“The general theme in my speech was this corrupt merger of state and corporate power, which has — which is turning our country into a corporate kleptocracy. Into a system of… cushy socialism for the rich and this kind of brutal, merciless capitalism for the poor,” Kennedy told Carlson, referring to his speech announcing his candidacy.
“It keeps us in a state of war. It bails out banks at the same time that, you know, this month, last the United States government told 30 million people it was cutting their welfare check, their food stamp checks by 90 percent, it took 15 million people off of Medicare. The same month, it gave $300 million dollars to the Silicon Valley Bank and tapped up the cost of the Ukraine war to $113 billion. We’re sending $113 billion to the Ukraine. The entire budget of the EPA is $12 billion. The budget of CDC is $11 billion,” he continued.
“We have 57 percent of American citizens could not put their hands on a thousand dollars if they have an emergency. A quarter of our citizens are hungry,” JFK added. “So we’re cutting welfare and food stamps by 90 percent, and we’re paying and we’re bailing out the bankers, we’re paying for a war that, you know, we can’t afford.”
Continuing, he added: “And the way that we do this is by printing money. We’ve printed 10 centuries of money in the last 14 years. And that is what causes inflation, which raises food prices and which is a tax on the poor. You know, we’ve raised food prices for basic foods like chicken, dairy, and milk by 76 percent in the last two years. And now we’re cutting people’s food stamps and bailing out banks the same month. It doesn’t make any sense, and we need to get rid of this kind of corporate control government. It comes from, you know, our democracy is devolving into a corporate plutocracy