Posted on 07/29/2015 3:05:08 PM PDT by WilliamIII
Sen. Bernie Sanders calls himself an internationalist democratic socialist, wants a $15 an hour minimum wage, would make college tuition “free,” likes single-payer healthcare… and utterly opposes relaxing stringent immigration laws because that’s something rightwing corporate billionaires support.
The far-left presidential candidate recently elaborated on these views during a sit-down interview with Vox Editor-in-Chief Ezra Klein. A particularly illuminating moment:
Ezra Klein: You said being a democratic socialist means a more international view. I think if you take global poverty that seriously, it leads you to conclusions that in the US are considered out of political bounds. Things like sharply raising the level of immigration we permit, even up to a level of open borders. About sharply increasing ...
Bernie Sanders: Open borders? No, that's a Koch brothers proposal.
Ezra Klein: Really?
Bernie Sanders: Of course. That's a right-wing proposal, which says essentially there is no United States. ...
Ezra Klein: But it would make ...
Bernie Sanders: Excuse me ...
Ezra Klein: It would make a lot of global poor richer, wouldn't it?
Bernie Sanders: It would make everybody in America poorer ...
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Bernie Sanders: It would make everybody in America poorer ...
WRONG! It wouldn’t make the cheap labor express poorer!
Trump sounds NOTHING like Sanders on immigration. Trump is the only candidate to date who would Deport illegals.
other than Trump, which Republican candidate is saying what Sanders is quoted as saying in this interview: That mass immigration lowers US wages and is bad for US workers? Sanders said that. Has Jeb said it? Which GOP candidate - other than Trump - has said it?
Santorum is the only one who said:”It’s not like we’re not sending them to Siberia”.
Pretty much all others have said nothing about the very humane ordinary idea of deporting illegal aliens.
I’d vote for Sanders over Bush. What a whacked out world.....
Good to hear even Sanders wants to stop illegal immigration and open borders. He would be a great matchup against Trump.
“I’d vote for Sanders over Bush. What a whacked out world.....’
AGREED, I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE ON THIS BOARD THINKING THAT! dAMN THE IDIOT THAT PUT THE CAPS OK BUTTON NEXT TO THE a BUTTON.
Lone Watie is that you?
I think Santorum has said it (if Santorum counts as a candidate).
Walker has kinda/sorta said it. He stated that legal immigration policy should benefit Americans.
But you're right. The GOP are a weak bunch on this issue.
I wouldn’t trust Bernie Sanders as far as I could throw him. Commies have their own form of ‘taqqyia’ (islamic lying for the cause).
Oh and you would trust Bush?
If that is the choice I would have I would not vote.
nope
Sanders has a career record from NUMBERSUSA of “D”. He’s a liar.
It is a crazy world. I also would vote for Sanders over Bush.
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