Bernie Sanders

roguevalley

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36. my mom and dad died young from the exertions of their life raising

Fri Sep 25, 2015, 02:15 PM

Sep 2015

four kids on nothing. When I saw my dad's tax returns in the sixties that said gross income $6000.00 I cried. He went to work at 3 am and came home at 9 pm every fucking day. Fuck the rich. Fuck anyone who supports them. My mom and dad might be alive now if they cared a shit about anything but themselves. This person is my hero.

This person told you my life. I had severe undiagnosed asthma all through my growing up because doctors didn't factor in. I'm lucky to be alive. My sister-in-law's brother, Dennis wasn't so lucky. He couldn't afford his asthma medicine and he died at nineteen leaving a young wife eight months pregnant. That is why I won't vote for Clinton and anyone like her. Never again.

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