Session #104 · 1995–97

Speech #1040056221

Let me just go back to another point. We are trying to understand why in America tens of millions of middleincome and working people are living under such stress. and we are trying to understand how it is that every day on the talk shows and here in Congress we hear people attacking minorities. attacking poor people. men attacking women as the cause of the problem. people attacking gay people. attacking immigrants. and yet it is amazing to me how little discussion there is on the issue that the gentleman from New York and the gentleman from Oregon and I are talking about. and that is the fact that the wealthiest 1 percent are seeing enormous increases in their holdings in America. that the wealthiest earners. 20percent earners. now earn more earned income than do the bottom 80 percent. that major corporation after major corporation are throwing American workers out on the street. going to Mexico where they are hiring people at 75cents an hour. going to China where they are hiring desperate people there for 20cents an hour. How come we are not allowed to focus our anger on those people. just on the poor. but not on the rich? I did not read in the Constitution.
Keywords matched
immigrants

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
minorities poor people gay people
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
80%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Other

Speaker & context

Speaker
BERNARD SANDERS
Party
I
Chamber
H
State
VT
Gender
M
Date
1995-05-03
Speech ID
1040056221
Paragraph
#0
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