Time has came for the American people to speak up for the right cause.Don't let the Jews funded American Congressman/Senators to fool you guys.Get rid of Lieberman ,Rubin type of Jewish law makers who are actually enemies of America.OBAMA cannot get Americas respect back. because of these scorpion of ISRAEL ready to sting him.There should be a independent Palestinian state soon, and the bad Zionist Jews should be sent to Alaska.
Bernie Sanders should be elected president instead of Obama he would do the change Obama promised...I just hope the people that run the government don't get to him and turn him into another tool of their agenda
Return to the gilded age??? I wish. You realise that non-defense spending has increased dramatically in the past 50 years and that Bush was the biggest regulator since Nixon (the guy who instituted price controls, wage controls, environmental regulation, the EPA etc...). We need smart regulation not more useless regulation that increases compliance costs for small businesses and thus raises the barriers to entry.
real socialists have real working roots. Stalinists in Russia were preened and privy to the Party of Communism from day one. Isn't the American dream for everyone to work hard and get paid well for their effort? Relatively speaking, our "dream" is a sham because there aren't more SOCIALISTS out there pointing out things like the wealth disparity and the TOTAL under-and-unemployment.
How many more banking collapses and stock market crashes have to happen--caused by the "Free" market--before people wake up?? Government regulation--with proper levels of enforcement--could have prevented these disasters. Yet, despite ALL of the evidence proving otherwise, the right wing trolls continue to post that it's government's fault. The middle class IS shrinking. The wealthy are and have been getting wealthier--beginning with Reagan. It's a private profit, public loss economy we have.
Isn't this douchebag and admitted socialist? What the hell would he know about working families? Deconstructing the family is top priority for these stalinist nutjobs...
To get a really good look/listen on Bernie, tune in to Thom Hartmann's show on Fridays for his "Brunch with Bernie" segment. I've been lucky enough to have been listening so long that I remember Thom talking to Representative Sanders.
3rd Qtr profits were GREAT! Employees were forced to take 10 days off without pay but the work was still on their desk when they came back! How fair is that? Corporate GREED!!!!!! I don't give a rats behind for the monsters in control!
We want these big banks to do well in order to repay the loan that we gave them through our government. But for them to turn around and throw a party and pat themselves on the back after we pulled their bacon out of the fire is utterly ridiculous.
"The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than thirty cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of sixty thousand population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals...We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat...
This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
-Eisenhower
No one mentioned defense spending as a contributor.
If you believe that gov't does not intervene in the marketplace u have not heard of unemployment insurance, social security, medicare, medicaid, va hospitals, everything a government buys from the private sector(from billion dollar stealth fighers to toilet paper for the capitol building): these are ALL interventions of the state in the "free" market.
Social needs are ALWAYS embedded in the market. There has never and will never be such thing as a market completely free of gov't intervention.
All of the people who were smart enuf to buy in when the market crashed are now raking in the dough..and that's how it goes....It's not a good comparison.
I don't care for republican idealogy, but in all fairness u can't compare wall street investor bonus money to a normal job. They get bonuses based on investment performance. If the market does well...so do they.
The stock market is doing great the banks are rebounding who the hell cares about the people. I can tell you this the government does not , the corporations do not, and the banks do not in fact they like the new fee's they are allowed to exploit us with. I can say this with full and unrepentant attitude our government is an enemy of the people.
These guys all believe in Ayn Rand's comic book Randian hero of an "ideal man"—a man whose ability and independence leads to conflict with others, but who perseveres nevertheless to achieve his values. That meant that the top 1% are somehow better than everyone else and need protections from bureaucratic regulators and from "us". Since I'm bourgeois these "productive lions of industry" always seemed like pigs.wallowing in filth. I hope neither extreme are completely true. We need one society.
o.o bad karma in Detroit. That's probably why 3 people dropped dead in the Detroit marathon this weekend. Anyway as one of the ones who have given up looking, excellent work giving voice to the voiceless. A baboon on the throne of Goldman Sachs or Blackstone is still only a dirty naked monkey.
The wealthiest 1% of Americans also already bear the burden of paying more than 40% income tax revenue. The wealthiest 5% paid more than 90% of all income tax revenue generated. The poorest 40% of Americans got more back than they put in.
Given that these "rich people" are the people that create jobs and generate liquidity in markets, & not the government, explain to me how taxing them further will solve the problem you have described (this is a rhetorical question, so don't bother answering).
But yes, you are correct... this gap will continue to get wider, but not for the reasons that you have eluded to... but rather due to economic policies that are being implemented by the current administration.
The government can print money, but not create wealth. The government can spend money on workers, but can not create jobs. Only private industry can do these things.
The bailouts / stimulus money should never have been spent. But it's being used as a power play to create "class warfare". This way, a majority of people won't cry about them being nationalized even though many of those institutions were forced to take such money.
You also have to addto that 17% the 1% in prison. There is always a clear connection between high unemployment and imprisonment, such that basically those who perpetually are unemployed are enevitably destined to prison as the length of time increases.
It's obvious that profit without regulation is a mistake. Conservatives think it's fine to devour one another for a few dollars, but I call it animal economics when people fight and scratch against their own for money.
Our reason sets us apart from animals, but what good does it do when we refuse to use it? Looking out for one another isn't weak or wrong. It's human. Otherwise we'd be just a bunch of grasping greedy vultures. Oh yeah, that's Wall Street.
I understand Sen. Sanders comment that Detroit is the worst off and can even agree with the general direction of unemployment. However with a 27.8% unemployment rate in Flint, MI I feel that the real crux of the problem has been lost on many people. Flint is about to have a rebirth (it sorely needs one) as a College town. Flint was the birthplace of the UAW and Buick. Our people have had jobs that created good wealth for their people. Now G.M. has left and it is time for a new start.
5 dancing Israelis arrested on 911 in NYC demand the US start & fight more wars for Israel. ~would have been too darn expensive to remove all that asbestos from the twin towers~ Modern day warrior Mean mean stride Todays Tom Sawyer Mean mean pride Though his mind is not for rent Dont put him down as arrogant His reserve a quiet defense Riding out the days events River What you say about his company Is what you say about society Catch the mist catch the myth Catch the mystery catch the drift
We as a people need to realize capitolism isnt really survival of the fittest. cause in nature everything starts pretty even in terms of how much you have, you have the skin on your back, YOU need to go find food, YOU need to earn your keep, there really isnt much getting ahead as an animal, for capitolism to really be dog eat dog the concept "old money" would have to be banned, and each person would have to earn and get ahead
..love it!! utube get schooled by a professional economic's student!! slagging the "liberals" and "scoialists"!! lol!! awesome!! a mighty armchair general screaming from the cheap seats..a mighty warrior in the front line of the capitalist war if i ever heard one!!!..lol!!..
5 dancing Israelis arrested on 911 in NYC demand the US start & fight more wars for Israel. ~would have been too darn expensive to remove all that asbestos from the twin towers~ Modern day warrior Mean mean stride Todays Tom Sawyer Mean mean pride Though his mind is not for rent Dont put him down as arrogant His reserve a quiet defense Riding out the days events River What you say about his company Is what you say about society Catch the mist catch the myth Catch the mystery catch the drift
I don't see what's wrong with being a socialist. Most of the developed world is socialist right now.
To me socialism is the acknowledgement that people are irrational. They are too irrational and selfish to operate under communism, and too irrational and selfish to operate on a Randian objectivist paradise on the ocean floor.
People drive to the Gym to use the treadmill, then are too lazy to go most of the time, then complain about membership fees. That's irrational and happens all the time
Capitalism is what delivers the rainbow of abundant goods and services you enjoy. Capitalism is what thrust America so far and so quickly past the socialist plagues infesting other civilizations. Capitalism is the engine of humanity.
Like a nice little fairytale...and then the greed at the top got bigger and bigger. Our country was better when our middle class was stronger....When we made things, when the U.S. WAS the largest EXPORTER. Now my TV, DVR and just about everything else in my condo was shipped over from China. Meanwhile, these some of these American companies still want to consider themselves "American"? Capitalism...what's not to love?
Capitalism and socialism. What plagued nations would those be? Japan, the U.K. , Taiwan, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, even Australia? Capitalism is a powerful thing, but it is not enough. Without government (i.e. socialist) intervention it collapses in on itself. Hence the development of the 3rd way, Social Democracy.
