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https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207437857366304&set=p.10207437857366304&type=1&theaterJust for fun.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1611794995750419&set=p.1611794995750419&type=1&theaterA nice trifecta.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205028638942254&set=gm.145167792498652&type=1&pnref=storyBill Maher is an ignorant piece of dogshit.
His defense of what was done to Ahmed on his latest show is indefensible. His repeated defense of profiling of PoC is indefensible. He blithely ignores that white people have been out of control in North America for 500 years. White terrorism is alive and well in 2015. Genocide is alive and well in North America in 2015, especially Canada. If racial profiling is at all appropriate, we should start with white banksters, "law enforcement" rapists and murderers who get off scot free and Confederate flag-bearing terrorists.
I agree with Maher on plenty of issues, but his understanding of what is going on is clouded by his weak-minded hysteria. He is a light weight whose main redeeming quality is a great selection of guests. He is rarely right about presidential candidates. For example, his backing of Nader in 2000 and HRC this time illustrate his ignorance of history and reality. Strong message to follow.
Just for fun.
&index=24&list=PLx13XUpSaxm6dpDAxIfwz3dDCo_Ahyf1AIs tonight the biggest stage in Bernie's lifetime?
At least by numbers, apparently he has never been seen by so many at one time, I bet. Tonight he will be on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. When Colbert started his new gig a couple of weeks ago, his debut got an audience of 6.6 million. Perhaps that will give him a name recognition bump and make him even "cooler."
All in all, he just might accelerate in name recognition, especially in conjunction with the Time cover. This will facilitate even faster growth in the South. The horse race may be changing in our favor. Hillary is ramping up a PR campaign. Let's see if she can equal Bernie's mojo.
Bernie needs a better answer about the $15T Swift Boats!
Bernie needs a better answer about the $15T BS.
1. The WSJ lied about Bernie’s platform by attacking pending House legislation (the Conyers single payer bill).
http://www.wsj.com/articles/price-tag-of-bernie-sanders-proposals-18-trillion-1442271511
2. They claimed that Bernie’s single payer program would cost an additional $15T in federal spending over ten years (a double lie).
3. The lie about the $15T was rebutted the next day by Professor Gerald Friedman, author of the study on which the WSJ was based. Friedman, in an open letter to the WSJ published in the Huffington Post, stated that under his study, the federal government would SAVE about $5T in expenditures over ten years.
“Because of the nearly $10 trillion in savings, it is possible to fund over $4.5 trillion in additional services while still reducing national health care spending by over $5 trillion. With these net savings, the additional $14.7 trillion in federal spending brings savings to the private sector (and state and local governments) of over $19.7 trillion.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gerald-friedman/the-wall-street-journal-k_b_8143062.html
4. This morning, Bernie appeared on CBS and was grilled about the WSJ $15T lie. CBS perpetuated the lie with a graphic stating: “Cost of Sanders’ New Programs—Medicare for all: $15T.” See CBS video at 3:35.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/128052672
5. In response, at 3:10 of the video, Bernie said that businesses would no longer have to buy private health insurance for their workers and the per capita cost of healthcare would come down. His answer was true, but inadequate, imo.
6. I believe the Swift Boating on this issue has just begun and will only grow much greater.
7. The correct response, imo, is political judo: a single payer plan will NOT cost anything extra, in fact, it will SAVE the federal government trillions of dollars over ten years, as well as saving individuals and businesses over $10T over the same period.
So here is my suggested response to $15T questions:
“Let’s be clear: the Wall Street Journal, a right wing newspaper owned by billionaire Rupert Murdoch lied about single payer health care. The Conyers single payer plan now pending in Congress will NOT cost anything extra, in fact, it will SAVE the federal government about five trillion dollars over ten years, as well as saving individuals and businesses over $10T over the same period.
In an open letter to the WSJ, Gerald Friedman, the author of the study said exactly that the day after the spurious attack. In due course I will come out with my own plan that will have comparable savings with the Conyers plan.”
Bernie’s answer was good, but not adequate in my view. We must meme the public into associating single payer with SAVINGS, not COST. Otherwise we may lose this battle, and this is central to Bernie’s platform. The Swift Boats are already in the water. Now is the time to sink them with the torpedoes of optimally-framed truth.
Let me give you my research:
Sister, first let me say I appreciate your respect and civility. I am trying to reciprocate. I sense we will continue to disagree about many of these things but that will not undermine my admiration for your good will, depth of knowledge and fighting for the people.
1)
Part of Bernie’s concern over the ballooning defense budget stems from what he sees as a lack of accountability on defense spending. In a statement explaining his “no” vote on the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act, which set the military’s budget at $560 billion, Bernie expressed concern that “the military is unable to even account for how it spends all of its money.” Bernie also voted against the 2012 and 2013 defense authorization bills, voicing alarm at the size of the defense budget despite the United States having withdrawn all military members from Iraq at the end of 2011.
http://feelthebern.org/bernie-sanders-on-military-and-veterans/
2) I can't research this without specifics. I found three strongly biased hit pieces with demonstrable distortions of his record. Following your advice, I googled your recommended phrase and found this very promising website:
https://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/27110/bernie-sanders/89/foreign-aid#.VfsNLH0cPIw
But until I know what I am looking for, it is very hard to decipher. Perhaps you mean the Saudis and/or Israel. Is that it?
