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Bernie Sanders (Like All Socialists) is a Thief Claiming to be a Humanitarian
Godfather Politics ^ | September 15, 2015 | Gary DeMar

Posted on 09/15/2015 10:58:38 AM PDT by TBP

Most people don't know what a socialist is. Socialist sounds too much like "social." A socialist, I suspect, for most Americans means to be "social." Who could be opposed to that?

Bernie Sanders is a Socialist. In reality, he's a theft using the respectability of the United States Senate as cover for his criminal views.

Like all socialists, Sanders believes it's OK to steal from people if he can get enough votes and enough support from the people he will be stealing for -- the beneficiaries of his thieving ways.

Of course, Sanders isn't the only socialist in Congress. Most politicians are socialists. Most Americans are specialists. They, too, believe it's OK to steal as long as a majority of people approve of it.

It's gotten so bad that NEWSWEEK magazine proposed that we are now a socialist nation: "We Are All Socialists Now."

And what would Sanders' thievery cost the United States, that is, people? Not much. Just $18 trillion over ten years. As we all know, government projections of costs is always on the low side. Newsmax reports:

“'Sen. Sanders’s agenda does cost money,' Warren Gunnels, Sanders' policy director, told The Wall Street Journal, with the Vermont senator refusing a request for a direct interview. 'If you look at the problems that are out there, it’s very reasonable.'

"The Vermont senator says his agenda is needed to provide essential services for Americans, but the plans, which include $15 trillion for a healthcare program that covers all Americans, would also come with tax increases to collect up to $6.5 trillion over the same decade."

His plan and costs include:

*Medicare (single-payer healthcare plan): $15 trillion *Social Security (increase benefits and bolster solvency): $1.2 trillion *Infrastructure (Rebuild roads, bridges and airports): $1 trillion *College Affordability (Tuition-free public schools and favorable loan refinancing): $750 billion *Paid Leave Fund (Allow workers paid family and medical leave) $319 billion *Bolster private pension funds (to prevent companies from cutting pensions): $29 billion *Youth jobs initiative ($1 million jobs for disadvantaged youth): $5.5 billion *The payment for these programs would require stealing money and property from millions of Americans and transferring that stolen money to people who have no right to it.

Such a program of theft would destroy our economy, create even greater class conflict, reduce the incentive for the productive to work and innovate, and create millions of dependent people.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; 2016election; berniesanders; business; constitution; economics; election; liberalism; lowinformationvoters; morality; politics; progressives; sanders; socialism
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All progressives, as far as I can tell, are thieves claiming to be humanitarians. If they only cared one thousandth as much as they claim to!

Like all progressives, Sanders isn't really interested in helping people, just in helping himself. (One cannot be genuinely interested in helping people and be a progressive.)

1 posted on 09/15/2015 10:58:38 AM PDT by TBP
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To: TBP

Oops. Formatting problem. Should look like this:

His plan and costs include:

*Medicare (single-payer healthcare plan): $15 trillion
*Social Security (increase benefits and bolster solvency): $1.2 trillion
*Infrastructure (Rebuild roads, bridges and airports): $1 trillion
*College Affordability (Tuition-free public schools and favorable loan refinancing): $750 billion
*Paid Leave Fund (Allow workers paid family and medical leave) $319 billion
*Bolster private pension funds (to prevent companies from cutting pensions): $29 billion
*Youth jobs initiative ($1 million jobs for disadvantaged youth): $5.5 billion

The payment for these programs would require stealing money and property from millions of Americans and transferring that stolen money to people who have no right to it.


2 posted on 09/15/2015 11:04:03 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP

Is Ben Carson going to be his running mate?


3 posted on 09/15/2015 11:06:45 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ("Go TRUMP 2016!!! All the Way to the White House!!!)
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To: TBP

Keep in mind that government programs ALWAYS cost more than originally estimated (not to mention they make matters worse). A lot more.