What "deep hole" are you referring to -- the federal balance sheet, or Fannie Mayhem?
Regarding both, during the first months of Obama's reign, back when he was frantically calling form more "stimulus", the CBO revealed the reason for his rush. They predicted a quick turnaround if NOTHING was done, whereas a lingering slump if gov't continued to fuel its debt suck-hole.
Our nation skyrocketed to global leadership, rejecting the socialist model, long before gov't began to "help".
Hey dipshit, check your watch, it's quarter till 2010, not half past the twentieth century. That trite jingoistic went out with the Marlboro Man and Edsels. What's next, are you going to call for Congressional hearing on commie infestation in America? You never know, the USSR may just be playing possum!!!
Your two disjoint idiocies aren't merely off-topic, but they fail within their own context too.
There's nothing more jingoistic than the mindless slogans and fascist mandates of the Democrat's labor price-fixing wing.
And the communists in the Democrat party defeated McCarthy -- to the victor went the spoils. So, the only such hearings now are for the purpose of criminalizing the act of national defense.
Carbon residue would be a HUGE step up for your kind. Thus your obsession with it.
Quack quack quack, null comes out with more talking/quacking points. Labor price fixing? Hows that? What labor is LEFT after 20 odd years of Reagan idiotics? Shit jobs in the service industry maybe.
Oh so you are behind Joltin Joe and his American pogrom? Keep talking, your credibility is falling faster than the WTC after Bush took his eye off the ball and allowed the greatest terrorist attack in American history you putz.
Sewage sludge would be insulted by being compared to you.
Bernie is right. Time for the oligarchs to realize they have a choice: higher wages or an ever increasing welfare state. You can't have welfare/socialism for 'corporate ctizens' and sink or swim 'capitalism' for the rest of us.
ive never heard of this guy, but i like his candid report. im gonna start watching this guy's thing...weekly rant? what is his name?
anyway, is much like Rome. the wealth remained in the elites, and "the mob" got pissed off...rightfully so. I can only imagine how hard life must be for so many people in the world...imagine rather futilely = /
I did receive a pay decrease this year and the company I work for has been damaged by the economic situation, I do agree with Senator Sanders point of view, and it's really sad how we (the middle class) need to struggle more each day just to keep our head above water.
I hear that the economy is doing better, however for me its just getting harder and harder as many other Americans.
socialism and capitalism are onyl as good as the people implementing them. that is why I am an educationalist. That belief system states that a society will only be happy and functional if the citizenry are somewhat educated.
there is a DIRECT link between ignorance and corruption.
This goes to the education system as well as the corporate media, which needs to be broken up if we have any hopes of maintaining our republic.
This is how socialists think. He doesn't mention that the top 1% pay almost half the tax load so that the bottom 50% pay a total of 3%. Typical populist rhetoric that appeals to the dumb masses. In America the only thing that impedes your own success is mental or physical handicap. Otherwise there is no excuse to not do well here. But the average watcher of cowardlynewfilms isn't bright enough to connect the dots. They would rather wait on handouts from a Marxist like Obama.
Studies have shown that there is less social mobility in America than in those so-called "socialist" countries in Europe. Furthermore a dollar to a rich person is worth less than a dollar to a poor person so even if a rich person pays an large income tax they still have a much higher standard of living than a poor person who pays a small fraction of their income.
Maybe if that accountant had come up with a bright idea like Gates did he could pay for his mother's nursing home too. Wealth envy people are so pathetic. It's not Gates' job to take care of her.
Gosh, did you forget to mention that the top 1 % have way the hell more than 50% of the wealth in America so all in all, they are getting one hell of a deal you manipulative conflationary putz.
The ONLY way this mess is going to get cleaned up is for us, the average American, to get off our butts and take to the streets. Sitting on the couch eating bon bons ain't gonna cut it.
The revolt is coming and politicians and corporate scumbags are going to start paying the ultimate price for their betrayal of America and its citizens.
No matter if your politician is a Republican or Democrat........both are controlled by the same Corporations that contribute massive amounts of money and perks to them. You won't see any change until you revolt against the two party system. Period. How many lobbyist do you have in DC?
Dang it, you're not supposed to ask questions about what's happened to all that money that got stolen from you, but focus on all those Muzzie bad guys WE CREATED to distract you so we can continue robbing you in broad daylight.
I hear plenty of complaints about Obama but he seems to be the only one actually doing something to fix the mess. The stimulus package is not doing badly and if he gets the Public Option medical expenses would go down.
The RepubliKKKans want to lower taxes for the rich, keep everything as it is and invade Iran.
After healthcare reform is dealt with maybe Obama should really try to regulate the finantial industry.
Well said. Also we need to take another look at the legal structure of corporations. Corporations are why the jobs are gone. We need to look at why that is, and I have a good idea we'll see it in the structure.
RepubliKKKans want to keep Iran from nuking us, and, considering they hate us, that's not a bad idea. And healthcare reform could be the biggest screw up yet. We don't even know if we can finance it!
Jesus, u guys are much more delusional than liberals.
No, this concept of stimulus package is a complete BS. The benefit of it is only transitory, but its inefficiency (aka, inflation) is permanent - and we all know it is coming. It only looks good in the short-run; quite destructive in the long-run - just look at the history of underdeveloped countries in post-colonial era. They are still mired in poverty and zero growth in standard of living despite billions spent on stimulus and new New Deals
We are not underdeveloped countries in the post-colonial era. A more appropriate and relevant example is OUR "new deal" after the great republican depression of the 30's. We didn't just throw money at them like Bush/Obama, we busted monopolies and greatly regulated business and industry. Not to mention the wealthy had to pay their fair share for their use of the commons.
Of course, that's what the top 1% want to avoid so they feed you a line of BS that you naively recite as the truth.
tooltalk...The problem with developing countries, is they've been fed a line of bull about economics and development. I am for the entire world developing industry and commerce and the best way to do this is for all nations (which are firewalls against global tyranny) to develop their manufacturing and agricultural sectors, education systems etc. They don't need loans from the IMF or America to do this - just the willpower to do it and a make it here to sell it here law as we should.
....True wealth is not how much currency you have or that is given to you - it is the skills of your citizens and the ability to produce goods. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime; give a man a fish and you feed him for a day as they say. To add to antifaith82's statement, the New Deal, was rooted in this idea - FDR built things, and regulated business to the interests of the nation and its citizens - the top 1% use to pay 70% on nonproductive income.
ok, if you are old enough to have enjoyed Carter's inflation, you will certainly love Obama's inflation in the next 3 - 4 years.
If your life evolves around paying your student loans and mortgages, well, that's a problem in itself, but inflation is bad b/c it wipes out the middle class and the poor (especially elders, whose meager incomes are quite rigid, unlike younger workforce). If we end up in a Weimar republic style inflation, your mortgage/loans are the last thing you'd worry about.
Actually I'm getting an education then probably leaving the U.S. so I really don't give a shit. Well, if obama says a spineless center right president then yeah I probably will leave sometime between the end of obama's first(and last) term and when this piece of shit country installs sarah palin as president
huh? you are losing me here......... what the hell are you talking about? inflation is basically expansion in monetary supply (base) - the reduction in standard of living (rise cost of living) and stagnant economic growth are typical symptoms of bad gov't fiscal / monetary policies.
i think he's saying that addressing the disparities in wealth is the solution. I think he is saying that this is a first step to solve the issues he raises here
its so disgusting that so many democrats are corrupt and are creating loopholes for the finical institutions. I wish all Democrats would be like Senator Sanders
The key here is Bernie Sanders is a Socialist -- but wait -- haven't we all be told Socialists are just like Adolf Hitler. Perhaps the "Ministry of Truth" is alive and well in the US.
People should watch John Pilger's "The War on Democracy" to take a look at some of the people the US has killed under the guise of "Saving everyone from Socialism."
there is a struggle between national socialists (R's) and fabian socialists (Dems). Hitler was for national socialism, Britain, France..etc were/are for fabian socialism. its not as simplistic as you portray it
well, considering this country unjustly attacked Iraq and brought it to ruin, and has been dealing with communists and forgetting all about the cold war as we mindlessly shop at Walmart, poison our kids thru supermakert food, pour chemicals into our water, and sit by as the rich make all the rules and butt rape us on a daily basis by corrupting our government...and it all comes down to What Goes Around, Comes Around.
