‘Democracy Now!’: Sen. Sanders, Scheer on the Bailout Boondoggle
On Monday morning, as the aftershocks from Wall Street's worst week in decades continued to rock the national and global economy and the Bush administration scrambled to contain the fallout with a bailout plan that could cost American taxpayers over a trillion dollars, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Robert Scheer and Dean Baker joined "Democracy Now!" host Amy Goodman (above) to sort through the rubble and speculate about what might come next.On Monday morning, as the aftershocks from Wall Street’s worst week in decades continued to rock the national and global economy and the Bush administration scrambled to contain the fallout with a bailout plan that could cost American taxpayers over a trillion dollars, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Robert Scheer and Dean Baker joined “Democracy Now!” host Amy Goodman (right) to sort through the rubble and speculate about what might come next.
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