It is NOT expensive to do the things Bernie wants us to fight for.

[Cassiopeia]

Living wages, healthcare, SS, education, infrastructure rebuilding.... none of that is expensive. It has a cost, but there is a strong positive return on every one of those investments.

War, political engineering abroad, welfare for corporations, tax breaks, and job exporting trade agreements.... These ideas are extremely expensive and drain money out of the system at a substantial rate for those investments.

It's time for change. Bernie is the only one promising to work towards a goal that delivers profitable change. He is the only one asking for us to help him deliver it. Every other politician running this Presidential election is running for their own personal ambitions and desires. They only want us to vote for them and then for us to shut up and be grateful while they exploit us. They will not change a damn thing for the better if elected.

Bernie or bust. That's our choice. We may still bust under Bernie, but we have a fucking chance if we elect him.

[Live and Learn]

1. Exactly. Much cheaper that the alternative of Government contracting with private businesses

that rip them off and perpetuate war for their own profit.

[Cassiopeia]

2. A government under Bernie will still contract with private business.

In fact, it will explode if we get our way. Private contractors working on government contracts built our highways, bridges, dams etc.

It needs to be regulated, but millions of small businesses will grow under a Bernie admin.

[Live and Learn]

4. They will still get some contracts but with heavy regulation including fair wages.

But Bernie has already called out government contractors and the huge percentage of them that have been convicted of ripping off the government and are still getting contracts.

This is a much bigger issue than the average person is even aware. I am an eyewitness to the rip-offs that occur even in local government.

It is us, the taxpayers that are paying for these CEO's salaries and we are getting poor services for it. The next time you want to blame government for its poor service, wonder if it isn't a contractor actually providing the poor service. More government services than you could ever imagine have been contracted out.

[tecelote]

3. Perfect...

It's all about priorities.

Where do the American people want their taxes spent?

"War, political engineering abroad, welfare for corporations, tax breaks, and job exporting trade agreements.... "

or...

"Living wages, healthcare, SS, education, infrastructure rebuilding.... "


Democrats don't want free stuff. We just want what we have paid for.

[sorechasm]

5. Also, greater opportunities for all to participate in a creative-based economy

which should be the inevitable outcome of ubiquitous technology. Personalized communication devices (that allow us to track Police brutality, the growth of the Arab Spring, Brunch with Bernie, etc.) are only the beginning of the democratization capacity of new technology.

The 1% don't like that, any more than they like honesty, and integrity spreading so swiftly to drown the corporate mega-phone (remember net neutrality and the fight for the free flow of information).

[elleng]

6. Right, and would actually address some of the economic issues

plaguing U.S.