Last night, after beating Hillary once again, this time in OR, Bernie had this to say in his victory speech:
ZitatWe’re allowing a radical right-wing Republican Party to capture the majority of the votes of the working class in this country. I come from the working class of this country.
Anyone who knows the work history of Sanders knows this is a major lie or a major joke. Take your pick.
ZitatThere have been plenty of rumors flying around the internet regarding Bernie’s early years in the civilian sector, not all of them true. There was a regularly occurring meme for a while which claimed that Sanders had never held a regular job until he was forty years old and lived off welfare, but that’s not exactly accurate. When he finally finished attending various colleges as a young man, he returned to Brooklyn for a while and admits that he worked at “a variety of jobs, including Head Start teacher, psychiatric aide, and carpenter.” (Though some who knew him at the time claim he admits that he was “a sh***y carpenter.”)
He then moved to Vermont where he claims to have worked as a “filmmaker, and writer who created and sold ‘radical film strips’ and other educational materials to schools.” Clearly he must have been on somebody’s payroll at one point or another because, as the Huffington Post previously reported, he was collecting unemployment benefits during one of his multiple, unsuccessful runs for public office.