Meet Sen. Cruz's "Slackers"
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2022
- Senator Cruz, let me introduce to you a group of nurses and working class Americans who, in many cases, are working two jobs and over 40 hours a week just to pay off their student debt and pay for the basic necessities of life. No, they are not slackers. They deserve relief.
Join us at www.berniesanders.com!
Calling minimum wage workers "slackers" is a huge self-report that you've never worked a real job in your life.
At first I thought he was clueless, but we have to ask himself? Is he REALLY out of touch, or is he purposely spouting propaganda and creating a fictional narrative to make it harder for people with actual debt to get out of debt.
Both, Tony.
@@tonyyoung3985 Donald Trump said his father was involved in the JFK assassination and he became one of Trump's greatest supporters. He called Jan 6 a crime and then went on Tucker Carlson's show to grovel, scrape and beg and walk it all back. He ran off when Texas froze and then blamed it on his daughters.
The only fealty the man has is to his bank account. Cruz is human-shaped effluent.
That’s so demeaning Raphael
Well said. How did a scum bag like him get into power??? 🤯😜🤣😂
That "slacker barista" contributes far more to society than ted cruz ever has.
or ever will...
TOTALLY AGREED!
Especially as cruise participated to actively deny certification of other states’ electoral votes.
And, hopefully, that "slacker barista" comment will contribute to his downfall.
"who ordered the douche bag special, with extra snot?!?!?!... CRUZ??? MR CRUZ????" - his next coffee order.
Every single barista has worked WAY harder than Ted Cruz ever has.
Damn I hate it when politicians do things that make people want to vote for them! That’s not how democracy is supposed to work!
Isn’t this the same guy who fled to Cancun when Texas needed help after the electrical grid failure? And then blamed going to Cancun on his daughters? Sounds like a slacker to me.
@MARINA N & also left the family pet, a smallish breed dog, in his house with no heating. Conditions that cruz had clearly deemed too cold for himself & his family though! I believe he claimed a security person would be feeding & taking the dog out a couple of times a day, like that was sufficient! Why was he not charged for animal neglect?! Regards from Bernie fans in Scotland.🇬🇧💙🇺🇸🗽🌊
absolutely no integrity.
Exactly
Not a slacker just a asshole…
Cruz is no slacker. Can you even imagine how much work it takes him to appear human? I mean he's not great at it exactly, but it's still a lot of effort.
Talking about useless things, there's Ted Cruz!
And your mom
So he assumes all people on student loans are slackers? Wow, reminds me of The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air episode where Carlton said he wants to go to college so he can make fun of the people on student loans. Ted Cruz is so of touch.
@@gcord21 and you are so unintelligent
@Kenny Alternative and I'm pretty sure his "thing" is useless!!! 😒
@@barbaracarroll1497 you would know
I can't believe he said "get off the bong!" OMG! I have worked as an independent professional in 25 counties of my state! But I had the double whammy of raising a daughter with CF who passed the life-long limit of Blue Cross when she was 16, and still required a double-lung transplant in her 20s...and because her dad was killed in a car accident when we were all very young (she was 4 at the time)...it was on just me! So I fell for the higher education loan programs as a way to make things easier with professional wages. All I did was doom us into a trap I never escaped before she died at age 48 last year. My loans have been in default twice and I have lifted them out twice. I was promised the fees involved would be forgiven but they weren't. I owe three times what I originally borrowed and though I filed a medical bankruptcy once was unable to include them. All of the stressful damage in my life comes from one reality only...that I was born in a trickle down judgemental country with people like Cruz at the helm who have not one iota of understanding when they open their ignorant mouths.
I feel ya my wife was 54 when we finally paid off her student loan debt. Just because we had to pay ours doesn't mean others shouldn't have that people that don't like the debt forgiveness are just selfish self centered and cruel.
people giving away other people's hard earned money are vile human beings.
@@marcodesalud7034 I presume this is a taxation is theft argument?
@@jacobite2353 it's not theft if you have to fill out forms. more freeeee!!
@@marcodesalud7034 But you directly benefit and use services funded from taxes. Roads were built with taxes, you drive on them for example. You pay you get. IDK if you are being satirical or not
@@jacobite2353 I dont have a problem with taxes. Do you believe there's a point where the value of what is received in tax payments exceed what you receive in tax benefits? Do you believe there are uses of taxes that contradict values for which you affirm? I don't mind taxes and roads are an innocuous example. But it is inconsistent with my values to use taxes for Japanese internment camps, just as it is to pay for irresponsible children's spending problems.
I knew Cruz was a worthless human being, but wow he's outdone himself here. Thank you Bernie for contrasting his garbage words with the truth. I am so happy these strong union workers are fighting back. It takes courage and tenacity but they have you to support them and give them voice here on your channel. Absolute support to them and thank you ❤ for your untiring efforts.
Cruz doesn’t embody graft though.
praying for his downfall fr 🙏
@@harrymann5523 lol , i hope that's a joke ?
Cruz is an embarrassment…….. to the human race.
Ted Cruz is a republican SCAB.
Senator Cruz should keep his mouth shut about hardworking Americans with real problems.
Cancun Cruz has no leg to stand on when it comes to the criticism of sloth.
He's an extreme far-rightist politician who doesn't believe that climate change is real and literally abandoned his own STATE when there was a huge blackout and millions of people went without power. Yet, even when he already proved himself to be a terrible person, people kept voting for him because they're scared of the Left (Thanks McCarthy!) or because they don't want to change to a democrat.
Raphael Cruz is actually a naturally born Canadian... he is a immigrant..
Welcome to our country Teddy!
@@lori8884 he was an accident. He’s not a Canadian. He was just born here 🇨🇦 Nothing natural about him
@@lori8884 if he was born in Canada then he can't be a presidential candidate.
