'Not Only Is That Not Right, It Is Criminal!': Sanders Decries 'Incredible Stress' On Working Class

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During a rally in Chicago on Sunday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spoke about the struggles facing working class Americans.

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00:00All right, so let's talk about what the Democrats often don't talk about, and that is what kind

00:09of agenda do we need to address the needs of a struggling working class?

00:16Now today, again, we don't talk about it much, but it is a sad reality.

00:23While the richest people in America have never ever had it so good, 60% of Americans are

00:32living paycheck to paycheck.

00:35You got it?

00:37Some of you are living paycheck to paycheck, yes?

00:40All right, I grew up in a family that lived paycheck to paycheck.

00:44I know something about it.

00:48And what paycheck to paycheck is about is you wake up in the morning and you say,

00:53how am I going to get through the day or how am I going to get through the week?

00:57How am I going to pay for the decent food I want to make sure my kids are able to eat?

01:04What happens if my landlord raises my rent by 20%?

01:09Where am I going to live?

01:10I can't afford rent right now.

01:11I'm going to have to take my kid out of school.

01:13What happens?

01:14What happens if my car breaks down and the mechanic tells me it's a thousand bucks to

01:20get it fixed?

01:21And what happens if I don't have that thousand bucks and millions of people don't have that

01:25thousand bucks?

01:26Can't fix my car.

01:27If I can't fix my car, I can't get to work.

01:31If I can't get to work, I get fired.

01:33If I get fired, what happens to my family?

01:37What happens if my mom is sick and she can't afford the prescription drugs?

01:41Or my dad has to go into a nursing home?

01:44Or maybe I have to pay for childcare for my kid and I can't afford all these things.

01:50The result of all of that is that tens of millions of people in this country are living

01:58under incredible stress.

02:02And you know what stress does to the human mind and the human body?

02:07It kills us.

02:08That's exactly right.

02:10Now one of the disgraceful things that we don't talk about much that's going on in America

02:15is despite all of the money we spend on healthcare, I'm going to get to that in a second, despite

02:20all of the expenditures we have in healthcare, our life expectancy, how long we live, is four

02:28years shorter than people in other wealthy countries.

02:31Got it?

02:32But you know what's even worse?

02:34And it is never discussed.

02:37Working class people in America live lives that are seven years shorter than wealthy people.

02:48Why is that?

02:50Tell me one.

02:52Give me an example of what I'm talking about.

02:54All right.

02:55Raise your hand.

02:56Tell me what that is about.

02:57Yes.

02:58Stand up.

02:59Tell me more about it.

03:01What does that mean?

03:02All right.

03:03All right.

03:04You got cancer.

03:07The truth is I did.

03:08Yes.

03:09Woman right here.

03:11All right.

03:16You can't go to the gym because it requires some subscription.

03:19You can't get healthy food.

03:20You can't go to the doctor when you should.

03:23You have to live under those conditions day after day, month after month, year after year.

03:32What the doctors tell you.

03:33There is an expression.

03:35It's called the physiology of poverty.

03:38Physiology of stress.

03:40It impacts your heart.

03:41But it results in a whole lot of diseases, which is why working class people die significantly

03:47younger than the rich.

03:49That ain't right.

03:50Not only is that not right, it is criminal.

03:53We deserve it.

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