• America is ruled by a rich and powerful elite.

    From J Rose@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 31 14:58:02 2015
    America is ruled by a rich and powerful elite.

    The fingers of billionaires, through campaign contributions, lobbyists, and lawyers, have fundamentally changed the laws and tax structure of the United States. They've got a grip on our throat and they are the reason the middle class has gone backward
    since 1980 and why all new wealth has gone to the top 1/10 of one percent. Want numbers? See any university study, especially the one from Princeton and Northwestern featured at BBC. Want a trusted friend to tell you this? Call one who lives in D.C.
    They'll tell you this is the United States of Exxon.

    What do we do? Elect Bernie Sanders!

    What do we do other than elect Bernie Sanders? We eliminate corporate lobbying and reform campaign finance.

    What else do we do?

    We tax rich people like we used to.

    Huh? Why tax the rich like we did under Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Ford and Carter?

    Because it paid off most of the World War Two debt, it brought us jobs, interstates, infrastructure and the space program. It funded education, the GI bill, anti-poverty programs, Medicare, food stamps, hospital programs, university research, corporate
    research,--and God bless the rich people for much of that. Let's let them fix things up, again! Go Bernie! And don't worry, rich people will still have boats and airplanes and we'll still have plenty of capitalism and there's nothing wrong with buying a
    beer for a rich guy when you've an opportunity to thank him for his patriotism!

    And for you smart guys, find the average American GDP of Truman, Ike, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter and Clinton, now compare it to Reagan, Bush41, and Bush43. You will be surprised! And you will be especially surprised at how good the Democrats are at
    GDP! Now compare the debt incurred by those two groups. You'll be appalled at Reagan, Bush41 and Bush43. Obama ran up lots of debt however America was in economic collapse and he had to bail out corporations and all sorts of things. Obama saved 6
    million American families from being thrown out of their homes and into the streets.

    Back to Bernie:

    Why fix the infrastructure? It's a resource for America and creates jobs.

    Why offer free college? It's a resource for America and creates jobs.

    Why fund corporate and university research? It's a resource for America and creates jobs.

    Why provide single-payer healthcare? Because Americans are a resource for America. And it'll be half the cost.

    Why learn from Europe? They've some good ideas.

    Why have campaign reform? Because the system is rigged in favor of corporations and billionaires and against us Americans.

    What's this socialism business? Bernie is for Medicare for all, keeping savings banks from betting your money on stock options, and sending your kids to college. That's American! He thinks Communists are stupid thugs and that Karl Marx did not know a
    single thing about human nature.

    What about capitalism? Bernie loves him plenty of capitalism and the American entrepreneurial spirit.

    Who is Bernie working for? From his start in Chicago during college getting arrested working hard for Black Rights, and since busting his ass for veterans, students, minorities, people below the poverty line and, most of all, Americans like you and me.

    Why invade Iraq? No one knows and Bernie voted against it.

    Why vote for Trump? Only one reason, his wife is a sweetheart.

    Why vote against Hillary? She's owned by Wall Street, corporations, billionaires and everybody else. She'll take anybody's money. Bernie accepts no billionaire, corporate or Wall Street money and, unlike Hillary, has no filthy rich SuperPAC. And her
    foreign policy? She voted to destabilize Iraq and Libya and didn't fix a damn thing otherwise and now she wants to invade Syria and topple Assad and destabilize the whole area. People live there! Doesn't she know that?

    Is Bernie on the take? Bernie lives in a normal home and his net worth is 600 grand. He's been working tirelessly all his life for people of all color. Hillary made 10 million in 2014 working tirelessly for herself.

    Is Bernie in the right place at the right time? Yes. Bernie was present at Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech and many other great moments.

    Why vote for Bernie? It's just like college--all of the above!

    What would Bernie most like to be known for? Compassion.

    What do I do now? Like and share all Bernie posts.

    Thank you for reading this--talk about Bernie a lot, when you mention Bernie's name, people pipe up.

    That's that. God Bless the teachers and the millions of regular Americans and those who have less and our military men and women and the rich people because they've all brought so much to America.

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