Immoral, amoral Teddy. Thank you again Bernie for standing for what's right. This needs to play all over the U.S. during elections.
It's crazy that Bernie Sanders has had to work this hard for this long to convince Americans to vote to improve their own lives. His energy and commitment is awe inspiring.
You sir, are ignorant of basic facts.
Nothing is free. Ever.
I paid for college by going in-state, living cheap, working full-time, and avoiding debt of ANY kind.
I also graduated with a BS in four years.
So now I'm supposed to support others' poor choices? No.
Or, maybe, just maybe, not everyone who wants to go to college belongs there.
Or maybe they can sacrifice and do what I did. Avoid the private institutions, stay in-state, work during school, limit party life, and get a useful degree.
No, I did things correctly; helping othes' entitled children is NOT improving my life.
I don't think Ted's ever actually worked a day in his life before, so it's easy for him to call service industry workers "slackers".
Cruz IS HUMAN(?!) EXCRAMENT!
so obvious he's never retrieved his own coffee either, had he, he'd know barrista's do not slack.
These people work for all of us!!! Vote Blue!!!
Oh, but Bernie has 😂…..the millionaire socialist 🤡
@@jakeragsdale stop defending Ted “Clown” Cruz
I'm so grateful that those lazy slackers put down their bongs long enough to get their degrees in Nursing, even though they knew it would likely saddle them with student loan debt for years. Thank you, nurses.
@@smeff099 exactly, I’m in a 2 year ADN program and it costs 5k for all of it. People are dumb enough to fall for this clap trap bs. Who forced anyone to take out student loans?
Wow, JB! You're such a wonderful example of compassionate humanity...how long have you been a nurse?
@@My_cat_is_fat no kiddo, no there's not. The only difference is you're required to get your bsn within 5 years of employment.
Oh no. 5 years to finish online classes that the hospital will pay for. 🤔 Keep lying.
New grad pay is the same regardless of ADN or BSN. BECSUSE NURSING PAY IS BASED ON EXPERIENCE AND NOT EDUCATION YA LYING TWIT.
Sorry, JB, you just exposed your 'troll' status. (That's why I didn't click on your name...trolls only get paid if you respond to them directly.) A real nurse (or human being, for that matter) would never say someone was a waste of time because they didn't have health insurance. 🙄 Guess that subtlety doesn't translate well from Russian. I may be wrong about the Russian part, but in any case, you should go back to community college, because it's "who's got", not "whose". Good luck, Comrade.
Nursing *is* difficult. The image of the nurse that takes a BP and weight in a doctor’s office is essentially out of date. That person now might be a CNA. Hospital nurses have tough jobs. No room for mistakes, 12 hour shifts, on your feet most of the shift, often not getting a chance to eat during the 12 hours, and sometimes scrambling to get in a pee break. The ability of a 2 year RN to compete for a decent-paying job with a 4 year BSN is terrible. And it’s not like nurses are exceptionally well compensated. I hope the next time you’re in a hospital, you treat your nurse well. They are the ones that can arrange for the pain medication or can alert the attending to your deteriorating condition. Anyone that bad mouths hospital nurses in general should have to self treat the next time he or she is in acute medical distress.
Every company is structured like a pyramid, with a reliance on a large number of "slackers" to function and the higher you scale the pyramid, the less room there is.
The system is designed to keep the bottom of the pyramid as full as possible.
I tried to explain this to somebody once and they seriously told me everyone should start their own company if they were smart. My mom tried to start a pizzeria and lost over $20,000 back in the early 2000's because she wasn't a local and the people in that area didn't take to out of towners. It's so easy to lose big, on our case it was the most unpredictable reason she never thought about at all
Senator Sanders, Thank you for all the work you have done throughout your life for the working class of America. I really am disheartened because nothing is going to really change under the money system we have had since the inception of the FEDERAL RESERVE!! How can we reject this financial slavery we are in? And begin a real process of change in America?
I'm from Germany and here higher education is free. And as you can see Germany is doing pretty good. By the way if a students parents can't afford to help pay for their child to live in a flat near the uni then the student gets money from the government. And they don't have to pay it back. And Germany is still doing pretty good.
But, unlike in America, you're not standing on your own two feet, you're bumming off the hard working. In America, we like not being beholden to anyone even if it destroys our lives and turns us into wage slaves, Yeah! Cry freedom!
@@davidwilson9264 Nope, the bumming off of hard working folks is an unrelated phenomena; what Mathew is describing might be called helping each other an an organized fashion - it's purpose is more or less to help everybody have a healthy place in society. It creates a more educated, healthier, happier and less violent population.
You were being facetious, I know.
Still, Americans, feel free to try a little actual democracy, sprinkle in some welfare and finish with a little guaranteed pensions for your past-golden elderly generation.
Ahh, dreams.
@@davidwilson9264 .
Bollocks, in Europe people are not selfish bastards as in the US, they believe in the common good. Educated citizens are a benefit to the country as a whole.
I detect sarcasm
Damn socialism! LoL
Mr. Cruz, I think you’re right. I think turnout is going to be high. But I don’t think it’s for the reasons you think.
This despicable goblin hates democracy, like all Republicans. He can’t stand the fact that improving people’s material conditions appears to be more of a winning strategy than fanning the flames of xenophobia, racism, transphobia etc... and making people fearful and angry.
Please Please Please.!!!!!!!
I agree, some of the things this administration has been doing and the backlash that’s going to come from it are going to produce quite a turn out.
