Friday Quote From Bernie Sanders

I love Bernie.  You can take the boy out of New York, but you can't take the New York out of the boy and Bernie is an old fashioned stickball playing, smart talking, liberal thinking New York kid even though he now represents Vermont.  I wish he represented ME-- well in spirit he does.  This whole video where he lays out what he thinks of Republican ideas for the super committee is what I think too and my favorite quote is at about 0:36 -- to wit:

" I will be damned if we are going to balance the budget on the backs of the elderly, the sick, the children and the poor. That's WRONG!"

Throwing Old Ladies Into The Cold

I love Bernie Sanders, Vermont's Senator.  He's an Independent-- neither Democrat nor Republican and he doesn't mince words. Watch this video and watch Bernie go up against Secretary of the Treasury, Tim Geihtner  on the subject of the deficit --and the absolute hypocrisy of funding two wars, cutting taxes for the top 1% of Americans and then trying to pay off the resulting mega debt on the backs of the old and the sick.

 Listen to this video twice, because it is a passionate plea that is also full of facts and figures you may not have heard--and most importantly, Bernie gets Secretary Geithner to validate each and every one of them.

I love Bernie Sanders for calling out the Senate and reminding them that by cutting the Federal subsidy for home heating for low income elderly people in Vermont ( where winter temps go to twenty below zero) , they will effectively be throwing little old ladies out into the cold.

Like they say, "you can't con an honest man. " Go Bernie!!!!