Comments by "" (@leealexander3507) on "Senator Bernie Sanders" channel.

  1. I just love this man. If the rest of the people in Congress were like him this would be a great place to live.
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  2. I would far rather watch our Congressional committees go about the business of governing online or on C-SPAN than the palace gossip on the TV news networks. This is much more interesting because it's what really matters.
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  3. I fully agree. I feel ashamed of being an American when we involve ourselves in a genocide because Saudi Arabia wants our weapons and assistance. It makes it difficult to sleep at night. Those precious children are suffering terribly along with the adults. If we withdrew it would probably soon end that terrible humanitarian crisis.
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  4. We love you Bernie, Jane and family. Happy New Year and congratulations on your new committee leadership position.
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  5. joesaiditstrue No one ever questions how we will pay for bombs, do they?
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  6. Forgot increasing their taxes and close the loopholes. You'll collect more revenue that way.
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  7. You cannot have a democracy without a well educated population. We need to do something about the cost of college. At least my sons have no student debt
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  8. It's scary but I have to believe we will get through this because despair is not an option.
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  9. Especially not the Supreme Court Justice you're voting on. I dislike having a member of a religious cult in the Supreme Court. Not only that, but she's very partisan.
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  10. Vicki Bee It's not the only time they committed crimes against the environment, and by extension, every living creature depending on that environment.
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  11. Bernie you said it. This is bad. Especially with the price of food going up.
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  12. Thank you Bernie. For working so hard for us.
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  13. Don't expect those corporations to keep their businesses in the United States where they have to actually pay the workers although they don't pay their workers enough to pay for housing and feed their families.
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  14. Allan Sh I agree. He should use fine pastries instead. Infinitely more appetizing.
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  15. Cipriana Garcia I have a problem with apps grabbing information outside what you put forward on that specific app. I can look at a product on E-bay and it will suddenly start popping up every time I log onto YouTube, as an example. I don't mind the targeted advertising but I do mind the private and personal information they collect.
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  16. Our corporations import educated employees, especially in the tech industry, not because they are less expensive but because our own children are not well enough educated. My sons rarely work with other Americans. Why?
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  17. I know the cost very well. I retired disabled in poverty but my children are not burdened with student debt.
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  18. Liberal Larry Only millions? Might want to set your number a lot higher.
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  19. Absolutely right Bernie. People are unable to feed their families and there are lines at the food banks miles long. Millions wonder if they will soon be homeless. The Senate should be doing something about that rather than voting in a Supreme Court Justice.
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  20. Medicare with prescription insurance on the side makes the best healthcare I've had in my life although I wish I could get hearing aids. I will try some over the counter ones soon.
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  21. I have a bad feeling I'm going to be really annoyed with Manchin, Sinema and probably a few others before we get anything passed.
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  22. We already have over a half a million people living on the streets. We have to somehow get these people as well as any who lose their homes due to the pandemic into housing and off the streets. Having the police chase them from one place to another only makes their lives worse without solving the problem.
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  23. We had another polar vortex last winter. When I fed horses at 8:00AM it was 31 below. The weather was absolutely deadly and I wondered how the homeless were coping.
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  24. I remember when business considered affect on community because they were part of that community
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  25. Sharing information for targeted advertising of products is fine with me since it offers products I want or need instead of those I don't. Personal information is another matter altogether.
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  26. Jerry Paul Those of us who are getting old want it for our children and grandchildren. Many of us know the cost, and I don't just mean monetarily, of not having a national healthcare system.
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  27. Every doctor in my rather large medical team are wishing we had M4A. They have to watch patients die over and over even before the pandemic and worse since it started due to for profit healthcare unlike Medicare. I lost my daughter to cancer because her for profit healthcare wouldn't pay. The same happened to me a few years earlier but so far I've survived. My hardware used to put me back together during surgery for bone cancer has come apart. Especially the part in my lower jaw causing a massive infection in the bone behind my ear causing repeated severe ear infections as well. Now I have to get rid of the infection and get my hardware removed so I'm on two strong antibiotics for the next month and a half.
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  28. Bernie being right as usual.
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  29. I love the Medicare for all plan but am not exactly enamored of donuts. Could we maybe count fine pastries instead? (Although I might then eat all of them myself😉)..
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  30. Damn right, Bernie.
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  31. Cable media also needed not to give one candidate billions in free airtime while ignoring others. However, invasion of privacy is inexcusable. The NSA needs to be called out for that to an even greater degree than tech companies. In keeping with our constitution we need some regulations to ensure some degree of privacy.
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  32. Not to mention we need this kind of leadership combined with diplomacy in order to mitigate climate change.
