Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Some Tweets from Bernie Sanders


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    We have an affordable housing crisis and Trump is making it much worse. That is why today we are proposing the most progressive housing plan in history. Safe, decent, affordable housing should not be a privilege. It should be a right.
  • We're getting very close to reaching 1 million donors to this campaign. When we do, we are going to create a Donor Wall at campaign headquarters with names of everyone who helped us get there. Contribute today to put your name on our Donor Wall:
  • Because of GM's outrageous greed, 49,000 workers went on strike. So GM cut off their health benefits. This is why we need Medicare for All—so no one will ever lose coverage. Medicare for All means freedom, including freedom to strike.
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    2020 praise from comes today to , for his new housing plan "I appreciate Senator Sanders offering bold solutions to address the housing crisis here in Nevada and nationwide."
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    "We need a ." This historic, grassroots-sourced plan includes: 💥Millions of social homes 💥Massive reinvestment in public housing 💥National rent control 💥Decarbonization 💥Commitment to END homelessness A better world is within reach.
  • The climate crisis will affect every area of our lives, including housing. Guaranteeing green, affordable housing as a right through the Green New Deal is not only morally necessary, it is overwhelmingly popular with the American people.
  • We are all thinking of Ady today. Thank you for never backing down in the fight to guarantee health care to all people.
  • My parents never made much money, but we kept a roof over our heads because we lived in a rent-controlled apartment. Landlords cannot be allowed to raise rents to whatever they want, whenever they want. We need national rent control.
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    😮 housing plan directs $50 billion to community land trusts. And lots, lots more. Like $1.48 trillion (trillion!) over 10 years to the National Housing Trust Fund.
  • This is the richest country in the history of the world. No one in America should be homeless.
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    New: Bernie Sanders has announced his "Housing for All" plan this a.m. In it, Sanders is proposing a national rent cap of 3% or 1.5 times the CPI to "prevent the exploitation of tenants."
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    "We need a homes guarantee." - 🏠Nearly 10 million homes through the NHTF, social housing, Community Land Trusts, and other housing programs 🏠Section 8 for everyone who qualifies 🏠End homelessness 🏠National rent control And so much more
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    Another day, another bold housing plan from a leading presidential candidate! Thank you for laying out your vision to end homelessness and housing poverty.
  • There are 3,000+ counties in the United States. A minimum wage worker can afford to rent a one-bedroom home in just 28 of them. That is a national crisis. My plan will build the nearly 10 million new housing units our nation needs to guarantee housing as a right.
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    New: unveils $2.5 trillion "Housing for All" plan to "guarantee every American... a safe, decent, accessible, and affordable home," including: - Building 10 million homes - Investing $410 billion into Section 8 - Enacting 3% rent increase cap
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    This plan will have an outsized effect in CA, where the twin crises of affordability and homelessness have reached a breaking point: nearly 130,000 people are experiencing homelessness and renters need to earn $34.69 per hour to afford the average two-bedroom apartment.
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  • It comes as no surprise that Donald Trump's racism and xenophobia knows no bounds. I look forward to continue working with Rep. Omar long after Trump loses in 2020.
  • When I was a young man I had a job pushing crates of soda onto a truck from a warehouse, and my wages were very good. When I asked someone why, they said, “You’re working at a Teamsters shop.”
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    A note to anyone who wants to use union members as a wedge to oppose : has one of the best plans in the country, but management can still use it to hold workers hostage. puts power back in our hands.
  • Ban assault weapons.
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    The autoworkers on strike shouldn’t have to fight for basic healthcare. With ' Medicare for All, they will no longer have to and employers will have to compensate union workers for extra health care benefits they’ve negotiated in the past.
  • It is not Congress that regulates the pharmaceutical industry. It is the pharmaceutical industry that regulates Congress.
  • This is cruel, outrageous and a blatant attempt to force the union into submission. It is the type of corporate greed that the American people are sick and tired of. I say to GM: Restore the health care benefits that your workers have earned and deserve.