Bernie is to Obama what Feder is to Netanyahu. It's the peaceful and cooperative vs the warmongers and greedy capitalist pigs.
that said ... I think Bernie is a loudmouth zionist prick who will never get my vote. On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 2:09:34 PM UTC-6, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > February 17, 2016 > > *All Aboard Starship Bernie!* > > By Don Feder <http://www.americanthinker.com/author/don_feder/> > > The chattering class is amazed at the rise of avowed socialist Bernard > Sanders, running against hyper-welfarist Hillary Clinton. But Sanders’s > campaign is just the latest chapter in the Democratic Party’s leftward > lurch -- from Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama. > > When MSNBC’s Chris Matthews asked DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz to > explain the differences between a Democrat and a socialist, she changed the > subject. Hillary Clinton snapped “I’m not going to get into it. You’d have > to ask him [Sanders]” -- or you can check her e-mails. In a 2010 Gallup > Poll, 53% of Democrats said they had a positive impression of socialism. > > In the New Hampshire Democratic primary, Sanders was supported by 84% of > 17-to-29 year-olds -- those least connected to reality. Even the > nonstudents among them have little life experience. If they have jobs, > they’ve only been working a few years. Many still live at home with their > parents. Most are unmarried and don’t have children to raise or mortgages > to pay. That’s why they can so easily fall for a codger peddling recycled > nostrums. > > Sanders has the perfect resume to lead them. Before he won elective > office, he was an agitator -- or “community organizer” in Obama-speak. He’s > spent the past 35 years in government, 26 of them in Washington. He never > ran a business, met a payroll, or created a job for anyone. > > The Vermonter has a typical elitist contempt for capitalism. He told an > interviewer last year, “You don’t necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm > spray deodorants and 18 different pairs of sneakers when children are > hungry in this country.” (Socialists hate consumer choice.) How many kinds > of deodorant do we need -- four, three, two? And who decides whether it’s > Ban or Arrid Extra Dry, Commissar Bernie? > > Human credulity knows no bounds. Marshall Applewhite of the Heaven’s Gate > cult was another prophet of the absurd. In 1997, Applewhite convinced 38 of > his followers to join him in committing suicide (with massive doses of > Phenobarbital and plastic bags wrapped around their heads) so their spirits > could ascend to the alien spaceship hidden in the tail of the Hale-Bopp > Comet. > > Sanders is urging his young followers to kill their futures along with the > U.S. economy. Bernieism is concocted of equal parts of class envy, economic > illiteracy, and a touching faith in government to lead us to Marx’s golden > age where no one works and we all frolic in the sun. > > Bernie wants to give the kids free college educations. (Hurrah!) So who > pays the salaries of professors and teaching assistants? Who pays for > language labs and gymnasiums? Why, taxpayers, of course, including many > low-income workers. That’s socialist fairness. > > But the Eugene V. Debs clone has something for the working poor too -- > doubling the minimum wage to $15 an hour. In socialism’s alternate > universe, government can set any wage it wants, which businesses will > happily pay. If that’s the way it works, why stop at doubling the minimum > wage -- why not triple or quadruple it? > > Every time we raise the minimum wage, youth unemployment increases. The 16 > to 19 demographic had an unemployment rate of 45% in 2011, compared to 26% > in the year 2000. That staggering number represents lost tax revenue, > increased social spending and, most importantly, lost opportunity. One of > two things happen when the minimum wage goes up: a business passes the cost > on to consumers, or it sheds the least productive employees -- like the > baggers in supermarkets or kitchen help, and busboys in restaurants. > > Can the Vermont senator cite an example of successful socialism? The USSR > collapsed under the dead weight of decades of five-year plans. North Korea > doesn’t have an economy. Cuba is a basket case. China started on the road > to prosperity by abandoning Maoism. > > Sandersistas cry foul. Those are failed communist experiments, they > counter. (What is communism but socialism with a gun?) > > But what about Venezuela, with the world’s largest oil reserves and an > inflation rate of 720%? A January 29 headline in the Washington *Post* > warned: “Venezuela is on the brink of a complete economic collapse.” > > Sweden has an income tax that takes 55% of GNP and a value-added tax as > high as 22.5%. Altogether, the Swedish government controls roughly > two-thirds of the nation’s economy. Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad told > *Forbes* that Swedish bureaucrats often accuse him of exploiting workers > and “only wanting profits.” The nerve! > > A quote often attributed to Winston Churchill goes: “If a man is not a > socialist by the time he is 20, he has no heart. If he is not a > conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain.” > > So, what’s Bernie’s excuse? > > > > Read more: > http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/all_aboard_starship_bernie.html#ixzz40SIYhPxx > > Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter > <http://ec.tynt.com/b/rw?id=dlia0Qbjyr4BNDacwqm_6l&u=AmericanThinker> | > AmericanThinker > on Facebook > <http://ec.tynt.com/b/rf?id=dlia0Qbjyr4BNDacwqm_6l&u=AmericanThinker> > > > __._,_.___ > ------------------------------ > Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > ------------------------------ > > > Visit Your Group > <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmbmdxYzdvBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0NTU3Mzc1NTQ-> > > > > [image: Yahoo! 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