@@kevinbishop6582 ya but I wouldn't dream of ever voting for Ted Cruz for president either he's worthless to I really don't know if republicans have a plan eather to really do nothing republicans just became a cult I'm a republican and I can't even stand my own party that's why I don't vote I'm just. A man without a party kinda like Adam kiningzer cause I hate both sides
@@kevinbishop6582 you mean the backlash the rathugliKKKans will pay for their impudence?
imagine calling someone working multiple jobs just to live a slacker
The choice is clear - we can forgive student loan debt, or we can destroy the economic future of America. People must not be forced to continue repaying student loans because it discourages higher education, discourages career mobility, discourages entrepreneurship, discourages home buying, discourages investing and saving. We are taking away resources from the people that power America. We are cutting off our own legs to feed investors and wealthy institutions.
Ted Cruz wants to turn this into a morality argument about who deserves what and how poor people are lesser human beings. It is distasteful and cruel, as is typical for Ted, but more importantly it is also a stupid and irrelevant argument. Student debt is now such a massive problem that it could trigger another depression if the bubble implodes. To protect America's economic future and keep the economy healthy, student loan debt must be canceled.
I am afraid your argument is way too rational.
*Insert an ad hominem attack here*
And therefore, you are wrong and Ted Cruz should be the president.
Astala Vista lefty!!
This is exactly how mindless Republicans are now.
They can bail out Corporations in 2008 by parachuting Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke into Treasury jobs,they were part of the problem at Goldman Sachs and AIG.The American Taxpayers bailed out Corporate Greed to the tune of Hundreds of Billions...these Corporations don't work for the benefit of the American public.The American working public prop up the American economy, without them the USA is Nothing.
Ted Cruz, the guy who takes a vacation on public money the second he needs to, for the first time in his life, actually do his job, has the nerve to call people who actually work slackers, because of course he does.
Don't forget that one of those vacations (AT LEAST!!) was during a crisis in the State he is supposed to serve. ted cruz is what you get when you're finished scraping the bottom of the barrel, you know, the one you find in the sewer.
I guess Ted considered it "work" to bail on all his freezing constituents.
@@pleasetakemecanada Naw!! Ducking out is what he does best. LOL
@@pleasetakemecanada Cancun Cruz who ran away from responsibility…
@@viewfromthehighchair9391 No, you're thinking of cucking out. Remember how happily he sucked up to Trump while Trump was insulting his wife.
I just love it when bloated millionaires who have never done an honest day's work in their lives tell us how to live, or that we're not working hard enough. I just love that. Tell us all about it, Ted.
You mean like Bernie 😂 are you really that dense? 🤦♂️
Yeah tell us about it Bernie
Yeah tell us about it David 🤮
@@davidstoyanoff Bernie has a history of working class jobs before becoming a politician but yeah sure dude, you’re so witty and clever
@@davidstoyanoff technically the nurses were telling you about it in this clip Bernie just asked the questions.
IM A HAIr stylist and my wife works for a bank. We do pretty good and have two children in college and are trying to get them through college with no loans. I feel for these folks who didn’t have that support. My parents helped me and I will help my kids get a debt free start. I wish that for you all. Barring that It’s great to see some debt relief coming your way.
My wife is a hard working doctor (is there another kind), and she’s otherwise ready to retire now, except that she still owes over $60,000 in student loans. It’s pretty insane.
Most people attending medical school have family money. The few who don’t are expected to take out between $100,000-$200,000 loans to cover the costs. The poorer you are, the more loans you need.
We’re poor, so my wife needed all of them! She’s already paid off over $80,000, but NONE has gone towards the principal. She basically still owes the same amount today as she took out in loans decades ago.
Of course you could say she deserved it because of her choices. For example, she became one of the lowest paid doctors in the country, as a family practice doctor (primary care). If she had made a smarter decision, she could have chosen to become a surgeon or neurologist that get paid 2-3 times more.
I guess Mr. Cruz would say it’s her own damn fault for wanting to interact and help people with all different problems. In fact half the doctors in our country are primary care doctors. So I guess they are all dumb slackers, too.
Teddy' s Not Thinking About you Folks & What The Real World Has To Go Through ! ! Because He Is a " BLABBER MOUTH " Not a Real Thinker ! ! !
I was a single mom, youngest in diapers when I decided to quit my "stable" and "secure" job, making $6.00 an hour as a receptionist at a pediatric clinic. I received all of the grants, plus several scholarships and student loans. I graduated the nursing program with honors, top of my class, in fall 1991. I worked 3 jobs at once to make ends meet. I struggled for years, but did manage to pay off those student loans! They were so much lower then, but it still took from my overall meager earnings to support my kids. My eldest daughter is almost 40. She has not been able to go to college, nor has my other daughter. Their struggles are so much more than even mine! I believe that every person in America should be awarded a good education, free of the crippling debt to obtain it, and free them up to pursue a career of choice, and one that affords a decent living. We are not the "Land of the Free!!" But rather we are the land of the enslaved, serving only for the greater good of their capitalist slave owners!!
Exactly how I feel, have felt, for decades. It gives me a sad sort of hope to see more and more people realizing this. It seems the Covid-19 years have been a wake-up call.
We're nothing more than cattle to The Owners.
Thank you, so very well said. I’m sorry your daughters are struggling. As you say, this IS NOT the land of the free, it’s the land of keeping people down. So sad. 💙🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙
It makes sense, what you write, Susan. Once in a good job, the free education is paid forward to others because of another working person contributing to society, reasonable taxes to support the infrastructure, and more. It is win-win!
