This happened today in Iowa, Bernie Sanders asked the crowd if anyone wanted to share what it is like to actually have to live on $12,000 per year in today’s world.
x YouTube VideoThe Washington Post placed this into focus today.
Bernie Sanders did a town hall event Monday morning in Iowa Falls, Iowa. He asked the crowd for testimonials on what it is like to live on $12,000 a year.
What happened next is both hard to watch/listen to and important. A woman is called on and she emotionally tells the story of her life -- minimum wage jobs despite a degree, on disability and living with her parents. Here's a snippet of what she said:
It’s so hard to do anything to pay your bills, you’re ashamed all the time...when you can’t buy presents for your children it’s really really really hard – and I work 3, 4, 5 jobs sometimes, always minimum wage, I have a degree, divorced and it’s just I’m waiting for disability to come through so my parents have to support me – it’s just hard.
This is why we MUST expand social security and end corporate welfare in this country. The control of the establishment over our economic future, our children’s future, is going to harm millions of Americans. We MUST end the class-warfare that has been the norm in our society for far, far too long.