WALL STREET JOURNAL
Socialism Gets a Second Life
by Peggy Noonan
January 29, 2016

…[Sanders] described America as a place of broad suffering—“student debt,” “two-job families” with strained marriages and insufficient child care, “the old on fixed incomes.” We can turn it around if we make clear to “the billionaire class” that income inequality “is not moral.” The economy is “rigged.” Real unemployment is not 5% but twice that. “Youth unemployment is off the charts.” He wants job-training programs for the young. The minimum wage is “a starvation wage.” Raise it to “a living wage—15 bucks an hour.” The audience is attentive, supportive. “Yeah!” some shout. He speaks of Goldman Sachs, of “banksters” and of a Republican Party owned by “the oil industry, coal industry.” READ MORE SUBSCRIPTION CONTENT