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What Bernie Sanders means by ‘democratic socialism.’ (You still have your choice of pajamas.)
Washington Post ^ | September 19 at 8:49 PM | John Wagner

Posted on 09/19/2015 7:00:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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To: Blood of Tyrants

Isn’t Denmark consistently ranked as the most transparent and least politically corrupt country in the world ? A perception of no bribery and and open and well-functioning public sector must go a long way towards a fair and beneficial distribution of social resources.


21 posted on 09/19/2015 7:18:39 PM PDT by erlayman
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To: Rome2000

Good grief — ugly, ugly post.


22 posted on 09/19/2015 7:18:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: newfreep

The guys in white suits with the butterfly nets need to catch JEB! sooner rather than later.


23 posted on 09/19/2015 7:19:02 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: BenLurkin

And it is making sure that all of our people have health care as a right, education as a right, decent housing as a right, child care as a right. That’s what I believe.

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Bernie, here’s the deal, point out those rights to me in the U.S. Constitution and I’ll vote for you.


24 posted on 09/19/2015 7:19:16 PM PDT by Graybeard58 ( Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: Jim Noble

That’s no longer true with mass Third World immigration into Scandinavia.

Social democracy doesn’t work under those conditions.


25 posted on 09/19/2015 7:21:22 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: albie

“He’s just a crazy old bastard. Nothing more.”

He’s just a crazy old commie bastard. Nothing more.


26 posted on 09/19/2015 7:22:37 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame enobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: erlayman
Denmark just cut the benefits for immigrants to keep them out.

Imagine if we did that here?

27 posted on 09/19/2015 7:23:02 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Graybeard58

I too, want everything FREE!

Just one question: how would Bernie Sanders make it happen?


28 posted on 09/19/2015 7:23:52 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: albie

But he is resonating with millenials.


29 posted on 09/19/2015 7:24:47 PM PDT by kalee
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>>How many feral BLACK gibmedats in Denmark?

Every time some Prog idiot starts lecturing me about how wonderful Denmark and Sweden are, I always ask them about the gibsmedats. They call me a racist, but never address the basic facts of why socialism is doomed to horrible failure in this country—unless the socialists are prepared to have some plan to bring the non-working, unskilled poor into some form of productivity, or greatly reduce their ability to consume.


30 posted on 09/19/2015 7:25:36 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: ealgeone

Pay them and they will come - for the benefits.

Immigrants want benefits without working for them.

That’s a prescription sure to bankrupt a small country.

Denmark is generous but needs to take care of its own citizens first.


31 posted on 09/19/2015 7:27:42 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: BenLurkin
Hey Mr. Holier than thou, just say the word and I'll pay for a round trip for you to Haiti, or Zimbabwe.

Heck, I'll even send you to Venezuela and pay for the ride back.

People like you need to be slapped in the face by REALITY.

32 posted on 09/19/2015 7:28:31 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: newfreep

My son was shocked a few weeks ago when a friend of his from college, who had been in the Republican Club at school, said he is a Sanders supporter. He says Sanders is a new voice and the only one with ideas and solutions.


33 posted on 09/19/2015 7:29:38 PM PDT by kalee
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To: Bryanw92

They used to be wonderful, safe countries with an unparalleled high standard of living and an envious social safety net.

Today, they’re Islamic hell-holes.

You can’t have a social democratic society without strong values and a common culture.

We don’t have that here in America.


34 posted on 09/19/2015 7:31:42 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: BenLurkin

“So what does that mean?” Sanders asked the students. “Does anyone here think I’m a strong adherent of the North Korean form of government? That I want all of you to be wearing similar colored pajamas?”

“Is it a society where the government owns every mom-and-pop store?” he asked. “Of course not...”


Stalinits lie. ALWAYS

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/19/bernie-sanders-profile-democrat-presidential-candidate

“One press release – from a Senate race he contested in 1974 – proposes a radical solution to rising energy prices. “Bernard Sanders, the Liberty Union candidate for the United States Senate, today called for the public takeover of all privately owned electric companies in Vermont,” it stated.”


35 posted on 09/19/2015 7:33:32 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
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To: kalee
The Government Education Industrial Complex has not only failed academically but has indoctrinated the last 2 generations with the utter nonsense called socialism.
36 posted on 09/19/2015 7:35:26 PM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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To: BenLurkin
If Bernie wins the Democrat nomination, he will be a sitting duck in debates and ads for 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? . . . .

37 posted on 09/19/2015 7:39:55 PM PDT by Maceman
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To: BenLurkin

I just want to see Sanders and his ilk in front of a firing squad. I think we’ve had quite enough of communist atrocities to last us for the next millennium or so.


38 posted on 09/19/2015 7:41:18 PM PDT by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: Rome2000

I understand. Your hatred for black people is very real. You have made that very clear. No need to threaten violence.


39 posted on 09/19/2015 7:45:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: albie
He’s just a crazy old bastard. Nothing more.

Amen to that!

40 posted on 09/19/2015 7:47:07 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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