People have been saying Senator Sanders can’t win in the national election. They have been saying it since he entered the race, saying that Mrs Clinton is the inevitable, invincible nominee in waiting, that Senator Sanders is too far to the left to win, that a socialist can’t win.
But then the campaign contributions from little working class guys like me started coming in, and a lot of us try to send something along every week or two if we can, not a lot, maybe $10, but something. And there are a lot of us. There are more of us than there are billionaire bankers. And if we all send in a little something, well pretty soon it starts to add up. And then there is money to hire a ball room and have a rally and people come and listen, some of them standing out in the hall because the room is full, but they go home and send another $10. So then next time there is enough money to hire a stadium. And people come to hear him speak, to hear him tell us the truth for a change. So people drive for hundreds of miles to be there. To be part of it. And the stadium fills to capacity with thousands more in the streets watching him tell them the truth on huge television screens. And the cheering goes on and on: BER-NIE, BER-NIE, BER-NIE! The place is rocking! Windows rattle for blocks. And they go home and send in another $10.
Never in the history of our country have so many people given so much so many times to a candidate running for president. Millions of individual small contributions have arrived, and more are arriving every day in an avalanche of support that shows no signs of slowing, but rather is increasing and accelerating day by day.
So now people are still saying that he cannot win, cannot possibly win, won’t win, has to lose, must lose.
But now they are saying it not because they believe it, but because they want us to believe it. They know better. When was the last time Mrs. Clinton filled a stadium to overflowing with people chanting her name and cheering on into the night? When? It has never happened and never will. And everyone knows it now. Mrs. Clinton is the past. Senator Sanders is the future, the future we can believe in because he does not lie to us.
the reality is that in my lifetime, and i am 64, there has never been a national leader, a real national leader like Senator Sanders. night after night in city after city all across the country he fills the stadia with crowds of tens of thousands overflowing into the streets, cheering and chanting his name so loud windows rattle for blocks and blocks. and why? because he does not lie to us, because he isn't trying to steal from us or send us to some war so the wall street crowd can profit. because he's not trying to get rich from holding public office, peddling influence out the back door. because he really means what he says and what he says is that the extreme inequality of income and wealth that establishment politics and politicians of both parties have been peddling for decades is destroying us and our democracy, us- the 99% - making us poorer and poorer while the rich get richer and richer at our expense. that is the truth and we all know it but he is the only person running for president since Franklin Roosevelt who says it and who has a plan to change it.
yeah, and they called Roosevelt a socialist, too. but look what he did, he lifted us out of the depression and put us back to work in good jobs that built our country up with public works programs that built, schools and post offices, rail roads and university libraries, buildings and infrastructure that we are still using 75 years later and that still benefit all of us, not just the too rich to fail who we paid to bail out. and where did the money come from for the New Deal? well a lot of it came from progressive taxation of the rich and the very rich. incomes over $400,000 were taxed at rates up to 92 % through the Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower years, and those were the years of our greatest prosperity. And even with taxes on the rich and very rich at those levels the rich were still rich and steadily getting richer, but so was everyone else.
It was the New Deal and the high taxes on the rich and the very rich that created the middle class and built the modern infrastructure of our country that made us all richer, all of us. but then the rich and the very rich got greedy and wanted a bigger and bigger share of our national wealth, the wealth we make together in our country, and so since Ronald Reagan's time there have been changes made by congress that have shifted the flow of wealth away from the working people and middle class and more and more to the rich and the very rich. the result is that today we have more people living in poverty than at any time in our history, the middle class has been shrinking and becoming poorer for decades and at the same time the rich have never been richer, ever.
so, it is no mystery what has happened. the rich and the very rich have used their wealth, wealth that was taken from us, to buy political power and use that power against us to gain advantage and make themselves richer at our expense. that is what happened, there is no denying it. but people do and lie to us about it, but now we are tired of that. Enough is enough.
and that explains why Senator Sanders is winning the campaign for the presidency. it is because we want a leader who does not lie to us, but who leads us to vote in our own best interest, not for wall street candidates whose only interest is in serving the rich who promise to make them rich, too. No, the rich and the too rich know the truth just as well as we do and that is why they spread lies trying to make us believe that Senator Sanders can not win. But they know and we know the truth, and they see it and we see it every time Senator Sanders fills another stadium to overflowing with tens of thousands of cheering supporters chanting his name...there has never been anything like it in our national history. that is the truth of the matter. and we all know it. and now even the corporate media, the voice of the oligarchy, has to admit the truth of it because we all see it unfolding before our eyes, on social media if not on the network news. and because working people like me keep sending in $10 to his campaign every time people like mrs Clinton or mrs MacAskill lie to us again, a million dollars a day and more from little people like me. but there are a lot of us, we are the 99% and now we are coming to take back what is ours.
JOEL DAVIDSON\Frontiersman reporter
MAT-SU - Alaska State Troopers arrested four teenage boys at their Mat-Su homes Monday after they were charged in last week's vandalism of 44 Mat-Su school buses - an incident that forced the Mat-Su Borough School District to close schools for a day on Nov. 29.
Trooper spokesman Greg Wilkinson said the boys were in the custody of their parents over the weekend while troopers continued their investigation. The arrests Monday were pre-arranged so parents could be present when the boys were taken away to Mat-Su Youth Facility in Palmer.
Deryck Harris, 18, and the other three boys - ages 16, 17 and 17 - were each charged with third-degree criminal mischief, first-degree criminal trespass and conspiracy to commit criminal mischief, troopers said. The 16-year-old was also charged with fourth-degree theft and furnishing alcohol to a minor, for allegedly stealing a bottle of vodka from the liquor store at Tesoro 2-Go in Wasilla.
“They stopped at a liquor store where he went in and stole a bottle of vodka and provided it to the others in the group,” Wilkinson said. “Three of the four boys consumed alcohol.”
Troopers did not release names of the juvenile suspects, but David Coon's mother confirmed her son was one of two Burchell High School students involved in the incident. The other two boys are Wasilla High School students.
Mat-Su Youth Facility Superintendent Bruce Collins said youths in this situation must see a judge within 48 hours of their detention at the facility.
“The clock is ticking,” he said. “These guys will probably go to court today or tomorrow.”
Depending on the situation, Collins said the youths could face a number of different scenarios when they go before a judge.
“It can go a whole bunch of directions,” he said. “If they can't go back home, we don't have a whole lot of foster homes in the Valley. In that case they might stay with us. If they order psychological evaluations, they will stay with us until that can be completed.”
The boys are suspected of deflating tires in 44 First Student buses, breaking mirrors and unplugging 110 buses from their engine-block heaters, which caused the buses not to start in subzero weather on Nov. 29.
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