Bernie Sanders Hints At What A Sanders Administration Cabinet Could Look Like

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Very promising. All of these men love their fellow men, and that is what is missing when presidents appoint a bunch of Wall Street honchos.

You see. The reason that so many of us are angry at rich people isn't because they have more money than we do. It is not how much money they have, but how they got that money.

Too many of the very richest get their money by
- selling products that ruin the environment,

by business practices
- that impoverish others,
- that take basic necessities like water out of the control of ordinary people just to take a little more from ordinary people,
- that deprive employees of reasonable job security and healthcare and vacation and family leave time,
- that produce inferior products to be sold at high prices,
- that jack up the stock market while the rest of the economy is failing,
- that organize trade and commercial groups to influence public opinion and election outcomes, groups like ALEC and the national Chamber of Commerce and many other groups while fighting against employee organizations like unions,
- that pump and dump stock deals to fool people into buying worthless stocks as in the derivatives fiasco,
- that attempt to weaken consumer and employee protection agencies in our federal, state and local governments, etc., etc.

And on top of all of that, they don't raise wages when productivity rises

It's not having money that is so detested. It's the way the money is acquired. The unethical practices that fool and demean ordinary Americans, the job outsourcing and exportation. The excessive importation of consumer goods.

The economy and the lives of Americans are out of balance because of the greedy excesses of a relatively small number of people.

Not all businesses operate in these ways. We saw some horrible, unethical practices come to light in the aftermath of the Bush 2008 crash. But the steps taken to report on the horrible, mean practices and to deal with them were too weak. It's just a matter of time until we are all paying for these excesses. Companies that operate ethically and with real social responsibility should not have to compete against unethical companies.

The system is rigged for the very rich sums it up. And the rigging is being done by the very rich and their minions, their agents, their well dressed, well spoken thugs.