Been through some rough primary wars here. To me now, though, this one is different.

[PatrickforO]

51. You know, I forgot in my long rant below to

address what you're saying about education. Privatizing our public school system is a horror. Our postsecondary system is awful too - it has lost nearly all vestiges of academic freedom by eliminating tenure - now our kids are taught by adjuncts who barely even make enough to survive and live in fear of losing what little income they have. In the meantime our children and grandchildren leave college saddled with unsustainable debt, which, thanks to Republican policies on bankruptcy, they CANNOT get out of, ever. So add sound PUBLIC education policies that separate church and state, severely limit privatization and are heavily subsidized at the postsecondary level. Also add that we need to put more egalitarian financing in place for public schools than we presently have; the poor inner city kids end up getting short shrift by the way schools are financed now.

And, we need to PAY for these changes by revising the corporate tax code so that the 30+ fortune 500 companies not currently paying ANY US income tax pay their fair share.

Last, on a personal note, we need to expand Social Security and Medicare; I've paid into these systems 'full boat' for 40 years, and I don't CARE what the fine print in the law says: They are MINE, I've PAID for them, and when the time comes I WILL get them.

So there it is. The finish of a progressive rant for Bernie!