Unjustly attacked Iraq? They were harboring those responsible for 3,000 innocent lives lost. How is that unjust. Iraq was already ruined, thinks to Saddam Hussien. Poisoning our kids with super market food? What chemicals do we pour into our water? How do the rich make the rules? Senators of people like that make the rules. So I guess you really freakin hate Bernie Sanders and all them.
so, uh, can you explain for anyone reading this comment page exactly how Saddam was harboring Al Queda? As for the other points...well, i guess when your trailer park aquires a newspaper machine, you may want to catch up on whats happening in this world
Well, wasn't Saddam harboring Osama bin Laden? If he wasn't, forgive me for hearing the wrong story. Anyway, What we are doing in Iraq is trying to make terrorists stop strapping bombs to mentally retarded people and sending them into crowded places to blow up children. Is stopping that bad?
And terrorists weren't strapping bombs to mentally retarded people before we invaded Iraq.
We didn't stop it. That started -because- Bush invaded. I assume Bush and Cheney take personal responsibility for the consequences of their own actions. Unless they're hypocrites.
So, we caused the spontaneous generation of al-queda? (Nuts, how do you spell that?) That makes no sense, cause they knocked down the twin towers before we went in. So they were around doing crap to kill americans.
Before the U.S. invaded Iraq, there was no Al Qaeda in Iraq and there were no car bombs or improvised explosive devices in Iraq.
The Bush administration was asked over and over and over whether the insurgents came in from Afghanistan and elsewhere or whether they were Iraqis who had turned to terrorism.
The Bush administration acted as though they didn't even know the answer to the question.
I didn't want to bring this up, but I am going to. The attack of 9/11 was not only to kill Americans, but to disrupt or bring down our financial state. Now, this tragic event did not probably start our financial crisis now, but I gotta give one to the terrorists... they seem to be winning.
On another note, don't you just love those greedy bastards giving praise to the DOW reaching 10,000 like it is some magic number. Maybe the magic they need to see, is 'now you see it, now you don't'.
They were clapping when it was worse! I just wish Americans would stop paying attention to the DOW, it represents corporations, not real Americans. Wall Street is handing out these kinds of bonuses by moving money around while already earning over inflated salaries to begin with while the middle class is colapsing.
He's anti-choice or abortion; opposes min. wage AND osha (job safety put forth by Nixon); supports taxing middle class/lowering top 1%'s taxes; he's anti-environmental reg's; is against separation of church and state; does not know what 2nd amend. really means; wants to privatize the school system; wants to pull out of UN which would hurt our image even more; opposes gay rights because of his religious/cult beliefs.
socialists, what's new? angry, marginalized, short-sighted, ignorant! it seems like ignorance is the only thing going around your socialist circle.
No, sweetheart, Paul doesn't want any gov't intervention in economics - that means, no subsidies, no (income or tariff) tax, no bail-out, no stimulus, no miminum wage or other market interference. So, no, u don't give certain privilege for one group, not for another. I'm pretty sure u are familiar with this notion of equality (tho somewhat distorted
Geez, he's anti-democracy? where did exactly you go to school, neocon school of public relationship? (were you even admitted to a local community college?) So we have another war propaganda: the war on democracy (after the war on poverty, drug, terrorism). Good luck starting that movement, although I gotta say your siblings liberals and neocons awfully good at declaring wars they can't win.
You are hilarious, your economy is crumbling down with empire stretched over 100+
nations and 500+K all over the world costing trillions every year. Yet, you are paranoid about your UN membership and being a benevolent policeman of the world. Kid, the house is literally burning down, if I were you, I'd worry more about putting down the fire here.
It seems pretty clear that you are not so good at US history either (that's why u need to go to school!). The rampant black crimes & out of control teenage pregnancy of the 70's thru early 90's were the direct consequences of
mistaken liberal revolution of the 60's under JFK+LBJ - ever heard of the Great Society, P Moynihan, or S McLanahan? The sad part of the story is that it went on for 2-3 generations. Liberals silenced any criticism of the ill-gotten program with sweeping accusation of racism, even when it was apparent that it was destroying their communities - so successful was the deterence that neocons adopted the similar tactic on their war on terror campaign.
tooltalk...I will give you that a lot of mistakes were made in the 1960s, the most of which was the policy of Vietnam. The Great Society was right in principle but many programs flawed in practice - that doesn't mean you give up on the dispossessed and impoverished. The Middle Class society we enjoyed in the 1950s-1970s was built by FDR's ideas/laws/regulation. These were dismantled slowly starting with Nixon - causing the mess under Carter/Reagan. Now we have to learn from FDR again.
folks, like you, who believed that tinkering with certain tax code/rate, investment/human capital ratio, transfer of technology dictates the fate of the people at the bottom. It's certainly isn't for you or anyone at the IMF / WB to define what they need to achieve. Most people out there on the field already know what they need to do - agriculture, manufacturing or even education isn't even a precondition/end-goal for growth as you claim. It's a simple notion that most modern economists and
liberals can't even fathom - what? growth without state intervention?
I heard so much about how Iibertarians are racist if they don't support the war on poverty, welfare state, poverty trap bull. The Great Society was criticized by their own liberals like P. Moynihan (also one of the main architect of it) and his peers like D Bell, I Kristol, other social critics (later known as neocons) and civic leaders like Martin L King - and rightly so. In less than a decade, the grandios plan financed by
but tose fuckers blocking all social bill's and new programs realy should be locked up, bend over a barrel and be trained by all the people they screwed up the ass.
How can one sleep after making 20 mil trough firing 100000 people..
Im calling for a frensh revolution.. but this time in America XD
But, the economy is doing great. Rich get richer, poor get poorer..
So what's the problem?
i mean. its not like all you poor people are working really hard or anything.. right?
its not like you have to travel 4 hours a day to earn 7$ an hour.. right?
i mean, like who needs insurance or a taxcut, or maby some little help paying rent, or to eat something else then McDo' every day, when they work 30 hours at one job and 40 at another.
Go Bernie...too bad so many folks listed to Fox News versus hearing someone as astute as Senator Sanders. In the next election, refuse to vote for any Republican or Democrat. They are the same!
LOL..give me a break; libertarians and constitutionalists? Libertarians fail to differentiate personal liberty from economic truths...Constitutionalists, as it where, are really Confederalists; they do not recognize that Marbury vs. Madison; the federalist papers by Madison, Hamilton, Jay; the history of constitutional law as it has developed with Lincoln, TR, FDR - is completely contrary to their 'limited' view...both build altars to Smith, Hayek, Mises and dismiss our Founders and Fathers!
Flip off Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly. Read an excellent newspaper once a day.
And vote as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
And talk to your neighbor. Corporations and the sons of billionaires have used the news media to convince too many Americans out there that up is down and day is night and giving all our money to the rich and all our power to the powerful will somehow benefit somebody somewhere.
The USS United States of America is taking water and sinking fast.
The rats (a.k.a. walstreet, the bankers, the human life trafficking corporations and many more) are jumping ship, but they're taking as much shit as they can before it all burns up and sinks to the dark depths of 3rd world nation in a cataclysmic meltdown.
Mean while the rats are investing in China, Russia, and Europe, removing all wealth, further nudging the total destruction of the US.
Sir, in just a few seconds they're going to thumbs down your comment like they did to me and take your freedom of speech. Before they do, I gotta tell you, YOU ROCK! Stay strong brother.
I also agree...here's some progressive ideas to ponder: National Business Law, that requires all corporations share their profits at either 33%-66% or 49%-51% with their workers, each worker getting an equal share of that 33-49%; that puts into place a 10-1 rule, where the CEO can make no more than ten times the bottom paid employee - thus 360,000 to 36,000 or 1,000,000 to 100,000 - Take burdern of health costs off employers, Medicare for all, with dental/eye/etc. and Make it here to sell ithere
..Make it here/sell it here - would require all corps to assembly in the USA, in area predetermined based on unemployment rates locally (with reduced taxation) or where they choose; that 50% of component parts come from USA companies; that foreign owned enterprises contract with their American conterparts to assembly their products paid upfront w/ their franchises (Sony USA, Toyota USA) responsible for selling the goods made here - thus Ford makes Toyotas but Toyota USA sells them. Redevelop!
