… American people, stealing the wealth that we created with their bribes, their bailouts and their billionaire tax breaks. This affordability crisis isn't something that happened over the last five years. This affordability crisis has been 50 years in the making. Since the late 1970s, mega donors and corporate special interests have been buying politicians in both political parties. And then those politicians turned around and rigged the economy to benefit their wealthy donors at our expense. (07:41–07:46)
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Asserts that the affordability crisis has developed over the last 50 years.
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