WASHINGTON – Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders implored his fellow lawmakers this week not to forget the the vulnerable elderly and young, quoting from Pope Francis to help make his point.
“The most serious of the evils that afflict the world these days are youth unemployment and the loneliness of the old,” the Senator said that Pope Francis recently declared. “The old need care and companionship. The young need work and hope but have neither one nor the other,” the pontiff added in remarks cited on the Senate floor on Tuesday, November 5th by Senator Sanders.
“I couldn’t agree more,” the senator said. “We cannot turn our backs on the elderly. We cannot cut Social Security and Medicare. We cannot turn our backs on the young people.”
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