Posted on 04/02/2022 11:17:31 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
On Wednesday (March 30, 2022), at a meeting of the U.S. Senate Committee on Budget, Sanders raised an issue that’s been a regular part of his political platform for many years: wealth distribution. “Anyone who thinks we do not have an oligarchy right here in America is sorely mistaken,” he said. “Today in America, multibillionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson are off taking joy rides on their rocket ships to outer space.”
Sanders appeared to be citing the three billionaires’ spaceflight companies: SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, respectively. All three U.S.-based businesses have played a large part in redefining — and even reviving — national conversations around modern space exploration.
Musk, Bezos and Branson have each poured large sums of their own money into those companies: Bezos, for example, spends $1 billion of his own Amazon stock per year on Blue Origin. But while his brief trip to space in a Blue Origin rocket last July could be deemed a “joy ride,” it’s doubtful that he’d call his spending frivolous.
Rather, Blue Origin’s mission statement defines the company’s goals as essential to humanity’s future survival, emphasizing that “in order to preserve Earth, our home, for our grandchildren’s grandchildren, we must go to space to tap its unlimited resources and energy.”
Musk, SpaceX’s founder and CEO, similarly told Time magazine in December that his “goal overall has been to make life multi-planetary and enable humanity to become a spacefaring civilization,” thus preserving the planet. In October, SpaceX was valued at $100.3 billion following a secondary share sale.
To Sanders, those plans are more displays of opulence than humanity-enriching endeavors, especially considering “over half of the people in this country are living paycheck to paycheck,” he said.
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You can bet Bernie loves Bill Gates because he’s trying to Murder 90% of the planet’s population
And millionaires like the communist Sanders retreat to their houses on the lake to think up more BS with which to taunt us.
If I had that much money I am sure I could find a crew that would do something to convince Mr Sanders of the error of his ways.
lol Looks like the green eyed monster is made an appearance.
Let’s subsidize a trip to space for Bernie... One Way Only!
A confession. I am actually worth $330 billion and I’ve decided to divided it equally among the U.S. population of 330 million.
So you should keep your eye on your mailbox. You should see a check for $1000 showing up soon.
I only wish all the other billionaires would to the same. And I’m sorry Bernie Sanders ended his arithmetic education before he got to long division.
And the hypocrite with THREE mansions is criticizing someone else about extravagant use of money while others live paycheck to paycheck.
Yes, I forgot about that. Seems I remember him getting two of them when he dropped out from running for POTUS.
So says a lifelong leech.
Bernie used to hate on “the millionaires and billionaires” until he became a millionaire - now it is just “the billionaires.”
One can’t say that about Bernie Sanders who has never had a real job from what I can tell.
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I lived off a government check for four years.
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Then I got an honorable discharge.
The people who had jobs building those rocket ships feel differently, I am thinking.
And instead of the government taking that money away to give to those same people in welfare, Musk actually got something in return for his money.
Which is called ‘work product’ and is wealth creation.
That same amount of money transferred by the government would get Musk nothing in return, so there would be no incentive to make it.
The same money spent hiring workers to build him a rocket ship got him a rocket ship, and they obtained work experience. Technology was advanced. Everyone was happy.
That’s the beauty of capitalism. Everybody engages in daily free trade of their skills, knowledge, productive know-how and abilities as they see fit...and everybody comes out better off than they were before.
Government takes money by force from us and pays people to be lousy lay-abouts producing nothing which corrodes the very soul. Everybody is worse off than they were before.
I don’t think Elon has blasted off yet. Too busy pushing the envelope from Terra firma apparently.
“I lived off a government check for four years.. Then I got an honorable discharge.”
Yes - from one of the hardest real jobs in the world.
Bernie is such a small, jealous, envious human being. His soul is smaller than a pea. Would hate to be him.
So says sanders who has, while extremely wealthy himself, hasn’t produced anything of value in his entire life.
Sanders is the ultimate parasite.
Hey Bernie. They paid for it.
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