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Sen. Bernie Sanders: Billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ‘off taking joy rides on their rocket ships’
MSNBC ^ | April 1, 2022 | Megan Sauer

Posted on 04/02/2022 11:17:31 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom

On Wednesday (March 30, 2022), at a meeting of the U.S. Senate Committee on Budget, Sanders raised an issue that’s been a regular part of his political platform for many years: wealth distribution. “Anyone who thinks we do not have an oligarchy right here in America is sorely mistaken,” he said. “Today in America, multibillionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson are off taking joy rides on their rocket ships to outer space.”

Sanders appeared to be citing the three billionaires’ spaceflight companies: SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, respectively. All three U.S.-based businesses have played a large part in redefining — and even reviving — national conversations around modern space exploration.

Musk, Bezos and Branson have each poured large sums of their own money into those companies: Bezos, for example, spends $1 billion of his own Amazon stock per year on Blue Origin. But while his brief trip to space in a Blue Origin rocket last July could be deemed a “joy ride,” it’s doubtful that he’d call his spending frivolous.

Rather, Blue Origin’s mission statement defines the company’s goals as essential to humanity’s future survival, emphasizing that “in order to preserve Earth, our home, for our grandchildren’s grandchildren, we must go to space to tap its unlimited resources and energy.”

Musk, SpaceX’s founder and CEO, similarly told Time magazine in December that his “goal overall has been to make life multi-planetary and enable humanity to become a spacefaring civilization,” thus preserving the planet. In October, SpaceX was valued at $100.3 billion following a secondary share sale.

To Sanders, those plans are more displays of opulence than humanity-enriching endeavors, especially considering “over half of the people in this country are living paycheck to paycheck,” he said.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: apparatchik; berniesanders; besos; bezos; blueorigin; branson; commies; elonmusk; jeffbezos; marxists; megansauer; musk; richardbranson; spacex; starlink; tesla; vermont; virgingalactic
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

You can bet Bernie loves Bill Gates because he’s trying to Murder 90% of the planet’s population


41 posted on 04/02/2022 12:15:37 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

And millionaires like the communist Sanders retreat to their houses on the lake to think up more BS with which to taunt us.


42 posted on 04/02/2022 12:18:17 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (GoFundMe is a Democrat Scam)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

If I had that much money I am sure I could find a crew that would do something to convince Mr Sanders of the error of his ways.


43 posted on 04/02/2022 12:20:39 PM PDT by crz
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

lol Looks like the green eyed monster is made an appearance.


44 posted on 04/02/2022 12:23:30 PM PDT by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Let’s subsidize a trip to space for Bernie... One Way Only!


45 posted on 04/02/2022 12:23:53 PM PDT by CarmichaelPatriot (Recovering Kalifornian... Loving Alabama!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

A confession. I am actually worth $330 billion and I’ve decided to divided it equally among the U.S. population of 330 million.

So you should keep your eye on your mailbox. You should see a check for $1000 showing up soon.

I only wish all the other billionaires would to the same. And I’m sorry Bernie Sanders ended his arithmetic education before he got to long division.


46 posted on 04/02/2022 12:28:41 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed.)
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To: metmom

And the hypocrite with THREE mansions is criticizing someone else about extravagant use of money while others live paycheck to paycheck.

Yes, I forgot about that. Seems I remember him getting two of them when he dropped out from running for POTUS.


47 posted on 04/02/2022 12:38:35 PM PDT by Paperpusher (Gal 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

So says a lifelong leech.


48 posted on 04/02/2022 12:39:56 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
ANOTHER LAKEFRONT HOME IS A RIGHT! -- jess like healthcare.
49 posted on 04/02/2022 12:43:28 PM PDT by Stepan12 ("...To the American gulag with this guy.and with the beasts of the earth.")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Bernie used to hate on “the millionaires and billionaires” until he became a millionaire - now it is just “the billionaires.”


50 posted on 04/02/2022 12:44:36 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: plain talk

One can’t say that about Bernie Sanders who has never had a real job from what I can tell.

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I lived off a government check for four years.
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Then I got an honorable discharge.


51 posted on 04/02/2022 12:44:49 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: jjotto
Not at all like joy riding in a Communist paradise for a honeymoon…

Bernie's honeymoon

52 posted on 04/02/2022 12:52:01 PM PDT by Stepan12 ("...To the American gulag with this guy.and with the beasts of the earth.")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The people who had jobs building those rocket ships feel differently, I am thinking.

And instead of the government taking that money away to give to those same people in welfare, Musk actually got something in return for his money.

Which is called ‘work product’ and is wealth creation.

That same amount of money transferred by the government would get Musk nothing in return, so there would be no incentive to make it.

The same money spent hiring workers to build him a rocket ship got him a rocket ship, and they obtained work experience. Technology was advanced. Everyone was happy.


53 posted on 04/02/2022 12:54:23 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Mr. K

That’s the beauty of capitalism. Everybody engages in daily free trade of their skills, knowledge, productive know-how and abilities as they see fit...and everybody comes out better off than they were before.

Government takes money by force from us and pays people to be lousy lay-abouts producing nothing which corrodes the very soul. Everybody is worse off than they were before.


54 posted on 04/02/2022 1:08:15 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Sorry, I’m not a biologist.”)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I don’t think Elon has blasted off yet. Too busy pushing the envelope from Terra firma apparently.


55 posted on 04/02/2022 1:10:55 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Graybeard58

“I lived off a government check for four years.. Then I got an honorable discharge.”

Yes - from one of the hardest real jobs in the world.


56 posted on 04/02/2022 1:22:58 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Bernie is such a small, jealous, envious human being. His soul is smaller than a pea. Would hate to be him.


57 posted on 04/02/2022 1:27:42 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

So says sanders who has, while extremely wealthy himself, hasn’t produced anything of value in his entire life.


58 posted on 04/02/2022 1:58:49 PM PDT by daku
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Sanders is the ultimate parasite.


59 posted on 04/02/2022 2:20:48 PM PDT by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Hey Bernie. They paid for it.


60 posted on 04/02/2022 2:36:48 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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