Occupy Democrats has the article Watch: Bernie Sanders Schools Wal-Mart Apologist On How Taxpayers Subsidize Poverty Wages | Occupy Democrats.

“Do you think the Walton Family (owners of Wal-Mart), worth a hundred billion dollars, is in need of welfare from the middle class of this country, or do you think maybe we should raise the minimum wage so those workers can earn a living wage and not have to get Medicaid or food stamps?”

I have been mulling over how I might clarify Sanders question.

“Do you think Walmart should be able to drive the competition out of business by paying their workers such a low wage and thereby selling goods so cheaply that the workers need government help to survive and work for Walmart? Isn’t Walmart taking advantage of government programs that they claim they are against?”

You might try to come up with how you would phrase the question to better drive home the point.

As I was posting this article on Facebook, I came up with the following:

“So we get to buy stuff at Wal-Mart cheap, but we have to pay taxes to support Medicaid and food stamps for Wal-Mart workers. Is that really a good deal for us?”

Democracy Now has the interview Seymour Hersh Details Explosive Story on Bin Laden Killing & Responds to White House, Media Backlash.

Four years after U.S. forces assassinated Osama bin Laden, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has published an explosive piece claiming much of what the Obama administration said about the attack was wrong.

Before this, I had seen headlines on the internet to vague references to a story we were not supposed to believe. When I saw this headline that Seymour Hersh wrote the story, I realized it was something worth reading about.

As promised in the video, Democracy Now had the link to the London Review Of Books article The Killing of Osama bin Laden by Seymour Hersch.

Seymour Hersh says in the interview that he doesn’t think that when President Obama made his public announcement of the killing of Osama bin Laden that he was aware of how much of his words were untrue.

Now, start thinking of President Obama’s assurances that the Transpacific Trade Partnership (TPP) does not have the awful things in it that Elizabeth Warren claims the TPP does. How does he know, if he is just going by what his advisers tell him? He claims that the events Warren worries about coming from the TPP are hypothetical, and would never happen. Do you suppose that Elizabeth Warren might actually know more about how big Wall Street banks and big corporations cheat the rest of us than Barack Obama can even imagine?

Can we trust a President who is so naive that he thinks he is in control? He claims he studied law at Harvard University to find out where the levers of power were. We know he is not dumb enough to have come away from that experience without an appreciation of how power is actually exercised. What does he think of our naivete if he thinks we will buy his explanation?

Politicus Usa has the post Bernie Sanders Is Terrifying Wall Street By Pushing Hillary Clinton To The Left.

Bernie Sanders is having a large impact on the race for the Democratic nomination. The Senator from Vermont is shaping the debate. He has shown that he is not afraid to up the ante by taking solidly liberal policy positions.

The Politicus USA story talks about the story from The Hill, Banks brace for Bernie Sanders.

Sanders (I-Vt.) last week unveiled new legislation designed to break up the nation’s largest banks, declaring that “if an institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.”
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Paul Merski, an executive vice president at the Independent Community Bankers Association, said many smaller community banks support Sanders’s effort.

If the big banks might think that Bernie Sanders’ legislation is “shrill, bombastic and misaligned,” it is interesting to note what the small banks think.

I also like the notion that Sanders’ opposition might might be underestimating him, while he is actually speaking for millions of Democrats that the party would like to pretend don’t exist.