Bernie is Running to Win

“Today, we learn that JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and other huge banks were fined $5 billion for rigging interest rates and manipulating currency exchanges. Sadly, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Since 2009, huge financial institutions have paid $176 billion in fines and settlement payments for fraudulent and unscrupulous activities. The reality is that seven years after too-big-to-fail banks crashed the economy, fraud still appears to be the business model on Wall Street. Today the six largest financial institutions have nearly $10 trillion in assets, equal to nearly 60 percent of our gross domestic product. They control more than two-thirds of the credit card market and one-third of the mortgages,”said Senator Bernie Sanders.

Bernie’s solution is to break up the banks, and do what many economists said we should have done in 2007 when Wall Street crashed–if the banks are too big to fail, they are too big to exist. He is absolutely right. Institutions that big cannot help but rig the system.

Too big to fail. Too big to regulate.

They must be broken up so that they serve the nation and its people, not just gobble us up. After all the destruction their blow-up in 2007 has caused, not one individual has gone to jail, but let a man steal a loaf of bread and a can of spam for his kids and he is locked away. This system ain’t working.

Bernie is running on policy and on legislation he is introducing. He’s not running AGAINST anyone.  He claims Hillary Clinton as a friend, but he is doing what’s in the best interest of all of America.

As Bernie piles more issues on the table, the fantastically rich and their clown car of Republican presidential candidates will have more and more to answer for.

If they can’t answer a simple question about the Iraq War, what will they do with the issues Sen. Sanders brings forward?

Just the other day, Bernie put forward legislation to make state universities free, expand work study programs (I washed dishes), and lower student loan interest rates so that any kid with the grades can go to college.

You can’t say you believe in an opportunity society if you don’t believe any kid with the grades can go to college.

And Sen. Sanders has a way to pay for it–a small tax on speculative financial transactions. Why should the big boys gamble with our money and not have to pay a small tax?

Bernie is running to win. He’s already raised $4 million dollars for his campaign from people like you and me, and his list of supporters increases by the day.

Bernie isn’t a bet, he’s an investment in America.

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