Last, a permanent Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps (WPA/CCC) - the WPA would put to work all unemployed until they find work in the private sector and would help them find that work (replacing unemp. comp) at infrastructure projects locally and nationally - the CCC would put people to work rebuilding our Parks and Forests and on Environmental/Conservation projects - including community playgrounds. Thus no unemployment. - Proj: High Speed Rail system for starters.
why don't you run for office? i haven't heard any good ideas like you have conveyed ever from a politician. you'd have my vote with these truly progressive notions.
Everything @ WalMart went up $4 BUCKS Average Gain up $4 Bucks and smaller bottles and Purina Little Bites up $4 bucks in ONE WEEK as soon as President gave us $12 raise ! WalMart SUCKS !
Obama added more to our deficits then all previous presidents combined. I don't care to defend anyone, but I will say that Obama is just as bad. And his bailout didn't work.
you are a fucking liar. Obama has added nothing to the deficit you mindless twit. Bush ruined this country and the republican criminals spent and deregulated us into oblivion. Take some "personal responsibility" and own up to it
It's not true Obama hasn't added any more debt to the deficit. He did that with his stimulus package, just as Bush handed the banks a bunch of money. Now Obama is sending 45,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
Why would Republicans listen to you if you're not being honest about who Obama really is? Did you know Goldman Sachs was his number #1 private contributor? Why did they give him so much? It doesn't mean that makes Republicans good. They both suck.
How has Obama not added to the deficit. We just spent umpteen trillion dollars on some stimilus package. (And that failed horribly.) There's no way we can pay for any of that.
Your insults just show that you cannot adequately express yourself in any way more sophisticated then 'caveman'. Bush probably did screw up, but Obama is doing no better.
"We just spent umpteen trillion dollars on some stimilus package. (And that failed horribly.)" It's too early to tell if it failed. But checked the Dow Jones lately? It's back above 10,000, so the economy is slowly getting back on track, thanks in part to the stim package. And before you start bashing Obama on spending, remember that Ronald Reagan left us a national debt of about $3.5 trillion. Both Bushes spent us into debt even WORSE. It was Democrat BILL CINTON WHO BALANCED THE BUDGET.
I'm afraid I wasn't talking about Reagan or Clinton or Bush. I was talking about Obama. And he has added more to the national debt then Reagan and anyone else. And the Dow is up naturally as far as we know. Obama said national unemployment would not go up beyond 8% is we did the stimulus. It has.
No union made Henry Ford pay his worker $110 a day.
Just a thought
Salvysahagun 3 months ago
I love Bernie Sanders. I think it may only take one more vicious shot to the middle class and poor before something BIG happens. We'll see.
ridewave444 6 months ago
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Time has came for the American people to speak up for the right cause.Don't let the Jews funded American Congressman/Senators to fool you guys.Get rid of Lieberman ,Rubin type of Jewish law makers who are actually enemies of America.OBAMA cannot get Americas respect back. because of these scorpion of ISRAEL ready to sting him.There should be a independent Palestinian state soon, and the bad Zionist Jews should be sent to Alaska.
krishnamurthy241 8 months ago
Bernie Sanders should be elected president instead of Obama he would do the change Obama promised...I just hope the people that run the government don't get to him and turn him into another tool of their agenda
xadam2dudex 1 year ago
Return to the gilded age??? I wish. You realise that non-defense spending has increased dramatically in the past 50 years and that Bush was the biggest regulator since Nixon (the guy who instituted price controls, wage controls, environmental regulation, the EPA etc...). We need smart regulation not more useless regulation that increases compliance costs for small businesses and thus raises the barriers to entry.
bonfirejovi 1 year ago
real socialists have real working roots. Stalinists in Russia were preened and privy to the Party of Communism from day one. Isn't the American dream for everyone to work hard and get paid well for their effort? Relatively speaking, our "dream" is a sham because there aren't more SOCIALISTS out there pointing out things like the wealth disparity and the TOTAL under-and-unemployment.
TheCognitivist 1 year ago 2
I just wanna know why he keeps saying "middle-class" and then "working families" but he carefully avoids saying "working class". Is it a dirty word?
wheatonna 2 years ago
becus everyone works but not every one is in the midel class and working fammlys are the ones wher both parents work but thay hardly cut the bills
jannikmt 2 years ago
How many more banking collapses and stock market crashes have to happen--caused by the "Free" market--before people wake up?? Government regulation--with proper levels of enforcement--could have prevented these disasters. Yet, despite ALL of the evidence proving otherwise, the right wing trolls continue to post that it's government's fault. The middle class IS shrinking. The wealthy are and have been getting wealthier--beginning with Reagan. It's a private profit, public loss economy we have.
Paolo7219 2 years ago 8
Isn't this douchebag and admitted socialist? What the hell would he know about working families? Deconstructing the family is top priority for these stalinist nutjobs...
NoiseCollector 2 years ago
Crooks running the government.....citizenry being milked. Sounds like the definition of a FAILED state
anolmec 2 years ago
To get a really good look/listen on Bernie, tune in to Thom Hartmann's show on Fridays for his "Brunch with Bernie" segment. I've been lucky enough to have been listening so long that I remember Thom talking to Representative Sanders.
Plutonwolf 2 years ago
3rd Qtr profits were GREAT! Employees were forced to take 10 days off without pay but the work was still on their desk when they came back! How fair is that? Corporate GREED!!!!!! I don't give a rats behind for the monsters in control!
perspektuv 2 years ago
We want these big banks to do well in order to repay the loan that we gave them through our government. But for them to turn around and throw a party and pat themselves on the back after we pulled their bacon out of the fire is utterly ridiculous.
wildcatbungalo 2 years ago
"The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than thirty cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of sixty thousand population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals...We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat...
This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
-Eisenhower
No one mentioned defense spending as a contributor.
lanceshitheadnada 2 years ago 2
If you believe that gov't does not intervene in the marketplace u have not heard of unemployment insurance, social security, medicare, medicaid, va hospitals, everything a government buys from the private sector(from billion dollar stealth fighers to toilet paper for the capitol building): these are ALL interventions of the state in the "free" market.
Social needs are ALWAYS embedded in the market. There has never and will never be such thing as a market completely free of gov't intervention.
lanceshitheadnada 2 years ago
All of the people who were smart enuf to buy in when the market crashed are now raking in the dough..and that's how it goes....It's not a good comparison.
DRUNKENRAMBLE 2 years ago
I don't care for republican idealogy, but in all fairness u can't compare wall street investor bonus money to a normal job. They get bonuses based on investment performance. If the market does well...so do they.
DRUNKENRAMBLE 2 years ago
True. But why don't they get paid negative bonuses when they lose money? Oh wait I know, the government will do that for them :).
cardinal1690 2 years ago
They get payed well if they do well.
They get payed well if they do nothing.
They get payed well if they do badly.
Orlor 2 years ago 5
The stock market is doing great the banks are rebounding who the hell cares about the people. I can tell you this the government does not , the corporations do not, and the banks do not in fact they like the new fee's they are allowed to exploit us with. I can say this with full and unrepentant attitude our government is an enemy of the people.
jobedied 2 years ago
I love the concept of Senator Sanders Unfiltered.
thanks BNF
DrakeMagnum 2 years ago
These guys all believe in Ayn Rand's comic book Randian hero of an "ideal man"—a man whose ability and independence leads to conflict with others, but who perseveres nevertheless to achieve his values. That meant that the top 1% are somehow better than everyone else and need protections from bureaucratic regulators and from "us". Since I'm bourgeois these "productive lions of industry" always seemed like pigs.wallowing in filth. I hope neither extreme are completely true. We need one society.
oldParasiteSingle 2 years ago
o.o bad karma in Detroit. That's probably why 3 people dropped dead in the Detroit marathon this weekend. Anyway as one of the ones who have given up looking, excellent work giving voice to the voiceless. A baboon on the throne of Goldman Sachs or Blackstone is still only a dirty naked monkey.
oldParasiteSingle 2 years ago
The wealthiest 1% of Americans also already bear the burden of paying more than 40% income tax revenue. The wealthiest 5% paid more than 90% of all income tax revenue generated. The poorest 40% of Americans got more back than they put in.
Given that these "rich people" are the people that create jobs and generate liquidity in markets, & not the government, explain to me how taxing them further will solve the problem you have described (this is a rhetorical question, so don't bother answering).
