Bernie Sanders, the Bum Who Wants Your Money

IBD ^ | 28 Jan 2016 | Editorial

[Rummyfan]

2016: Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said Monday his parents would never have thought their son would end up in the Senate and running for president. No kidding. He was a ne’er-do-well into his late 30s.

“It’s certainly something that I don’t think they ever believed would’ve happened,” the unabashed socialist remarked during CNN’s Democratic town hall forum, as polls show him taking the lead in Iowa and New Hampshire.

He explained his family couldn’t imagine his “success,” because “my brother and I and Mom and Dad grew up in a three-and-a-half-room rent-controlled apartment in Brooklyn, and we never had a whole lot of money.”

It wasn’t as bad as he says. His family managed to send him to the University of Chicago. Despite a prestigious degree, however, Sanders failed to earn a living, even as an adult. It took him 40 years to collect his first steady paycheck — and it was a government check.

“I never had any money my entire life,” Sanders told Vermont public TV in 1985, after settling into his first real job as mayor of Burlington.

Sanders spent most of his life as an angry radical and agitator who never accomplished much of anything. And yet now he thinks he deserves the power to run your life and your finances ... One of his first jobs was registering people for food stamps, and it was all downhill from there.

Sanders took his first bride to live in a maple sugar shack with a dirt floor, and she soon left him. Penniless, he went on unemployment. Then he had a child out of wedlock. Desperate, he tried carpentry but could barely sink a nail. “He was a shi**y carpenter,” a friend told Politico Magazine. “His carpentry was not going to support him, and didn’t.”

[Rummyfan]

Any decent family would have put this nut-job in the attic decades ago.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The bums who want your money are the ones voting for him.

[Rummyfan]

Then he tried his hand freelancing for leftist rags, writing about “masturbation and rape” and other crudities for $50 a story. He drove around in a rusted-out, Bondo-covered VW bug with no working windshield wipers. Friends said he was “always poor” and his “electricity was turned off a lot.” They described him as a slob who kept a messy apartment — and this is what his friends had to say about him.

[Rummyfan]

Good point!

[angcat]

He looks like he is ready to be filled with Formaldehyde.

[GraceG]

I think a Bernie Early win in BOTH Iowa and New Hampshire will spell DOOM for Hillary and Expedite Justice in her scandals as the Dem Party will abandon their protection of her...

Much of that protection coming from the media itself which will dump her should Bernie become “Big”.

[NewHampshireDuo]

We were in NH earlier in the week. Saw many signs for Bernie, two for Kasich and two for Carson. That was it.

[Kid Shelleen]

Michelle Obama recently said her husband was a “bum” in high school as well. I am beginning to see a pattern. If you are lazy the unprincipled, you can get far by giving away other people’s money.

[prisoner6]

Thanks for posting. Jim Quinn was reading this on his Quinn in the Morning radio podcast this morning and I wondered where he got it.

[unread]

"He looks like he is ready to be filled with Formaldehyde."

He's filled with something, that's for sure..!

[oh8eleven]

He's not a bum. Bernie works really hard being a commie ...

[GreenHornet]

Yes, he’s a socialist, a nut case, a bum, and a delusional old man - but he’s beating Hillary! The Dems must be getting pretty nervous these days.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Sanders took his first bride to live in a maple sugar shack with a dirt floor, and she soon left him. Penniless, he went on unemployment. . . . . The only thing he was good at was talking - non-stop - about socialism and how the rich were ripping everybody off.

That describes my brother to a tee. A bum who loafs around, getting make-work or short term jobs during the summer and then going on unemployment during the winter while sitting on his ass or partying it up. Then talking non-stop about how the "rich" are screwing everyone. He's a Democrat and most likely Sanders supporter (I haven't talked to him about it and really don't want to.)

[elcid1970]

Sanders is just one single aging socialist burned out Sixties whack job with a zero work record.

It’s the millions of whack jobs ready to vote for him that scare me.

[Argus]

Sounds like Hitler’s early history.

[Buckeye McFrog]

If your scenario plays out look for them to draft the Fake Indian.

She has captured all of Bernie’s issues, plus she brings a vagina to the table.

[GraceG]

[ If your scenario plays out look for them to draft the Fake Indian.

She has captured all of Bernie’s issues, plus she brings a vagina to the table. ]

Or they would run Fauxcohauntas as Bernie’s running mate telling Bernie they they will fully support him if he makes her VP.

Then about 1-2 years into a Bernie admin something would happen to Bernie and they would play the sympathy card for another term like with LBJ...