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During a "Fight Oligarchy" event in Asheville, North Carolina on Sunday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) criticized President Trump.

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00:00but it's not only it's not only what's going on now when you know when you see
00:11people in America angry and disgruntled there is a reason why and one of the
00:17reasons is that over the last 50 years as you all know there has been an
00:22explosion in technology right every worker in America is far more productive
00:29producing a lot more than that worker did 50 years ago now one might think that
00:37with all of that increase in worker productivity workers will be making more
00:43money right wrong because over the last 50 years real inflation accounted weekly
00:54wages for the American worker have gone down
01:03there was a study that the rand corporation did
01:06and it said that during that same period of time there was a 75 trillion dollar redistribution of
01:18wealth going from the bottom 90 percent you all to the top one percent
01:31so here we are right now terms of basic necessities of life the housing system
01:37broken educational system terms of child care terms of kids being able to afford to go to college
01:44in terms of the pressure on public schools all over America in deep trouble wages in deep trouble
01:52workers are going nowhere in a hurry housing a disaster people spending half of their incomes on
02:00housing 20 million households 800 000 people in America who are homeless in the richest country on
02:07earth and Donald Trump comes into office and I am the champion of the working class I just love workers
02:18well this guy is not only a pathological liar he is a fraud of the worst kind
02:24when Trump campaigned for president I don't recall him telling his supporters
02:40that he was going to give a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the top one percent
02:46900 billion dollars in tax breaks to large corporations I don't recall Trump telling his supporters
02:59that he was going to throw 15 million people including many hundreds of thousands here
03:07in North Carolina off of the health care that they have
03:11and let us be clear and this is not just me talking there have been studies about this
03:19when you throw 15 million low-income and working-class people off of the health care they have
03:28when you cut back on the affordable care act and force premiums to go up all over this country
03:35do you know what happens people die that is the simple truth and there have been studies out there
03:42and almost I I feel uncomfortable telling you this because it's so horrible but it's true
03:48there have been studies out there Yale the University of Pennsylvania
03:51suggesting that when 15 million people lose their health insurance when costs go up
03:5650,000 5-0 50,000 Americans a year will die unnecessarily thank you Donald Trump
04:10Trump did not campaign on taking free school meals for up to 16 million kids away from them
04:19he did not campaign on doubling or tripling monthly student loan payments for millions of Americans who are already drowning in debt
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