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Sanders 2020

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Donkees

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Sun Mar 15, 2020, 11:47 AM Mar 2020

Bernie Sanders: Coronavirus highlights the flaws in our health care and economic systems [View all]

Opinion by Bernie Sanders
Sun March 15, 2020

Excerpt:

Finally, from a national security perspective, it is incomprehensible that we are dependent on China and other countries for masks, prescription drugs, surgical gloves, and medical equipment like ventilators.

As a result of globalization and our disastrous trade policies — which I have opposed — we have been outsourcing millions of jobs and factories overseas that have gutted our economy. Now we are seeing another tragic and devastating result of those policies, as we find ourselves dependent on other countries to provide the most essential things that we need to combat a pandemic and protect American lives.

Trade is a good thing, but it must protect American workers and protect our national security so that we can produce what we need in the event of a national crisis. That means we must enact fair trade policies that bring production and manufacturing back to the United States, so that we are never in this vulnerable position again.

The days ahead will be difficult and challenging. As we take urgent short-term measures to address the immediate emergency, we must put in place these far-reaching policies to fundamentally transform our country for the better.

That is what our presidential campaign has been all about — and that is what our whole country must be about in the months ahead.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/15/opinions/bernie-sanders-opinion-coronavirus-health-care-economic-system-flaws/index.html

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