Bernie Sanders Sanders: US unable to feed its children

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Poverty has spread as the collapse and fall of the American repulic/Juggernaut intensifies. This can be seen throughout the nation in the growing homeless, mounting hungry, exploding unemployed, and the insurrection that is brewing……..

Independent US Senator Bernie Sanders: “You don’t necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different pairs of sneakers when children are hungry in this country.”

Sanders: US has to reduce income inequality

Independent US Senator Bernie Sanders who announced his bid for the White House last month has called for action to reduce widening income inequality, saying the United States is unable to feed its children because of this problem.

In an interview with CNBC on Monday, Sanders said that the wealthiest Americans must pay more taxes, adding that he was willing to sacrifice economic growth in order to decrease the wealth gap between the rich and poor.

“You can’t just continue growth for the sake of growth in a world in which we are struggling with climate change and all kinds of environmental problems,” he said.
“You don’t necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different pairs of sneakers when children are hungry in this country,” he added.

The US economy plunged into the Great Recession in December of 2007. Nearly 9 million people lost their jobs over the next two years. The recovery over the past seven years has been weak and the country’s job growth erratic and uneven.

According to a study by Harvard University, the growing income inequality in the US between the richest Americans and the middle and lower classes is “unsustainable” and may worsen.

The study, released in September last year by the Harvard Business School and titled “An Economy Doing Half its Job”, highlighted problems with the widening US wealth gap, education system, transport infrastructure, and the effectiveness of the political system.

Sanders, 73, announced on April 28 that he was running for the White House as a Democrat, providing Hillary Clinton with her first official rival for the Democratic Party’s nomination….More Here

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