Posted on 09/19/2015 7:00:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin
So what does that mean? Sanders asked the students. Does anyone here think Im a strong adherent of the North Korean form of government? That I want all of you to be wearing similar colored pajamas?
Is it a society where the government owns every mom-and-pop store? he asked. Of course not. You have all kinds of capitalist entrepreneurship going on, a lot of wealth being created. But what else do you have? An effort to make sure that all people benefit from the wealth thats being created. So you have a much more equitable distribution of wealth and income. I talked to a guy from Denmark, and he said, In Denmark, it is very hard to become very, very rich, but its pretty hard to be very, very poor. And that makes a lot of sense to me.
In Denmark, Sanders said, health care is a right, and college education is free
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Sanders acknowledged the Scandinavian countries he cited are no utopias. But he asked his audience to compare how secure people are there compared to here.
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So what democratic socialism means to me," he said, "is having a government which represents all people, rather than just the wealthiest people, which is most often the case right now in this country. And it is making sure that all of our people have health care as a right, education as a right, decent housing as a right, child care as a right. Thats what I believe.
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Isn’t Denmark consistently ranked as the most transparent and least politically corrupt country in the world ? A perception of no bribery and and open and well-functioning public sector must go a long way towards a fair and beneficial distribution of social resources.
Good grief — ugly, ugly post.
The guys in white suits with the butterfly nets need to catch JEB! sooner rather than later.
And it is making sure that all of our people have health care as a right, education as a right, decent housing as a right, child care as a right. Thats what I believe.
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Bernie, here’s the deal, point out those rights to me in the U.S. Constitution and I’ll vote for you.
That’s no longer true with mass Third World immigration into Scandinavia.
Social democracy doesn’t work under those conditions.
“Hes just a crazy old bastard. Nothing more.”
Hes just a crazy old commie bastard. Nothing more.
Imagine if we did that here?
I too, want everything FREE!
Just one question: how would Bernie Sanders make it happen?
But he is resonating with millenials.
>>How many feral BLACK gibmedats in Denmark?
Every time some Prog idiot starts lecturing me about how wonderful Denmark and Sweden are, I always ask them about the gibsmedats. They call me a racist, but never address the basic facts of why socialism is doomed to horrible failure in this country—unless the socialists are prepared to have some plan to bring the non-working, unskilled poor into some form of productivity, or greatly reduce their ability to consume.
Pay them and they will come - for the benefits.
Immigrants want benefits without working for them.
That’s a prescription sure to bankrupt a small country.
Denmark is generous but needs to take care of its own citizens first.
Heck, I'll even send you to Venezuela and pay for the ride back.
People like you need to be slapped in the face by REALITY.
My son was shocked a few weeks ago when a friend of his from college, who had been in the Republican Club at school, said he is a Sanders supporter. He says Sanders is a new voice and the only one with ideas and solutions.
They used to be wonderful, safe countries with an unparalleled high standard of living and an envious social safety net.
Today, they’re Islamic hell-holes.
You can’t have a social democratic society without strong values and a common culture.
We don’t have that here in America.
So what does that mean? Sanders asked the students. Does anyone here think Im a strong adherent of the North Korean form of government? That I want all of you to be wearing similar colored pajamas?
Is it a society where the government owns every mom-and-pop store? he asked. Of course not...”
Stalinits lie. ALWAYS
“One press release from a Senate race he contested in 1974 proposes a radical solution to rising energy prices. Bernard Sanders, the Liberty Union candidate for the United States Senate, today called for the public takeover of all privately owned electric companies in Vermont, it stated.”
Bernie, you said: You dont necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different pairs of sneakers when children are hungry in this country.
So let me get this straight, Bernie . . . you're going to set up an agency or a czar to determine how many kinds of deodorant, and how much of it, can be permitted by law?
Will you do the same with toilet paper? I mean look how many brands of toilet paper there are. Shall we just set up a monopoly of one company, or better yet, a government monopoly, to produce exactly the right amount of toilet paper, or otherwise limit the amount of toilet paper that gets produced?
Are you going to hire Michael Gruber to be the guy who figures out the correct amount of toilet paper that people should be allowed to use? He's smart. He teaches at MIT. So why shouldn't we put him in charge of figuring out exactly how much of everything should or shouldn't be produced for the American people?
Have you been to socialist Venezuela lately, Bernie? They seem to have solved the problem of too many toilet paper brands. Because right now there is no toilet paper to be had at all in socialist Venezuela."
So tell me Bernie, what exactly will you do to feed starving children by reducing the amount of toilet paper we have in this country? And by the way, when you close all the toilet paper companies, how will the people who used to work at them feed their own starving children?
Bernie? . . . .
I just want to see Sanders and his ilk in front of a firing squad. I think we’ve had quite enough of communist atrocities to last us for the next millennium or so.
I understand. Your hatred for black people is very real. You have made that very clear. No need to threaten violence.
Amen to that!
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