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

  1. America does not negotiate with terrorists. Tell the Republicans that they will agree with what the Democrats require. Period.
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  2. I'm in Canada. Many years back, when my dad suffered a bad heart attack, he needed to be rushed to the hospital. They gave him a quadruple bypass. He had to stay in the hospital for a month recovering. They had him on a bunch of different top quality medications. He had a year of physio before he was back to where he was before the heart attack. That whole thing cost us... the price of a monthly parking pass for the hospital. Because everything was 100% covered. A couple of years ago, my dad took a tumble down the stairs. Got banged up and had a bad cut on his head. I rushed him to the hospital, where they took him in immediately. Gave him a full battery of tests, from x-rays to brain scans, to make sure there was no serious damage. They cleaned and stitched up his wound. Gave him pain killers and anti-inflammatories to take for a while. And basically gave him a clean bill of health, beyond being a bit bruised up, and he was home that night. Again, we didn't pay a penny. I have friends around the US who can't afford their medication. Who are TERRIFIED of having a serious accident because they know that it could bankrupt them. A friend in Texas went through their dad having a heart attack. The bypass operation cost $120,000. Plus there were thousands and thousands in charges for medication, for hospital stay, for physio, etc... and even with their dad's company provided medical coverage they ended up having to pay $80,000 out of pocket. Had to take out a loan to pay for what their insurance wouldn't cover. America's healthcare system is utter garbage. There are poor countries out there where people struggle daily, who can get vastly better healthcare than the US, and not have to worry about how much it will cost them. Healthcare is a basic human right. Any government that can't provide is failing at their duty to the people.
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  3. Happy New Year Bernie! Happy to hear about your new assignment. I hope you can do a lot of good for the country.
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  4. Great news with the new committee assignment. Couldn't think of a better person to be on it.
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  5. As a Canadian, I really hope the US can catch up to the rest of the world and have free healthcare.
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  6.  @charlotteritchie3338  Yeah, I keep hearing Americans say "but you pay a fortune in taxes, so it's cheaper here." Even though we generally are paying much less in taxes than in the US.
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  7.  @charlotteritchie3338  Depends on the province, but mostly, yeah. I had an accident years ago where I cracked my tailbone. Insane pain, I was stuck basically lying on my stomach for weeks, and then had quite a bit of recovery after that. Got paid time off from work to recover. My work paid full regular salary for two months, and 75% after that. Though I didn't need the full time. My wife has recently gone back to school to improve her art skills (she does digital art stuff). Costs about $2500 a year. Have a friend in Texas doing similar, basically the same course (from the materials and notes they've compared), and they're playing almost $25,000 a year. It's insane. Basically the same course, but ten times the cost. As for seniors, my mom is in a nursing home. Full care, room, all sorts of activities, nice stuff at the home (park, shopping, entertainment, etc). Costs her about $1800 a month. She gets about $2500 a month as senior social security. She's not actually worked in Canada other than running her own daycare, so she doesn't get a pension or anything like that. So she's doing pretty well. Everything's covered and she gets to save up for whatever she wants to do.
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  8. Not true at all. Admittedly, there's not many. But others do what they can.
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  9.  @thenorthernspinozist397  Another sad factor of American life.
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  10. The only socialism in America is the endless handouts for the ultra rich.
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  11.  @theboyisnotright6312  True. It's paid for by taxes, just like in the EU and UK. Which is why people are happy to pay their taxes in those countries, because they know what they're getting out of it. Not 0.1% of their taxes potentially going to social programs, and the other 99.9% going to the military and ultra rich.
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  12. This man is a true patriot and American hero. His policies are the way forward. End corporate control of government.
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  13.  @thenorthernspinozist397  Sorry, I'll try not to bruise your ego. You might need a second mortgage to cover it. :p
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  14. So Biden's pathetic excuse for not doing his job and upholding the Constitution is that Republicans might complain about it. They are traitors. They have no right to hold office.
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  15. Meanwhile Moderna vaccine in Canada will continue to be free.
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  16. The poor need to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" while the giant corporations making billions in pure PROFIT are constantly given socialism for the rich in the way of endless handouts from taxpayer dollars.
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  17. So billions in socialist handouts to the ultra rich. Meanwhile the working Americans are told to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
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  18. President Musk and First Lady Trump are already crippling America, and they're not even in office yet.
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  19. And the bribed politicians and their big oil masters will say "Nah, we'd rather guarantee the extinction of the human race so we can be slightly more rich than we already are for a few years."
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  20. What kind of idiot thinks he would EVER do what the people want?
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  21. Step one: Disband the Republicans as a political party. Step two: Profit
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  22. So when they openly refuse to make the commitment, ALWAYS call them out. You asked them, and they blather, and you state "So you're stating on the record that you WILL NOT do what's right."
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  23. While I love Bernie's policies, he would have been terrible as president. Biden is conservative, and knows how to play the system. Sure, his bills aren't as big as people would like, but he is able to get them through. Bernie would demand a massive bill and all Republicans would simply block it. Biden was able to get Republicans to vote with him on things that Bernie would have no chance of doing.
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  24.  @JamesHorowitz-f5w  Biden's slashed the debt by over $1.3 trillion. He's lowered the deficit. He's being an ACTUAL conservative and doing as much as possible while spending as little as possible. Unlike Republicans, who claim to be conservative, but then bloat the debt by $8 TRILLION. Who ALWAYS cause a recession with their endless spending (which the next Democrat president has to fix). Biden done what America NEEDS. He's undoing the death and destruction of the last administration and pushing America forward. He COULD be doing more, but at least he's got the country on the right track again.
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  25.  @pattyayers  I think Bernie's right on this. Granted, international politics have nothing to do with morality, it's all about power. The US needs Israel as a power base in the region. That's why, despite Biden calling out Netanyahu, pushing for peace, pushing for more aid... foreign policy hasn't really changed. Biden can encourage Israel to do the right thing, but America's foreign policy isn't willing to risk losing that power base by MAKING them do the right thing.
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  26.  @hizzlemobizzle  Remember that while Bernie was getting those wins, the Republicans hadn't gone full fascist. What worked on small scale for him before wouldn't work at all with him as president with the openly treasonous Republicans.
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  27. The US could cut it's military spending by 90% for the next 20 years, and still have the most technologically advanced and over equipped military in the world by decades. There is absolutely no reason for the budget the Pentagon keeps getting.
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  28. It's a shame that foreign policy is all about power, and has nothing to do with morality. Otherwise Bernie would be leading foreign policy.
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