Interview With Bernie Sanders

[polly7]

By Bernie Sanders and Steve Inskeep
Source: NPR
May 5, 2016

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: Well, West Virginia has some pockets of the worst poverty in the United States of America.

We’re going to McDowell County. And the reason we’re going there is that about half the people in that area are living in poverty — and that what is really astounding is that the life expectancy of people in that community is extraordinary low.

You know when we talk about poverty, Steve, we often think, well, it’s too bad somebody can’t afford a flat-screen TV, or go out to eat. But what poverty is really about is that we have millions of people who are living — who are dying at ages much, much younger than they should. In McDowell County, where we’re going tomorrow, the average life expectancy for men in that county is 64 years of age. Sixty-four years of age.

And yet you go a six-hour drive to Fairfax County, Va. — six-hour drive — a man can expect to live until the age of 82 years of age, 18 years longer than men in McDowell County…

Full article:

https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/interview-with-bernie-sanders/

[bettyellen]

1. " it’s too bad somebody can’t afford a flat-screen TV, or go out to eat. " Nope.

We think of women unable to feed their children.

[polly7]

2. Yeah ....... pretty sure he means that, too.

It might help to read more than one line.

[bettyellen]

3. it's an interesting disconnect there- I don't know who thinks of big TVs first- do you?

[polly7]

4. No disconnect, except purposefully, on your part. nt.

[bettyellen]

5. I imagine he is talking to well off people then. Where I grew up, we understood poverty.

[polly7]

6. Yeah, me too. Many of us have. I don't even vote there and he speaks for me as well.

Nice derailing, want a teeny medal?

[bettyellen]

7. The first statement SBS makes about poverty is what I cited- by no stretch of the imagination

is THAT derailing. It reminds me how shocked he was that people are jailed because they cannot pay their fines.
I would have thought he had known all about that, but he learned at a small meeting. I think he should have had more small meetings a long time ago.

[polly7]

8. Zzzzzzzz. He gave a great interview (for anyone willing to read more than one line and

without an agenda).