2DumbKidsVideo 2 years ago
But yes, you are correct... this gap will continue to get wider, but not for the reasons that you have eluded to... but rather due to economic policies that are being implemented by the current administration.
The government can print money, but not create wealth. The government can spend money on workers, but can not create jobs. Only private industry can do these things.
2DumbKidsVideo 2 years ago
The bailouts / stimulus money should never have been spent. But it's being used as a power play to create "class warfare". This way, a majority of people won't cry about them being nationalized even though many of those institutions were forced to take such money.
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kja5 2 years ago
You also have to addto that 17% the 1% in prison. There is always a clear connection between high unemployment and imprisonment, such that basically those who perpetually are unemployed are enevitably destined to prison as the length of time increases.
Robfenix 2 years ago 2
It's obvious that profit without regulation is a mistake. Conservatives think it's fine to devour one another for a few dollars, but I call it animal economics when people fight and scratch against their own for money.
Our reason sets us apart from animals, but what good does it do when we refuse to use it? Looking out for one another isn't weak or wrong. It's human. Otherwise we'd be just a bunch of grasping greedy vultures. Oh yeah, that's Wall Street.
lilygirl1965 2 years ago
I understand Sen. Sanders comment that Detroit is the worst off and can even agree with the general direction of unemployment. However with a 27.8% unemployment rate in Flint, MI I feel that the real crux of the problem has been lost on many people. Flint is about to have a rebirth (it sorely needs one) as a College town. Flint was the birthplace of the UAW and Buick. Our people have had jobs that created good wealth for their people. Now G.M. has left and it is time for a new start.
whybelikethat 2 years ago
ryanshaunkelly 2 years ago
We as a people need to realize capitolism isnt really survival of the fittest. cause in nature everything starts pretty even in terms of how much you have, you have the skin on your back, YOU need to go find food, YOU need to earn your keep, there really isnt much getting ahead as an animal, for capitolism to really be dog eat dog the concept "old money" would have to be banned, and each person would have to earn and get ahead
CrimsonTheOriginal 2 years ago
why bother changing it? just abolish it altogether.
tooltalk 2 years ago
1,300 jobs added to Omaha. BBB sees turn around. All the politicians can do is spread gloom and doom. Sanders needs to take anti-depressants.
y2knoproblem 2 years ago
they want the middle class to collapse, bernie. Is this news to you?
jekylfoot 2 years ago
..love it!! utube get schooled by a professional economic's student!! slagging the "liberals" and "scoialists"!! lol!! awesome!! a mighty armchair general screaming from the cheap seats..a mighty warrior in the front line of the capitalist war if i ever heard one!!!..lol!!..
LudiusFinger 2 years ago
tsk, tsk, tsk.. I'm very sorry that you didn't get to attend one. How's your GED going?
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ubuibiok 2 years ago
it is true, but senator Sanders is just jealous cause he could not make that much money himself!
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pippintoon 2 years ago
thanks for bringing the real issues to every ones attention Senator Sanders, I love your dedication to the American people
caminodelcorazon 2 years ago
Socialists hiding under the I-word are as bad as those hiding under the L-word.
TylerNull 2 years ago
he is not hiding under the independant standing. when he was mayor in Burkington, Vermont his party affiliation was Socialist.
swamibhajan 2 years ago
The word "socialist" doesn't even appear anywhere on senator Bernard Sanders' own website, but thanks for admitting that he's a socialist.
So many people are oblivious of that fact.
TylerNull 2 years ago 2
I don't see what's wrong with being a socialist. Most of the developed world is socialist right now.
To me socialism is the acknowledgement that people are irrational. They are too irrational and selfish to operate under communism, and too irrational and selfish to operate on a Randian objectivist paradise on the ocean floor.
People drive to the Gym to use the treadmill, then are too lazy to go most of the time, then complain about membership fees. That's irrational and happens all the time
LeopardFrogPilboxhat 2 years ago
oh no. . . EVERBODY PANIC!!!!!!
socialism, aarrgghhhhhhhh!!!!!! communist nazi's!!! whhargablllll!! EVERYBODY FREAK OUT!!!!
jarmtx 2 years ago
Capitalist hiding under the S-word are as bad as those hiding under the T-word
ranus69 2 years ago
Capitalism is what delivers the rainbow of abundant goods and services you enjoy. Capitalism is what thrust America so far and so quickly past the socialist plagues infesting other civilizations. Capitalism is the engine of humanity.
Your attempt to parrot back is bird-brained.
TylerNull 2 years ago
Like a nice little fairytale...and then the greed at the top got bigger and bigger. Our country was better when our middle class was stronger....When we made things, when the U.S. WAS the largest EXPORTER. Now my TV, DVR and just about everything else in my condo was shipped over from China. Meanwhile, these some of these American companies still want to consider themselves "American"? Capitalism...what's not to love?
emtravelrn 2 years ago
Capitalism and socialism. What plagued nations would those be? Japan, the U.K. , Taiwan, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, even Australia? Capitalism is a powerful thing, but it is not enough. Without government (i.e. socialist) intervention it collapses in on itself. Hence the development of the 3rd way, Social Democracy.
jotunobsidianeyes 2 years ago
Sweden? Is your immaculate ignorance genuine?
Your muddled mind is easily led. You proselytize the failed politics of socialism under it's latest happy-sounding marketing slogan.
"Jihad and the Collapse of the Swedish Model" -- brusselsjournal
"Sweden to America; Slow Down on the Socialism. It doesn't Work" -- YouTube
"Welcome to Sweden" -- YouTube
"Swedish migration system is a total collapse, extremists infiltrated and let prisoners out" -- YouTube
TylerNull 2 years ago
If Capitalism is what delivers the rainbow why are we in this hole deep hole?
ranus69 2 years ago
What "deep hole" are you referring to -- the federal balance sheet, or Fannie Mayhem?
Regarding both, during the first months of Obama's reign, back when he was frantically calling form more "stimulus", the CBO revealed the reason for his rush. They predicted a quick turnaround if NOTHING was done, whereas a lingering slump if gov't continued to fuel its debt suck-hole.
Our nation skyrocketed to global leadership, rejecting the socialist model, long before gov't began to "help".
TylerNull 2 years ago
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kja5 2 years ago
Hey dipshit, check your watch, it's quarter till 2010, not half past the twentieth century. That trite jingoistic went out with the Marlboro Man and Edsels. What's next, are you going to call for Congressional hearing on commie infestation in America? You never know, the USSR may just be playing possum!!!
Plutonwolf 2 years ago
Your two disjoint idiocies aren't merely off-topic, but they fail within their own context too.
There's nothing more jingoistic than the mindless slogans and fascist mandates of the Democrat's labor price-fixing wing.
And the communists in the Democrat party defeated McCarthy -- to the victor went the spoils. So, the only such hearings now are for the purpose of criminalizing the act of national defense.
Carbon residue would be a HUGE step up for your kind. Thus your obsession with it.
TylerNull 2 years ago
Quack quack quack, null comes out with more talking/quacking points. Labor price fixing? Hows that? What labor is LEFT after 20 odd years of Reagan idiotics? Shit jobs in the service industry maybe.
Oh so you are behind Joltin Joe and his American pogrom? Keep talking, your credibility is falling faster than the WTC after Bush took his eye off the ball and allowed the greatest terrorist attack in American history you putz.
Sewage sludge would be insulted by being compared to you.
Plutonwolf 2 years ago 2
Bernie is right. Time for the oligarchs to realize they have a choice: higher wages or an ever increasing welfare state. You can't have welfare/socialism for 'corporate ctizens' and sink or swim 'capitalism' for the rest of us.
FattKidd 2 years ago
ive never heard of this guy, but i like his candid report. im gonna start watching this guy's thing...weekly rant? what is his name?
anyway, is much like Rome. the wealth remained in the elites, and "the mob" got pissed off...rightfully so. I can only imagine how hard life must be for so many people in the world...imagine rather futilely = /
Jason200031 2 years ago
Senator Bernie Sanders. Vermont, Independent.
He joins Thom Hartmann on his radio broadcast every Friday for the whole first hour. Thom correctly refers to him as "America's Senator".