4 posted on 09/15/2015 11:08:11 AM PDT by all the best
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If Bernie wins the Democrat nomination, he will be a sitting duck in debates and ads against any Republican nominee with half a brain:

Bernie, you said: “You don’t necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different pairs of sneakers when children are hungry in this country.”

So let me get this straight, Bernie . . . you're going to set up an agency or a czar to determine how many kinds of deodorant, and how much of it, can be permitted by law?

Will you do the same with toilet paper? I mean look how many brands of toilet paper there are. Shall we just set up a monopoly of one company, or better yet, a government monopoly, to produce exactly the right amount of toilet paper, or otherwise limit the amount of toilet paper that gets produced?

Are you going to hire Michael Gruber to be the guy who figures out the correct amount of toilet paper that people should be allowed to use? He's smart. He teaches at MIT. So why shouldn't we put him in charge of figuring out exactly how much of everything should or shouldn't be produced for the American people?

Have you been to socialist Venezuela lately, Bernie? They seem to have solved the problem of too many toilet paper brands. Because right now there is no toilet paper to be had at all in socialist Venezuela."

So tell me Bernie, what exactly will you do to feed starving children by reducing the amount of toilet paper we have in this country? And by the way, when you close all the toilet paper companies, how will the people who used to work at them feed their own starving children?

Bernie? . . . .

5 posted on 09/15/2015 11:09:06 AM PDT by Maceman
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It’s the schools! Stop them from indoctrinating the young that socialism is good and state thievery is just.


6 posted on 09/15/2015 11:10:20 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: TBP

“Socialism is theft”


7 posted on 09/15/2015 11:11:40 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
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To: TBP

“The goal of Socialism is Communism”
~Lenin


8 posted on 09/15/2015 11:12:22 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
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To: Maceman

Not to mention the paper he wrote where he said that every woman dreams of being gang-raped by three men.


9 posted on 09/15/2015 11:12:25 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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Sanders is just emulating Obama...promising them freebies, for votes.


10 posted on 09/15/2015 11:12:30 AM PDT by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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To: PATRIOT1876

“Liberalism is Communism served by the drink.” — P.J. O’Rourke


11 posted on 09/15/2015 11:13:40 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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Democrats and socialists are all about using OPM (other peoples money) to buy votes and political favors.

Rarely do they advocate using their own money or resources.


12 posted on 09/15/2015 11:14:33 AM PDT by dhs12345
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Socialism: Envy used to justify Greed for the “Greater Good” and a complete abomination of Charity.


13 posted on 09/15/2015 11:15:33 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: dhs12345

“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” — Margaret Thatcher.

Greece is proof that the Iron Lady was right.


14 posted on 09/15/2015 11:16:09 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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Absolutely. A system where everyone is receiving freebies and no one is paying for them is destined to collapse. It should be obvious even to Liberals but they really don't care. Their goal is short sighted and selfish — get themselves re-elected and gain or maintain their power. All else is secondary.
15 posted on 09/15/2015 11:21:25 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: TBP

Robbing from Peter to pay Paul will always insure you of Paul’s vote.


16 posted on 09/15/2015 11:22:24 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: PATRIOT1876
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Sir Winston Churchill


17 posted on 09/15/2015 11:34:45 AM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: GraceG

>>Socialism: Envy used to justify...

“Covetousness As Idolatry “
http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=14&v=jBVs3Ykp7Lo

http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/03/covetousness-as-idolatry/


18 posted on 09/15/2015 11:40:03 AM PDT by HLPhat (This space is intentionally blank.)
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To: TBP

Hence my sig line...


19 posted on 09/15/2015 11:42:34 AM PDT by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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And what would Sanders' thievery cost the United States, that is, people? Not much. Just $18 trillion over ten years

the amount of psychopathology needed to think that that was a good idea is overwhelming:

1)gratification of various types of pathological dependency
2)feelings of envy and inferiority
3)paranoid perceptions of victimization
4)manic delusions of grandeur
5)desire for power, domination and revenge
6)infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation

20 posted on 09/15/2015 11:43:53 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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