3) Apparent origin of "amendment king" phrase:
"Negotiating with Bernie was not a usual experience, because he is very passionate and he and I are both very strong-willed people and we spend a lot of time banging our fists on the table and having the occasional four-letter word," McCain said. "But at the end of the day, Bernie was result-oriented."
Sanders rose through the political system, rather than entering it late. He was a mayor for eight years and a congressman for 16, during which time he figured out that protest votes and purity could only get him so far. He pursued smaller priorities to attach to larger pieces of legislation that he invariably found less than ideal. A Rolling Stone article from 2005 called him "the amendment king of the current House of Representatives," as he'd passed more roll call amendments than any other member.
This pick-your-spots approach extends to the current day. Sanders has routinely flouted the Democratic Party's agenda on gun control. He got $12 billion for community health centers included in the final version of Obamacare, which he ultimately voted for despite being an unwavering single-payer advocate. He secured a provision for an audit of the Federal Reserve in the final version of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, which he voted for despite worries that it didn't go far enough.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/04/bernie-sanders-2016_n_7514328.html
4) Bernie has advocated for federal action on equality in marriage:
He has long been a supporter of same-sex marriage, voting against the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) passed by Congress in 1996. In 2015, he said of that vote: “Back in 1996, that was a tough vote. Not too many people voted against it, but I did.” (In fact, he’s the only presidential candidate in the 2016 race who can say that.)
As both a congressman and later the junior senator from Vermont, he supported that state’s 2000 civil union law and 2009 law legalizing gay marriage. In 2011, he called on President Obama to “join in supporting marriage equality.”
In 2013, he co-sponsored the Uniting Families Act, which would have allowed partners of any legal U.S. citizen or resident to obtain lawful permanent residency. This bill was primarily intended to allow LGBTQ residents and citizens of the United States to bring their partners into America, just as members of opposite sex couples are able to do.
When the Supreme Court overturned DOMA in June 2015, he praised the historic ruling that legalized same-sex marriage across the country.
http://feelthebern.org/bernie-sanders-on-lgbtq-rights/
So without evidence, I don't believe your assertion.
5)
Overall, Bernie Sanders believes in a middle-ground solution in the national gun debate, saying in a recent interview:
“Folks who do not like guns [are] fine. But we have millions of people who are gun owners in this country — 99.9 percent of those people obey the law. I want to see real, serious debate and action on guns, but it is not going to take place if we simply have extreme positions on both sides. I think I can bring us to the middle.”
http://feelthebern.org/bernie-sanders-on-gun-policy/
I have heard him say something similar many times, but I have never heard him say what you assert. Without a direct quote backing your position, I have to disagree.
6) I disagree that BLM has nothing to do with it. Without the direct action and dedicated work of BLM, I don't believe we would be discussing social justice right now. I completely agree that he didn't mention it until he was confronted by BLM activists. He was caught flat-footed, as was every other candidate. But I also believe his response was rapid, robust and generally correct.
The reason he was challenged was because only he and MOM had the guts to go to Netroots. Not only has he responded, but he has done so with passion. He really believes in social justice, especially for AAs. As one more example, I believe believe the felony scrubbing in Florida in 2000 was a matter of social justice, because tens of thousands of innocent black voters were denied the right to vote by Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris. When Greg Palast was invited by the CBO to brief them on the theft of the 2000 election and felony scrubbing, "the only white guy who showed up" was Bernie. As a person who cares passionately about racial justice and the need for racial reconciliation, I am proud of Bernie's lifelong commitment to social justice, even when nobody was watching.
One serious question for moderate Democrats.
My premises: We have become an oligarchic system of government, according to more than one serious academic study. We endure historic wealth and income inequality. A growing number of scientists warn we are facing the end of civilization and/or extinction as a species.
My question: Do we live in desperate times?
Bernie proposes biggest savings in US history.
When the USA joins all the major nations in providing universal health care, per capita health care will be cut in half. That is a massive savings to the American people, while reducing personal bankruptcies and providing a boon to small businesses which can quit worrying about the financial and administrative leap to a company health plan.
Displaced workers who are currently shuffling papers in the private health care/insurance complex will have the career choice under full employment to work in child care or rebuilding infrastructure at a living wage.
Sure the 17 million uninsured will add cost to the system, but their will be great savings from freeing up Emergency Rooms and catching illnesses when they are much less costly to treat. In addition, Big Pharma will have to agree to huge reductions in prices to get a scale rate from Uncle Sam. If not, the Medicare-for-all system can simply import much cheaper drugs from Canada and Europe.
When considering the huge increases in revenue from corporations and the wealthy individuals finally paying some reasonable, Kennedy-style taxes, along with the taxes from 13 million new, good jobs, as well as the cost reduction of ending perpetual war, this will result in a massive transfer of wealth from the 1% to the 99%. Not as massive as the reverse-robin-hood transfer of the last 35 years, but it's a nice start.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_%28PPP%29_per_capita
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