Bernie Sanders Statement on Democratic PARTY PLATFORM

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PRESS RELEASE


Sanders Statement on Democratic Party Platform



JUNE 26, 2016



BURLINGTON, Vt. – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders issued the following statement on Sunday on a Democratic Party platform draft:

“The lesson of Brexit is that while the very rich get much richer, working people throughout the world are not seeing the global economy and an explosion of technology benefiting their lives. In fact, in the United States the middle class has been in decline for 35 years while there has been a huge increase in income and wealth inequality. Unfettered free trade has made multi-national corporations more profitable and their CEOs richer, but it also has led to the loss of millions of good-paying jobs in this country and a race to the bottom.

“The challenge for us today is to take on the greed and power of Wall Street and corporate America, and create a government and an economy that works for all of us and not just the 1 percent. In our anger and frustration, we must not succumb to the bigotry and divisiveness of Donald Trump and others like him.

“This is precisely what the struggle over the Democratic Party platform is about. We need to create a Democratic Party which fights for working families and not wealthy campaign contributors.

“I am glad that we have won some very important provisions in the platform drafting process so far, but much more needs to be done.

“There is very good language in the platform that calls for breaking up the largest Wall Street financial institutions and a 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act. I am glad that the platform drafting committee is on record to expand Social Security, to create millions of jobs by rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure and to end the outrageous tax loopholes that enable the very rich and large profitable corporations to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

“Unfortunately, however, the platform drafting committee voted down some very important provisions. Despite Secretary Clinton’s opposition, as a candidate for president, to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, her supporters in St. Louis voted down a proposal to keep the trade deal from coming up for a vote in Congress. The Clinton delegates also voted down definitive language to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. Despite the growing crisis of climate change, they voted against a tax on carbon, against a ban on fracking and against against a requirement for 100 percent clean energy by 2050.”

“The platform drafted in St. Louis is a very good start, but there is no question that much more work remains to be done by the full Platform Committee when it meets in Orlando on July 8 and 9. We intend to do everything we can to rally support for our amendments in Orlando and if we fail there to take the fight to the floor of the convention in Philadelphia. It is imperative that this platform be not only the most progressive in the history of the Democratic Party, but includes a set of policies that will be fought for and implemented by Democratic elected officials.”

Sanders also discussed the platform during an appearance Sunday on “State of the Union” on CNN.

To watch, click here.




https://berniesanders.com/press-release/sanders-statement-democratic-party-platform/

[Faux pas]

1. K N R-ed

[Trajan]

2. I love this wonderful, caring man ....

He fights for regular people ... Exactly what we need in this fucked up world ...

[jillan]

3. They voted against clean energy? By 2050?

[Scootaloo]

4. Why not? None of them are going to have to live through it

[mrr303am]

5. Seems to be the theme anymore

If we're not going to be here when it all goes to crap so what, we got ours let those who precede us us deal with the aftermath.

[Plucketeer]

6. I don't know that they even think that far ahead

It's simply : I want money in MY pockets and I want it NOW!

[RoccoR5955]

7. We have to protect

the corporations that fund the Democratic Party. Many of them being fossil fuel companies. I believe that this is the reason why.
Apparently we can have the green energy industry compete without any government subsidies. After all, green energy is so much cheaper than fossil fuels.
On another point, there are the jobs. Where are all the people who work in the fossil fuel industry go, if we have clean and green energy?