Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Filibusters Tax Cuts
articles.latimes.com New TYT Network channels: www.youtube.com www.youtube.com New TYT Facebook Page(!): www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com www.theyoungturks.com DISCOUNTS: www.theyoungturks.com FREE Movies(!): www.netflix.com Note: The above two links are for TYT sponsors. Read Ana’s blog and subscribe at: www.examiner.com TYT Network (new WTF?! channel): www.youtube.com Check Out TYT Interviews www.youtube.com Reporting from Washington — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has ended a marathon filibuster of the proposed tax compromise, ceding control of the Senate floor after more than 8 1 hours. “It has been a very long day,” he said as he concluded his remarks, including a five-hour period in which he spoke without interruption. “I do believe that if the American people stand up … I think we can defeat this proposal. I think we can come up with a better proposal which better reflects the needs of the middle class.” Sanders, who caucuses with the Democrats, took to the floor at 10:25 am EST Friday to “take a strong stand” against the legislation, which was formally introduced Thursday night. When he yielded the floor at 7 pm, a period in which he spoke for all but approximately 80 minutes, deferring to supportive colleagues “I’m not here to set any great records or to make a spectacle,” he said at the start of his effort. “I am simply here today to take as long as I can to explain to the American people the fact that we have got to do a lot better than this …
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Comment by MPA34 on 20 December 2010:
Anyone else want Sanders in the White House?
Comment by ReiMurasame on 20 December 2010:
@satarnag Why? What is the point of government in your view?
Comment by dkkght46 on 20 December 2010:
President Obama successfully whips Dem caucus to endorse Bush tax policy. LMAO. So after all the class-warfare rhetoric & hating rich people thing, the Dems sided with George W Bush afterall. Hope & Change…..had enough yet?
Comment by thundavolt on 20 December 2010:
@soonerdave01 There’s no failure there. He achieved total control of so many people by promising them freedom. Your inability to acknowledge this is a failure. Are you telling me there is no truth in the an approach this man used successfully? He is more honest than Ron Paul. He even pointed out that to become rich you just need to stat your own religion. Simple straight forward and no appealing to individual ever changing desires.
Comment by PaleoNychus on 20 December 2010:
Wait!! A Real Fillibuster?! With the standing up and talking for hours! I never thought I would actually see that. This is freaking awesome.
Comment by LibertyDownUnder on 20 December 2010:
@Metalmeltdown1000, I totally agree, but this does not contradict what I said.
Comment by Metalmeltdown1000 on 20 December 2010:
@LibertyDownUnder
Goldman Sachs cooked the books for the previous Greek Government and hid their debt by buying mortgage backed securities and american T-Bills in order for them to join the EU and when the shit finally hit the fan in the US banking system their treasury which had been in the red for decades was nearly wiped out leading to a near total ecomonic collapse.
So Goldman Sachs played a much greater roll in the Greek economic disaster than most americans would like to admit.
Comment by watermelonygoodness on 20 December 2010:
@LibertyDownUnder Unions should be able to push them around and tell them what to do. Workers ARE the corporation. Without them the entire thing will collapse because no one will do the work. I will send you a link to a list of companies that operate democratically. Tell these people what they’re doing isn’t working.
Comment by watermelonygoodness on 20 December 2010:
@LibertyDownUnder Furthermore, how is recognizing workers’ rights demonizing corporations? It sounds like you are the one who is demonizing the laborers. They have rights like everyone else and one of those rights is the ability to preserve their interests and dignity.
Comment by watermelonygoodness on 20 December 2010:
@LibertyDownUnder The system I am describing does not exist so don’t tell me France and Spain have this system and it doesn’t work; no one has this system.
Comment by DisturbedHavok on 20 December 2010:
@specificgravity Yes, because a bunch of people screaming that Obama is a socialist Commie Nazi, are adults. The adults stayed home because a vast majority of the shit we voted Democrats into office to do, didn’t get done. Why? Because they let the Republicans in the Senate push them around (the House could get shit done).
Sorry, but Republicans are children. When you block to support 9/11 First Responders because the rich haven’t gotten their tax cuts yet – you’re a child.
Comment by LibertyDownUnder on 20 December 2010:
@watermelonygoodness, France & Spain run very similar systems. It doesn’t work.
People refuse to open businesses and hire, as they know that unions will push them around and tell them what to do.
Demonising corporations and at the same time wanting them to hire more people & grow – makes no sense.
Corporations have no power over you. The CEO of Wal Mart cannot kick you out of your house.
The only instance where they do – is when they collude with Government. But this is not a free market.
Comment by watermelonygoodness on 20 December 2010:
@LibertyDownUnder As you said before, it is troublesome to give all that control to one person. The only difference between you and I is that you think it’s wrong to give one person (or a small group of elitists) absolute power in society, but that somehow it becomes okay in a corporation. I believe it is wrong and begging for corruption in either case to leave all that authority in the hands of one individual.
Comment by watermelonygoodness on 20 December 2010:
@LibertyDownUnder Businesses should be run democratically, as society is. Workers must always have the right to unionize in order to represent themselves, and company profits should be divided equally among the laborers.
Comment by DrakeMagnum on 20 December 2010:
Bernie rocks so hard. I’ve never heard him say anything that didn’t make me want to clap for him.
Comment by PRIVATEAYEIEYE on 20 December 2010:
ATTABOY BERNIE!
Symbolic? Sure! Impotent? NO!
The most impotent symbolic gesture being made in Washinton DC these days is the President’s disasterous outreach to Republicans.
Comment by MyTemporaryAccount88 on 20 December 2010:
Watched part 1 yesterday, it was AWESOME.
Comment by LibertyDownUnder on 20 December 2010:
@watermelonygoodness, ok so how do you fix this?
Comment by watermelonygoodness on 20 December 2010:
@theaceofspades39 Ohhh, my bad. Misunderstanding. I definitely agree with you there.
Comment by theaceofspades39 on 20 December 2010:
@ColoradoRanger First off, the idea of “lazy welfare people” is just a straw man created by Conservatives as a talking point against welfare. Secondly, the rich man you mentioned got rich off of other people, there isn’t a way to earn millions of dollars by doing manual labor, making a product, etc. Therefore,morally it would be right to help others by donating some of his money back into the system. Unfortunately, most rich people hoard their money instead of helping others.
Comment by theaceofspades39 on 20 December 2010:
@watermelonygoodness no I meant that Stalin was a dictator REAL socialism is not run by a single person, it is run by the whole community (as in the root commune i.e. communism)
Comment by watermelonygoodness on 20 December 2010:
@LibertyDownUnder …conditions, and are underpaid. They do so because they have no other options, just as a prostitute does what she does often because she does not have other options. I’m not calling it what I want to, I’m calling it what it is. It’s exploitation.
Comment by watermelonygoodness on 20 December 2010:
@LibertyDownUnder Let me put it to you this way. If a woman is homeless and starving, and a pimp takes her in, beats her and forces her to work in degrading, unsafe conditions, but at the end of the day she gets to keep a small portion of what she makes and is no longer starving. Would you not call that exploitative? That is the exact same thing large corporations do overseas. The reality of sweatshop labor is that the workers are mistreated, abused, forced to work in hazardous…
Comment by watermelonygoodness on 20 December 2010:
@LibertyDownUnder The rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer is not a solution.
Comment by videobookoftruth on 20 December 2010:
Yut it is the new Republican president hey Obama we welcome you and love you screw the dems thank you so much for our rich cuts. From a republican that loves ya my pocket fills you and your fellow republican Friends bless you! I think I am going to build a second movie theater in my guest home with the cuts.