Vote vote vote vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . Hearing none, the yeas are 64, the nays are 24. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. Mr. Thune madam president . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to legislative session and be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Thune madam president , i have four requests for committees to meet during todays session of the senate. They have a approval of the majority and minority leaders. The presiding officer duly noted. Mr. Thune madam president , before i begin, i want to acknowledge the tremendous news released yesterday that early
During the Great Depression which im old enough to remember there was and most of my family were unemployed working class there wasnt it was bed you know much worse objectively than today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. There was a real sense of hopefulness there isnt today. Inequality is really unprecedented im sure that total inequality its like the worst periods in American History. But history find it more closely inequality comes from the extreme wealth in a tiny sector of the population fraction of one percent. There were periods like the gilded age in the twentys the early ninetys and so on when a situation developed by the similar to this. Now this period 6 trillion because if you look at their Wealth Distribution the inequality mostly comes from super wealth. Literally the top 110th of a percent are just super wealthy. Not only is it extremely unjust in itself. Inequality has highly negative consequences on the so it is all. Because the very
In the United States when there are professed to like democracy. In a democracy Public Opinion is going to have some influence on poesy. And then the government carries out actions determined by the population and thats what democracy means. Its important to understand that privileged and powerful sectors have never liked democracy and for very good reasons. Democracy puts power into the hands of the general population and takes it away from them. As kind of the principle of concentration of wealth and power. Concentration of wealth yields concentration of power particularly so as the cost of elections skyrockets which kind of forces the Political Parties into the pockets of major corporations. And this political power. Really translates into legislation that increases the concentration of wealth so fiscal policy like tax policy a deregulation. Rules of Corporate Governance a whole variety of measures political measures designed to increase the concentration of wealth and power which i
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