Posted on 05/11/2015 7:40:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Noting that he’s “perhaps the most progressive member of the United States Senate,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) described today how, as president, he would do socialism in America.
“When we talk about Democratic socialism, I think it is important to realize that there are countries around the world, like Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, who have had social democratic governments on and off for many, many years. And we can learn a whole lot from some of those countries,” the 2016 Democratic presidential contender said on CBS this morning.
“For example, the United States is the only major country on earth that doesn’t guarantee healthcare to all people as a right. And if you look at the healthcare systems in those countries, you know what, not only that they cover all their people, much more cost-effective than we are. We end up spending almost twice as much as they do,” he said.
In terms of education, Sanders said, “all of those countries in Germany, Austria, many other countries, you know what they say? That, in a highly competitive global economy, all people, regardless of their income, should be able to get a college education. College education is free in those countries. That makes a lot of sense to me.”
Another area is the country’s child care system, the senator continued, which “is a total disaster.”
“Those systems are much better. By and large, what they do is many of these countries have higher voter turnouts than we do. They have governments which do a lot better job representing their middle class, rather than a billionaire class, which has much power today in our economic and political landscape,” he said.
Sanders added that it’s “fair to say” he’s more liberal than the most liberal Democrat.
“If elected president, I will have a litmus test in terms of my nominee to be a Supreme Court justice. And that nominee will say that we are going to overturn this disastrous Supreme Court decision on Citizens United, because that decision is undermining American democracy,” he said. “I do not believe that billionaires should be able to buy politicians.”
Sanders said he’s drawn about 90,000 contributors for his campaign since his announcement, with the average donation $43.
“I don’t think we are going to outspend Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush or anybody else. But I think we are going to raise the kinds of money that we need to run a strong and winning campaign,” he said.
Dog squeeze.
Why doesn’t he point to the successes of the Soviet Union or China as models he would like to follow?
Pray America is waking
Wow, all those teachers and administrators work for nothing just to provide a college education for everyone?
Oh, those were just the wrong people to implement socialism.
Bernie and his appointed people will do it right this time.
When will that old fart go away?
RE: old fart
Who isn’t among the Democrat favs to be President in 2016?
All of the “free stuff” has to be paid for. When another person who is not your child has a claim on your money, you are a slave to that person.
Yeah. America is such a sucky country compared to others that people ride on tops of trains, turn their homes into rafts, stow away in wheel wells of airliners or otherwise sneak into this God-forsaken craphole of a country with its sh*tty healthcare and underfunded schools.
The weird thing is, most of them are coming here FROM countries that have embraced Socialism for decades.
Yes, we can.
1. They are bankrupt.
2. They are being destroyed by uncontrolled immigration.
The GOP response to any of these ‘rat candidates should be
“is that all ya got?”
But unreported Sanders said in the same interview that the ‘real unemployment rate’ is 11% which contradicts Obama and MSNBC’s bragging about it being at 5%, historic low.
Dems claims about Obama’s wonderful economy contradicts libs like Sanders basis for all these freebees,
Just get a job.
MSNBC and Obama claim there are plenty of them.
Well, eventually we’ll achieve that level of altruism,
where everyone provides goods and services to everyone else out of their own goodness,
but until then, we can always force them to.
Yeah. But if we elect you, we won't.
Ahhhh. SOME of those countries. Do tell, Bernie. Which ones can we learn from? How does Denmark's Socialism work different from Norway's? Sweden's from Finland's? Venezuela's from Cuber's?
Take your time, Bernie. We have 15 months or so.
This guy is a communist in socialist clothing. A nutjob to say the least.
For Example:
Since all these professionals can't work for free this implies you have a RIGHT to taxpayer $$ to pay for your healthcare.
Finally, since there isn't an infinite supply of "healthcare" somebody at some point will necessarily be denied some procedure, or medicine they may feel they need. In other words, this RIGHT must be rationed in some way. If not by ability to pay, then by some faceless bureaucracy somewhere in the bowls of the HHS dept (or the IRS). Since we're now regulating this RIGHT, it kind of proves that it really isn't a RIGHT after all, more like a government granted privilege, the same way driving is a privilege. When government gives you a privilege, that same government reserves the right to revoke that privilege anytime it sees fit.
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