Absolutely knows his stuff and absolutely worth the listen.
chris2620 2 years ago
I disagree I believe that things are going to be forced into drastic change.
francescorengifo 2 years ago
I did receive a pay decrease this year and the company I work for has been damaged by the economic situation, I do agree with Senator Sanders point of view, and it's really sad how we (the middle class) need to struggle more each day just to keep our head above water.
I hear that the economy is doing better, however for me its just getting harder and harder as many other Americans.
tw8e60 2 years ago
Indeed. Every step that puts the power back in the people's hands and out of the rich and corporation's hands will be called socialism.
Bleatmop 2 years ago
Could not agree more.
That is the conflict, America is in. And we, here in Germany, are facing this also. Please visit the channel of Michael Moore.
People are locked in mindsets of capitalism versus socialism, or the other way round.
It is time, for a new way of thinking, out of the box, ...... to get out of this crisis.
Lisa from Munich
Sundrumify 2 years ago
socialism and capitalism are onyl as good as the people implementing them. that is why I am an educationalist. That belief system states that a society will only be happy and functional if the citizenry are somewhat educated.
there is a DIRECT link between ignorance and corruption.
This goes to the education system as well as the corporate media, which needs to be broken up if we have any hopes of maintaining our republic.
Viva Shakespeare and Montaigne!
tristramshandy3 2 years ago
Too bad most Americans have a force fields to repel such ideas. But some of us just keep hammering away.
Plutonwolf 2 years ago
This is how socialists think. He doesn't mention that the top 1% pay almost half the tax load so that the bottom 50% pay a total of 3%. Typical populist rhetoric that appeals to the dumb masses. In America the only thing that impedes your own success is mental or physical handicap. Otherwise there is no excuse to not do well here. But the average watcher of cowardlynewfilms isn't bright enough to connect the dots. They would rather wait on handouts from a Marxist like Obama.
truthforamerica 2 years ago
Studies have shown that there is less social mobility in America than in those so-called "socialist" countries in Europe. Furthermore a dollar to a rich person is worth less than a dollar to a poor person so even if a rich person pays an large income tax they still have a much higher standard of living than a poor person who pays a small fraction of their income.
PolemicalCommentary 2 years ago 2
But the top 5% get's 50% of the wealth of the country no wonder they pay more taxes...
Melpheos1er 2 years ago
I used to know Bill Gates accountant.From what he told me "Ha! rich people don't pay tax.I should know I'm his accountant."
This kind of made me re-think how things may or may not work.
He also said "With the money that guy makes I should be able to put my mother in a nursing home instead of having to care for her myself.
taxisgay12 2 years ago
Maybe if that accountant had come up with a bright idea like Gates did he could pay for his mother's nursing home too. Wealth envy people are so pathetic. It's not Gates' job to take care of her.
truthforamerica 2 years ago
Gosh, did you forget to mention that the top 1 % have way the hell more than 50% of the wealth in America so all in all, they are getting one hell of a deal you manipulative conflationary putz.
Plutonwolf 2 years ago 3
God Bless You Bernie, for your honesty, finally some one on Capital Hill telling it like it is.....Amen
alohapendleton 2 years ago
SANDERS 2012
joes805 2 years ago 2
The ONLY way this mess is going to get cleaned up is for us, the average American, to get off our butts and take to the streets. Sitting on the couch eating bon bons ain't gonna cut it.
stevec5375 2 years ago 4
We NEED more honest politicians like Bernie Sanders and Alan Grayson. Post this to your Facebook account folks!
sophiegromit 2 years ago 7
Stop the Robber Barons... all laws regulating the Robbers Barons should be passed by Congress and ENFORCED. We need to DEMAND it.
Yankhadenough 2 years ago 3
Robber Barrons....oh, you mean the guys that *own* congress.
Calling your rep. helps a lot, but personally I'm looking forward to election season...
antifaith82 2 years ago
The revolt is coming and politicians and corporate scumbags are going to start paying the ultimate price for their betrayal of America and its citizens.
jsruss1961 2 years ago 4
No matter if your politician is a Republican or Democrat........both are controlled by the same Corporations that contribute massive amounts of money and perks to them. You won't see any change until you revolt against the two party system. Period. How many lobbyist do you have in DC?
desertdog64 2 years ago 5
Dang it, you're not supposed to ask questions about what's happened to all that money that got stolen from you, but focus on all those Muzzie bad guys WE CREATED to distract you so we can continue robbing you in broad daylight.
"Look out, there's BIN LADEN!!!" OMG!!!!
LeseMajeste 2 years ago 2
Nah, it was just a taxi driver....
sonygvf 2 years ago
America needs more Socialism now!
amyleesilent 2 years ago
I hear plenty of complaints about Obama but he seems to be the only one actually doing something to fix the mess. The stimulus package is not doing badly and if he gets the Public Option medical expenses would go down.
The RepubliKKKans want to lower taxes for the rich, keep everything as it is and invade Iran.
After healthcare reform is dealt with maybe Obama should really try to regulate the finantial industry.
xhagast 2 years ago
Well said. Also we need to take another look at the legal structure of corporations. Corporations are why the jobs are gone. We need to look at why that is, and I have a good idea we'll see it in the structure.
sonygvf 2 years ago 2
RepubliKKKans want to keep Iran from nuking us, and, considering they hate us, that's not a bad idea. And healthcare reform could be the biggest screw up yet. We don't even know if we can finance it!
thecrusadingdebator 2 years ago
Jesus, u guys are much more delusional than liberals.
No, this concept of stimulus package is a complete BS. The benefit of it is only transitory, but its inefficiency (aka, inflation) is permanent - and we all know it is coming. It only looks good in the short-run; quite destructive in the long-run - just look at the history of underdeveloped countries in post-colonial era. They are still mired in poverty and zero growth in standard of living despite billions spent on stimulus and new New Deals
tooltalk 2 years ago
We are not underdeveloped countries in the post-colonial era. A more appropriate and relevant example is OUR "new deal" after the great republican depression of the 30's. We didn't just throw money at them like Bush/Obama, we busted monopolies and greatly regulated business and industry. Not to mention the wealthy had to pay their fair share for their use of the commons.
Of course, that's what the top 1% want to avoid so they feed you a line of BS that you naively recite as the truth.
antifaith82 2 years ago
tooltalk...The problem with developing countries, is they've been fed a line of bull about economics and development. I am for the entire world developing industry and commerce and the best way to do this is for all nations (which are firewalls against global tyranny) to develop their manufacturing and agricultural sectors, education systems etc. They don't need loans from the IMF or America to do this - just the willpower to do it and a make it here to sell it here law as we should.
northmeister 2 years ago
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tooltalk 2 years ago
....True wealth is not how much currency you have or that is given to you - it is the skills of your citizens and the ability to produce goods. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime; give a man a fish and you feed him for a day as they say. To add to antifaith82's statement, the New Deal, was rooted in this idea - FDR built things, and regulated business to the interests of the nation and its citizens - the top 1% use to pay 70% on nonproductive income.
northmeister 2 years ago
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tooltalk 2 years ago
I love inflation. It means that me and my generation don't have to pay back as much on our student loans and mortages. It fucking rules
LeopardFrogPilboxhat 2 years ago
ok, if you are old enough to have enjoyed Carter's inflation, you will certainly love Obama's inflation in the next 3 - 4 years.
If your life evolves around paying your student loans and mortgages, well, that's a problem in itself, but inflation is bad b/c it wipes out the middle class and the poor (especially elders, whose meager incomes are quite rigid, unlike younger workforce). If we end up in a Weimar republic style inflation, your mortgage/loans are the last thing you'd worry about.
tooltalk 2 years ago
Actually I'm getting an education then probably leaving the U.S. so I really don't give a shit. Well, if obama says a spineless center right president then yeah I probably will leave sometime between the end of obama's first(and last) term and when this piece of shit country installs sarah palin as president
LeopardFrogPilboxhat 2 years ago
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tooltalk 2 years ago
" Carter's inflation"
Well that was inflation with a cost of living spike and little economic growth which is distinct from straight up inflation
LeopardFrogPilboxhat 2 years ago
huh? you are losing me here......... what the hell are you talking about? inflation is basically expansion in monetary supply (base) - the reduction in standard of living (rise cost of living) and stagnant economic growth are typical symptoms of bad gov't fiscal / monetary policies.
tooltalk 2 years ago
Isnt this guy one of them who are supposed to be in charge of shit? Where are the sollutions?
