http://www.politicususa.com/2014/12/02/bernie-sanders-unveils-12-point-economic-plan-break-koch-oligarchs.html
Skip to 6:30 to get tot the program itself.
On the Senate floor today, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled a twelve
point economic plan that if enacted would break the backs of the Koch
fueled oligarchs.
Sen. Sanders said, “Are we prepared to take on the enormous economic and
political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide
into economic and political oligarchy?…Today, millions of Americans are
working longer hours for lower wages. In inflation-adjusted dollars, the
median male worker earned $783 less last year than he made 41 years
ago. The median female worker made $1,337 less last year than she
earned in 2007. Since 1999, household income for the median
middle-class family is less than it was a quarter century ago. We once
led the world in terms of the percentage of our people who graduated
college, but we are now in 12th place. Our infrastructure, once the
envy of the world, is collapsing. Real unemployment today is not 5.8
percent, it is 11.5 percent if we include those who have given up
looking for work or who are working part time when they want to work
full time. Youth unemployment is 18.6 percent and African-American youth
unemployment is 32.6 percent.”
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