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Bernie's Solution to Full Employment
Townhall.com ^ | March 20, 2020 | Emmett Tyrell

Posted on 03/12/2020 8:46:29 AM PDT by Kaslin

Washington -- The forces of militant ignorance are in motion again. They are marching with Crazy Bernie Sanders and his spendthrift wife. They are marching with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the former bartender. They are rousing the drowsy forces of the Occupy Wall Street movement and the drowsy forces of the Occupy D.C. movement, who have been recumbent for the past decade. You remember them. They were the utopian socialists and parasites who provided so much hope to the left-wing Democrats back in 2011 and 2012. They slept in parks. They hassled pedestrians. They, occasionally, relieved themselves on parked automobiles.

I called them then, and I call them now, the moron vote. They believed that health care should be free. They were for free education, especially if, while experiencing the thrill of free education, they did not have to read a book or get out of bed before noon. They were for a guaranteed annual income. I suppose former candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren can supply the rest of the things that they were for, which ought to be free. She had a long list of them before she dropped out of the race.

Crazy Bernie also can supply the rest of the things that the moron vote believes should be free. After he recites his list, he often growls to his audience of morons something about "the movement" that he is creating. He calls it socialism and adds that "it has never been tried in America." But, he growls, it will be.

I only have one question: How are you going to change the whole economic system from capitalism (which works, though it is disparaged) to socialism (which never works, though it is admired) in the midst of President Donald Trump's economic miracle? The promise of socialism is only thinly plausible when times are tough. In America today -- when times are very good -- the case for socialism is hopeless. My agents tell me that even some of the deadbeats from the Occupy days a few years back are earning handsome incomes now.

Actually, when I hear Crazy Bernie sermonize about how what he is trying to do with socialism has never been tried before in America, I begin to believe that even he, the leader of the moron vote, is only semiliterate. Or maybe he, too, is a moron. Is he not familiar with the likes of New Harmony, Indiana? It was an Indiana community on the banks of the Wabash River that the Welsh textile magnate Robert Owen tried to turn into a utopian socialist paradise in 1825. Like other dreamers of the day, he failed, and after two years, he returned to London a lot poorer but no wiser. Bernie, socialism has been tried before, again and again. It always goes belly up.

Amazingly, its promoters are often people of wealth who somehow forgot how difficult it was to accumulate wealth in the free market, or perhaps they made their fortunes the old-fashioned way: They inherited it. Another wealthy man who promoted socialism was Julius Augustus Wayland, who, in 1902, wrote of socialism, "It's coming like a prairie fire and nothing can stop it." He started a newspaper titled Appeal to Reason, which compiled his learned findings on socialism. Last week, Daniel J. Flynn, writing in The American Spectator, noted that Appeal to Reason has been "the most successful publication in the history of the American left." But we are still waiting for that prairie fire. Perhaps Bernie, another millionaire who made his millions while supping at the public trough, will be more successful than this millionaire socialist, but I am doubtful.

Let us face the facts, Bernie. The case for socialism is bleaker now than it was even back in Wayland's day or Owen's day. By now, it has been tried all over the world, and it is a bust. A humanitarian bust and an economic bust -- in every respect, it is the God that failed. Before the Soviet Union fell, the Soviets had turned every country they controlled into a prison and every economy they controlled into a poverty zone. Africa and South America were only marginally better off.

Where today is the economic model for viable socialism? Is Bernie summoning up Venezuela? How about Cuba? Actually, he is pointing to Cuba. The young people of Cuba have shiny white teeth and they can read, he claims. Well, let them read Armando Valladares' "Against All Hope," a book about the author's existence for decades in a Fidel Castro prison for having done nothing wrong. There are dozens of books like this written by brave Cuban freedom fighters. Many are still wasting away in Cuban dungeons.

When I turn to thinking about life in a Cuban hellhole today, I am reminded that Bernie Sanders' socialism is no joke.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020demprimary; berniesanders; emmetttyrell; feelthebern; unemployment

1 posted on 03/12/2020 8:46:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Full employment?

