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<blockquote data-quote="PiedmontSteward" data-source="post: 1848886" data-attributes="member: 42270"><p>I disagree brother. The level of income inequality in this country has reached utterly obscene levels and something drastically needs to change. We're basically in a similar state that we were in during the Great Depression, except the bottom never really fell out because the tax payers propped up the banks rather than letting them fail. </p><p></p><p>FDR was accused of many of the same things as Sanders, but he's generally credited with moving the economy in the right direction after he was elected. Quite frankly, if it weren't for FDR, this country probably would have undergone an incredibly violent socioeconomic revolution during the 1930's. Social Security is a hallmark of our society now and Medicare (created by LBJ, who rode the coat tails of "The New Deal" with his own "Great Society) is in the same boat. </p><p></p><p>We're the only "first world" industrial nation that doesn't offer universal health care. We're one of the few such nations that doesn't pay for people to go to college and the huge amount of debt saddling my generation (along with stagnant wages) is hamstringing the economy. I'm lucky enough that I have a good PT union job with good benefits that lets me do freelance work on the side so my $20k in student loans aren't so scary, but almost every one else I went to college with isn't so fortunate and that's keeping people from buying homes and making the economy move.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PiedmontSteward, post: 1848886, member: 42270"] I disagree brother. The level of income inequality in this country has reached utterly obscene levels and something drastically needs to change. We're basically in a similar state that we were in during the Great Depression, except the bottom never really fell out because the tax payers propped up the banks rather than letting them fail. FDR was accused of many of the same things as Sanders, but he's generally credited with moving the economy in the right direction after he was elected. Quite frankly, if it weren't for FDR, this country probably would have undergone an incredibly violent socioeconomic revolution during the 1930's. Social Security is a hallmark of our society now and Medicare (created by LBJ, who rode the coat tails of "The New Deal" with his own "Great Society) is in the same boat. We're the only "first world" industrial nation that doesn't offer universal health care. We're one of the few such nations that doesn't pay for people to go to college and the huge amount of debt saddling my generation (along with stagnant wages) is hamstringing the economy. I'm lucky enough that I have a good PT union job with good benefits that lets me do freelance work on the side so my $20k in student loans aren't so scary, but almost every one else I went to college with isn't so fortunate and that's keeping people from buying homes and making the economy move. [/QUOTE]
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