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Bernie Sanders: “Unless we change how our economy works, our younger…”

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

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Full Bernie Sanders speech at No Kings protest blasts Donald Trump, Iran war and affordability

Published | Video Starts at 16:01

In America today, tens of thousands of our people die every year unnecessarily because they cannot afford to go to a doctor. And Unless we change how our economy works, our younger generation, our kids, for the first time in modern history, will have a lower standard of living than their parents. So today, we not only say no to Trump's authoritarianism, we say no to Mr. Musk, no to Mr. Bezos and Mr. Zuckerberg and Mr. Ellison and all the other multi billionaires. (16:01–16:17)

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Asserts that the younger generation will have a lower standard of living than their parents without economic change.

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