Posted on 10/15/2015 8:21:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
How DARE you post a lengthy, well-written and well-reasoned think piece like this?
We are 21st century Americans and we demand slogans and short sound bites.
Bernie, you said: “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.”
So let me get this straight, Bernie . . . you're going to set up an agency or a czar to determine how many kinds of deodorant, and how much of it, can be permitted by law?
Will you do the same with toilet paper? I mean look how many brands of toilet paper there are. Shall we just set up a monopoly of one company, or better yet, a government monopoly, to produce exactly the right amount of toilet paper, or otherwise limit the amount of toilet paper that gets produced?
Are you going to hire Michael Gruber to be the guy who figures out the correct amount of toilet paper that people should be allowed to use? He's smart. He teaches at MIT. So why shouldn't we put him in charge of figuring out exactly how much of everything should or shouldn't be produced for the American people?
Have you been to socialist Venezuela lately, Bernie? They seem to have solved the problem of too many toilet paper brands. Because right now there is no toilet paper to be had at all in socialist Venezuela."
So tell me Bernie, what exactly will you do to feed starving children by reducing the amount of toilet paper we have in this country? And by the way, when you close all the toilet paper companies, how will the people who used to work at them feed their own starving children?
Bernie? . . . .
Oh, wait a minute. KDW did give us a memorable (and repeatable) phrase after all, describing Clinton and Sanders as “batty old geezers” -— too, too perfect!
Bernie boy is a genuine crackpot.
Karl Marx HATED the middle class.
He HATED them.
The Communist Manifesto is a how too manual for getting rid of the middle class.
Yet here’s Bernie: he wants to do this Marxist idea (to help the middle class) and that Marxist idea (to help the middle class).
And the middle class Marxists just can’t wait to vote for Bernie. :)
The standard Commie term for the middle class is "Bourgeoisie."
Ping.
In Russia they were called kulaks and Stalin’s program was “liquidation of the kulaks as a class.”
I had a colleague who lived in Denmark for a time.
He said it was horrifyingly expensive.
great article.
The media and some liberals never tell the entire story.
For example, they say that in Europe people can go to University for free. Well first off, it’s not free, someone has to pay for it. But the bigger omission is that not everyone gets into University. There are very rigorous entrance requirements to get in, exams et and once in you have to keep very high academic standards. That would mean if we instituted such a thing here, a much smaller percentage of people would go to University than do now, but they would be people more likely to succeed there and the degree would actually mean something.
I would go for that type of system ... IF it was constructed the way it is in the many European countries they are always braying about. But you just know that is not what they are talking about. They are talking about a free-for-all with no standards, no accountability etc.
How on earth was it possible that Anderson Cooper happened to have the population of Denmark, right of the top of his head?
I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore, Toto.
So are the people putting his sticker on their cars.
I stopped reading at 140 characters.
“How on earth was it possible that Anderson Cooper happened to have the population of Denmark, right of the top of his head?”
Because he knew that Bernie would cite Denmark as an example when asked about his peculiar brand of socialism. Progressives are always braying about the success of Scandinavian socialism without regard to the facts cited in this article.
The NCAA has ruined the universities.
BFL. Need to read that “compatibility traps” paper. Might have to forward it out to some liberals to watch their heads explode.
This is one of the main problem with Ted Cruz's candidacy. What he says will often not fit on a bumper sticker. If it won't fit on a bumper sticker, it goes nowhere.
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