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A New Year - 12/31/2008
The year 2008 is one which saw a much-needed change in leadership in Washington but also an economic crisis felt in households across the country. Middle class families knew long ago that this economic emergency was taking place, but Wall Street and Washington only woke up to it when the financial institutions themselves began faltering. Last spring, Sen. Bernie Sanders was talking about the collapse of the American middle class - well before Lehman brothers fell. Sanders heard in his numerous town meetings about the hardships faced every day by so many Americans which he compiled in his "Collapse of the Middle Class" booklet. The Nation wrote, "When just about everyone else in the Capitol was absorbed with the presidential race last fall, the independent senator from Vermont recognized that the biggest story of 2008 was not the election - it was the collapse of the economic house of cards..." Sanders voted against the bailout for Wall Street and has continued to fight to halt the second tranche of the $700 billion payout. Now he has set his priorities for 2009. -- READ MORE
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