Bernie's Rant on CNN
the problem is too much government bernie
Bernie Sanders was on CNN on October 15, and this is what he said:
We have a country that is falling apart. We have a housing crisis, a healthcare crisis, an education crisis, massive wealth and income inequality, corrupt campaign finance…
Let’s analyze this:
Housing crisis: probably because of the subsidies for mortgages that started in FDR’s 1930s and reached ramming speed in the 2000s with liar loans and low and zero down mortgages.
Healthcare crisis: probably because health care is regulated to a fair-thee-well by Democrat initiated government programs from Medicare to Obamacare and bought and paid for by the vast Healthcare Industrial Complex.
Education crisis: probably because the education system is dominated by teacher unions and government loans for college. All Democrat programs.
Wealth and income inequality: Terrible if the wealth is achieved in some Government-adjacent Industrial Comples, and horrible if federal employees make higher salaries than the private sector. But don’t forget that the rich pay most of the income taxes.
Corrupt campaign finance: wouldn’t be a problem if government weren’t spending so much money and making so many regulations and politicians were in bed with campaign contributors.
Do you see the problem, Bernie? All these problems were created and are continued by government.
But Bernie is not done yet:
We’re the richest country in the world, right, you tell me why we are the only country not to guarantee health care to all people, the only nation not to guarantee paid family and medical leave, why we have a 7 dollar and 25 cent an hour minimum wage, why we have 800,000 people sleeping out on the streets, why we have a president who denies the reality of climate change, why we have oligarchs on top who have more and more power every day.
OK,, let’s analyze this again:
Guarantee health care: They do that in Britland and Canada and the result is extreme rationing so that it takes months and even years to get procedures done. Back in the day, ordinary people went to a “lodge doctor” and the doctors gave care to the poor for free.
Guarantee paid family and medical leave: I wonder how much that would end up costing. Do we make it a federal program, or force employers to provide it? And what happens if small employers just hire people off-the-books?
Minimum wage: experts agree that the minimum wage keeps marginal workers out of the economy.
Climate change: bless your heart, Bernie; that scam is done.
Oligarchs with power: That’s a consequence of government power. It pays oligarchs to pay politicians for influence because politicians can write legislation and bureaucrats can write regulations that slosh billions of dollars around, and the scent of honey attracts the bees.
Grok on oligarch:
An oligarch is a person who belongs to a small, powerful group that controls a country, organization, or industry, often using their wealth, influence, or political connections to maintain dominance.
Hey, Bernie baby. Do you see the meaning here? If said oligarchs can only use their wealth and not influence the government with political connecctions then they don’t have too much power. And when they can only maintain and increase their wealth by coming up with cool new products and ideas, then they can only use their wealth to benefit society. But when they have “wealth, influence and political connections”, watch out!
Of course, the whole point of Bernie Sanders and the whole DSA Industrial Complex is to rile up people to believe “we was robbed!” Free Buses! Freeze Rent! Free child care! What could go wrong?
See Bernie, a chap like me thinks that all the problems you rage about were created by liberal and progressive government programs over the last century, and that most of the time they made things worse. But will the experts ever analyze things impartially? According to Ike:
The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
See Bernie. It’s not just oligarchs that want wealth, influence, and political connections. So do scientists and academicians — especially when government grants are dangled in front of them.