BERNIE SANDERS FOR PRESIDENT IN 2016!!!

Why don't you go back and re-read my posts? It's all there.

 

But just to help you out:

* highlighted for clarity

Edit to add: and just in case you don't understand, it wasn't actually Bernie Sanders who created the problem - it's a figure of speech.

 

I'm glad you responded with more than just smilies.

To be honest, I believe the vast majority of people think the same way you do and look to the likes of Bernie Sanders et al to liberate them from the deteriorating position in which they find themselves. But unfortunately Sanders cannot offer salvation any more than the scores of other voices in the wilderness before him or those yet to come. Whether they be Ron Pauls, John Singletons or David Leyonhjelms - to pursue change from within the system is an onerous and mostly impossible task. Put aside the fact that in order to even win a seat in parliament you have to promise salvation to a select few, cut numerous deals with special interest groups and in the end just have to have plain luck in order to win a seat. Then, once arrived at your new found place of employment you have to have the capacity to string together a series of logically developed and coherent arguments in order to raise the level of debate above the mundane before you even get a platform. A tall order indeed.

Sanders is a reactionary. He appeals to the disenchanted with simplistic ideology and an appeal to the masses without actually explaining how he will go about fixing all the problems that exist. And he can't because he doesn't understand what is the root cause of the problem, he wants to approach the problem using the same worn out old policies that have failed in the past.

So who are these middle class? Please define who are to benefit from the increased government intervention at the expense of others.

So what do you suggest a government do?

You do realise that in order to have increasing GDP all we need to do is increase government spending?

 

Do some reading about Hamilton, particularly in relation to his arguments with James Madison and the danger to liberty that Hamilton's policies brought about. And I highly recommend this book to give you an insight into the effects of an increasing State presence, which is essentially what Bernie Sanders is arguing for. http://www.amazon.com/How-Capitalis.../ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=

Care to respond to any of my other points?

@scrooged, thanks for your input mate, highly relevant, displaying exceptional insight and a well structured logically coherent argument. Here's a link you can look up next time so you can avoid spelling mistakes. http://www.merriam-webster.com/ :lol:

 

All good, but I do recommend you read some of the links I've posted in this thread and in the two other threads in which I've posted, the one about interest rates and the other one I can't remember.

Any time buddy. The piss gets the better of us sometimes.

 

There were Founders and then there were Founders:

Thomas DiLorenzo:

How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, from the Pilgrims to the Present

Despite numerous setbacks on the way, it was the Federalists adopting the same creed that would eventually dominate the nation. In 1865 Lincoln was finally able to destroy any powers that the States reserved to themselves and despite what the republican founding fathers had made clear nearly a century earlier, assumed undelegated powers and forced the States to submit to a General government. As many historians have pointed out, the American Civil War had both everything and nothing to do with the abolition of slavery.

Thomas Jefferson, The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798

 

I'm posting because it is of interest to me and is evidence that the office of President is a usurpation of power. But unfortunately, this escapes you and you don't understand the fact that Sanders and all the other candidates are just frauds.

Edit to add: and i keep posting because I'm a total wanker apparently.

 

Here are the original texts of "The Federalist Papers". The works of John Jay, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison.

A "Bible" of the new age.

http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fedpapers.html

 

http://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product...=1437053432&ref_=sr_1_1&s=digital-text&sr=1-1

Edit to add: I'm not sure if the link will work.

 

He's full of rhetoric, a socialist, intent upon spending other people's money.

Video 1:

0:56 argues for publicly funded health care as a right for all
1:03 publicly funded elections (whatever that is) which apparently will solve the "problem" of wealth inequality
1:11 cut defence spending (good) and then spend it on education (bad)
1:38 free college and university degrees

He spends most of the 2nd video complaining about tax cuts for the wealthy but he's confused, he bangs on about the deficit, about national debt but wants to increase public spending. ??????

He's just your regular politician playing off special interest groups against each other. It's standard democratic procedure, it's the first course they do in Statism 101.