Sanders Reminds Senate Why America Is In Debt
Senator Bernard Sanders has been in Congress for a while, and so it was with experience and memory that he spoke recently on the reasons for the national debt:
“I get a little bit tired of being lectured about deficit reduction and how significant a problem our deficit is by many folks who voted for legislation time after time after time over the last ten years that in fact have caused the deficit crisis that we’re in right now. Some of us voted against the war in Iraq which will end up costing two to three trillion dollars unpaid for. Some of us voted against the Wall Street bailout. Some of us voted against tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires. Some of voted against the Medicare Part D prescription drug program written by the insurance companies. All of those four programs have resulted in trillions of dollars in debt. So, for those people who voted for that, please don’t lecture us about the deficit crisis.”
