Comments by "" (@thehumanity0) on "Teens Go NUTS Over Bernie’s Surprise Appearance At A Walkout Rally" video.
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I'm a 126 year old "coot" minus 100 and I can proudly say the first ballot I ever cast was for Bernie and it won't be the last. The man inspires countless Americans to get involved and stand up for what they believe in. If you agree with him or not on his policies, you have to admit the man cares deeply about the American people and is a real American hero. He's marched with Martin Luther King Jr., aggressively worked to desegregate the South, spoke out against the Gulf War claiming it would cause decades of more conflict in the region, spoke out against the Iraq War as a travesty, stood against the overwhelming amount of greed, crony capitalism, and corruption in politics for the last 40 years, and has similarly worked hard to strengthen workers' unions since as early as the 1960s. Bernie himself doesn't just deserve to be President, but the American middle class and poor deserve this man to be our leader and bring honor back to the Oval Office. His entire lifelong achievements, history and compassion towards the people should give every American deep pride in their country.
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"There is simply not enough money". Are you serious? They literally just gave a handout to corporations and the 1% in the area of around $1.5 trillion. We'll even subtract the 18% of that that had gone to the 99%. So 1.23 trillion was just handed out to the rich and corporations at a time when profits are at record highs for them. They claimed it was to boost the current economy, but since they did so, the stocks and bonds markets have been dropping and become very volatile when they're not dropping. Also, let's not forget they just increased the defense budget. We were already spending more money on the military budget than the next 8 countries combined. Let me repeat that, the next EIGHT countries combined. And then they just decided to increase it more by a whole other $100 billion almost, and it looks like they're going to increase it again. Why? Who fucking knows, they can't even protect the country's own elections with 3/4 of a trillion geared towards "defense" every year. There's even more tax payer money that gets thrown out like this but let's just stop there for now. So 1.33 trillion was for sure just wasted this past year. That amount alone would pay for every single bit of initially implementing Medicare for All. That is a fact, and the thing is that the transition to Medicare for All would initially cost this much money, but they've done numerous studies on it and they say that it could save up to $6 trillion in the next 10 years after it's implemented. It is because tax payer money would be going directly to healthcare instead of all the money that gets wasted in our current broken for-profit insurance system and this would save tons of money in the long run in addition to the added benefits of employers not having to pay health benefits anymore, which would increase workers' pay and increase jobs.
After this were to occur, you can add up all the tax payer money saved in for the next 2-3 years afterwards, which would be around $1.8 trillion if all the studies are correct on the amount of tax payer money that would be saved by Medicare for All. But even if those saving are not immediately there, just by a "President Sanders" closing all the tax loop holes alone (NOT even increasing taxes) would add billions and maybe even trillions to the overall budget considering the top corporations in the country paid an average of 18.5% tax in the past few years, when they were supposed to be paying 35%. That is 16.5% of the the biggest income provider for the US government that just completely decided to shift the burden on the working class. More than 90% of corporations don't pay the corporate income tax, and many companies actually had 0% tax rate or even "negative tax" meaning that the government on net paid them like Boeing who had somewhere around -80% corporate tax (80% of its profits paid back to it from tax payer money), and then Amazon who effectively paid about 0% last year. This is money that is being stolen from the American people, and after Medicare for All is put in place, just a fraction of this money (if they close tax loopholes and take it back) could be used to fund free public institutions in the country, which is growing more and more necessary considering it's almost mandatory for a student to go to college if they want to make a living wage in their life, which is fucked up. We need Medicare for All and we need free public college for the future. Bernie and the progressive half of the Democratic Party and Independents just understand that it's inevitable and if we want US citizens to live in a country of opportunity still, then we need to make these changes sooner than later before class inequality gets out of control and tears this country apart limb from limb.
And in response to your last sentence, you do realize you could just look that up right? You think it's this gotcha question, but it's really just a simple fucking thing your asking, which is why I've been ignoring you. Do people ask you, "What's conservatism mean? You don't even know". Democratic Socialism is the ideology of wanting a government that is a full democracy, while wanting an economic system that is inherently socialist that has a tight grip on the market to stop Depressions and Repressions from occurring every 8 years, which seems to me like it is the main reason people are behind it considering every few years the banks completely fuck over America and spiral us into another Great Repression and the next time it could be a Depression. However, if you actually research your term "Democratic Socialism" (which I doubt you have actually done), you will learn that the ideology completely rejects any form of authoritarianism, which completely debunks your statements about Leninism and Venezuela. Why? Because Vladimir Lenin was an authoritarian, because Nicolas Maduro is a fucking dictator, which is why your argument is total bullshit. So if you've made it this far in my response, I hope you've either learned something or at least go look up the political stance on your own so that you actually realize what it means when Bernie says he's a "Democratic Socialist".
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