The Secret of Bernie’s Millions
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/05/24/bernie-sanders-millionaires-226982/
Economic inequality? Like economic inequality caused by inflation? Devaluation of the dollar? Higher taxes? The old yenta Bernie doesn't know sh*t about economics; he does know how to blackmail TPTB into buying him mansions.
Oh my, this should be good for a few chuckles, eh?
The starting point of all these discussions is that everyone should naturally have economic equity. And, if they don’t, evil forces must be at work that cause the inequity.
I am not saying that people don’t get exploited; it happens all the time. However, many of the poor people I know are poor because of really bad decisions they made along the way. Most of it comes down to choosing what seems best in the short term at the expense of the long term. If you have some discipline and can think proactively, that is more than half the battle.
Their motto should be save democracy with socialism. Just tell the truth.
Their motto should be save democracy with socialism. Just tell the truth.
Comrade Kaprugina endorses Cackles Harris…
She’s not communist enough for ole bolshevik Bernie
Sanders is 82..82. And he is still partially running this country.
This phenomenon of ancient politicians I think has something to do with our mess. We need (more) term limits.
Social Security and Medicare benefits expanded. That is what I paid in all of my life for - to pass it on to illegal aliens. And btw Sanders, you lying communist, what has Trump lied about specifically?
I find it interesting that Communists are blind to history, blind to outcomes. South Africa was a prosperous Country. Apartheid was the impetus for a political upheaval . When the Black took over to enforce equity South Africa experienced tremendous violence, farms taken over failed, productivity fell of a cliff.
The left says, “That’s what we need in America”.
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Income per capita has been falling for over a decade. Unemployment at over 33% is the world’s highest, and youth unemployment exceeds 60%. Poverty has risen to 55.5% based on the national poverty line, yet many more households depend on government transfers to sustain meager livelihoods.
Most cities are failing to adequately connect people to productive opportunities and are failing to innovate, grow, and drive inclusion. Rural areas in former homelands, where almost 30% of South Africans live, exhibit dismally low employment rates and remain exceptionally poor.
State capacity has collapsed across many government functions that are essential for a functioning economy. Critical network industries, including electricity, transport infrastructure and services, security, and water and sanitation have experienced major deteriorations over the last 15 years.
The economy has been forced to cope with increasing electricity rationing, leading to a declaration of national disaster in February 2023 after more than 15 years of load shedding. Rail and port capacity has declined, generating large losses in exports. The collapse in state capacity to deliver key inputs has, in effect, squandered the country’s comparative advantage in cheap, coal-fired electricity.
Urban crime is very high, and theft and sabotage undermine the functioning of many national infrastructure systems. Communities across the country are increasingly vulnerable to all forms of disaster — both natural and manmade — due to weakened public services. National finances are under increasing strain as South Africa relies on fiscal transfers to bail out state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and to redistribute national income to households to alleviate poverty and hardship.
Many municipalities now face severe fiscal challenges which undermine already weak public service delivery. South Africa is seeing signs of unsustainability in its repeated credit downgrades and large sovereign risk premia. All the while, as growth slows, exclusionary forces are becoming more entrenched.
https://conversableeconomist.com/2023/11/20/south-africas-economy-30-years-since-apartheid/
Bernie loves his wealth and power and owning multiple nice houses. For everybody else? The Oppression, higher taxes, and a steady communist feed of propaganda about how Bernie cares about them.
Bernie the Red is cut right from the Politburo cloth. For further insight into Bernie’s mindset, read about Napoleon in Animal Farm.
He and his evil comrades are a great danger to America and need to be removed from controlling what is supposed to be our government
“child tax credit”
In my state cats have to be given periodic rabies shots....
Economic equality of 100000 to 1 doesn’t matter. Jeff Bezos lives and buys in an entirely different economic stratum than me.
Economic inequality of 10 to 1 or even 4 to 1 matters.
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(f) Nothing in this section modifies or supersedes other Federal statutory restrictions or relevant State laws that may apply to the use of campaign or donated funds by candidates or Federal officeholders.”
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-11/chapter-I/subchapter-A/part-113
Because of poorly written laws that are part of a complex system that’s hard to understand, lawyers can demand and get extraordinarily high incomes.
IOW FYBIGM?
The leftists need to understand that the assets of the rich can’t all be converted into government cash. The major reason is that the middle class lacks the funds to buy those assets. Two trillion in investment available middle-class cash can’t buy 30 trillion in rich guy stocks.
The second reason is that once the rich have been fleeced the asset-owning upper middle class would be next on the leftist government target list.
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Yahoo Finance
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17 hours ago — Becoming a private landlord in Britain no longer makes financial sense, the boss of property listings website Zoopla has said.
Discrepancies between rich and poor, income and wealth inequality.
When the democrats are in charge it’s a simple matter of they are the plantation owners and were the slaves.
Doesn't Bernie Sanders own 3 houses?
Well, we don’t have to be concerned with Harris being a pathological liar (should she get the nomination which is being field-tested during this run-up to the Democrat/Communist Cult fest in a couple of weeks); she does indeed lie about most everything but she lacks the ability (i.e., she’s not smart enough) to effectively hide, much less defend, her myriad lies.