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The CPUC is about to about to make a ruling that could devastate the future for home solar installations in California.  The CPUC makes the rules on how much homeowners are paid for the energy they generate from their solar panels.  If the utilities get their way, the payments would drop by up to 50%, making home solar no longer a financial benefit to families.  On top of that, the utilities want to add extra fees for solar customers only.  Sign the petition. 

Utilities across the U.S. are watching California – if these new rules pass here, they will be proposed across the U.S. and the future of the home solar market will be in serious jeopardy.  Utilities are waging war on home and distributed solar installations because they see it as a threat to their business model and profits.

Don’t let the utilities win – we must protect home solar installations and make sure the benefits of solar are available for all Californians. Sign the petition.  A hit to the solar market now would seriously jeopardize our pathway away from fossil fuels to clean energy.  The CPUC has slid under the radar for too long, passing regulations with little attention.  That stops now.  Make your voice heard on protecting the future of solar in CA.  Read more here.

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BERNIE SANDERS EXPLAINS SOCIAL SECURITY

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huge hi this is senator Bernie Sanders much of the media often approaches

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politics as a war of baseball game or a soap opera who is leading in the latest

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poll how much money that a candidate readies did someone say something really

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dumb last night that's what a lot of the media thinks modern politics should be

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about I disagree I'm old fashioned I guess but I think what in campaign and a

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democratic society is about is the need to discuss and debate the most important

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issues facing our people and the world and that's what I want to do now and by

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the way I would very much appreciate your help in getting this video widely

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distributed please share it with your friends family and co-workers the more

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we raise public consciousness in this country the better we do and the better

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our nation does you should I'd like to touch upon today with social security

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perhaps the most important federal program in existence a program of

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enormous consequence to the 59 million seniors people with disabilities and

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children were beneficial I know you ever heard over and over again that social

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security's going broke but it won't be there for our kids and grandchildren

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that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme that social security is contributing to

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a large deficit and national debt etc etc etc and you've also heard many

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republicans tell us that we need to cut Social Security raise the retirement age

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or maybe even privatize the program

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well i'm happy to tell you that much of what you've heard is simply not true

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despite what many of my republican colleagues are saying let's be clear

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social security is not going broke

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social security has a two point eight trillion dollar surplus and according to

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the Social Security Administration can't pay out every benefit 02 every eligible

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Americans for the next 19 years that is not a program going broke

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further social security is independently funded by the payroll tax the 6.2% of

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your paycheck that you and your employer pay that means the social security does

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not add one nickel to the deficit it has its own source of funding the wars in

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Iraq and Afghanistan that the republicans forgot to pay for adding

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trillions to the deficit and national debt not social security that the truth

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is that while we do not have a social security crisis today we do have a

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retirement crisis and that is a very serious problem all over this country

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millions of Americans people who have worked their entire lives all wondering

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if they will ever be able to retire with any shred of dignity the sad truth is

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that as a result of the collapse about middle-class and declining wages more

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than half of older workers between the ages of 55 to 64 have no retirement

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savings imagine that you're heading to the moment in your life when you are no

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longer able to work when you can earn any and you have nothing in the back how

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scary is that

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further

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millions of other words have seen their pensions eliminated was severely cut

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back promises were made to them by their employers and those promises were not

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kept thirty years ago more than a third of private sector workers had a

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guaranteed defined benefit pension plan today fewer than 18 percent do and that

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number is shrinking everyday the result is that many of our parents and our

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grandparents are trying to survive on totally inadequate incomes millions of

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seniors today are trying to make ends meet by the medicine they need by the

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food they require or heat their homes on incomes of twelve or thirteen thousand

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dollars a year frankly I don't know how they do it and the truth is that many of

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them really don't get many of them don't take the medicine that they should many

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of them live in homes that are too cold in the winter many of them don't get the

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nutrition they need in order to stay healthy that is not how we should treat

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the seniors of this country

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some of the most vulnerable people in the United States at a time when the

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average Social Security benefit is just thirteen hundred and twenty eight

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dollars a month and over a third of senior citizens rely on social security

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for virtually all of their income

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our job must be to expand benefits not got our job is to strengthen Social

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Security not weaken legs feet cleavage social security is the most successful

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government program in our nation's history before social security was

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signed into law

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nearly half of senior citizens live in poverty today while much too high the

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elderly poverty rate is about 10% let me also be clear in stating that one of the

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great strengths of social security is that through good economic times and bad

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social security has paid every nickel 02 every eligible american on time and

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without delay that is an extraordinary accomplishment and in this unstable

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economy something that we should not take for granted when corporations

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eliminated defined benefit pension plans over the last thirty years

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social security was right there paying full benefits when millions of Americans

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lost their life savings after the Wall Street's greed and recklessness crashed

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the economy in 2008 social security was right there

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paying full benefits although Social Security's finances will remain strong

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for the next 19 years I believe congressman strengthen and expand social

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security for generations to come

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well how do we do that the answer is we demand that the wealthiest Americans in

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this country pay their fair share into the social security system today at a

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time when almost all new income and wealth is going to the top one percent a

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billionaire pays the same about the money into social security as someone

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who makes one hundred eighteen thousand five hundred dollars a year that's

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because the Social Security payroll tax is cap if we lift that cap and apply the

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payroll tax all income over two hundred and fifty thousand a year we can do four

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things first we can make sure that social security can pay out every

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benefit 02 every eligible american for the next 50 years not nineteen years

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fifties second we can expand benefits by an average of $65 a month we can lift

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seniors out of poverty by increasing the minimum benefits paid to low-income

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workers when they retire or we can increase costs the living expenses to

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keep up with the rising cost of health

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and prescription drugs expanding social security by making the wealthiest

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Americans pay more

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is not only the right thing to do from a moral perspective it is good economics

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and it just what a large majority of the american people want us to do our job

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together is to create an economy which works for all not just the wealthy and

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the powerful our job is to protect the most vulnerable people in our society

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including the elderly and the disabled our job is to extend and expand social

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security not cut it or privatizing please work with me to make this house

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and please get this video out to your friends and family thank you very much

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