Bernie Sanders - From the Senate Floor: Where do we go from here?

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2. A little more "and on Mr Musk, I must thank him, because he has made it very clear we are living in an oligarchic ..."

Sanders had made this point before, equating addition to drugs, alcohol etc with addiction to money/power.


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so I think the bottom line of all this
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the American people I think are catching
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on and Mr musk I must thank him because
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he has made it very
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clear we are living in an oligarchic
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form of society if anybody out there
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thinks that Mr musk is running around
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out of the goodness of his heart trying
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to make our government more efficient
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you have not a clue as to what is going
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on
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what these guys want to do is destroy
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virtually every federal
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program that impacts the well-being of
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working people social security Medicare
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postal service public education you name
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it so they can get huge tax breaks for
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the rich and eventually make government
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so inefficient that they will have the
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ability as large corporations to come in
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and privatize everything that is going
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on
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so Mr president this is a pivotal moment
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in American history and I sense that the
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American people have had it up to here
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they are prepared to fight back they do
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not want a government run by
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billionaires who have it all whose greed
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is
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uncontrollable you know we have in
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Vermont and I think all over this
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country serious problem with addiction
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with drugs people drinking too much
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alcohol people smoking too many
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cigarettes but the worst form of
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addiction that this country now
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faces is the
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greed of the
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oligarchy you might think that if you
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had 10 20 billion dollars it would be
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enough you know kind of enough to let
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your family live for the next 20
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generations but it's not for whatever
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reason whatever compulsive reason they
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have these guys want more and more and
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more and they are prepared to destroy
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social security
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Medicare nutrition programs for hungry
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people in order to get even more that to
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me is disgusting so Mr president we are
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at a pivotal moment in American history..."