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During the post debate spin room hosted by chris matthews, wife of alan greenspan, andrea mitchell said bernie doesnt have the killer instinct because he didnt make a big enough deal about the iowa caucus recount. There would be less total healthcare, less childcare, less energy available to households, and less. From hippie migrant to wouldbe president the washington post, april 30, 2015 the 25 best things we learned from bernie sanders book msnbc, may 28, 2015 sanders, bernard 29 march 1969. Sanders of vermont educates alan greenspan, chairman of the federal reserve first appointed by reagan in 1987. Trump promised to end endless wars, but this action puts us on the path to another one. Feb 05, 2016 the video shows an obviously irritated sanders explaining to the chairman that though he thinks greenspan is an honest person, he ultimately fails to understand whats going on in the real world. Later in greenspans tenor, bernie sanders riddled greenspan with questions about his. Jun 26, 2015 in 2003 bernie sanders read the riot act to alan greenspan, criticizing him for his ambivalence toward the plight of working families under his procorporate, probillionaire monetary policy. May, 2016 bernie sanders told alan greenspan in 2003 that he is way out of touch with the needs of the middle class and working families of our country.
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Sanders also served as mayor of burlington, vermont from 1981 through 1989. Greenspan was regarded as a free market, antiregulation, libertarian economic policy sage and selfdescribed disciple of ayn rand. Center faqs contact us store cspans book collection world legislatures. Sep 16, 2007 greenspan wrote in his book that the decision was costly. Watch bernie sanders tell alan greenspan, in 2003, that americans are not living the way that mr. Socialist bernie sanders gets superrich in capitalist u. And even alan greenspan, who served as fed chairman for almost two.
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