Bernie Sanders, Statement, May 11, 2016

People are right to be angry: they understand they did not cause the recession, but they had to pay for it while Wall Street grew richer.

— Bernie Sanders on Recession

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "People are right to be angry: they understand they did not cause the recession, but they had to pay for it while Wall Street grew richer." in the context of "Bernie Sanders, Statement, May 11, 2016" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Bernie Sanders

About Bernie Sanders

Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician who has served as the junior United States Senator from Vermont since 2007. The U.S. Representative for the state's at-large congressional district from 1991 to 2007, he is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history and a member of the Democratic caucus. Sanders ran unsuccessfully for the 2016 and 2020 Democratic nomination for president.