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Bernie Sanders: “The entire system, broadly defines economic and political…”

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

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

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… college today, doesn't have any money, leave school 50, $70,000 in debt, go to medical school, come out $500,000 in debt. All right. All that I'm saying here is that The entire system, broadly defines economic and political, is working phenomenally well for the people on top of it is screwing working class families. who are struggling and in many ways are in desperate shape. Yeah. And what's sad about that is all of the information that comes out, as you said, is oftentimes coming out from media that's attached to those people. (40:01–40:14)

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Asserts that the current economic and political system benefits the wealthy and disadvantages working-class families.

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