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  33. Perfect way to call out the deficit hawks. Good going Bernie.
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  34. Inflation is being used as an excuse for price gouging.
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  35. I really wish Bernie and people like him were completely in charge of running our government. Our lives as retirees and working people would be so much better. Unfortunately people like that are extremely rare and we have to treasure the few we have in this world.
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  36. In my parent's WW2 generation it was about racism while now it's about greed.
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  37. This is also a men's issue if they plan to get laid any time in the near future whether or not they are married. They will get laid only when the woman is willing to become pregnant.
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  38. Absolutely Bernie. It's way past time this happened.
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  39. Tell the bail bondsmen to go get jobs like everyone else. It's another industry like health insurance that shouldn't even exist. There shouldn't be a need for them if we did things right in this country.
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  40. There is little or nothing more pathetic than bullying children but that's what the party of Trump does, go after the most vulnerable. That's a show of incredible weakness, not of strength. A strong person might punch upward but will never punch down. Furthermore, Trump is without a doubt, the most needy human being I've ever seen.
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  41. The bread lines (food banks) have lines miles long. People are sitting all day in hopes of feeding their families.
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  42. Consider it an investment in our future as a country. Education is one of the most important areas in which we are far behind the rest of the developed nations. Even developing nations like India place more importance on education than many Americans who then wonder why corporations have to import their workers and fail to understand why they are falling behind previous generations. High school is no longer enough unless you want to spend your life in the fast food industry or washing dishes.
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  43. altpath Because that debt affects your ability to pay your other debts leading to bankruptcy which will affect your credit anyway. We need to do away with the student debt crisis entirely.
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  44. Jerry Paul I hope they didn't feed you canned vegetables like they do in the U.S..
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  45. G Worm You are mistaken. I'm not angry with bail bondsmen. I see the need for them under our current system. They perform a service that shouldn't be needed. Improve our system and the industry won't exist so they will either need jobs or to find something that is needed and those who are creative will be able to do that.
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  46. Reyna Encantadora You don't have to commit a crime or even be convicted of one to be held for long periods of time. Only suspected. The courts are very backed up, especially in areas with high population.
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  47. Kyle Ruth Its not only insurance companies that add to the cost of medical care. Most hospitals require an entire floor filled with workers to deal with all the different insurance companies. One small office and a few workers would be required to bill a single insurance like Medicare which would cut cost in a very big way.
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  48. I find that we almost all have the same economic asks no matter where we are on the political spectrum. And we don't want Social Security cut. We want it expanded. We want M4A. We want and need climate action NOW. We want the minimum wage raised to a living wage. Most of us want Roe back. We want the Supreme Court to stop taking away our rights. Many of us want worker co-ops. The list goes on and on and includes FDRs bill of economic rights.
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  49. If we had M4A my daughter who was beautiful both inside and out would still be alive today. She died of cancer leaving four. children and a loving husband behind because our privatized health insurance makes their money denying care. She died December 23, 2018; before she got out of her 40s. She had just dond her Christmas gifts and gotten them wrapped so that no matter how bad she felt her family would have gifts to open. That's the kind of loving thoughtful person she was. She even managed to buy gifts for her many friends. Obviously I'll never get over her loss. Neither will her children, her husband of her friends along with her two younger brothers. My children 2 we e very close.
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  50. Jerry Paul Probably Swedish meatballs.
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  51. Jerry Paul Who knows? I'm only taking a guess at what you meant by meatballs in gravy. Remember?
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  52. Jerry Paul Frozen are usually edible. Canned are not.
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  53. G Worm Its the bail system that disadvantages people according to income or any other injustice that I get angry about.
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  54. Reyna Encantadora Like anyone else you could be held for months or even years if you happened to be in the wrong place and sort of match a witness description. Thin, blue eyed blonde, or whatever. Anyone, any time, any place can be held no matter how innocent.
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  55. The Senators he is speaking to are seated in front of him. The one speaking stands and faces the others in the room.
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  56. Cipriana Garcia Think about it. Your banking, credit cards, personal phone calls, medical records....
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  57. How much did these corporations hand out to politicians in bribes? We all know how it works and why these corporations get enormous welfare checks.
