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.)
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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.
Is Ben Carson going to be his running mate?
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? . . . .
“Socialism is theft”
“The goal of Socialism is Communism”
~Lenin
Sanders is just emulating Obama...promising them freebies, for votes.
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.
Socialism: Envy used to justify Greed for the “Greater Good” and a complete abomination of Charity.
Robbing from Peter to pay Paul will always insure you of Paul’s vote.
Hence my sig line...
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
Democracy is the road to socialism. -Karl Marx
Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism. -V.I. Lenin
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism .-Karl Marx
** NO democracy has ever been or will ever be democratic.. IT IS A LIE... a ruse for a cabal or junta of mafioso's which is called a givernment but really are teams of BULLYs.. herding SHEEP..
WHich WHY? America has the US COnstitution.. to gather the BULLIES into groups to be monitored.. setting them against EACH OTHER..
The author makes some excellent points, but he needs an editor and/or a proofreader. Not ready for prime time. (Of course that’s also true of many articles published in the major media these days.)
specialists = socialists?
It seems like all democrats are at least socialists , if not communists!
The title is a perfect line for Trump. Bernie would get the vote of the 25-30% of hardcore leftists, and nothing more.
Progressives love, absolutely love, the ocean of money to which they have access after every election that brings Progressives to power.
IMHO