TheGeorgeBush666 2 years ago
i think he's saying that addressing the disparities in wealth is the solution. I think he is saying that this is a first step to solve the issues he raises here
thebigjc1980 2 years ago
its so disgusting that so many democrats are corrupt and are creating loopholes for the finical institutions. I wish all Democrats would be like Senator Sanders
Adv2k169 2 years ago 4
The key here is Bernie Sanders is a Socialist -- but wait -- haven't we all be told Socialists are just like Adolf Hitler. Perhaps the "Ministry of Truth" is alive and well in the US.
People should watch John Pilger's "The War on Democracy" to take a look at some of the people the US has killed under the guise of "Saving everyone from Socialism."
MrXfromPlanetX 2 years ago
there is a struggle between national socialists (R's) and fabian socialists (Dems). Hitler was for national socialism, Britain, France..etc were/are for fabian socialism. its not as simplistic as you portray it
snappa52 2 years ago
well, considering this country unjustly attacked Iraq and brought it to ruin, and has been dealing with communists and forgetting all about the cold war as we mindlessly shop at Walmart, poison our kids thru supermakert food, pour chemicals into our water, and sit by as the rich make all the rules and butt rape us on a daily basis by corrupting our government...and it all comes down to What Goes Around, Comes Around.
PlanetoftheAtheists 2 years ago 3
Unjustly attacked Iraq? They were harboring those responsible for 3,000 innocent lives lost. How is that unjust. Iraq was already ruined, thinks to Saddam Hussien. Poisoning our kids with super market food? What chemicals do we pour into our water? How do the rich make the rules? Senators of people like that make the rules. So I guess you really freakin hate Bernie Sanders and all them.
thecrusadingdebator 2 years ago
so, uh, can you explain for anyone reading this comment page exactly how Saddam was harboring Al Queda? As for the other points...well, i guess when your trailer park aquires a newspaper machine, you may want to catch up on whats happening in this world
PlanetoftheAtheists 2 years ago 2
Well, wasn't Saddam harboring Osama bin Laden? If he wasn't, forgive me for hearing the wrong story. Anyway, What we are doing in Iraq is trying to make terrorists stop strapping bombs to mentally retarded people and sending them into crowded places to blow up children. Is stopping that bad?
thecrusadingdebator 2 years ago
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hardjustice96 2 years ago
No, he wasn't.
And terrorists weren't strapping bombs to mentally retarded people before we invaded Iraq.
We didn't stop it. That started -because- Bush invaded. I assume Bush and Cheney take personal responsibility for the consequences of their own actions. Unless they're hypocrites.
ReliableInsider 2 years ago
So, we caused the spontaneous generation of al-queda? (Nuts, how do you spell that?) That makes no sense, cause they knocked down the twin towers before we went in. So they were around doing crap to kill americans.
thecrusadingdebator 2 years ago
Yes.
Before the U.S. invaded Iraq, there was no Al Qaeda in Iraq and there were no car bombs or improvised explosive devices in Iraq.
The Bush administration was asked over and over and over whether the insurgents came in from Afghanistan and elsewhere or whether they were Iraqis who had turned to terrorism.
The Bush administration acted as though they didn't even know the answer to the question.
ReliableInsider 2 years ago
Yeah, I agree. That's a screw up.
thecrusadingdebator 2 years ago
Speak it, Bernie!
TheDuckofLaw 2 years ago 2
I didn't want to bring this up, but I am going to. The attack of 9/11 was not only to kill Americans, but to disrupt or bring down our financial state. Now, this tragic event did not probably start our financial crisis now, but I gotta give one to the terrorists... they seem to be winning.
On another note, don't you just love those greedy bastards giving praise to the DOW reaching 10,000 like it is some magic number. Maybe the magic they need to see, is 'now you see it, now you don't'.
MakeUAStar 2 years ago
They were clapping when it was worse! I just wish Americans would stop paying attention to the DOW, it represents corporations, not real Americans. Wall Street is handing out these kinds of bonuses by moving money around while already earning over inflated salaries to begin with while the middle class is colapsing.
emtravelrn 2 years ago
I like Bernie Sanders....he's like a sane Ron Paul.
antifaith82 2 years ago
I don't think you understand Ron Paul (or US history or economics).
tooltalk 2 years ago
Reasons I will NEVER vote for Ron Paul:
He's anti-choice or abortion; opposes min. wage AND osha (job safety put forth by Nixon); supports taxing middle class/lowering top 1%'s taxes; he's anti-environmental reg's; is against separation of church and state; does not know what 2nd amend. really means; wants to privatize the school system; wants to pull out of UN which would hurt our image even more; opposes gay rights because of his religious/cult beliefs.
Ron Paul is anti-democracy period.
antifaith82 2 years ago
socialists, what's new? angry, marginalized, short-sighted, ignorant! it seems like ignorance is the only thing going around your socialist circle.
No, sweetheart, Paul doesn't want any gov't intervention in economics - that means, no subsidies, no (income or tariff) tax, no bail-out, no stimulus, no miminum wage or other market interference. So, no, u don't give certain privilege for one group, not for another. I'm pretty sure u are familiar with this notion of equality (tho somewhat distorted
tooltalk 2 years ago
in your circle).
Geez, he's anti-democracy? where did exactly you go to school, neocon school of public relationship? (were you even admitted to a local community college?) So we have another war propaganda: the war on democracy (after the war on poverty, drug, terrorism). Good luck starting that movement, although I gotta say your siblings liberals and neocons awfully good at declaring wars they can't win.
You are hilarious, your economy is crumbling down with empire stretched over 100+
tooltalk 2 years ago
nations and 500+K all over the world costing trillions every year. Yet, you are paranoid about your UN membership and being a benevolent policeman of the world. Kid, the house is literally burning down, if I were you, I'd worry more about putting down the fire here.
It seems pretty clear that you are not so good at US history either (that's why u need to go to school!). The rampant black crimes & out of control teenage pregnancy of the 70's thru early 90's were the direct consequences of
tooltalk 2 years ago
mistaken liberal revolution of the 60's under JFK+LBJ - ever heard of the Great Society, P Moynihan, or S McLanahan? The sad part of the story is that it went on for 2-3 generations. Liberals silenced any criticism of the ill-gotten program with sweeping accusation of racism, even when it was apparent that it was destroying their communities - so successful was the deterence that neocons adopted the similar tactic on their war on terror campaign.
tooltalk 2 years ago
tooltalk...I will give you that a lot of mistakes were made in the 1960s, the most of which was the policy of Vietnam. The Great Society was right in principle but many programs flawed in practice - that doesn't mean you give up on the dispossessed and impoverished. The Middle Class society we enjoyed in the 1950s-1970s was built by FDR's ideas/laws/regulation. These were dismantled slowly starting with Nixon - causing the mess under Carter/Reagan. Now we have to learn from FDR again.
northmeister 2 years ago
folks, like you, who believed that tinkering with certain tax code/rate, investment/human capital ratio, transfer of technology dictates the fate of the people at the bottom. It's certainly isn't for you or anyone at the IMF / WB to define what they need to achieve. Most people out there on the field already know what they need to do - agriculture, manufacturing or even education isn't even a precondition/end-goal for growth as you claim. It's a simple notion that most modern economists and
tooltalk 2 years ago
liberals can't even fathom - what? growth without state intervention?
I heard so much about how Iibertarians are racist if they don't support the war on poverty, welfare state, poverty trap bull. The Great Society was criticized by their own liberals like P. Moynihan (also one of the main architect of it) and his peers like D Bell, I Kristol, other social critics (later known as neocons) and civic leaders like Martin L King - and rightly so. In less than a decade, the grandios plan financed by
tooltalk 2 years ago
One more thing before i leave..
it's not that im a violent person..
but tose fuckers blocking all social bill's and new programs realy should be locked up, bend over a barrel and be trained by all the people they screwed up the ass.
How can one sleep after making 20 mil trough firing 100000 people..
Im calling for a frensh revolution.. but this time in America XD
DownLowProductions 2 years ago
But, the economy is doing great. Rich get richer, poor get poorer..