My husband and I both had student debt when we got out of school. We struggled to get out from under it. We both worked two jobs, put off buying a house, put off buying a car, put off buying furniture (slept on the floor), never bought a book, never went to see a movie, never went out to eat. And saving anything? You gotta be kidding me, right? We couldn't afford to eat, we certainly save anything. We finally both got the debt paid off, but life really sucked until we did--we both still felt like we were starving students. I am not in the least bit upset that we are now forgiving student loans. We SHOULD do that. We SHOULD make college free for anyone who wants to attend. Republicans think it's going to cost too much money. Okay. How much money do we lose when people can't buy anything and can't save anything? How much do we lose when our population is uneducated and we can't compete globally? How much do we lose when we don't have enough nurses, teachers, doctors, engineers, and even lawyers? But it won't be the rich Republicans suffering. It will be you and me. Vote them out and replace with someone who gives a damn about YOU.
Give Bernie 4 years as Potus and it is ok.
I love this. It shows what a horrible human being Ted Cruz is with his own words. We need more of this.
I’m sure he has lots Glen
Indeed !
Sadly, cruz has been showing us what a horrible excuse for a human being
he is with his own words and actions for quite a while . . . and yet . . . !
Glenn, as a Canadian I am so happy that Cancun Cruz renounced his Canadian citizenship. He's one of the most pathetic Trumplicans in the caucus of cowards, formerly known as the Republican party.
I am tired of being shown
Why should I be forced to pay for your degree.
This doesn't fix the system, if you want to spend 600 million to fix the system I'm game.
As a Texan, it disgusts me that Ted lives off my taxes.
Rafael Cruz is an amazing human. He can sit upright and talk without a spine.
Bernie Sanders. Steadfast for his entire senate run. Always educates. Always advocates. We're the ones who let him down by being apathetic and not voting. Roll up your sleeves my fellow Americans. Let's get the job done.
Love Bernie ❤️
The minimum wage worker contributes far more to society than Ted Cruz ever did.All he ever done is vote for special interest groups instead of voting for laws that help the poor and working class folks.Typical republican though.
I voted for him both times.
We voters did do our job in voting for Bernie, and then when he was on track to win, we watched the Democratic Party bring him down. Twice.
@@lornalaurie278 should have president 2 times also
Yeah Ted, turns out, when you actually do things that enrich peoples' lives instead of being an asshole and calling them 'lazy pothead slackers' just because they work in the service industry, they just might be more likely to support you! Imagine that!
Or they Feel the Bern bc they want to work 20 hours a week making coffee and have other hardworking tax payers foot the bill for all their "needs."
Dunno if he's capable of doing that 😂😂😂
To be a Republick-End nowadays is to be so oblivious that you don't realize you're IN a room, and it needs to be read.
The fact that the Republican party considers full-time, minimum wage workers "slackers" should tell you everything.
" Trickle Down Economics " ! ! !
Thank you Bernie for fighting for me. I know you were fighting an uphill battle against Joe Biden who didn't want to do anything about this. He looked pained in his face when he promised 10,000 during the primaries. I know for a fact you must have worn out your voice to get the pell grant rule for 20,000. Who should we support in order to get more Senators like You?
Remember that during Covid the meatpackers who are payed minimum wages and have to sork under appalling circumstances had to keep working to provide everyone with meat (including Ted Cruz). Without these people there would have been serious food shortage.
I am sorry, if anyone is a slacker, it is Ted Cruz in my mind. Going for a vacation to Mexico while his whole state was freezing. Most people cannot afford a vacation. Many work two jobs to make ends meet.
I would like to challenge Ted Cruz to work incognito as a meatpacker for a month and pay rent, food, insurance, carpayments and gas from the wages.
Working at Amazon is also an option.
Meatpackers dont need college degrees so this is irrelevant
Imagine the makeup required for tc to go incognito.
Ted eats so much meat that now his head is full of it.
Sadly, rail workers may need to strike imminently, and then the shortages will make our current inconveniences pale in comparison. :/
I have an idea for a new reality show. Have greedy investment bankers, rightwing Republicans like TC get paid for a year on middleclass wages or live on a fixed income and see if they can survive in a 3100.00 a month studio apt with lousy ac and heat, 500.00 a month groceries and still afford their business lunches, fancy autos and vacation. Call it The Real Survivors
Overturning Roe was enough to get blue votes. Student Loan aid is the icing on the cake.💙🤣🤣
So true.
Please don't be satisfied with the nothingness the dems have given us for years. We want and deserve real change, not reacquiring rights already thought to be ensured
@@fuglong
I'll be happy to see all the useless lying republicans lose every election & Trump in jail. Then we can see real progress.
Sure Vets would be voting blue, as GOP continues to alienate the working people.
@@fwscfemalewhiteseniorcitiz3711 So everyones says the dems aren't for the working people and now the Republicans aren't. So who is?
Bernie I'm such a fan of you the man.You have a heart like no other,you are a political saint, if people listened ,honestly listened you would win all hearts and minds.🥰🙏✌️ you're the best,God bless
I’m a Texan and I absolutely despise Ted Cruz. For the life of me I dont understand how he was voted into office and I’d still there. 😡
We Mexicans like his game
I've been a barista and I've worked construction. Construction was ultimately an easier job. Ted Cruz never has worked a real day in his miserable life.
agreed I've done construction for 18 years and the food service work I've done was way more stressful
@@magnump.i.7700 yeah i mean construction will leave you completely physically exhausted, but dealing with people and running all over a cafe for 6 hours is draining. I'm sure ol Teddy loves to hang at his local cafe and talk about how minimum wage laws shouldn't exist for the stoner commies that made his flat white.
You think Bernie worked? He's was a communist rioter in the 1960s and then just became a senator because he happened to live in a far left crackhead state with no black people. Vermont is 100% liberal whites, for some reason they love Bernie there.
@@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr troll time
@@magnump.i.7700 Bernie Sanders has a lot of fully furnished vacation homes he rarely uses and when he's not busy utilizing them, the homeless deserve to be able to use his extra homes for drug and sex parties. Urinate everywhere, trash the place. Make his summer homes like San Francisco tent cities. The homeless can build a lot of tents in there. Tune in, turn on, drop out. Lost weekend at Bernie's.
