Posted on 05/27/2015 4:37:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
Socialist genius Bernie Sanders has figured out what's really ailing America.
Our store shelves have too many different brands of deodorant and sneakers. Just look at all those horrible, fully stocked aisles at Target and Walgreens and Wal-Mart and Payless and DSW and Dick's Sporting Goods. It's a national nightmare! If only consumers had fewer choices in the free market, fewer entrepreneurs offering a wide variety of products and fewer workers manufacturing goods people wanted, Sanders believes, we could end childhood hunger.
Nobody parodies the far left better than far-leftists themselves.
In an interview with financial journalist John Harwood on Tuesday, Sanders detailed his grievances with an overabundance of antiperspirants and footwear. "You don't necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different pairs of sneakers when children are hungry in this country. I don't think the media appreciates the kind of stress that ordinary Americans are working on."
Try to suppress a snicker: Sanders, Decider of Your Sanitary and Footwear Needs, is casting himself as the Everyman in touch with "ordinary Americans" to contrast his campaign with Hillary "my Beltway lobbyist and foreign agent operator Sid Blumenthal is just a friend I talk to for advice" Clinton.
Blech. By the looks of the 2016 Democratic presidential field, liberals really do practice the anti-choice principles they preach.
At Caracas-on-the-Green Mountains, every business owner's success robs starving babies of vital nutrition. Because some tummies may be grumbling somewhere across the fruited plains, all must suffer. In Sanders' world, it's the "greedy"-- America's real makers, builders and wealth creators -- who must be punished and shamed, specifically with a personal income tax rate hiked to a whopping 90 percent for top earners.
Of course, the wealth redistributors in Washington never bear any of the blame for misspending the billions they confiscate. Nearly 100 million Americans participated in dozens of federal food assistance programs in 2014. The General Accounting Office reported last year that $74.6 billion went to food stamps, $11.3 billion went to the national school lunch program, and $7.1 billion went to the WIC (Women, Infants and Children) program, along with $1.9 billion for nutrition assistance for Puerto Rico and $10.7 million for a federal milk program.
But no, it's not the fault of command-and-control bureaucrats and their overseers on Capitol Hill that the War on Poverty and the War on Hunger have failed.
In Sanders' bubble, childhood hunger is the fault of selfish consumers, self-serving entrepreneurs and rapacious retailers who engage in voluntary transactions in a free-market economy. Just as Sanders believes there are "too many" products on the shelves, President Obama recently opined that families of America's top earners in the financial industry "pretty much have more than you'll ever be able to use and your family will ever be able to use."
We need not speculate about whether the wealth-shamers' recipe of less capitalist consumption, fewer private businesses, stifling of entrepreneurship and more government control over goods and services would result in happier citizens and fuller stomachs. In Venezuela, the shelves are unburdened by "too many" deodorants and shoes and too much soap, milk or coffee. Food distribution is under military control. The currency of the socialist paradise just collapsed on the black market by 30 percent.
Here in America, dozens of private household goods companies make billions of dollars selling scented, unscented, quilted, two-ply, white and colored toilet paper that people want and need. In Sanders' utopia in South America, the government imposed price controls in the name of redistributing basic goods to the poor and seized a toilet paper factory to cure the inevitable shortages. The lines are long. The shelves are empty. The daily battle for subsistence is brutal.
Take it from those who suffer most under the unbridled fulfillment of "you didn't build that" and "you don't need that" radicalism: It stinks.
I’m pretty sure this guy DOES NOT live in a refrigerator box under an overpass. That makes the hypocrisy mind boggling.
It’s mind boggling that the voters in his state return him to Washington time after time.Bernie is just the visible symptom of the sickness in this country.
The thought that an open socialist is permitted to hold office on our soil is reprehensible.
The media loves to comment on the death of the blue blood Republicans, I would love to know what happened to the Sccop Jackson wing of the Democrats!!!
I learn ... and HAVE learned a lot .. from my Filipina wife because of her third world background
The first time we took a romantic walk in a wooded area/trail .... she asked where all the monkeys were
On our first ride to church she wondered where all the walking people are ... why are there no people walking to and fro
And WalMart was Disneyland !
Our first shopping trip was a college education to and for me
Liza must have touched just about every thing she saw ... maybe to see if it was real ... I don't know
Just those few examples (of many) are enough to stop THIS cerebral character and wonder about my own existence and heritage
We Americans NEVER consider life without TV or the choice(s) of food and goods
We have ALWAYS had the option of Ford or Chevy.
Even with people .... we have the option of choosing a mate out of a visual list of hundreds, but the third worlder pretty much has only their baranguy (village/communty) to choose from and the attributes needed have nothing to do with looks or wealth so much as .... are you a LIFE enhancement or not ?
I see I'm rambling .... but that is what Liza has been for me ... an eye and mind opener to the reality of me and my American life
Bernie's a flake, but the idea that we have so or too ... much .. is right on.
I get headaches just trying to understand the mindset of these fools.
Well that should be of no surprise to you. The liberals are the biggest hypocrites. Sanders might be a socialist but he votes with the rats
It’s Vermont, a world onto its own.
Bernie...you need to pack up and move to North Korea. You’ll be much happier there. And their shelves are empty. So it is a double delight for you.
The DNC put him up as a foil to Hillary. Charges that she’s a closet Marxist are to be contrasted with Sander’s over-the-top Bolshevism.
He’s running point for the collectivists. “See, Hillary isn’t a commie! Look over there! It’s a squirrel!”
The unfortunate part of all this is..
Nearly half of American voters would buy into the socialist claptrap from Sanders.
What Bernie is still too cautious to admit is that the kind of socialist who thinks we only need one deodorant, one brand of sneaker, one “choice” of a car, one health care plan, etc. — because too much choice is confusing and wasteful — also thinks that we only need one political leader; again, lest we poor imbeciles get confused and misunderstand our true interests.
“It’s mind bolggling that the voters in his state return him to Washington time after time. Bernie is just the visible symptom of the sickness in this country.”
Absolutey.
The psychotic, adolescent junior-high-schoolers are offered the status of brilliant intellectual genius the moment they vote left and worship at the feet of people like
Mr. Sanders.
IMHO
The fact that MSNBC’s loud mouth fool extraordinaire, Ed Shultz, promotes this socialist POS evry night sez it all.
Run, Bernie, run!
That might not be so much encouragement to get into the race for the nomination to carry the Democrat banner for the Presidential candidacy, as it is to get out of town before the roof comes down on him, and well ahead of the pursuit of the mob.
Either way works for me. Ideological purity does have its own virtues. Very high definition is one of them.
Ample bread for the masses:
Fully stocked butcher shops:
Attractive, assigned housing for all:
Free artistic expression (albeit subject to state approval):
I’m not sure what you mean by saying we have ‘too much.’ Who determines what enough and too much are? Our culture is based on hard work and achievement. Why should we feel guilty because we have choices? Why should we feel guilty because we don’t have to walk to church? Our wealth doesn’t hold other nations down.
He’s in the race to make Hillary look moderate.
It truly is a mental illness. The self loathing and hatred of ones own country is unbelievable.
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