Bernie Sanders to Billionaires: ''You Can't Have It All!''
Burlington, Vermont - The campaign signs all say: “Paid for by Bernie 2016 (Not the Billionaires).”
That is a given with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, the proud
democratic socialist who decries plutocracy and oligarchy and proposes
to tax Wall Street. Sanders is the presidential contender who is not
looking to win the favor of the hedge-fund managers, bankers and CEOs
who define and dominate American politics.
The whole point of the audacious bid that Sanders has now formally
launched for the Democratic presidential nomination is to upset the
calculus of American politics. “Today,” he declared at the opening of
Tuesday’s announcement address,
“we stand here and say loudly and clearly that; ‘Enough is enough. This
great nation and its government belong to all of the people, and not to
a handful of billionaires, their Super-PACs and their lobbyists.’”
Sen.Bernie Sanders speaks during a town hall event at Drake University in
Des Moines, Iowa, on Friday, February 20, 2015. (Photo: J. Alex Cooney/StumpSource.org)
