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Bernie Sanders: “Half of all the workers in America have nothing in the bank…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Joe Rogan and Bernie Sanders Discuss Economic Inequality, Automation, and Political Corruption

Published | Video Starts at 04:41

When you retire, you're going to get X hundreds of dollars a week that's long gone. Corporations have gotten rid of that. So you got something like Half of all the workers in America have nothing in the bank when they face retirement. So I think, to answer your question, I think you got a rigged system controlled economically and politically by very, very wealthy and powerful people who could care less for working families. (04:41–04:45)

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Asserts that half of American workers have no savings for retirement.

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