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betsuni

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13. Sanders announces his "Housing for All" plan in September and now Apple announces this.
Mon Nov 4, 2019, 11:25 PM
Nov 2019

Why doesn't Bernie take credit for it? He could say, see, I introduced my housing plan and everybody said it was radical, but now everybody's following my lead (or something like that). But I guess he decided it was more important to appear to "take on" corporations. No mention of whose ideas these laws are, the ones allowing big business to do what they do.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
Let's Not Do Anything Then Me. Nov 2019 #1
Exactly.. it's bizarre! Cha Nov 2019 #3
Great Minds? Me. Nov 2019 #5
Oh well Thekaspervote Nov 2019 #31
Sort of like Bernie grudgingly backing Hillary's health care effort in 94. Blue_true Nov 2019 #59
Agreed! Rebl2 Nov 2019 #12
Wow.. Thanks Apple! They're actually doing IT. Cha Nov 2019 #2
A lot of voters will ask why Bernie hates American business so much? TexasTowelie Nov 2019 #6
I know! What are they Cha Nov 2019 #9
Business and "Wall Street". Yet, if you look at his Senate financial filings, you'll see.... George II Nov 2019 #14
Not only that... guess who his biggest seller/distributor is for his books. NurseJackie Nov 2019 #40
Yes, if Amazon is so bad, why sell your books there? Not very ... um ... authentic. betsuni Nov 2019 #41
Is it a river in Brazil? George II Nov 2019 #52
Another plan that will never be adopted. nt TexasTowelie Nov 2019 #4
I read Bernie's statement ritapria Nov 2019 #7
Apple is investing $2.5B in housing in California. Why is he accusing Apple of "creating".... George II Nov 2019 #15
And, $2.5 Billion is now Cha Nov 2019 #18
I wish I had $2.5 billion worth of "pennies"! George II Nov 2019 #19
It's so ridiculous to call Billions "pennies" Cha Nov 2019 #22
This message was self-deleted by its author rainy Nov 2019 #33
So, Apple has invested 10% of it's profits in affordable housing? Good for them! LongtimeAZDem Nov 2019 #46
$2.5B is enough to BUY 5,000 decent 2 bedroom/2bathroom condos lapfog_1 Nov 2019 #8
Not you, but GMAFB! That from a guy who gave all of $18,000 on almost $600,000 income in 2018.... George II Nov 2019 #10
Crumbs... billpolonsky Nov 2019 #11
More "crumbs" than anyone else, including the one that is bashing Apple for doing this. George II Nov 2019 #16
It's hardly a crumb ritapria Nov 2019 #17
No it's $2.5 Billion $$$$ which the people who Cha Nov 2019 #20
Like the crumbs Sanders donated to charity last year? Those crumbs? oldsoftie Nov 2019 #24
Sanders announces his "Housing for All" plan in September and now Apple announces this. betsuni Nov 2019 #13
I am a tad confused here. sheshe2 Nov 2019 #21
What's Amazon got to do with this? You mean Apple? lostnfound Nov 2019 #37
Apple put the money up. Blue_true Nov 2019 #60
Oh BS Lithos Nov 2019 #23
Even earlier. Go way back to founding of Stanford U. Always a hub of innovation in multiple emmaverybo Nov 2019 #28
Sorry, Bernie, but Rep Omar just stopped your progress with her remarks at your rally oldsoftie Nov 2019 #25
Bernie runs on anger-fuel. Maybe anger is his inspiration. But so misplaced here. Celebrate emmaverybo Nov 2019 #26
Apple does a good deed and Bernie is pissed. Pretty strange by my reckoning. comradebillyboy Nov 2019 #27
Yes! Yes! emmaverybo Nov 2019 #29
Excellent point, comradebillyboy! Cha Nov 2019 #32
who but Bernie... myohmy2 Nov 2019 #30
big tech moves in displacing low wage earners who still need their jobs rainy Nov 2019 #34
"Google and Apple choose crowded very hip cities to move into" crazytown Nov 2019 #36
Apples growth in San Francisco has absolutely rainy Nov 2019 #38
And eBay, Facebook, Google, Oracle, Netflix, Paypal, Tesla and Twitter crazytown Nov 2019 #48
It became a tech hub. I never blamed Apple rainy Nov 2019 #50
"Does that make sense to you?" crazytown Nov 2019 #51
One of the problems that I see with the Bay Area Blue_true Nov 2019 #65
The image you described happens all over the country. Blue_true Nov 2019 #64
Cities are dynamic. They always will be. brooklynite Nov 2019 #53
True, but one problem is city leaders typically do a poor Blue_true Nov 2019 #66
Agreed: I teach a class on this at NYU brooklynite Nov 2019 #69
Apple has been there since the early 70s. Blue_true Nov 2019 #63
Don't blow of the fantasy of the evil Corp parachuting into happy-land and screwing things up. Blue_true Nov 2019 #62
The phenomenon is being repeated in Austin, Texas dalton99a Nov 2019 #49
Obsurd. Blue_true Nov 2019 #61
"Ev'ry time it rains, it rains pennies from Apples" oasis Nov 2019 #35
Leave the billionaires alone!!!11 RandiFan1290 Nov 2019 #39
But millionaires are okay. betsuni Nov 2019 #42
I'm sure they are RandiFan1290 Nov 2019 #43
Isn't Sanders a one percent earner? TidalWave46 Nov 2019 #45
Apple is donating $2.5 BILLION $$$ for Affordable Housing Cha Nov 2019 #54
Since Sanders has hit the national stage.... TidalWave46 Nov 2019 #44
Absolutely. Cha Nov 2019 #55
+1 betsuni Nov 2019 #56
Bernie has a burn it down mindset, without thinking deeply with what he will replace it with. Blue_true Nov 2019 #67
So, Bernie Sanders is opposed to paying employees a living salary... brooklynite Nov 2019 #47
"Keeping a quarter trillion dollars of profit offshore Hav Nov 2019 #57
Bernie is calling out things that need to be called out. Joe941 Nov 2019 #58
I disagree. If you want to know why, I have posted several times in this thread. Blue_true Nov 2019 #68
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