Skip to playerSkip to main content
Forbes Breaking News
  • 5 months ago
At a "Fight Oligarchy" event in Asheville, North Carolina on Sunday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spoke about wealth inequality in the United States.
Transcript
00:00As the Reverend just told you, we got a few problems in this country.
00:05But as he also told you, if we stand together and do not allow Trump and his minions to divide us up
00:15based on the color of our skin or where we were born or our sexual orientation or our religion,
00:23if we stand together, we can defeat oligarchy, we can defeat authoritarianism,
00:31and we can create a nation and a government that works for all.
00:43And we've got a lot of work to do.
00:46Because today in America, we are living in a nation in which in many respects we have become an oligarchic society
00:57where our country is being run by a handful of multi-billionaires.
01:07And these people are very religious, but they're not quite the same religion as Reverend Barber.
01:16They worship wealth, and they worship power, and they could care less about how they get what they want.
01:32They are prepared to step on anybody and everybody who gets in their way.
01:38And our job is to tell these oligarchs, enough is enough.
01:45This country belongs to all of us, not just a handful of billionaires.
01:57Today in America, we got more income and wealth inequality than we've ever had.
02:03If you can believe it, you got one guy, Mr. Musk, owns more wealth than the bottom 52% of American households.
02:16Can you believe it?
02:17I mean, it's really hard to imagine that we have evolved into the kind of society
02:22one man owned more wealth than the bottom half of America.
02:26You got the top 1% owning more wealth than the bottom 93%.
02:33You got the CEOs of large corporations making 350 times what their workers make.
02:43And it's not just income and wealth inequality that we have today in terms of oligarchy.
02:48You got more concentration of ownership in sector after sector.
02:53You got a handful of large corporations determining what is being produced,
02:59what you pay, how they treat their workers.
Be the first to comment
Add your comment

Recommended

Bernie Sanders Sounds The Alarm On Historic Wealth Inequality In The United States
Forbes Breaking News
4 months ago
Bernie Sanders: 'Should Being Working Class In America Be A Death Sentence?'
Forbes Breaking News
4 months ago
'A Fraud Of The Worst Kind': Bernie Sanders Unleashes On Trump, Calls Him A 'Pathological Liar'
Forbes Breaking News
5 months ago
Bernie Sanders Proposes Lifting Cap On Taxable Income To Extend Social Security Solvency
Forbes Breaking News
5 months ago
'Never Been More Unequal': Bernie Sanders Slams Elon Musk And Wealth Inequality
Forbes Breaking News
4 months ago
Bernie Sanders Calls For Federal Minimum Wage To Be Raised To 'At Least 17 Bucks An Hour'
Forbes Breaking News
5 months ago
'We Don't Have Nowhere To Go': Bernie Sanders Asks West Virginians About Healthcare In Appalachia
Forbes Breaking News
4 months ago
Bernie Sanders: This Is Why I Hold Town Halls In 'Red States'
Forbes Breaking News
4 months ago
'When Is Enough, Enough?': Bernie Sanders Blasts Bezos, Zuckerberg For Sky-High Spending
Forbes Breaking News
4 months ago
Bernie Sanders: 'Thanks To Donald Trump, We Now Know What Oligarchy Is About'
Forbes Breaking News
8 months ago
'They're Like Heroin Addicts': Bernie Sanders Slams Oligarchs And Billionaires For Their 'Greed'
Forbes Breaking News
8 months ago
'Well Elon, You're Damn Right': Bernie Sanders Responds To Musk's Tweet About 'Oligarchy' Concerns
Forbes Breaking News
9 months ago
Bernie Sanders: 'The American People Will Not Tolerate Oligarchy'
Forbes Breaking News
4 months ago
Bernie Sanders: 'What We Need To Do, Which The Democratic Party, The Leadership Does Not Do...'
Forbes Breaking News
4 months ago
'Am I Missing Something Or Is That Totally Crazy?': Bernie Sanders Slams Musk's Wealth Ownership
Forbes Breaking News
5 months ago
Bernie Sanders Asks West Virginia Voters Why Wealthy People Live Longer Than Working Class Americans
Forbes Breaking News
4 months ago
Bernie Sanders: The Democratic Party Has In 'Turned Its Back' On American Workers
Forbes Breaking News
5 months ago
Voter Asks Bernie Sanders How To Get Of Democrats' 'Corporate Wing' To Embrace A Progressive Agenda
Forbes Breaking News
4 months ago
'Not Only Is That Not Right, It Is Criminal!': Sanders Decries 'Incredible Stress' On Working Class
Forbes Breaking News
4 months ago
'Our Economic And Political Systems Are Broken': Bernie Sanders Rails Against Citizens United
Forbes Breaking News
4 months ago
Bernie Sanders Praises Work Of Local Coal Miner Unions To Advocate For Workers' Rights Nationwide
Forbes Breaking News
4 months ago
Bernie Sanders Rails Against Musk And The 'Corrupt Campaign Finance System'
Forbes Breaking News
9 months ago
‘A Government And An Economy That Works For All Of Us’: Bernie Sanders Touts ‘A New America’
Forbes Breaking News
8 months ago
Bernie Sanders Demands Raising Of Federal Minimum Wage To 'Living Wage'
Forbes Breaking News
8 months ago
Bernie Sanders: 'The American People Do Not Want An Oligarchic Form Of Government'
Forbes Breaking News
4 months ago