Republicans see hardworking Americans as slackers. We can't all "work hard" sitting on our yachts all day.
Wouldn't you love to see the US Navy use their yachts for target practice?
I think you’re going to find that the republican party turns out to be the party of the working class people. I’m not talking about the “highly educated“ working class. I’m talking about the others perhaps the ones Hillary Clinton regards as the “deplorables”.
@@joevignolor4u949 most politicians don't want to work they would rather pretend to not get along but when the camera is off they figuring ways to destroy America
@@joevignolor4u949 we would love to see the us navy use them for target practice.
Truth, Love let’s think about our Civilization. Thank you Senator Sanders. I Believe in Humanity.
I went to college and paid off my debts, I still want them to forgive all student loans. Why would I want anyone to be saddled with this sort of debt for a generation or more? It's just another way they subsidize tax cuts for the rich.
THESE NURSES ARE INCREDIBLE HEROES. WHAT HAS CRUZ DONE FOR ANYONE🤮
Provided meme fodder?
....ran to Cancun when things got rough...?...then blamed his daughters?
Make us all feel smarter?
Went on vacation?
I heard he tips well in Cancun.
Thank you Bernie Sanders for informing us about the student loans these nurses have.
They're not by any means a "slacker"... They're hard working, responsible young people with
incredible work ethics. Without them, hospitals are useless. Keep making these videos, people
need to hear/see them, they inform the public how our health care system fails... This information
should be on national tv stations - so more people can be informed!!
I am a nurse. Worked while getting RN. TUITION increases UNCONSCIONABLE. Meanwhile, hospitals importing Foreign educated nurses to cut labor costs. New nurses get squeezed financially by both.
Bernie Sanders needs to get his hands out of taxpayer’s pockets.
Ditto for educators!!
@@harrymann5523 Really! Whilst creepy Ted sun’s himself in Cancun at tax payers expense, while fellow Texans freeze to death!
@@blabbergasted4380 then find a new job! Nobody is forcing you to stay. I call bs anyway. There is major demand for nurses and most of them make great money. I’m currently in a 2 yr ADN program that costs 5k. The last I’m worried about is student debt.
Honestly, if somebody wants to use a bong to unwind after a stressful week working two jobs, I'd tell them to go ahead.
Well Raphael Cruz is a slacker! So he honestly should not be calling anyone else a slacker!
Right on Bernie!!!!!
Exposing Cruz' lies!!!
I left America for Job Security, Health, Retirement, and higher wages to pay off my Student Loans!!! It took forever because I am a Single Mom. But I did pay. I still live in Europe. My Niece is struggling with $64,000 in University Loans. She did not study useless stuff,Mr. Cruz. She has her MA in Analytical Math and Business. I get angry at the useless tripe a Cruz spews from his privledged standpoint.
Thank you, Bernie!!!
Bernie, thank you again for talking to real people and trying to find ways to help them. You are the best of the best. You certainly shed a light on the problem, unlike Cruz who is a total waste.
This is how ALL Republicans feel about working class people. It's not just Cruz.
The question is: What are YOU gonna do about it? You just gonna sit here and take it? Hell no. Get your asses out and vote, people!
It's embarrassing the way we treat each other in this country. Bernie 2024!
Those people can't afford a house yet Bernie Sanders has several homes that typically just sit empty and unused. He has multiple vacation homes. That nurse could live year round in one of Bernie's summer houses.
Hello 👋 how are you doing I hope all is well with you?
@@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr You are misinformed. Look it up rather than believing what you see on Faux News. P.s. Mark Hamill is not a Drumpfer btw.
I love you Bernie Sanders you're the best And thank you for everything you do for us
Those people can't afford a house yet Bernie Sanders has several homes that typically just sit empty and unused. He has multiple vacation homes. That nurse could live year round in one of Bernie's summer houses.
Hello 👋 how are you feeling today??
@@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr :
*He has three houses, one just a cabin, from money he earned from his book, which is a little over a million; when you get older and if you save, you too can have what older people have.*
It’s depressing that we live in a world where Ted Cruz exists
I honestly don’t think I’ll ever forgive the US and the Democratic Party for not voting Bernie Sanders into office.
Great video. Need to keep playing this when Cruz is up for election. He's the slacker!
Oh he is more than slacker
@@jcalzada74 and yet less than human 🤔
Cruz shouldn't be running for president, he wasn't a natural born citizen. He was born in Calgery, Alberta, Canada!
May one of these “slackers” be in charge of him in his twilight years. 🤞
That would be great!
Bernie is the BEST! What a commitment he has to the people.❤️❤️
Join a Union, support a Union. 🇺🇸🗽
We can do better and we will do better. #Bernie2024
Those people can't afford a house yet Bernie Sanders has several homes that typically just sit empty and unused for most of the year. He has multiple vacation homes, etc. That nurse could live year round in one of Bernie's summer houses.
@@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr Lets Talk About Teddy , He's The Maga Blabber Mouth , Kissing trumps Rear End , Even Though His Wife is Ugly & His Dad tried to Do Away With J F K Scheme ! ! !
I'm a teacher, and I have students who wanted to pursue higher educations in the U.S. I always told them the same thing: "U.S. is nice to visit, but go to Europe instead to study." This is the reason why.
You think it's cheaper or better for Americans to study abroad?
@@marcodesalud7034 Think? It's really not that hard to identify. It's a definate 'Yes' to both. Here you get paid to study and the educations are top notch. Cheers.
@@thomassby7139 That wasn't my experience or my wife's, especially with international tution rates. It obviously depends upon the city (Trinity in Dublin is significantly higher for international students than State schools). European nations just don't hand out the freeee to anyone outside those nations who simply want to take from them. Also, most European nations' standard of living is significantly lower than the US, so it's not entirely a fair comparison.
