PBS NewsHour: Sen. Bernie Sanders: 'I've Got a Lot of Problems With President's Budget'

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Run time: 08:24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiOlXDDqLWc   Posted on YouTube: February 17, 2011 By YouTube Member: PBSNewsHour Views on YouTube: 233   Posted on DU: February 17, 2011 By DU Member: alp227 Views on DU: 996

 
Judy Woodruff interviews Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) about Obama's budget. Transcript on PBS.org. Among the highlights:

"We have the highest rate of childhood poverty in the industrialized world for our children, and we're cutting programs for those people. So, the first thing we have to deal with is revenue. And, as a nation, we have got to say, sorry, the rich are getting richer. They're doing really well. Our friends on Wall Street, we shouldn't have to worry about. They get huge amounts of compensation."

"What I get a little bit frustrated about is, we're giving money away to people who don't need it, and then we're really tough on students who are trying to get by on Pell Grants. You got the Community Service Block Grant. You know what that is? That is the infrastructure by which we protect low-income people all over America. The president has proposed a 50 percent cut in that."

"This year, ExxonMobil, the most profitable corporation in the history of the world, is not paying a nickel in federal income taxes, despite having made $19 billion last year. In 2005, one-quarter of corporation -- large corporations in America making a trillion in revenue didn't pay a nickel in taxes. You have got a military budget which in many ways is still fighting the old Cold War."

Sanders will appear on tomorrow's Thom Hartmann Program in a special Thursday edition of "Brunch with Bernie" during the first hour. The show streams online from 12-3PM Eastern on ustream.tv/thomhartmann. Or check if you can listen on a radio set if not the Internet.

Related: "Cuts, Deficit Highlight 2012 Budget Blueprint, But Battles Loom" from the Monday PBS NewsHour, which includes a report by Ray Suarez about Obama's proposed budget and interviews with Office of Management and Budget director Jack Lew and Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), who served as Office of Management and Budget director under George W. Bush and was elected to the Senate in 2010.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. This interview is what got me to post my GD thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x434796

Senator Sanders is right on, with every fact.

It makes my blood boil that he seems to be the only Senator with these views.

Recommended.

[handmade34]

2. "...I get a little bit frustrated..."

understatement

[Newest Reality]

3. Bernie must sound like an alien speaking another

language to those who are still living in their pods, absorbing the Simulations of the Matrix.

A solid, bold and huge Progressive Party would have been a nice reality. Maybe it will be after the revolution. ;) Well, politics is politics, still.

[slipslidingaway]

4. knr nt

[pam4water]

5. On the mark again Bernie! K&R

[democracy1st]

6. great man! thanks bernie