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US SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS Associated Press: Bernie Sanders speaks at May Day rally in Philadelphia PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPApG32-Nhk Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Senator Bernie Sanders earned my respect a long time ago ... but what Sanders is doing now, is 'off the charts GOOD'. I wish I was a whole lot younger with the energy to be helpful to someone like this Senator. Peter Burgess
Bernie Sanders speaks at May Day rally in Philadelphia Associated Press Streamed live on May 1, 2025 3.73M subscribers ... 26,692 views ... 1.5K likes #berniesanders #philadelphia Live from Philadelphia as Sen. Bernie Sanders attends a rally on May Day. Across continents, hundreds of thousands turned out for Thursday's rallies marking International Workers’ Day, many united in anger over President Donald Trump’s agenda — from aggressive tariffs stoking fears of global economic turmoil to immigration crackdowns. #berniesanders #philadelphia Credit: WPVI-TV/6ABC Transcript 0:00 so so much so I'm proud to introduce someone who always fights for the workers someone who understands solidarity because billionaires are afraid of solidarity we are proud to stand in solidarity with Bernie everyone please please help me welcome Senator Bernie Sanders thank you Philadelphia let 1:01 me let me thank all of you for coming out this afternoon let me thank Danny Bouter and the Philadelphia AFL CIO and let me thank all those who have spoken and will be speaking in a few moments brothers and sisters what we are celebrating today in Mayday is in a sense a sacred holiday and all over our country workers are coming out demanding justice and all over the world in dozens of countries workers are standing up to oligarchy and demanding a world in which all people have a decent standard of living 2:01 today we remember the struggles and the sacrifices of workers for hundreds of years who have stood up to powerful special interests to create a better world and today today we thank our brothers and sisters in the trade union movement for continuing that struggle mayday as you know was established way back in 1886 and workers then stood up to their very powerful bosses and said 'You know what we don't want to be slaves we don't want to work 60 70 hours a week we want an 8hour [Music] 3:01 day and throughout our history workers stood up and they said 'You know what children should not be working in factories or in the fields they should be in good schools and throughout the years workers said 'We don't want our brothers and sisters dying in factories we want safe working conditions.' And workers in the trade union said that when people work more than 40 hours a week as so many millions in our country do they deserve and must have time and a half and as a result of the struggles of the trade union movement we have come a long way not quite far enough to end discrimination so that all people have 4:01 an opportunity for a decent job no matter what the color of their skin where they were born or their sexual orientation and when we think about history I want you all to remember the fact that we have a social security system today which guarantees benefits to our older people and disabled did not happen by accident the trade union movement made it happen and the fact that senior citizens today through Medicare can get the health care they need did not happen by accident trade union workers made it happen and today the fact that millions of 5:00 lower income people and elderly people in nursing homes get supported by Medicaid did not happen by accident the trade union movement made it happen so my point is is that because of the trade union movement this country has come a long way over the last 150 years but let me tell you something that you're not going to see in corporate media and something that you're not going to hear much about on the halls of Congress and that is that while we have accomplished much we still have an enormously important road forward if we're going to create an economy that works for all of us not just a few so let us be clear and lay it out on 6:02 the table in the year 2025 in America we are now living in an oligarchic form of [Applause] [Music] society never before in our history have so few had so much wealth while so many Americans are struggling never before have so few had so much political power while millions of Americans no longer vote millions of others have given up on democracy because they look at government and they say 'Government is owned by billionaires you are not representing us you know a few years 7:01 ago when I talked about oligarchy people were saying 'Oh what is Bernie talking about?' Well Donald Trump has made it very clear what we are talking about when we talk about oligarchy oligarchi is a president who when he gets inaugurated he doesn't hide it hide it right behind him are the three wealthiest people in America Musk Bezos and Zuckerberg and right behind them are 13 other billionaires who he has appointed to head major government agencies [Applause] i think all of us remember all of us 8:02 remember that when Abraham Lincoln was in Gettysburg right here in Pennsylvania and he looked out at a battlefield where a few days before 20,000 Union soldiers had died or been wounded and he looked out and he said 'Our vision for the future of America is a government of the people by the people and for the people.' Well what everyone knows is that today we have a government of the billionaire class by the billionaire class and for the billionaire class and we will not allow that to continue 9:03 and let me be very clear these oligarchs these billionaires are not nice people they are incredibly greedy people you might think you might think that somebody who has 10 or 20 billion dollars might be content might think that's enough not these guys they want it all and they are prepared to destroy Social Security Medicare Medicaid nutrition programs in order to get more tax breaks for themselves [Applause] so today brothers and sisters we tell 10:00 these greedy oligarchs this country belongs to all of us not the billionaire class and let me tell you what is else that is going on in our country today today in the richest country in the history of the