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Bernie Sanders
In reply to the discussion: Elizabeth Warren: I have a huge problem with it. We must unite now... [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)18. If you read her book, you realize how much she opposed the Bankruptcy Bill that so many
in Congress voted for. Among other things, that bill broadened the category of education loans and student loans that CANNOT BE DISCHARGED IN BANKRUPTCY. That is really like making students into indentured servants for many, many years.
Some of our ancestors came here as slaves or a better condition, indentured servitude. The Bankruptcy Bill passed I believe in 2005 has turned our children into a somewhat "freer" but still chained class of people whose major debts cannot be forgiven even if they are broke and jobless.
It's downright wrong. That is one of Warren's biggest issues.
From NPR"
Warren is, of course, best known for her strident rhetoric against big banks. Meanwhile, Biden has close ties to the credit-card industry. And that has put the two at odds in the past.
Warren called Biden out in her autobiography as one of several high-profile Democrats who championed bankruptcy legislation that helped her make her name in Washington. In 2001, with the help of Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., Warren had just succeeded in stopping a banking-industry-backed bill that would have made filing for bankruptcy more difficult.
"The Senate was evenly split between the two parties, but one of the bill's lead sponsors was Democratic powerhouse Joe Biden, and right behind him were plenty of other Democrats offering to help.
"Never mind that the country was sunk in an ugly recession and millions of families were struggling the banking industry pressed forward and Congress obliged. ..."
http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/24/434331154/the-biggest-divide-between-joe-biden-and-elizabeth-warren
It would seriously hurt Elizabeth Warren's reputation for honesty were she to couple with Biden on a presidential ticket. No way would her supporters be happy about that.
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Playinghardball
Aug 2015
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cascadiance
Aug 2015
#46
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cascadiance
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#48
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cascadiance
Aug 2015
#67
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greiner3
Aug 2015
#88
thanks for sharing your 29 points of wisdom here. They said the same thing about the President.
roguevalley
Aug 2015
#42
Exactly which member of the clown car brigade do you suppose could beat any Democrat? Please
Vincardog
Aug 2015
#59
There are sure a lot of anti-Sanders posters popping up with low post counts.
rhett o rick
Aug 2015
#72
There are whispers of Biden/Warren as well. I think that would also be a very
totodeinhere
Aug 2015
#5
I'm not predicting it will happen. What I am saying is it's being talked about.
totodeinhere
Aug 2015
#10
Yes. We vote for the presidential candidate in the primaries. That is where we are now.
JDPriestly
Aug 2015
#35
Biden is status quo, he admits himself he has been part of the whole system, which he says
sabrina 1
Aug 2015
#31
Yep. I think that one of the few actions by Warren which would cost her the loyalty of many
GoneFishin
Aug 2015
#58
I hope in her private meeting with Biden, she told him "you might want to sit this one out" nt
Snotcicles
Aug 2015
#4
I don't think that she would presume to tell Joe something like that. He is well
totodeinhere
Aug 2015
#6
I doubt it. He helped make the horrible bankruptcy rules that wall street
magical thyme
Aug 2015
#16
If you read her book, you realize how much she opposed the Bankruptcy Bill that so many
JDPriestly
Aug 2015
#18
See my post 18 for a quote from Waren's book. A Biden/Warren ticket would not get a lot of
JDPriestly
Aug 2015
#19
I understand that. But I think it's very telling that the possibility of a Biden/Warren ticket is
totodeinhere
Aug 2015
#25
My opinion precisely. When people's paychecks don't give them a sense of stability and hope
JDPriestly
Aug 2015
#33
My veiw too. Her big issue is reform of Wall Street and the consumer economy.
JDPriestly
Aug 2015
#17
It's a match made in Political Heaven. Here's hoping ... Go, Bernie and Liz !!!
libdem4life
Aug 2015
#27
Centrism here means corporatist. It means a Democrat that really aligns with Republican values
rhett o rick
Aug 2015
#73