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I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system.

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Bernie Sanders
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: September 8
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In the 1980s and 1990s, Jack Welch, the CEO of General Electric, laid off over 100,000 employees. His reward? When he retired from GE, he received a golden parachute of over $400 million dollars. This is the kind of corporate greed and irresponsibility that is destroying the middle class and must be ended.
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I think we should look to countries like Denmark, like Sweden and Norway, and learn from what they have accomplished for their working people.
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