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Bernie Sanders: “Instead of spending a trillion dollars a year on the…”

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

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Bernie Sanders' May Day Speech in Philadelphia on Workers' Rights and Oligarchy

Published | Video Starts at 20:40

You and I know that it is an existential threat. We can create millions of good paying union jobs by transforming our energy system into energy efficiency and sustainable energy. And brothers and sisters, Instead of spending a trillion dollars a year on the military, we can cut military spending and build 5 million units of low income and affordable housing. income and affordable housing. Now, I'm not going to tell you that the struggle in front of us is easy. The oligarchs own the economy, they own the media, they own the political process. (20:40–21:08)

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Asserts that military spending can be reduced to fund affordable housing.

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