{"id":32669,"date":"2025-07-20T10:03:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T14:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=32669"},"modified":"2025-07-20T10:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T14:04:16","slug":"go-bernie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=32669","title":{"rendered":"Go Bernie&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;the difference between the repubs and dems have been made extremely clear with the release of Bernie Sanders proposed bill the &#8220;Pensions for all act&#8221; the would completely reform how pensions are regulated here in the US&#8230;50 years ago, over 50% of workers had a pension to go with SS and\u00a0 only 6% of retirees lived in poverty&#8230;but now almost 23% of seniors live in poverty and less than 10% of retirees have a pension&#8230;and the rich designed the system that way&#8230;if they don&#8217;t have to fund pensions for their retirees, it just puts trillions more in their pockets instead of in the pockets of the people who made them rich&#8230;and Bernie&#8217;s bill would force corporations to fund pensions exactly as members of congress get so seniors would no longer have to work until they die&#8230;and this bill goes along with his &#8220;Social Security expansion act&#8221; that would raise benefits by 2,400 bucks a year but then tax all income over 250K a year that would make SS solvent for 75 years&#8230;this is the difference between the two parties&#8230;one gives tax cuts to the rich and cut benefits for everyone else and the other tries to take care of all the people and make their lives easier&#8230;which one sounds like what we should be doing? Geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;the difference between the repubs and dems have been made extremely clear with the release of Bernie Sanders proposed bill the &#8220;Pensions for all act&#8221; the would completely reform how pensions are regulated here in the US&#8230;50 years ago, over 50% of workers had a pension to go with SS and\u00a0 only 6% of retirees &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=32669\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Go Bernie&#8230;.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[302,361],"class_list":["post-32669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-pensions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32671,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32669\/revisions\/32671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}