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  58. The civilian climate corps is the best thing in the bill
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  59. I wouldn't be dying because I had moved and hadn't found a job with health insurance. I ended up spending my retirement fund on healthcare. By that time the cancer I thought was a minor illness was late into the fiurtg stage and the amount of radiation treatment I had is causing bone death which will almost certainly kill me soon. It's also causing recurring infections which become trapped between my brain and my scull. I have a very slim chance of survival with an extremely poor quality of life M4A would have made all the difference in the world not only for me but for so many more like me. Thank you Bernie and Pramila for for fighting against all odds in order to get us healthcare rather than health insurance and for pointing our that Medicare Advantage is not Medicare. I've lost friends because they didn't know. They should not be permitted to call themselves Medicate and fewer people would be tricked into giving up their luves because they didn't know
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  60. The Saudi Prince is trying to control which party is in power in the United States and they are hoping to put Trump back into the Whitehouse. Our own voters should be making that decision. The Saudi Prince won't even take President Biden s phone calls or cooperate with him when it comes to fuel so why won't he agree to change or end our relationship with the Saudi's and create a new relationship with a South American country which is closer and more willing to work with us in spite of the terrible way we have treated them? I think everyone can figure out who I mean. The Saudi's have proven they are not our friends more than once including on 9/11 which was funded by the Saudi Royal Family. With friends like that we certainly don't need enemies. How much more do we allow them to get away with before we end the relationship? How many more dead journalists? How many attacks within the United States which the Prince is threatening to do again? How many more genocides are we going to help with? It's so past time to end the relationship no matter how wealthy they are and no matter how much oil they have. Are we going to allow them to use oil and threats in order to control us? Biden has the power to tell them "no" and he needs to do exactly that. I guess it's obvious that I am very angry and outraged that we continue that relationship in spite of everything and have been for far too long.
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  61. I am horrified. At least 10,000 small businesses won't be back. Those jobs are gone forever. People are hungry and millions stand to become homeless. Meanwhile Trump has unmarked men in military gear attacking the citizens of this country creating chaos. Is this really the United States of America? It looks more like a fascist banana republic to me.
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  62. He has always been a champion of the retired on Social Security with nothing else to sustain them, usually because they were either low wage workers or had enormous medical bills before reaching Medicare age. He has always been the champion of our young drowning in school debt or unable to afford to get a degree. He has always been a champion for those without medical insurance or those who can't afford to use the insurance they have. He is a champion of the entire working and middle class including those of every race, religion, political affiliation and gender. Even of those like "lunch bucket Joe" who don't especially like him because he's not a Republican. He fights for all of us. He started fighting for others in his youth long before he got into politics and has never stopped. Is it any wonder he gets so much love? He has more than earned it.
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  63. Please include a stimulus check for those who are beneath the poverty line and unable to work.
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  64. Teenkitsune Only 14% of Bernie's primary voters voted for Trump. Far fewer switched to the right than most candidates primary voters do. Most that did did it out of anger and a desire to just blow up they system after what went on during the primaries.
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  65. The only decent health insurance I've ever had iny life is Medicare. We shouldn't have to wait until we reach Medicare age in order to get good healthcare and better yet it doesn't cost a small fortune in order to use it due to the lack of profit motive. Our government simply don't healthcare better.
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  66.  @phoenixpr100  Been there. Done that. Although I chose to live in the woods along the coast off HWY 1 because I could sleep uninterrupted by cops. Despair was not an option then either although I nearly starved to death.
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  67. Mat As a single mother of 3 I understand perfectly. I never let them know about my own debt just as I will never let them know about my current financial situation.
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  68. Thank you Bernie for all your years of excellent service you have lovingly given the American people.
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  69. They are doing nothing but moving the chairs around on the Titanic. Only the wealthy get chairs. The rest of us are moving them.
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  70. Since I'm not the only one who prefers fine pastries, I'd even be willing to donate my time in order to bake them, and in spite of my threat of eating them all myself I really do prefer to share in order that others can enjoy them as well.
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  71. I'm all for M4A because I don't want others to die young and broke the way I am and so many others are. Only in the United States would this happen unless you live in a third world country
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  72. Just like the other corporate masters those in the auto industry are being just plain greedy while their workers starve. I wish our government would step up and start subsiding working Americans instead of wealthy corporations. Most corporate subsidies need to go. Our government could end poverty and homelessness amongst other things if we went back to New Deal era politics
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  73. The fossil fuel companies need to be nationalized and phazed out as soon as possible. Hopefully other countries will join us in the effort. Thank you for going to law enforcement but unfortunately I doubt if we will see much if any action from our Justice Department any time soon. It's terrifying because like you Bernie I have adult children and seven grandchildren whom I dearly love and we are far from the only ones. I can't believe politicians with children and grandchildren take Fossil fuel donations then lie to us about the climate crisis and it's definitely a crisis. Nothing less.
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  74. This summer was like a sauna. We don't need the press to connect the dots for us.
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  75. Stop it Lee. No need take snide comments about certain political leaders even if they do include McConnell.
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  76. There are numerous problems with Kaveaugh.