You appear to be a fine example of "those who do, do...those who can't, teach."
How about telling them real hard economic facts...a BA or a BS may or may not pay for itself and an MA , MS, or MBA even less likely.
However, if you're actually willing to WORK for a living and realize you're not as special as mommy tells you, go into the trades and make a ton more money as an electrician, plumber, diemaker, etc., than a teacher ever will.
Oh, I forget, current culture doesn't value people that work with their hands
@@JD-tn5lz and comments like these is the reason why I advised my students against studying in America.
They shouldn’t be paid back a penny.
This needs to be a commercial. The nurse shortage is real and we can all relate to this issue.
Let's keep up this fight. We need to continue supporting progressive candidates in Congressional primaries across the country or nothing will ever change.
Not just congressional- ALL levels of government local, state federal.
But not at the expense of the midterms or 2024...
Nothing will ever change? Were you alive 3 years ago? We can't afford anymore progression.
I set up here in Washington state we have mail in ballots, it is easy to vote and (D)'s run the show but we still have the MAGA maggot's under Putin's Fox propaganda.
During a resection you want every American to pay $2k more including students.
I have a daughter that has her masters in Occupational Therapy. Post grad loans carry a heavier burden, her interest rate is around 7 1/2%. ( You can get a used car loan for under 4%.) She works with some heart breaking young patients at a childrens hospital changing lives every day. What does lying Ted contribute to society beside spreading hate & discontent ?!?
The knowing that when they put him in the ground the maggots are going to have a feast?
He knows the quickest way to get to Cancun in midwinter…
Why is the college ripping her off? Why not ask them to decrease their tuition fees. Why don’t you pay off her loans, she’s YOUR daughter after all.
@@jakeragsdale I wonder why supporters of Cruz don’t ask him why he isn’t commenting on his Republican Congressional colleagues getting millions in PPP debt forgiveness? Why didn’t they ask the government for more favorable loan repayment options or why didn’t these Republican Congresswomen and Congressmen ask THEIR parents pay off their loans? 🤔
@@jakeragsdale Yes! I like this two-prong approach you’ve come up with. We can, and should help relieve people of these debts that will weigh them down for decades, but also we can and should lean on colleges to decrease their outrageous prices.
Personally, I think we should no longer allow them to force us to take classes that we don’t need or want. It’s obviously a thinly veiled excuse to get more money by dragging out the number of semesters they can get paid for, but they say it’s for the purpose of, “making well rounded people.” As if anyone buys that nonsense.
I really hope you win in everything you do. you give me so much hope to go on. we need more of you.
My niece's husband while in medical school, had to pay $1,000 for a required test at the end of a semester. It was not his only end of semester test. They were probably all $1,000 per test. In order to afford to pay off student debt and just live very simply after graduating, he would have to make $200,000 per year to pay off student loans. There is no way higher education should be so expensive. We may want to find out who is profiting so highly at the schools. The Federal interest rate should be lowered also.
What you’ve done to change politics over the past decade is very admirable Bernie 💖🙏
What’s that? Running around telling everyone else to be a socialist while he made millions of dollars 🤦♂️….Bernie is loser, just like socialism.
Amen to that! Bernie is an example to look up to. Cruz, not so much.
That’s all fine and good about Bernie being respectable. However, the reality is he has limited appeal on a national level. You really can’t do anything about the people that he simply does not appeal to for a number of reasons. That is why the Democrat party would not allow him to become the nominee in 2016.
He cowered at the power of Hillary.
I don't have student loans, but I'm a lazy Democrat that works 55 hours a week. After my R A diagnosis in not able to do 70 plus anymore. And I don't hit the bong , I just eat a gummy. However I don't turn my back and run when the power goes out. God bless Uncle Bernie!
Why do the banks get 2.5% and a citizen gets 6-7% lending rates.
Insane that people go into public service and insult the people they’re supposed to serve.
Perfect timing, Uncle Bern.
Hello 👋 how are you feeling?
Thanks Bern. Legally, Joe Manchin is my Senator. Morally, ;you are my Senator, Soak the Rich
Bernie is rich. Maybe you could plunder him first?
You lift us up when corrupt politicians put us down, Bernie. God bless you ♥
I remember being called a Slacker during the Regan administration. I was working 55 to 60 hours a week and living paycheck to paycheck. Now that I think about it, I was repeatedly insulted by the Republican Party with various other terms. I’ve never voted Republican since.
My favorite bible story is that time Jesus looked out at the starving crowd and said, "well we brought enough fish and bread for us but you slackers didn't bring any so too bad." 🤔
🤣
Miracles cost a lot less than welfare, simple fact.
The problem is that miracles are much less common.
That’s pretty much how all these “religious conservative Christians” think.
As a Texan, Ted "Cancun" Cruz is an embarrassment to my state. I have literally never met anyone (Republican or Democrat) who actually likes the guy.
Well at least when you are freezing down there in Texas next winter Ted will be someplace warm. Maybe at least he'll send you a postcard.
WHY are you voting for him, Texans - over and over and over????? 😲
Mrs Cruz, maybe?
@@joevignolor4u949 lol. And his thoughts and prayers will be with us.
Yeah everyone hates Ted Cruz, that’s why he’s been elected twice state-wide. There is clearly a majority who, for whatever twisted reason, think he’s great. Yet another reason to never move to Texas.
That was a good one Bernie! From a fellow Vermonter in exile (Florida😱). I can’t wait to see the foliage this fall!
I am so fucking tired of older generations & politicians trashing minimum wage workers. Said workers practically keep the world running. What stayed open during early days of the pandemic? Fast food. Yet they're not "real jobs" according to my mother.
