Sen. Bernie Sanders: GOP Budget Would 'Stick It To Working Families'

I hope not. He's a smart man!

Bernie's one of the best.

Do you say that because you haven't heard there's an unemployment problem in this nation? Or because you haven't heard that there are senior citizens living on small fixed retirements that need medical care?

Because, yes, granny IS eating dog food, and yes, children are dying so you can live the way you live. If you are a fatcat, and not just one of their lickspittles.

I suspect you know these things, but you feel that the money that goes to seniors for Medicare, or Food Stamps for the working poor, or any other "handouts" (excepting perhaps corporate welfare or tax cuts for the ultrawealthy) is money that you don't have a shot at, and you don't care who suffers and dies, as long as the money is ponied up on the table and you can grab at it.

So why waste the effort at saying things that label you as an ignoramus, or liar? Why not just say, I want it all! Screw the elderly, the dispossessed, the young and vulnerable. Screw the health and well-being of America! Me! Me! Me!

Let me be the first to vote your ass down.

Thank you for the truth.

I was third..

You are so out of touch with reality it's sad. The amount of money that cutting funding to public programs will save is miniscule compared to the amount of debt we're in. These cuts are purely political in nature and are NOT for the good of the country. I hope one day you fall on hard times and need some assistance because you're sure as hell not gonna get any.

I wont be there with a poopy face begging my fellow citizens to feed me.

Unless you are one of them, oh yes you will. And we, being the decent human beings that we are, we will not let you starve or die from some curable disease if we have anything to say about it. As I always say "THEMS WITH NO CONSCIENCE, HAVE NO CLUE"

Extreme 'gaps ' also brought about the gullitine..just sayin'

Hey bub, your side is spending the country into oblivion and getting their panties in a bunch over a few billion or so of cuts, when the entire budget deficit this year is going to be over 1.2 TRILLION!!!

Get your facts straight ace - the Republicans are grossly responsible for must of the debt in this country and have been since Reagan. The are also responsible for constantly increasing the size of the government with their idiotic legislation. I love how you Republicans cause the problems and then throw out lies blaming the other side. Sorry, not going to work.

You think the economy is going to get better with cuts. Problem is, those cuts equals lost jobs, and the private sector is not going to pick up the slack. Won't happen. I agree that Obama and the Dems are mostly failing completely, but the only real answer is to get the money back in taxes. During the Eisenhower administration, the marginal tax rate was 90%. There was enough money left over for jobs for just about everyone, even if they were mostly lower income, and those folks spent every dime they made and put it back into the economy. The problem is that government isn't spending enough - to counter the effect of job loss. Tax cuts and healthcare costs are almost solely responsible - some would argue more than responsible - for the deficit problem we had during Reagan, and during Bush. On the other hand, I'm not handing out any kudos to Obama and the Dems, far from it. I have no sympathy for someone who makes a couple of million a year having to get by on way less, much less some of the hedge fund managers who actually make more than a billion dollars a year. These are the people who should be fired.

What party is trying to cut spending right now (Republicans) , and what party is trying to not only prevent cuts from happening, but wants to increase spending (Democrats)?

100% incorrect. Here's a link to an article by the Cato Institute explaining exactly who is responsible for the deficit. http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/dont-blame-obama-for-bushs-2009-deficit/

Since I suspect you won't bother to read it, here's the gist of the article:

Obama was essentially correct when he said he inherited a budget deficit of $1.3 trillion. Though the budget deficit for 2008 was a then-record $458.6 billion, the CBO issued a projection in January 2009, just days before Obama took office that the budget deficit would reach $1.2 trillion that year, before the cost of any new stimulus plan or other legislation was taken into account.

All cuts are always painful. But it's time to put on the man-pants.

Because what's worse is a collapse of the economy from debt crisis, like Greece.

What party is trying to cut spending right NOW (Republicans) , and what party is trying to not only prevent cuts from happening, but wants to increase spending (Democrats)?

Oh you mean the spending we're doing because of the TWO wars Bush got us into and the Patriot Act that expanded spending by Hundreds of Billions so thousands of "contractors" can enrich themselves?
Or the tax cuts to the top % that the GOP fought for in December and if they didn't get them they'd deny MILLIONS their Unemployment benefits.
Labor Dept. said those numbers would be up to about 14-15 Million people by May.
For many families that was their ONLY safety net.
Or the subsidies to big oil. You heard Bernie say they're not paying taxes already so why
give them another 40 Billion. Exxon didn't pay any taxes either, he pointed that out in Dec.

Quit trying to make the party of GREED for their richest friends and biggest campaign donors look like the good guys.
It's not gonna fly with the over 100 million working people who are struggling to get by and that's a LOT more people than a few rich and few duped teapublican voters.

