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cliffside

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Fri Mar 28, 2025, 10:52 PM Mar 2025

Bernie Sanders - From the Senate Floor: Where do we go from here? [View all]



Below is from the transcript starting at 16 minutes ... click on more in the description, then "show transcript"

"16:01
need mr president we don't talk about it
16:03
too much maybe we
16:06
should but there are three Wall Street
16:09
firms Black Rockck Vanguard and State
16:12
Street that
16:14
combined are the major stockholders in
16:18
95% of our corporations got that three
16:22
Wall Street firms three are the major
16:26
stockholders in 95% of American
16:31
corporations so Mr president that is one
16:34
America people on top doing phenomenally
16:37
well not only do they have economic
16:41
power they have enormous political
16:44
power that's what's going on there they
16:47
live like kings that's one America but
16:50
there is another America
16:53
and in that other America 60%
16:58
60% of our people are living paycheck to
17:02
paycheck"

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