[rktman]

Woo Hoo! I can hardly wait to be "just like europe". Oh, wait I've been there and, uh, I don't want to live like that. May look inviting on the surface to some, but it's a pretty thin layer and it not real pretty underneath.

[Interesting Times]

Not to mention Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea....

[ilovesarah2012]

As long as he pulls votes from Hillary, I’m all for him.

[jessduntno]

“Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, who have had social democratic governments on and off for many, many years.”

Huh. Sounds like an ideal relationship, alright. “Oh, yeah, we get back together once in a while until she opens her stupid mouth again and I belt her. Again.”

[Rodm]

Proof that consumin’ too much maple surup rots the brain! Thank you Vermont.

[Sgt_Schultze]

For example, the United States is the only major country on earth that doesn’t guarantee healthcare to all people as a right.

That's because it is NOT a right. One never has a right to compel the services of another person. (unless you are a homo and need a cake, or flowers, or photos)

[gov_bean_ counter]

Check out this little factoid. Sounds like Bernie likes to dog whisper...

[yoe]

"... the United States is the only major country on earth that doesn’t guarantee healthcare to all people as a right.

America's medicine is still the best in the world however, if the tattered and shopworn mess called Obamacare isn't totally de-funded, American medicine will look like EU etc...poor care for lack of doctors, nurses, poorly run hospitals not to mention the industry from uniforms to research will no longer be attainable. Socialized medicine is not sustainable...the unions,US government pensions alone are breaking the bank today.....this is nation wide. Towns, cities infrastructure decay while American retires tied to the government tit are breaking the bank.....

[zzwhale]

ussa already has socialist tax rates.... so what is sheetforbrains really saying..??
and tell us exactly how OBUMBLERCARE is working..
this guy is pure idiocy and by the way he is not to the left of hitlary who is a commie just like obumbler..
these people CANT GOVERN THEIR PERSONAL LIVES ....HOW WILL THEY RUN A COUNTRY..??
more benghazi
more sell out via a phony “charity”
more coverups
more scandal
more fast and furious
more irs
gun confiscation
loss of freedom
NO THANKS
but 47% of this sad sack dim wit nation think it all sounds great...

[Leep]

like Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland

Then Barnard should attempt to become a citizen of one of those 4 places? Don’t turn the US into them!

[Wiser now]

I agree we can learn from Europe’s socialist countries. We can be wise and learn from their mistakes by NOT repeating them!
Is Bernie unaware of the extreme financial problems those socialist utopias currently have?
We need to learn from Margaret Thatcher, once and for all time :”Sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”

[Theodore R.]

The American people will always fall for such foolish promises.

[liberalh8ter]

It seems to me that Bernie's also saying if he were elected President , he'd continue Obama’s new American dictatorship since he, as President, wouldn't have the power to implement Socialism under a Constitutional Republic. Then again, Congress and the Senate are useless nowadays and the Supreme Court has become judicial activism central, as well.

[navyguy]

“Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, who have had social democratic governments on and off for many, many years.”

Those countries don’t have a massive illegal immigration problem, they don’t have a deeply corrupt government on their southern border (or in their capital cities), they don’t have massive drug cartels flooding their countries will illegals, drug and gang violence and they get to rely on other countries like the US and the UK for their defense.

And the average house size in most of these countries is less than 1000 square feet. Income taxes approach or even exceed 50%.

[mjp]

there are countries around the world, like Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, who have had social democratic governments on and off for many, many years. And we can learn a whole lot from some of those countries,

The effective taxation rate in Sweden is commonly cited as among the highest in the world

[right way right]

Those country’s he mentions, the old folks are fearful of going to the hospital for fear of being put “asleep” like an animal. Yeah great places.

[mellow velo]

For example, the United States is the only major country on earth that doesn’t guarantee healthcare to all people as a right.

Sheesh! Once again, we find a liberal mistakenly equating health CARE with health INSURANCE! Perhaps Ol' Bernie should acquaint himself with the Federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (1986) which requires the vast majority of emergency rooms to treat anyone needing emergency health care.

Of course, the law has been corrupted so that people, including illegals, who choose not to carry insurance now game the system by flooding emergency rooms with nothing more than a case of the sniffles.

[factoryrat]

The leftists in US government want european style socialism implimented, those aligned with the right want the US to emulate mexico’s socialist/oligarchy type system. The business sector wants to emulate the chinese model of fascism/communism.

For all three groups, the goal is to gain total control over the other two, and make that control complete and permanent.

[VideoDoctor]

Spouting silly $hit like this will surely result in a landslide win for Sanders. /s

[driftless2]

If you read Mark Steyn's "America Alone" nobody might want to move to Europe. Many of those "wonderful" socialist countries have negative birth rates while the Muslims they import breed like rabbits. And don't assimilate.

Unless they have some sort of people's revolt, the future of many those western European countries looks pretty dire.

[N. Theknow]

And how is that free healthcare "right" working in Vermont?

It isn't!