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xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 05:06 AM Sep 2014

Elizabeth Warren Tells Bill Moyers Why She'll Never Be a DC Insider

http://www.alternet.org/media/elizabeth-warren-why-ill-never-be-insider



In Oklahoma, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and her brothers grew up in “an America that invested in kids like us and helped build a future where we could flourish.” But, as she writes in her memoir, A Fighting Chance, “Today the game is rigged – rigged to work for those who have money and power… The optimism that defines us as a people has been beaten and bruised. It doesn’t have to be this way.”

Warren, a former Harvard Law School professor, is an expert on how Wall Street and the banking industry are destroying the middle class. She’s put that knowledge to powerful use on Capitol Hill, rapidly becoming the most authoritative and articulate voice of the Democratic Party’s progressive wing. Many are urging her to run for president.

Before returning to Washington for the start of Congress, Sen. Warren talks to Bill this week about the problems facing middle-class Americans. “Washington works for those who can hire armies of lobbyists, armies of lawyers, and get just the rules they want. It doesn’t work so well for American families,” Sen. Warren tells Bill.

“The only chance we’ve got is if those families will turn back to their government and say, ‘I demand that you work for me, not for the billionaires, not for the millionaires. That you work for me.’”

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Elizabeth Warren Tells Bill Moyers Why She'll Never Be a DC Insider (Original Post) xchrom Sep 2014 OP
K&R emsimon33 Sep 2014 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author ReRe Sep 2014 #2
K&R ReRe Sep 2014 #3
indeed Duppers Sep 2014 #8
k&r for Elizabeth Warren. n/t Laelth Sep 2014 #4
Whether she knows it or not madokie Sep 2014 #5
I'm with you, madokie. Enthusiast Sep 2014 #6
I agree (and hope and pray!) emsimon33 Sep 2014 #9
Kicked and recommended! Way to go, Elizabeth! Enthusiast Sep 2014 #7
K&R ReRe Sep 2014 #10
K & R !!! WillyT Sep 2014 #11

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madokie

(51,076 posts)
5. Whether she knows it or not
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 07:07 AM
Sep 2014

She will be our first woman President, bank on that.
I demand that she throw her hat in the ring. There's a lot of people out here who are with me on this

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