Posted on 05/02/2016 6:31:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
BALTIMORE — Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders used a campaign stop Saturday in this economically challenged city to decry the difference between the life expectancies of the nation’s rich and poor, declaring that “poverty is a death sentence.”
“If you are born in Baltimore’s poorest neighborhood, your life expectancy is almost 20 years shorter than if you’re born in its wealthiest neighborhood,” the senator from Vermont said, adding that “15 neighborhoods in Baltimore have lower life expectancies than North Korea. Two of them have a higher infant mortality rate than Palestine's West Bank.”
Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, promised an enthusiastic crowd estimated at 6,600 that if elected president, “we are going to make profound economic changes.”(continued)
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Life is a death sentence, Bern.
Nobody leaves here alive.
(Bern should go show us how it's done in Venezuela)
When I was young poverty was the incentive to better yourself and get out of poverty.
That worked for generations of Americans,including me.
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Nothing creates poverty like an economy run by government fiat.
Did he tag his statement with “So, you might want to get a job.” ??
Actually, Bernie, poverty is for many a lifestyle choice. But beat Hilary, anyway.
Yes, we must all be exactly as rich as Bill Gates, else it’s Not Fair. Of course, reality constrains economic equality to mean equally poor, not equally rich, but shh! That’s the surprise waiting at the end of the socialist rainbow.
..“we are going to make profound economic changes....
Collective farms, private property seizures, nationalization of industries,
5 year plans, a Politburo, gulags, disappearances of dissidents, shortages of food and toilet paper. Rationing. Empty store shelves.
Yes, a socialist nirvana.
..“we are going to make profound economic changes....
Collective farms, private property seizures, nationalization of industries,
5 year plans, a Politburo, gulags, disappearances of dissidents, shortages of food and toilet paper. Rationing. Empty store shelves.
Yes, a socialist nirvana.
Bernie, so since all the trillions of dollars of socialism have only created mass- scale poverty, millions of lost jobs, Great suffering, and as you put it -a “death sentence” for great masses of people, if you really care about them you’ll support getting the government out of the way, lowering taxes, welfare, and regulatiory restrictions l, and letting the economy recover and create new jobs for people. Right?
Perhaps when they are done burning down the city they could all get jobs.
Nah.
Perhaps when they are done burning down the city they could all get jobs.
Nah.
Socialism is a death sentence.
..“we are going to make profound economic changes....”
We will work to spread the misery around to an even greater demographic.
Or as I like to say, “Dirty a$$es for the masses.
"Make America do a Great Leap Forward!"
When did The Bern ever have a job that was not government funded, White Collar Welfare?
Makes him very popular with the left.
Just like the Clintons.
Bernie pays a tax rate of only 13%
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