What party is trying to cut spending right NOW (Republicans) , and what party is trying to not only prevent cuts from happening, but wants to increase spending (Democrats)?

if they sincerely wanted to close the budget then why in their budget proposal are they giving tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy

Spending must increase, and increase dramatically - but it has to be funded by taxes, and those taxes have to come from where the money is. Government spending for healthcare, roads, parks, public works projects, and so on is mostly giving people modestly paying JOBS, and they put the money back into the economy and pay taxes on it. They buy food and the grocer pays taxes. The grocer buys clothes and the clothing store pays taxes. As do all of the employees involved. Sending all the available money upstairs to the wealthy - largely a dead-end street - helps generate deficit.

Should I cry if some multimillionaire has to get along on less - say, having to live on only two million a year instead of ten million a year? Should I cry if a hedge fund manager who made over a billion dollars last year is fired, put in prison, and that billion dollars goes into public sector jobs, or goes to pay for doctors and dentists for the poor? You might cry if you were the fatcat, but I'm a Christian and a Democrat. To hell with the Republicans and the Neocons and their demented mania for wealth.

Republicans are NOT trying to cut spending. That is an inaccurate statement. When a provision was proposed to end SUBSIDIES to Oil Companies, they refused to support it. They fought every single wasteful cut to the Defense Department. So Republicans are NOT trying to cut spending or balance the budget.

Blind ignorance to their faults. Thinking they are perfect and deserve to be our GODS.

As Dick Cheney said "deficits don't matter". Suck it up! We are all in this together.

They want to cut spending on the back of the poor and seniors. Bush tax cuts made permanent

AGAIN, cut spending on poor and seniors!!!

Tell that to your rich friends who cant seem to pay their taxes and their republican pawns who are more then willing to watch the country burn then fix the problem.

You are an idiot. The Democrats agreed to the cuts, they have met the Rebublicans more than halfway. The only hold up is that the "tea party" wants to add riders to the bill that defund all social programs (don't touch defence!) but go after women's rights, poor people, children, and the unemployed. They want to cut programs on the backs of the people that can least afford it, while continuing to give tax breaks to Corporations and the wealthly. The are playing politics with people's lives. Ask youself, who do you stand with? The citizens of the United States or the Corporate puppet masters that are just out to rape the country before moving on to greener pastures.

Wow you give me credit to all those things. Impressive. !

Neither will all those defense contractors.

Cheney was making a little over a million when he became VP but after 5 years his publically available for viewing tax returns showed his income was over 60 Million AFTER he and Bush drug us into war based on Lies!
That's what it's about....war makes money for a small segment while others lose their lives and the country goes broke.

You might be right - "liberals" might well be retarded. I can't think of much else that would have cause them to be such dangerously indecisive weaklings from 2008-2012, when they got thrown out. Americans were not voting for Republicans, they were voting against Democrats. They hoped Obama was going to kick ass, but, man, what a surprise. Obama turns out to be a Neocon himself, a liar and a weakling.

But they aren't Marxists. They're Americans, and Democrats. Your people elected glove puppets like Reagan, Bush, and Bush, and used the opportunity to steal all the money. That's why there's a debt crisis. Crooked Banksters and Wall Streeters - plutocrats - stole the money. The only way to fix the problem is to claw back the booty, but don't look for Democratic backbone any too soon. And it was the Reagan and Bush deficits and bailouts and wars and tax cuts for the wealthy that got America in this mess.

You do know that the Constitution requires that budgets must start in the House of Representatives which is currently in the hands of the republican caucus, right? You are aware that only Republicans can bring a measure to the floor for vote or debate, right?
You are aware that when the Democrats controlled the House, they passes a budget that was stalled in the Senate via the filibuster abuse right? You are aware that most of our "debt" is due to Defense expenditures or interest on Defense expenditures and tax cuts to the wealthy, right?

Or are you one of those guys that just like to run their mouth without knowing what they are talking about?

Your choice friend.

We should CUT subsidies to big oil and tax break after tax break to those that don't need the money.
When 1/10 of our budget comes from corporations and the working class pays the rest, don't you think something is wrong? The income divide is the worst it's ever been and you think it should continue? Who's been spiking your kool-aid?

Why should the working people continue to be screwed?
Marxists huh? Maybe you need a history lesson. The GOP is trying to turn us in a FASCIST state.

Franklin D. Roosevelt in an April 29, 1938 message to Congress warned that the growth of private power could lead to fascism:

The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism—ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

You suppose it might be that he doesn't fit the MSM mold?
He doesn't scream or shout and he tells the truth about the Republic Syndicate and worse, he tells the truth about the Oligarchs which takes in most CEOs and COOs of Media companies..

