, WV, we know he speaks the truth.
We don't need sentimental smokescreens and we damn sure do not need business as usual. Those kids won't last long enough, they never do.
As Sanders observes, the life expectancy between rich counties and poor ones differs by as much as eighteen years.
The rich will take their money at the expense of eighteen years of life for these people who were crushed by this economic system and still the richies manage to sleep at night. We don't want to know how they do it, we're stunned they can even consider it.
Oh, oh, taxes are too high, it costs too much. What would you pay for eighteen more years of life. Apparently most of you already did and there is little evidence many have any concern whatsoever about those who did not.
We want someone who sees the problem and will do something about it. This has gone on far, far too long already. The problem isn't as racist as it seems as there are enormous numbers of white people in deep poverty as well. It shouldn't make any difference but many of those children are white.
For me it makes no difference what you do and my major concern is what you will do for them. I'm not going to make it but they will ... if you just help them a little bit. It doesn't even take that much and the arithmetic has been done multiple times for how the poverty of the entire world could be eliminated with only a relatively-small reduction in military spending.
But we need to spend more than the next fifteen countries in aggregate because we're afraid ... of something. No-one is even really sure what it is. They're just afraid of something and they need all those things ... only to remain just as afraid as they were so they keep making more. The problem isn't the military but rather the fear which is never satisfied no matter how much is spent.
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