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Bernie Sanders: “Over the last 50 or so years, real inflation accounted for…”

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

Who Owns America? Bernie Sanders Says the Quiet Part Out Loud

Published October 9, 2025 | Video Starts at 18:20

Earning less than ever before. That's right. Income's not matching up with inflation. You got it. Yeah. So here's a startling fact. We put it in the book, and that is, Over the last 50 or so years, real inflation accounted for wages. Weekly wages for the average American worker is lower today than it was 50 years ago. Lower today than it was 50 years ago. Think about explosion in technology, Right. Workers are far more productive. They're producing a lot more. (18:20–18:33)

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“One guy, Elon Musk, [owns] more wealth than the bottom 52% of American households.”
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“These three corporations combined are the dominant stockholders of 95% of American corporations.”
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“Six large international conglomerates, media conglomerates, that control about 90% of what the American people see here and read.”
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“During that same period, there was a $75 trillion transfer of wealth that went from the bottom 90% to the top 1%.”
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“We got a half a million people go bankrupt every year because of medical bills [in the United States].”
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“Trump is, in my view, the most dangerous president in American history.”
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“The system is broken.”
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“In the richest country in the history of the world, we should be doing a hell of a lot better than we are doing today.”
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“We have more income and wealth inequality than we've ever had in the history of the United States.”
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“You have more concentration of ownership.”
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“Kamala Harris had some 80 billionaires contributing to her campaign.”
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“60% of people in America today live paycheck to paycheck.”
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“We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on Earth.”
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“Highest rate of senior poverty of almost any major country on Earth.”
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“You had the three wealthiest guys, Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg, sitting right behind Trump.”
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“Right behind them were another, I think, 15 billionaires who Trump had nominated to head up major federal agencies.”
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“The Citizens United Supreme Court decision allows huge amounts of money in super PACs.”
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“If I put tens and tens of millions of dollars into your opponent, Trevor, I will beat you most of the time.”
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“The Democratic Party, according to the polls today, is at the lowest point that has been in decades.”
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“Bill Ackerman says, we are oligarchs, we are billionaires, and we are now going to spend as much money as it takes to defeat Mr. Mondani.”
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“Many of these big tech guys, they don't believe in democracy.”
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“Centrist parties like the Democratic Party are in decline in Germany, in France, in the UK.”
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“Right wing extremist bodies like Trump's MAGA movement are on ascendancy, with some exceptions.”
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“Working people, rural people are feeling left behind while the rich get richer.”
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“The current leadership of the Democratic Party is...way out of touch with where working families and the majority of the people are.”
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“There should be enthusiasm and excitement. There is fear that working class people...are going to get involved and threaten the existence of…”
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“The United States, the richest country on earth, is the only major country not to guarantee health care to all people.”
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“I introduced the [Medicare for All] bill in the Senate. We got I think 15 co-sponsors. Out of 15 out of 47.”
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“For years we've been fighting to lower the outrageous cost of prescription drugs.”
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“Psychologists tell us that 0 through 4 are the most significant years of human development intellectually and emotionally.”
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“In the richest country on earth. Don't you think we would have the best childcare system in the world?”
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“When I was a kid, young man, graduated James Madison High School here in Brooklyn, New York. And I went my first year of college to Brooklyn…”
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“University of California, one of the great university systems in the world. That was, I don't know the exact year, 60 years ago, 70 years…”
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“City College, before it was the city university, was tuition free for a very, very long time.”
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“Into LA, there were 36,000 people.”
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“Denver, 34,000 or something like that.”
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“We've been now to over 20 states. We did 35 events.”
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“The working class of America...disproportionately...it's black, it's Latino, and women.”
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“Higher education is often free [in Scandinavian countries].”
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“Childcare is often high quality, free [in Scandinavian countries].”
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“Unions are much stronger than they are in the United States [in Scandinavian countries].”
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“You go to Germany, you graduate college, you're not in debt.”
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“A Labor government said, Health Care, 1948. Healthcare is a human right [in Great Britain].”
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“In the early 70s, Canada said the same thing [about healthcare being a human right].”
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“The two major parties are deeply, deeply flawed and in many ways out of touch with ordinary people.”
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“There is a real possibility that there will be a third party.”
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“We are prepared to take on powerful special interests in the corporate world and the oligarchs.”
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