So what's the problem?
i mean. its not like all you poor people are working really hard or anything.. right?
its not like you have to travel 4 hours a day to earn 7$ an hour.. right?
i mean, like who needs insurance or a taxcut, or maby some little help paying rent, or to eat something else then McDo' every day, when they work 30 hours at one job and 40 at another.
Screw those leaches living is dilapetated slums!
only in USA
DownLowProductions 2 years ago
What?? Really ! You want to sound so totally ignorant and just plain stupid ? Because that is what this comment communicates.
gracy100m 2 years ago
The 1% want America to be like Mexico. They got it.
SkreetGil 2 years ago 3
unemployment how it used to be measured is now at 20 %
djgiga 2 years ago 2
Go Bernie...too bad so many folks listed to Fox News versus hearing someone as astute as Senator Sanders. In the next election, refuse to vote for any Republican or Democrat. They are the same!
wolfytoo 2 years ago 4
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a vote for Bernie is a vote for communism. He started the Congressional Progressive Caucus
What we need are libertarians and constitutionalists, Not some POS like Bernie!
USAPatriot1966 2 years ago
LOL..give me a break; libertarians and constitutionalists? Libertarians fail to differentiate personal liberty from economic truths...Constitutionalists, as it where, are really Confederalists; they do not recognize that Marbury vs. Madison; the federalist papers by Madison, Hamilton, Jay; the history of constitutional law as it has developed with Lincoln, TR, FDR - is completely contrary to their 'limited' view...both build altars to Smith, Hayek, Mises and dismiss our Founders and Fathers!
northmeister 2 years ago
Don't forget Ayn Rand.
Plutonwolf 2 years ago
see my Ayn Rand playlists! :D
PNACATTACKdotCOM 2 years ago
What's the solution?
Flip off Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly. Read an excellent newspaper once a day.
And vote as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
And talk to your neighbor. Corporations and the sons of billionaires have used the news media to convince too many Americans out there that up is down and day is night and giving all our money to the rich and all our power to the powerful will somehow benefit somebody somewhere.
It won't.
ReliableInsider 2 years ago 2
what will?
13thDimension 2 years ago
Love.
Love God's Creation. Love thyself. Love thy neighbor.
And love the oppressed.
Forgive thine enemies and work toward consensus, common ground, and solutions that work for all.
And never, ever, ever stay serious for 24 hours in a row. Being too serious is bad for the arteries.
ReliableInsider 2 years ago
Stock up people. Its going to get rough.
mattghtpa 2 years ago
Stock up?
Fuck that.
harlexWTF 2 years ago
The USS United States of America is taking water and sinking fast.
The rats (a.k.a. walstreet, the bankers, the human life trafficking corporations and many more) are jumping ship, but they're taking as much shit as they can before it all burns up and sinks to the dark depths of 3rd world nation in a cataclysmic meltdown.
Mean while the rats are investing in China, Russia, and Europe, removing all wealth, further nudging the total destruction of the US.
mattghtpa 2 years ago 4
LOve me some Sen. Sanders
rextrek 2 years ago 3
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Sure he loves you too. You think communists will protect the gay community. THEY WILL NOT. You will be sent to the gullags!
USAPatriot1966 2 years ago
The USA is over.
rollsthepaul 2 years ago
Thank you Senator !!!! I wish more of our politicians had your matze !!!!
rungy07 2 years ago 5
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This guy is a communist and wants to socialize us.
He does not speak for us, he wants you to think that. In reality he is the enemy of our freedom and liberties. Do you want proof?
look at the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
What is his solution? IDIOT COMMIE SENATOR!
USAPatriot1966 2 years ago
Sir, in just a few seconds they're going to thumbs down your comment like they did to me and take your freedom of speech. Before they do, I gotta tell you, YOU ROCK! Stay strong brother.
thecrusadingdebator 2 years ago
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Already at -4....Guess e'1 wants and invites communism!
USAPatriot1966 2 years ago
I agree, but what do we do? Your colleagues are in the hands of these corporations.
Yewon2001 2 years ago
I also agree...here's some progressive ideas to ponder: National Business Law, that requires all corporations share their profits at either 33%-66% or 49%-51% with their workers, each worker getting an equal share of that 33-49%; that puts into place a 10-1 rule, where the CEO can make no more than ten times the bottom paid employee - thus 360,000 to 36,000 or 1,000,000 to 100,000 - Take burdern of health costs off employers, Medicare for all, with dental/eye/etc. and Make it here to sell ithere
northmeister 2 years ago 6
here here
FendenKrell 2 years ago 2
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tooltalk 2 years ago
..Make it here/sell it here - would require all corps to assembly in the USA, in area predetermined based on unemployment rates locally (with reduced taxation) or where they choose; that 50% of component parts come from USA companies; that foreign owned enterprises contract with their American conterparts to assembly their products paid upfront w/ their franchises (Sony USA, Toyota USA) responsible for selling the goods made here - thus Ford makes Toyotas but Toyota USA sells them. Redevelop!
northmeister 2 years ago 3
Last, a permanent Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps (WPA/CCC) - the WPA would put to work all unemployed until they find work in the private sector and would help them find that work (replacing unemp. comp) at infrastructure projects locally and nationally - the CCC would put people to work rebuilding our Parks and Forests and on Environmental/Conservation projects - including community playgrounds. Thus no unemployment. - Proj: High Speed Rail system for starters.
northmeister 2 years ago 6
why don't you run for office? i haven't heard any good ideas like you have conveyed ever from a politician. you'd have my vote with these truly progressive notions.
soccerdude601 2 years ago
good stuff!
muziquelle 2 years ago
Everything @ WalMart went up $4 BUCKS Average Gain up $4 Bucks and smaller bottles and Purina Little Bites up $4 bucks in ONE WEEK as soon as President gave us $12 raise ! WalMart SUCKS !
nohealthcare62 2 years ago 2
We love you Sen. Sanders. Thank God there is a sane voice out there.
Textynn 2 years ago 3
This is the state Bush has left this country in. COngratulations conservative voters - you fucked yourselves over good and hard.
geffel 2 years ago 4
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How. in. the. holy. mother. of. the. giant. hamsters. that. are. chewing. at. my. skull. is this Bush's fault?
thecrusadingdebator 2 years ago
crusading,
He oversaw the collapse of the world economy. Remember?
With Republicans in control of all three branches of the government.
After vigorous growth under Clinton and the first balanced federal budgets since the 1969 Johnson/Nixon budget.
ReliableInsider 2 years ago
Obama added more to our deficits then all previous presidents combined. I don't care to defend anyone, but I will say that Obama is just as bad. And his bailout didn't work.
thecrusadingdebator 2 years ago
you are a fucking liar. Obama has added nothing to the deficit you mindless twit. Bush ruined this country and the republican criminals spent and deregulated us into oblivion. Take some "personal responsibility" and own up to it
PlanetoftheAtheists 2 years ago 7
It's not true Obama hasn't added any more debt to the deficit. He did that with his stimulus package, just as Bush handed the banks a bunch of money. Now Obama is sending 45,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
Why would Republicans listen to you if you're not being honest about who Obama really is? Did you know Goldman Sachs was his number #1 private contributor? Why did they give him so much? It doesn't mean that makes Republicans good. They both suck.
MrXfromPlanetX 2 years ago
How has Obama not added to the deficit. We just spent umpteen trillion dollars on some stimilus package. (And that failed horribly.) There's no way we can pay for any of that.
Your insults just show that you cannot adequately express yourself in any way more sophisticated then 'caveman'. Bush probably did screw up, but Obama is doing no better.
thecrusadingdebator 2 years ago
"We just spent umpteen trillion dollars on some stimilus package. (And that failed horribly.)" It's too early to tell if it failed. But checked the Dow Jones lately? It's back above 10,000, so the economy is slowly getting back on track, thanks in part to the stim package. And before you start bashing Obama on spending, remember that Ronald Reagan left us a national debt of about $3.5 trillion. Both Bushes spent us into debt even WORSE. It was Democrat BILL CINTON WHO BALANCED THE BUDGET.
jensen1901 2 years ago
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emtravelrn 2 years ago
I'm afraid I wasn't talking about Reagan or Clinton or Bush. I was talking about Obama. And he has added more to the national debt then Reagan and anyone else. And the Dow is up naturally as far as we know. Obama said national unemployment would not go up beyond 8% is we did the stimulus. It has.
thecrusadingdebator 2 years ago