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Bernie Sanders: “We have beaten down government for so many years that it is…”

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

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Jon Stewart & Bernie Sanders on Rebuilding Trust & Efficacy in the Government The Weekly Show

Published | Video Starts at 43:07

… are proud to say, you know, I work for this agency, that agency, and this is what we're doing. And we're doing it in an efficient, cost effective, quality way. We have beaten down government for so many years that it is hard even to attract those people into the bureaucracy. But the bureaucracy, to be fair, is responsible for some of this. They layer in regular. I mean, it's. When you talk about homelessness, really hard to build new housing. (43:07–43:15)

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Asserts that government has been undermined, making it difficult to attract talent to the bureaucracy.

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