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Offline kevindavis007

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Bernie Sanders slams Amazon and Jeff Bezos as part of 'a rigged economy'
« on: May 26, 2018, 07:32:45 pm »

The criticisms follow President Trump's own attacks against the company.

About a month after Amazon faced harsh criticism from President Donald Trump, the company is now getting attacked from the other side of the political spectrum.

Senator Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, on Tuesday posted a video online deriding Amazon's treatment of its warehouse workers, juxtaposing that situation against CEO Jeff Bezos' enormous wealth. He called this scenario a clear sign of "a rigged economy."

The video was posted one day after Sanders, an advocate for a higher minimum wage, announced his plans to seek a third term in the Senate later this year.

"Bezos makes more in 10 seconds than the median Amazon employee makes in a year: $28,466," the video stated, referencing Bezos' status as the world's richest person thanks to his 16 percent stake in Amazon.

Read More: https://www.cnet.com/news/bernie-sanders-derides-amazons-business-practices-bezos-wealth/
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Re: Bernie Sanders slams Amazon and Jeff Bezos as part of 'a rigged economy'
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2018, 07:50:44 pm »
Bernie has never worked a day in his life but yet has managed to make a nice nest egg for him and his commie pinko family.
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Re: Bernie Sanders slams Amazon and Jeff Bezos as part of 'a rigged economy'
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2018, 08:20:10 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on May 26, 2018, 07:50:44 pm
Bernie has never worked a day in his life but yet has managed to make a nice nest egg for him and his commie pinko family.

No kidding!  I wonder how that trial with his wife for stealing money from a college turned out?  Is it still ongoing?

Corrected, it's for fraud and it's still being looked at by the FBI and a grand jury:  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/07/witness-in-jane-sanders-land-deal-probe-says-was-recently-interviewed-by-fbi.html
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Re: Bernie Sanders slams Amazon and Jeff Bezos as part of 'a rigged economy'
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2018, 08:57:43 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on May 26, 2018, 07:50:44 pm
Bernie has never worked a day in his life but yet has managed to make a nice nest egg for him and his commie pinko family.

It's what can happen in America, Bernie, unless we become a socialist country.
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Re: Bernie Sanders slams Amazon and Jeff Bezos as part of 'a rigged economy'
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2018, 09:05:28 pm »
Amazon was all part of the super funky triple coffee shop cool of online hipster hipness - until they started becoming too rich with too big market share.

Bezos may be a liberal loon, but Amazon allows people to buy things at a decent price that, particularly in the rural areas, you'd have to drive 100 miles or more to even look at.
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Re: Bernie Sanders slams Amazon and Jeff Bezos as part of 'a rigged economy'
« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2018, 11:08:28 pm »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on May 26, 2018, 09:05:28 pm
Bezos may be a liberal loon, but Amazon allows people to buy things at a decent price that, particularly in the rural areas, you'd have to drive 100 miles or more to even look at.

And it has ever been so - The modern example of Sears & Roebuck's catalog, but without the advantage of preserved out of date catalogs being pressed into outhouse service.
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Re: Bernie Sanders slams Amazon and Jeff Bezos as part of 'a rigged economy'
« Reply #6 on: May 26, 2018, 11:21:14 pm »
   Guess the compost is disseminating bad $hit about bernie too.
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Re: Bernie Sanders slams Amazon and Jeff Bezos as part of 'a rigged economy'
« Reply #7 on: May 26, 2018, 11:21:52 pm »
Quote from: roamer_1 on May 26, 2018, 11:08:28 pm
And it has ever been so - The modern example of Sears & Roebuck's catalog, but without the advantage of preserved out of date catalogs being pressed into outhouse service.

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Re: Bernie Sanders slams Amazon and Jeff Bezos as part of 'a rigged economy'
« Reply #8 on: May 26, 2018, 11:33:32 pm »
Did the liberals rig the economy too? Naw
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