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‘A Government And An Economy That Works For All Of Us’: Bernie Sanders Touts ‘A New America’
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4/16/2025
At a "Fight Oligarchy" event in Folsom on Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spoke about reforming the economy.
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Brothers and sisters, our job is not just right now to defeat the very dangerous situation inherent in Trumpism.
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We've got to fight them every single day.
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But we have got to do more than that.
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We have got to create a vision of what a new America is about.
00:35
Where we have a government and an economy that works for all of us, not just a few.
00:51
This is the wealthiest country in the history of the world.
00:56
We should not have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth.
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Zero through four are the most important years of human development.
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We should have the best child care system in the world, not a dysfunctional system.
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We should have the strongest public education system on earth.
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Do we have any teachers here?
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Thank you, teachers!
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And we want to make sure that our teachers are well paid and are respected.
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No teacher in America should start off at less than $60,000 a year.
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Unlike Trump, we understand the importance of education.
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Learning and growing intellectually is part of what being human is about.
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And in a competitive global economy, we need the best educated workforce in the world.
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We need more doctors, we need more nurses, we need more dentists, we need more electricians, plumbers, sheet metal workers.
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Some people should not have to go deeply in debt to get the education they need.
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You know, back in 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, one of the great presidents in our history,
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he said something that was enormously profound.
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It kind of got passed over because we're in the middle of World War II.
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But what he said at that point, he said,
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Look, we have a great constitution, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, etc.
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But we're lacking something.
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And what we're lacking is the understanding that economic rights are human rights.
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Now the establishment, the establishment doesn't want us to understand what that means.
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But what it means is that living in this country, the richest country on earth,
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a country where today we're seeing an explosion of technology, which is going to make us even wealthier.
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What we want is that technology to work for working people, not just the owners of the corporations.
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Brothers and sisters, it is not a radical idea. It really isn't.
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You know, the establishment and the money and interest will tell you, oh, this is a terrible idea.
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But in this country, every man, woman and child can and should have a decent standard of living.
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We should not have. What a disgrace.
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In L.A., here in Burlington, Vermont, we got together as a nation,
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800,000 people sleeping out on the streets of America.
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We've got 20 million people who are spending half of their limited incomes on housing.
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Maybe instead of spending a trillion dollars a year on the military,
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what about building five million units of low-income and affordable housing?
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