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  77. I agree. Congress as well as presidents are bought and paid for before the primaries even start. Lobbyists also get into the action once they are in office. Meanwhile parts of the U.S. are like 3rd world countries and we need new infrastructure, education and many other things desperately.
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  78. Our pathetic healthcare system is far behind due to racism. At one time it was believed that black Americans would die off if they were unable to get healthcare. I probably won't live much longer because I had just moved and was diagnosed with 4th stage cancer before I found a job with healthcare.
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  79. A very frightening development.
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  80.  @phoenixpr100  He and Joe have been friends for decades although they disagree politically. Bernie is a good and loyal friend even at the worst of times and even when he disagrees with you
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  81. While we're here, how about a shout out to Costco. Great job! They pay their workers although it means only being multi millionaires rather than multi billionaires. Because of this I've taken up shopping there whenever I can.
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  82.  @kathylockhart1217  I wish we could clone him many times over.
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  83. Senator Graham is lying. Our government could help keep Medicare solvent until it pays for itself in a short time because it only has a 2% overhead. The doctors do not become government employees and it would cost the tax payer less than their current healthcare which is why it would rapidly become solvent.
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  84. Trump doesn't want to hear from anyone who doesn't stroke his ego. I've never seen a human being quite that needy before. It's pretty pathetic. I'd feel sorry for him under any other circumstances although I'd tend to avoid contact with him, but in a position of power I believe he is extremely dangerous
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  85. This year the weather conditions have bleached my black horse's coat to an unsightly shade of tan and large sections of the American continent is on fire, releasing still more carbon into the air. Large segments of the planet will no longer support agriculture leading to either starvation or relocation of the population. We simply cannot continue in this direction and hope to survive.
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  86. This is an indirect way to increase the minimum wage but might be effective.
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  87. ImMikeyBallinBitch valid points indeed.
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  88. UniversalPotentate Would you like Republican or Republican Lite with that salad, sir?
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  89. I can't help being reminded of the WW2 Japanese internment camps which left a terrible stain on U.S. history and probably always will in spite of the otherwise great president Roosevelt was and all of the good he did for the country, much of which we still appreciate to this day.
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  90. If net neutrality isn't saved there's no point paying for Wi-Fi.
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  91. @for paws Eventually we will. We need to get more of the left (I don't mean Democrats) into office. I will never understand how AOC and Nancy Pelosi are members of the same party. Only in America.
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  92. Apparently you have a pet with four paws. Mine has four hooves. Not that it matters. Animals are wonderful and loving companions. We especially need them during hard times like these.💖
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  93. I was pleased to hear Trump say he wanted a clean DACA bill before his party leaders told him he did not. I cannot believe they have done nothing for Puerto Rico but Trump has the nerve to complain about their debt on Twitter in the midst of a disaster. Maybe we could forget the military budget increase and start fixing things at home. And forget the wall on the southern border which is a ridiculous idea and a massive waste of money.
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  94. SSMitchell No. We should eliminate the bail system as it stands. I'm not certain what could replace it that would be fair to all income groups. It would take some thought to come up with a valid answer to the creation of a fair system but it might even provide jobs for those who are currently working as bondsman. The police should not have to do more than they currently do.
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  95. Context is everything.
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  96. While we won't win this in time to prevent privatized healthcare from devastating my family along with many of my friends we will win it in time to save the lives and quality of life for others and that's no small thing. I remember President Kennedy called for nationalized healthcare and after all these years we still don't have it because of racism. If you read the history of America healthcare you will find that In right in spite of the many I'm wrong.😊
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  97. Too bad I probably can't enjoy the trail with my horse so I'll have to pass. I'm sure others will enjoy it and maybe I'll eventually see photos.
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  98. The most important issue in this particular case is the legality of offering up the information of friends along with your own which was what the Cambridge Analytica app did. This will not be a one off. The Kocks have a more sophisticated version. Another question is whether politicians should use targeted advertising in campaigns. While the rest is being sorted out, it definitely should be made illegal to offer up the information of friends or followers. Only your own information belongs to you. Not theirs. Any app with that in the agreement should be illegal since less educated people often don't even understand the agreement they are signing. Few people read them anyway.
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  99. I am unfortunately unable to hear this well 0:58
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  100. But it is something we are entitled to. We paid for it during our working years along with medicare. To take it away from us would be theft, pure and simple.
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  101. I don't think Trump is capable of telling the truth or he would only lie when it serves a purpose. Often he lies when there is nothing to be gained by it.
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  102. On corporate news they are not permitted to talk about it. That could potentially affect their bottom lines. It would help to point out to those who don't know that plastic, fertilizers, and many other things we use daily without a second thought, are made with petroleum products.
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