Well that’s one way for Sanders to lose supporters.


2 posted on 03/12/2020 8:55:41 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Kaslin

Didn’t the Pilgrims try that initially and they wound up starving and the Indians saved them by providing food hence the origin of Thanksgiving? They then went to a capitalistic society and blossomed.


3 posted on 03/12/2020 8:55:54 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Kaslin

When everything is free, businesses and employees, and health workers and teachers, and everybody would also have to work for free.


4 posted on 03/12/2020 8:56:43 AM PDT by adorno
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To: Kaslin

Side Bar: Folks and voters residing in Florida, Illinois and Ohio should get out and vote for POTUS, Donald J. Trump in their upcoming 2020 POTUS Primary election next Tuesday, March 17th, even though Trump has no real competition in his primary. However....Trump has actually gotten more votes then Joe Biden in at least seven states....without even trying.

In Florida which is coming up next week Trump is slaughtering the Democrats in the mail-in ballots already sent in received and counted.

I am urging, all Republicans and Trump supporters eligible to vote in Florida, Ohio, Illinois to get out and cast their votes for POTUS, Donald J. Trump. A strong showing by Trump destroys both Biden & Sanders in one fell swoop!!! Do it!!!


5 posted on 03/12/2020 9:00:13 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forev er!!!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

6 posted on 03/12/2020 9:01:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Kaslin
I'm not certain he's a Socialist. He sounds like a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist-Leninist. Sound and reads to me as if he wants eventually to be able to line up wealthy people against a wall and shoot them. By as many droves as he can get.

Shooting wealthy people has been tried before. This was the in Communist Russia. Then, when they began to run out of rich people, they began to shoot less wealthy people--the Kulaks.

They began to hunt down Jews (poor or not), Cossacks (soldiers and war heroes), and ordinary citizens who didn't like them, the Communists.

Sound familiar, Bernie? That's what I think you're up to. You're not a Socialist. You're an old man in poor health who wants to find ways to start imprisoning and executive people as soon after you take the Oath of Office as you can.
7 posted on 03/12/2020 9:05:29 AM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: adorno

Correction: If everything is “free” Nothing is free. These are the facts


8 posted on 03/12/2020 9:05:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The problem is that a certain class of people will always choose an imaginary Utopia over improvements in reality.


9 posted on 03/12/2020 9:14:49 AM PDT by marron
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To: Kaslin

Actually he only looks at Cuba halfheartedly, it is Denmark he proclaims is the socialist success story. Problem is Denmark is a capitalist country. They are actually shedding off some of their socialist programs. The other thing is that they do not have open borders, or anything even close to open borders.


10 posted on 03/12/2020 9:46:39 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: JLAGRAYFOX
IT'S NOT JUST TRUMP ON THE PRIMARY BALLOTS!!!

VOTE TO REMOVE RINO'S IN PRIMARIES

11 posted on 03/12/2020 10:55:18 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: SkyDancer
Rush Limbaugh on the ‘True Story of Thanksgiving’: ‘They Turned Loose the Power of a Free Market’
12 posted on 03/12/2020 10:58:46 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: adorno

When everything is free, there is infinite demand for everything. Price “signals” are what balance supply and demand.

When everything is free, nobody values anything at its cost. You over-consume. That is why heavily government-subsidized college education is so full of kids not there to learn career skills, but to pass the time and party-on as well as “earn” completely worthless degrees that get them jobs flipping burgers or slinging coffee drinks.


13 posted on 03/12/2020 11:01:20 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I heard that broadcast - good one!


14 posted on 03/12/2020 11:02:39 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Kaslin

Well said Mr K. I never cease to wonder why the leftists cannot understand it..


15 posted on 03/12/2020 2:29:26 PM PDT by soundapproach
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To: Mr. K

I agree....100%!!!


16 posted on 03/12/2020 5:49:27 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forev er!!!)
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