Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "New Haven is a Microcosm of the Entire Country | Bernie Sanders" video.

  1. +KeenerThan Clinton is a career politician as well. She has worked in the private sector. Bernie never had a real job until he was 40. Bernie was kicked out of a hippie commune for being too lazy. Do you know how lazy you have to be to do that? He has never done anything in his life but speak rhetoric and be involved in politics. I am not a Clinton supporter but at least she done something.
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  2. +KeenerThan The last constitutional amendment ratified was in 1992, before that 1971. He was in the House of Representatives in 1991. The hippie commune smear is legit. He was told to leave because he does no work and only talks politics. The trade deals do a lot of good for foreign relations and our society. Fracking is not bad. The issues that are brought up with fracking are unjustified. Bernie wanting to ban fracking will lead to a lot of job lost.
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  3. +Ochoaj300 https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/bernard_sanders/400357
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  4. +Joyce Nielsen Bernie did not run earlier because this is his retirement run. He is a career politician that is retiring with a bang. If he were to win the presidency he would serve his time and retire while speaking rhetoric. If he loses he goes out like he is now, making noise. This is his victory lap for being a career politician.
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  5. +Ochoaj300 Bernie has been absent at higher percent of time on voting when compared to his peers. "He has worked in 32 consecutive years of elected office in order to fight for the working people in this nation and his home state of Vermont. " So he is a career politician. He absolutely refused to challenge himself. So what? I see that as a sign as laziness. I have done a lot of research on Bernie. Here is a guy that after all these years switches parties and runs for president. He has basically no chance of winning but he is still there making noise. This is nothing more than a retirement plan for him. Bernie doesn't care. He got his free meal as a politician.
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  6. +Ochoaj300 I sent a link on another comment. Let me know if you get it. Here is what it said "From Jan 2007 to Apr 2016, Sanders missed 160 of 2,894 roll call votes, which is 5.5%. This is much worse than the median of 1.6% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving." So I was wrong, it was the median. He is a career politician and thus the establishment. He wants to expand the powers of the federal government. This is the same federal government he complains about being corrupt and "rigged". He wants to give that federal government power over your healthcare and college education. He is giving corrupt politicians more bargaining chips so when he is done they can use it to screw us over. I don't support that at all. " He has challenged the establishment with his very liberal views and pushed the Democratic party to become more progressive. " And he is losing because he is lazy. "If he was a Libertarian or part of another party's guidelines, then I would totally understand where your coming from. But the things he believes and stands for have are the most progressive and liberal standpoints in our Congress so far." What he stands for is expanding the problems we currently have. Most of our problems stem from the federal government. Giving it more power will not solve anything "To say that Bernie does not care is a completely misleading statement because you are throwing his career in the garbage by saying that, and that is just shameful." He doesn't. If he did he would listen to the other side. His economic policies are crap and he wants to make the federal government larger which makes it more prone to being bought out and corrupt. He is doing all of this for his own benefits and you got fooled.
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  7. +Ochoaj300 I am not talking about the past months, I used that exact same source back in August to show the exact same thing. He does not show up to roll calls as much as his peers. There was that time near 2014 where he missed quite a bit. He is an established politician, what else has he done besides be a politician? He sided with democrats on several occasions. He voted for Obamacare when he could have easily said no unless it was universal healthcare. "I understand that you say that expanding the government would just expand the corruption, but you're looking at it in the current state, and not in the possible future state." The founding fathers saw the future state as well. Their solution was to limit all governments, especially the federal government. If the federal government has no power then it can't be bought. " Bernie wants to dismantle the Citizens United, which would end the ability for corporations to funnel money into political campaigns through SuperPACs." You can't do that because people have a right to donate their money if they want to. "Therefore, allowing public funding of campaigns." Which is allowing government to control funding instead of the people. If you had that Bernie would not receive a dime because the DNC would not give him any. "There's a reason why he wins in every general election poll against the Republicans. " But yet can't make it past the primaries. "He is a man of the people" Unless you are rich, white and straight. " and if you would actually take some unbiased time and read about the things he's done, then you would understand that as well." I am a moderate, and I am very fair at how I analyze things. Bernie is a fool. His policies will make our situation worse, not better. The people who are voting for him are doing so purely based off of emotions and not on any actual logic or reason. Your entire comment was just that. You are saying "he is different' or "he works for the people" and "he will end corruption". You never say how? How will he end corruption, especially after he is gone? It just amazes me how he gets support.
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  8. +Ochoaj300 He sides with big money, he just sides with big money when a bunch of fools are willing to give it up to him. With Obamacare is shows Bernie is not willing to go all the way. He will have no problem expanding the powers of the federal government but would not dismantle money in politics in the process. Now we have a bigger problem. " Look at the other democratic socialist countries in the world such as Canada, France, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, etc, and tell me that they are manipulating their people" Those are countries of much smaller size and completely different societies. You really can't compare. Norway subsidizes their programs with oil. Canada has been doing fracking for a couple decades now. Denmark has mandatory military. France has double digit unemployment. You can't just simply say that "well those countries do it then so can the US." Not to be a jerk, but when I hear that I compare it to "murica is numba 1". It is an incredibly ignorant approach. Those countries are completely different. Even at that they still have problems. For example the US has arguably the best healthcare system in the world. So why change? "On the topic of Citizen's United, don't you think it's unfair that millionaires and billionaires get to dump as much money as they want into the candidates they want in order for them to win?" I don't think so. To me it wouldn't matter who wins at the federal level if they had strict limitations on their powers. You are concerned with them getting money, I am concerned with what they can do when they get into office. Money in politics is nothing more than a symptom of a disease. That disease is a federal government with too much power. Limit the federal government and establish state rights and stronger local government (follow the constitution) and the problem goes away. "Also what makes you think that he is not being 100% publicly funded? " He received money from private citizens, no different than any other candidate. "You can see this because of the states that have closed primaries and caucuses, meaning that Independents cannot vote for the candidate of their choice" Just like publicly funded elections will prevent him from running. Also those are state laws. Maybe if his supporters were more involved in politics they would change their party stance sooner or vote in local elections as well to get state laws to change. What this also shows is a flaw in government. Government created those voting laws, so your solution in solving that is giving it more power? "What he is saying, is that it is time for the rich people and rich corporations to stop avoiding paying taxes" The top 10% pay 70% of federal income taxes (which used to be unconstitutional) even though they earn 40% of the income. The fact is that Bernie will make the problems we have worse. If you want to solve our problems then limit the fed., don't allow it to control our healthcare and education along with remaining corrupt.
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  9. +Ochoaj300 If Bernie makes college free I would advise you to avoid college because a college degree won't be worth anything.
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  10. +Ochoaj300 If Bernie makes college free I would advise you to avoid college because a college degree won't be worth anything.
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