world 60% of our people are living paycheck to paycheck i grew up in a family that live paycheck to paycheck many of you are living paycheck to paycheck millions of people should not and will not live paycheck to paycheck in the richest country in the history of the [Applause] world today in America one man Elon Musk 11:04 owns more wealth than the bottom 52% of American households [Applause] today in America workingass people live 7 years shorter lives than the rich today in America the top 1% now owns more wealth than the bottom 93% and CEOs make 350 times more than the average worker and here is something that we don't talk about enough and it tells us why the American people are furious 12:00 today the average worker in America despite a huge explosion in technology and worker productivity that average worker is earning less money per week in inflation accounted for dollars than he or she did 52 years ago so it's not hard to understand what's happened over the last 50 years the very richest people in this country have become much richer while 800,000 people today sleep out on the street and the average worker struggles so let me tell you something i have gone all over this country as some of you may 13:02 know and what I am proud to tell you is the American people by the millions are saying no to [Music] oligarchy no to Trump's [Music] authoritarianism no to Trump's kleptocracy and no to tax ranks for billionaires [Applause] and I'm here in Pennsylvania to tell any member of the Pennsylvania delegation that if they vote for tax breaks for billionaires and cut Medicaid nutrition and education we are going to throw them out of their jobs my brothers and sisters our job right 14:00 now in my view is twofold first we have got to fight Trump every single day but secondly we need to have a vision as to where our country goes in the future and here is the bottom line and I say that to my Democratic colleagues in the Congress stop defending the status quo economically an economy in which the rich get richer and working people struggle should not be defended so there are a number of things that we have got to keep our eyes on and understand please you are living in the richest country in the history of the 15:00 world it is not a radical idea it is not utopian to say that every man woman and child can and should have a decent standard of living and at the top of the list of what we have got to do is to end a corrupt campaign finance system a system that allows billionaires in both political parties to control the political process and our economy brothers and sisters democracy is about one person one vote not billionaires buying elections and if we're going to deal 16:02 with the mass of income and wealth inequality that currently exists we're going to not give the rich tax breaks we're going to demand that the billionaires and their corporations stop paying their fair share of taxism and if we're going to build the movement that we need to take power in this country we need to grow the trade union movement in this country right now there are millions of workers who want to join unions they're unable to do so because of the illegal behavior of corporations and that's why we're going to pass the PRO Act and if workers a majority of workers sign a union card they're going to 17:00 belong to a union brothers and sisters we need to raise the minimum wage in this country to a living wage no worker no worker working 40 hours a week should live in poverty and brothers and sisters if we're going to compete in the global economy we need the best educated workforce in the world and that is making not only our public colleges and universities tuitionfree it means paying our teachers a grades that they deserve there is no reason why we should not be 18:00 having the best public education in the world and the best child care system in the world now our Republican colleagues or some of them want to cut social security [Applause] they suck 22% if you can believe this of seniors in this country are trying to get by on 15,000 a year or less can't afford to heat their homes pay for their prescription drugs we're not going to cut Social Security brothers and sisters together we're going to expand Social Security benefits by lifting the cap on taxable income and let me tell you something else i am old enough to remember something called a defined benefit pension plan 19:01 you know what that is i know it's a radical idea to the younger people once upon a time when workers worked at a decent job when they retired they had a strong defined pension plan we've got to bring that back people who work their whole lives should be able to retire with dignity brothers and sisters we are the only major country on earth not to guarantee healthc care to all as a human right 85 million are uninsured or underinsured and we spend twice as much per capita on health care as the people of any other major country the function of health care is not to make insurance companies and drug companies rich it's 20:01 to provide health care to all together we're going to pass Medicare for all singlepayer program donald Trump may think that climate change is a hoax you and I know that it is an existential threat we can create millions of goodaying union jobs by transforming our energy system into energy efficiency and sustainable energy and brothers and sisters instead of spending a trillion dollars a year on the military instead of giving billions of dollars to Netanyahu and his horrific war against the people of Gaza we can cut military spending and 21:03 build 5 million units of lowincome and affordable housing policy now I'm not going to tell you that the struggle in front of us is easy the oligarchs own the economy they own the media they own the political process that's a reality and I may not have a PhD in mathematics but there is one thing I do understand that if we do not allow Trump and his friends to divide us up by the color of our skin or where we were born or our sexual orientation if we stand together around a progressive agenda if we start electing candidates who work for us and not the billionaire 22:00 class If we think big and not small brothers and sisters there is nothing we cannot accomplish let's go out let's do it let's transform the country thank you

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