They are real jobs...for children.
@@marcodesalud7034 for children?!
@@mollycblaeser yes, c.h.i.l.d.r.e.n.
Thank you Bernie!!! I'm a 71 yo. retired, well sort of, working 2 jobs pt. time, veteran. My wife went back to school @ 39, got her teaching degree, she is now subbing after retiring, and we are still 40 grand in debt with student loans, bites!!
And I'm somehow responsible for your bad choices? Tell me how.
I worked full-time+ going full-time at a university and graduated not only in four years, but with no debt and with money in the bank.
Of course, on top of working hard I also lived cheap and paid in-state tuition at a public institution.
Apparently she missed that memo
@@JD-tn5lz Or, hear me out, tuition is free and then you can study full time without needing to work full time, you can live comfortably if you do work, and people can study when they like. Their wife didn't make a bad chice, she prusued higher education. I live in germany and what i just described is a common reality for me and my fellow students. It's possible and you
These nurses get into almost $100,000 dollars of debt to get the qualification to allow them to do their jobs, then have to work an additional job to pay off the loan. Cancun Cruz fled the country rather than do his own job yet he has the gall to call them slackers.
Really? My nursing program cost 5k, same license. If someone borrows 100k for N school, that’s their problem. There are literally thousands of nursing schools that are extremely inexpensive. They are subsidized by local hospitals and healthcare systems because they ALWAYS need nurses. You don’t know what you’re talking about, just clap trap nonsense 🙄
Those people can't afford a house yet Bernie Sanders has several homes that typically just sit empty and unused for most of the year. He has multiple vacation homes, etc. That nurse could live year round in one of Bernie's summer houses.
@@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr Bernie has 3 accommodations.
A small apartment for work, a Family home and a holiday home...ALL MODEST 🤷
@@cherylreid2964 Lmao, you fraud. He doesn't have a "small apartment" anywhere, unless you know something the rest of us don't. He has 3 houses and the total value of his homes is over 2 million dollars. His house in Washington DC alone is worth 750k. That's the "modest apartment". If you think a house worth 750k is a "modest apartment" what do you consider a house? Lmao, most people live in houses that cost 200k. Lol Bernie can sell his extra houses he hardly ever uses and he can buy 20 or 30 80k homes for the homeless with that money.
@@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr You alright?
I’m not going to get off the bong but I’m definitely going to vote in November
Perfect report to the people! Give people the truth, and let them act on what the truth is!
The Republican "Trickle Down" economics has worked so well over the years, the federal government in 2022 has to forgive some crippling student loans of people in their 30s! 🤔
Love you wonderful man ❤️✌🏻
Even as a kid i was always thinking what I’d need to do to survive when i became homeless, I’m sure most kids don’t think about this when they are living in a country that isn’t trying to bleed them dry.
Thank you Bernie for highlighting these important issues time and time again. These are American issues.
Those people can't afford a house yet Bernie Sanders has several homes that typically just sit empty and unused. He has multiple vacation homes. That nurse could live year round in one of Bernie's summer houses.
A lot of these people in student debt was young military enlisted....
Military paid only partial of the college fees...
The biggest problem were many went to college and couldn't find a job related to their studies in college...
So working lower paying jobs with high payments for students loans for college. 👈
If it helps set the record straight, I have a friend who has two master’s degrees, as a job he wanted basically required them. After all the hard work to get these degrees, you’d think that it’d get you a good high-paying job. Nope. The job he has is struggling, doesn’t pay enough, and that’s NOT EVEN including the student loans on his back.
It just sucks because so many people hate low-paid workers at lower level jobs, and are like “You need an education to get a better job, so go to college”. But it doesn’t fucking matter because I know so many people who DID go to college, they had to meet ALL these requirements to get a certain position, and yet despite this, their job STILL treats them like shit and pays them poorly.
And these nurses are another great example. Look at these people who took SO many years to get the requirements needed to become nurses and look where they are now. Even these people in their 30s and 40s who STILL can’t afford a decent living. All these people who are so far in their lives but can’t even consider getting married or having kids because they know if they do either it’ll put them under.
Seems A lot? How many is a lot? I'm still working in my degree field and it's been 32 years. My kids are working in the fields they went to college for. Had no trouble getting a job or starting a business.
@@queent3343 Hooray for you.
@@busterenamel8216 Thanks. Hooray for me too. LOL. Just responding to a previous post. Glad you read it.
@@smeff099 You're an absolute troll.
Cruz needs to go on a “cruise” permanently! He is so disconnected from American life that he’s a pathetic Congressional Representative!
Yep. I’m 40, teacher of 15 years with 55k in college debt.
Groups who fought to keep Biden keep his campaign promise here haven't given up at all!
It takes a fight back cuz all we hear about now is how Democrats shouldn't have done this at all. What BS! That IS the corporate billionaire message! And MSM is all about billionaires whining and moaning being validated,
and why students have this debt at all. Corporate greed.
There aren't any developed countries other than the US that treat their ppl with so much disrespect for wanting to better themselves & really help improve our country by having a more, better educated populace.
This debt should never ever been normalized.
The fight continues.
Hello 👋 how’s your day going?
I worked at a restaurant for a number of years. There was a long-time regular who once asked me if I worked, like he wanted to know what my real job was. It's unfortunate that so many people still see jobs like restaurant or retail an not "real jobs." I truly believe if more people had experienced working in one of those fields, then there would be better understanding and respect for the employees and they wouldn't be seen as "slackers."
As the Mexican-American who works in a warehouse and does not have a college degree I don't think I have to pay for your bad mistakes. You are on the wrong side
@@TheSexygroove What bad mistakes are you talking about? As far as I know, we don't know each other so I'm not sure how you can judge my life based on one UA-cam comment.
