Posted on 08/09/2016 12:03:00 PM PDT by TigerClaws
After losing to Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders is back to his day job as a US Senator for Vermont.
Sanders campaigned against the 1%, promising to bring America closer to his Democratic Socialist ideal and to take corporations and rich people down a peg or two.But now that his campaign is over, he’s picking up a sweet new pad.
According to Seven Days, a news publication in Vermont, the Democratic Socialist from Vermont shelled out 600 grand for a lake house.
The Burlington resident last week plopped down nearly $600,000 on a camp in North Hero.
Sanders’ new waterfront crib has four bedrooms and 500 feet of Lake Champlain beachfront on the east side of the island — facing Vermont, not New York. The Bern will keep his home in Burlington and use the new camp seasonally.
“We’ve traveled up to the islands many times over the years — almost always on day trips,” Sanders’ wife, Jane O’Meara Sanders, told Seven Days in a written statement. “We’ve been impressed with the North Hero community, eaten at the North Hero House and Shore Acres and have suggested them to friends who were looking for a beautiful place to stay or have dinner. St. Anne’s Shrine in Isle La Motte is my favorite church and it is nearby.”
Twitter was swift to respond to the irony:
“And the stink” Comrade Reid
Once they established what Bern was, then it was just a matter of price.
One can easily check comparables by going to a site such as Zillow.com and typing in North Hero, VT.
Were I in his situation, I do know that I would not be putting my entire net worth toward a short seasonal vacation home unless I came into some very serious money recently.
The town is 97.53% white. Guess he doesn’t like the BLM type that much.
Hypocritical pos!!
Third house.
Wonder what Berniebots will make of this?
They won’t hear about it.
You know I stopped watching the news decades ago.
And I read a lot of political stuff.
When I turn on the TV and see the 2, 4 7 channels its like another planet. No wonder these liars can get away with so much.
America is sleeping and does not care.
A true socialist would take all bernie’s money and give it to the poor.
Some people are more equal than others.
Must be great to be a commie here. I hope his death is a slow and painful one.
North Hero is not the Hamptons. You can do very nicely there with 600,000. The problem is not what he chooses to do with him money, but what he tells other people to do with theirs.
See? Being a “democratic socialist” works, if you depend on the capitalists in your world to produce the income for your exploitation and wealthy life style.
The one thing that impressed me about Burney was his energy.
He’s 6 years older than I am and was flying all over the country and making speeches.
I doubt I could keep up that schedule.
Maybe he’s gonna retire at the lake.
Just another typical rich socialist liberal trying to tell everyone else to be poor while they live large.
Catching up with Romney!
LOL - I'm capable of 'being impressed' with wonderful too... as we all are...
You’re right about the porta potty. Prices for Texas lakefront are ridiculous.
SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
The State forces you to give one to your neighbor.
COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and gives you some milk.
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, promises more free cows, lets you vote and gives you sour milk.
FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk.
NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and shoots your wife and kids.
BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk away.
TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.
CONTEMPORARY WALL STREETISM
You have two cows.
You sell one, bundle the other with a goat, a mule,
and two dry cows.
You pile into the derivatives market, buy a Gulfstream
and when it all comes down around your ears...
You go to the government for a bailout.
Odd how corrupt 'elites' figure out the same lies to tell the 'little people' AND the same ways to feather their own nests at the expense of the people...
The genius of our founding fathers was to 'short circuit' the path elites used for their own benefit... it was NEVER speed of legislation or diversity or any of the other crap put forward by corrupt elites.
BERNIE’S “true believer” followers are MAD AS WET HENS.
He was SO impressive. He should have held out for more
than an airplane & a house; maybe he did. Trot out the
loot, Bernie!
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