MSM is afraid that if Senator Sanders speeches got out to the masses that there would be a huge revolt. This isn't the first time he's done this. He's always trying to point out that the GOP is robbing the people blind while trying to make it look like they had no hand in it and calling it some "liberty and freedom" BS that their corporate puppet masters marketing experts used to dupe the people . There will be no liberty and freedom once the richest rule over Congress.

It's up to us to spread Sanders word about what's really happening.
Twitter and FB come to mind. If it worked for the protesters in the middle east it can work here too.

He is just a well kept secret.

You realize that republicans actually want these things to happen, right?

Socialist....

Welcome to the party of logic and compassion.

SOCIALIST.

Ok, in the interest of being 'fair and balanced' instead of calling you an idiot, please explain why you think Senator Sanders is a fool.

Please, don't encourage them. The word fairness is nowhere in there doctrine.

Since when did worrying about the poor, disabled and seniors make someone foolish?

It's YOU that looks foolish.
Does compassion and empathy mean anything to you?

numbers...remember math. after the rich are rich no more than what?

In the republicans' defense... there has been plenty of foreplay and innuendo.

Have you heard that the republicunts came out calling for Harry Reid's resignation? I know, it's actually kinda funny b/c there's no way he's going to resign, and the republiwon'ts have no power to get him out, but that won't stop them from acting like Lindsey Lohan, or Charlie Sheen -- the longer they hold up this budget the more publicity they get, and I honestly think that's what all of it is about. Boehner just loves bawlin' on national television.

It's their tactic. Keep on pushing. You may not get all you want, but you'll get most of it. There mere fact that the argument for this years budget is solely about cutting social services, means they've won irregardless of how things turn out. Whatever the number, the cuts will likely include such things as Planned Parenthood, NPR, etc. The Democrats, especially the president has to stand up and show he's got a pair. Out loud and publicly.

Boehner is getting some his hostage holding medicine back after what he tried to do to the unemployed in December.

The teapublicans are being pressured by their corporate puppet masters (Koch's and their Tea Party Express come to mind) and they are putting the screws to Boehner.
He needs to man-up and tell those rookie teapublicans to back off.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

The Koch Brothers have never held office. They do just as much damage in the civilian world as lobbyist; perhaps more. Be careful what you wish for,

I want them alive, pissed, and psychologically suffering when the things they fight against make the people BETTER AND proud again.

The Republic Syndicate needs a dose of the good old Rebel Alliance and the Jedi Knights.

I have lost much respect for BO... I really would have prefered Dennis Kucinich. I am Not even sure how BO looks to gain the momentum he had back in 2008.

You are absolutely right on all points!

Kucinich or Sanders--they would have at least TRIED. (Actually, they would have done far more than just TRY...just shows how low my expectations of Democratic politicians are these days).

I agree WholeHeartedly.... I call the "American Dream" a myth... I am very disappointed.... =(

Sorry;I still have hope.

BUt, to use a metaphor from a sport I don't much like, if you give the Best Shooting Guard in the world a team of midgets, He ain't gonna win.

Michael Jordan has what, 6 Championship Rings? Make him go back and play all those games with a team of 12 year old boys, then how many rings does he have?

Most of the Democrats we had were the equivalent of the 12 year old boys.

As I said to someone yesterday--

I believe we went down the rabbit hole at the 2000 election, and there is no going back.

Whether people know it, or will admit it, on some level, if you were paying attention at all in 2000, you realize that our votes no longer mean anything else but what the corporatists with the most power in our country want them to mean.

Worse, the politicians we did believe in, such as the ones we worked so hard to elect in 2000, would not even bother to stand up for our votes.

Politics--and people--slowly turned angry and mean after 2000. We weren't exactly Daisy-Belle sweet before, but there has been a marked "meaning" of political discourse, and discourse in general.

I think we are dealing with a nation full of people who now realize, or at least suspect, that much of what we were taught as a patriotic religion as children--including the sanctity of our votes--is myth.

When the Bush family and their allies committed the 2000 coup--and it was a coup, I know the word hurts like hell, but that is what it was--it broke the hearts of many patriotic Americans. I keep trying to think of a comparison or metaphor for what that feeling is, but I can't.

IMO, you are comparing apples and oranges, if you are trying to compare a shooting guard to the president of the U.S.

IMO, in that comparison, the POTUS would be the team owner AND manager, put together. Even combining team owner and team manager would not come close to the power the POTUS has to force his will on Congress...especially when it is a freaking Democratic-majority Congress and the president is a Democrat.