@@TheSexygroove How do you feel about paying for Donald Trump's mistakes? You know he didn't pay any federal taxes for 17 years because he did such a terrible job of running his businesses that he lost over a billion dollars in a decade, more than any other American citizen at the time? That's right, he got a tax write-off that OTHER people had to pay for. In 2017, he paid only $750 in taxes... despite being an alleged billionaire.
@@Lynxy888 take no notice of this piece of tripe....because that's what he is....the lining of a cows stomach.
Add my wife to that list. EMT, ER nurse, teacher/preceptor. $40,000 student debt left. She has worked hard to pay a lot of it off.
What a clown. Won’t ever have my or my neighbors’ support.
This guy went on vacation while his electors couldn’t heat their homes. And now he’s calling minimum wage workers slackers
I’m glad you’re finally talking to nurses. These last few years have killed me physically, mentally , emotionally and financially. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to work again. I have over a decade of work related injuries that I’ll never heal from.
Thank you so much!!! You have our nation's gratitude! I am so sorry for the stress and strain and demoralization you are feeling. May you find a healing and peaceful path! 💗💗
I am so sorry to hear that. Nurses have all my respect and then some.
@@8ofwands300 Wow! Thank you so much! You made my day a lot brighter 💙.
@@carla2012app Thank you so much 💙!!!
I'm wondering. When was the last time Cruz asked ordinary people about their lives and predicament? 6% interest isn't a huge amount. That's the rate student loans have been capped at in the UK. The difference is how the payments are structured. I pay around $250 a month on around $60,000 of debt for my UK law degree. The first $30,000 or so isn't counted for repayments. If you earn less than that, you pay back nothing. Repayments are only calculated on the remainder of your annual earnings. After 30 years, anything outstanding is forgiven.
Well Federal Student loans are between 4.99% - 7.54% and they are a Compounded Interest Daily. Here is an example I found about how federal student loans are calculated:
Even though student loan rates are expressed as an annual rate, the interest is usually compounded daily. On a $10,000 loan, you might think that a 4.45% interest rate would mean $445 paid in interest during the year, but that’s not the case.
Instead, your annual rate is divided by 365, to get your daily interest rate. So, in the above example, you’d be charged an interest rate of 0.012% each day. At the end of your first day, your interest charge totals $1.20 and it’s added to the $10,000. On the following day, your interest is calculated on $10,001.20. At the end of the year, you’ll pay a total of $455.02 in interest - providing the lender with an extra $10.02 just because of the way interest is compounded.
Excellent video. You're a legend Bernie ❤❤
I am so sick of the Republican Party excuse me I mean the Maga Republican Party!
No one should ever be burden by debt like this, in order to make a "good) living. Colleges should be free or at least be reasonable priced.
They’re not, it’s called a choice 🤦♂️ but I agree that many colleges are crooks. Why isn’t Bernie talking about that? 🤔
Then there would be even more drones.
I worked in higher education for 13 years, doing IT jobs from programmer to division manager of programming services. A good deal of our work supported the Financial Aid office and their staff. The most criminal thing I saw was the sales job those counselors did on the students they were supposed to be helping. Encouraging them to apply for as much loan money as possible, telling them that they'd get the loan balance left after paying tuition 'refunded' to them and then it was their money to do what they wanted to with. Not a word about paying back the loans nor only borrowing what they really needed from semester to semester. I worked for a state technical college which cost about $ 1500 a semester for full-time tuition. It wasn't unusual to see students get $7000 to $10000 worth of loans every semester, on top of PELL Grants and state need-based grants.
It's an industry that should work to help students, but ends up profiteering off them. Just like a lot of private colleges do, especially with veterans.
It saddens me to hear this. When I was going to the Uni we were told the hard truth about student loans. I worked as a waitress, bartender, on campus, cleaned houses & babysat the entire time & went for every grant I could find and still walked away with $87k in student loans which was a lot less than most of my peers. Dorms were more expensive than sharing an apt. I lived with 3 other women in a 2bdr apt off campus. Rode a bike instead of the expense of driving a car. A friend of mine went to live with her dad in Germany ( she had dual citizenship) & got the same degree I did.. with zero student debt. In fact the German gov't even helped fund her living expenses. She degreed energetic & ready to take on the world. I degreed exhausted and worried sick about how far in debt I was.
You’re lying.
@@Photologistic Prove it
@@zoeemiko8149 it is sad that other countries are ahead of the US in terms of education. That's the truth, sadly. Education should be a fundamental right for all citizens and to those wanting to contribute to our society. And if we only put all of our political beliefs aside, the world would be a better place, instead attacking each other, like madmen. Just the simple truth. That would be the true American dream, people getting along with one another and helping each other out, make society better, and not looking down upon one another.
And something needs to be done about colleges and universities profiting off of students, and to make sure that they pay their teachers a livable salary, if not provided already. Providing education was not meant to be a business. But some of them have made it so.
Also, interest rates need to be lower and congress should make a law where loan providers must be transparent about their loans they are providing to students.
Curious, what did you study for though to have that much debt, walking out of college? I wish the best for you though, and hope it all works for you; stay strong! You are inspiring and wonderful!
I’m 60 years old. I still have $143,000 in student loans. I’m not young, but I will vote Mr. Cruz, I will indeed.
EXCELLENT!!!!! TY SO MUCH FOR THIS POST!!!!!
Excellent video. Sure hope it has an impact on people to realize the impact. Vote Democrat and let’s overhaul the education system for a smarter, brighter America 🇺🇸
I like that---positive, looking toward the future and making for a brighter America for ALL of us. Thank you!
What an deplorable piece of crap, Cruz is?
How much has he benefited from PPP, and under Trump's presidency?