Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Bernie Sanders" channel.

He still would have lost the General.
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@miscaccount9438 By being born into the US, you're automatically wealthy beyond your imagination. At least 6.5 billion people would trade places with you in a heartbeat.
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@miscaccount9438 US wealth is based off geography, climate, and the types of people who harnessed these resources to build the US into what it is. No other nation on earth has a vsst connected river network, deep sea ports, a huge bread basket of the Midwest, with double rain shadow onto it. Elon Musk was born and raised in South Africa, then moved to Canada. He didn't move to the US until he was an adult.
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@mynameismatt2010 Fast food jobs are for kids, not long-term employment opportunities. Bureau of Labor and Statistics: "In 2021, 76.1 million workers age 16 and older in the United States were paid at hourly rates, representing 55.8 percent of all wage and salary workers. Among those paid by the hour, 181,000 workers earned exactly the prevailing federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. About 910,000 workers had wages below the federal minimum. Together, these 1.1 million workers with wages at or below the federal minimum made up 1.4 percent of all hourly paid workers.” There are 335 million people in the US. Anyone talking about minimum wage in reference to a discussion on the economy is wasting your time or an idiot who sucks at math.
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Bernie laughing from his mansions and multi-million net worth from crony capitalism. Why would Bernie want to upset his no-show, get-rich gig and go to the WH where his laziness would be exposed? Wake up people.
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@justkidding-z7l There's no such thing as Democrats and Republicans in DC, just millionaires (like Bernie) doing the bidding of Billionaires.
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@miscaccount9438 Someone gets it, at least the structural reality of DC. It's sad to see so many people continuing to fall for the D vs R hatred fomented by the media, while politicians including Bernie enrich themselves with a few crumbs dangled in front of them by crony-capitalist corporations who see us all as tax, insurance, and consumption slaves for their garbage products.
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@wvu05 1962 is the year the Soviets launched their active measures campaign through Council for a Livable World. Guess who has taken campaign contributions from Russia all of his career? Don't be fools. Bernie has been a Russian plant for decades.
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We don't need more Soviet plants in DC. That's our problem, not the solution. Council for a Livable World has helped elect at least 420 Senators, Congressmen, and Governors since 1962, including Sanders. It's a Soviet active measures program to divide and undermine the US from within.
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@andreah6379 Who denied the election results in 2000? Remember Al Gore? Who denied the election results in 2016? Hillary corporate money Clinton. Partisan zealots like to throw out words like "fascism" and "election-deniers", while engaging in fascism and election denying. Americans are sick of this partisan divide-and-rule strategy that DC and their corporate overlords have been using for generations. I love my neighbors, regardless of how they feel about issues. Let's promote being good neighbors to each other, and drop the rhetoric that corrupt politicians and the corporate media use to inflame hatred. Bernie is just as guilty of this as any of them, inciting class envy and hatred towards lower income Americans, rather than doing anything productive himself in his life.
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There aren't any other wealthy countries compared to the US. We literally have the biggest economy in the world, and prop up most developed and developing nations. None of the top 10 populations or G20 nations have the opportunities you do in the US.
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@chrish564 People die from untimely EMS and waiting lists in Sweden and Finland all the time, including people I knew personally. The lies about how great everything is regarding healthcare in Nordic countries are just that. My State has less than 3/5 the population of Finland, but has more EMS, more hospitals, more clinics, dental offices, orthodontists, Air Ambulances/Life Flights, medical research institutes, universities, and specialty clinics. US healthcare is better than anywhere else in the world, even with all of our problems.
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@chrish564 Yes, we are absolutely propping up each of those nations and have been with Bretton Woods for almost 70 years. Norway gets its Air Force, most of their drugs, medical devices, diagnostic equipment, computers, electronics, etc. from the US and is happy to do so. Same with Denmark... Australia We fire-bombed Germany with thermite during WWII, then re-built them and propped them up throughout the Cold War. I lived in West Germany during some of the Cold War because we were there to help with the development of the Eurofighter Typhoon. UK has relied on US military and technology-sharing since WWII, while contributing their share of that space, though they did terminate some of their major defense programs because they couldn’t afford them. Afghanistan and Iraq were distractions from Europe and the Pacific, and are not elementary to US/NATO defense posture against Russia or China. France and Germany worked against us in Iraq, but were part of ISAF in Afghanistan because they’re bailing out European banks with Afghan opium money. That’s where most of the revenue from the Afghan opium trade goes (euro banks). UK worked with us in Iraq because it’s their mess they made after The Great War, and they’re on the Great British Pound, not the Euro. France and Germany were benefiting from Saddam trading in Euros, which is why they helped Saddam in 2003. German forces were right there in Kuwait reporting on US and UK order of battle before we invaded.
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@knowledgeanddefense1054 Nordic countries don’t have the highest “happiness rates” by any objective standard. The reports that generate those claims are anything but scientific. They do have some of the highest rates of conformity and lack of questioning government propaganda, disguised as organic journalism.
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@chrish564 "Millions of Americans claim bankruptcy each year because of healthcare expenses.” This is false. There aren’t even that many bankruptcies per year in the US total. This is from Chapter 7, 11, 12, and 13 bankruptcies each year in the entire US: 2016: 794,960 2017: 789,020 2018: 773,418 2019: 774,940 2020: 544,463 2021: 434,540 Remember that there are now at least 335 million people in the US. Most people who file for bankruptcy due to medical costs didn’t use the available Medicare or Medicaid, or were forced off their plan. Many of the expensive procedures that are available in the US are not available in the Nordic countries. They are relatively poor when it comes to healthcare.
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@knowledgeanddefense1054 Mutes your basic inability to research numerical facts.
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@brimbones4399 Which would be true. "Elon! What's for lunch?"
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@stephenoneill8258 It would be a reality of the situation, unless his autistic side dominates his eating schedule.
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@miscaccount9438 I've been to many of these countries. The US actually has helped them develop dramatically, and they still want to come here. Most nations have not had services for their poor, so they're happy to offload them onto the US. But look at developed nations where there are less poor. They still immigrate to the US more than any other nation, like my mom and many of her cousins and friends did from Finland. The messaging you've been told is extremely erroneous.
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@knowledgeanddefense1054 Hyperbole argument. Defense spending isn't even close to Medicare and Medicaid ($1.2 Trillion combined annually). Defense industry isn't even in the top 20 in the US. Anti-defense spending is Soviet-era Agitprop, not based on even a basic analysis of the US economy.
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@knowledgeanddefense1054 US population is larger than any of the developed world nations, and Medicare/Medicaid are only a small part of healthcare. Most US healthcare is private/employer insurance. US defense budget is $722 Billion for 2022, nowhere near 1.94 Trillion. You’re doing something wrong with your searches. (I’ve been tracking US defense spending since the early 1980s. It never exceeds more than about 3.2% US GDP). Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are far bigger than defense. Medicare and Medicaid will average $1.3 Trillion annually into the 2030s.
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@knowledgeanddefense1054 Look up the US DoD budget for 2022. You're off by $1.2 Trillion over. US has vastly-superior Healthcare to northern Europe.
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@chrish564 Argument for perspective. The argument for excelling beyond what we have builds on top of that. We are without peer when it comes to most industry, and have off-loaded much of our former industries onto developing nations while moving onto new technologies.
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@knowledgeanddefense1054 US DoD budgets 2017: $646.75 Billion 2018: $682.49 B 2019: $734.34 B 2020: $778.23 B 2021: $705 B requested + supplementals 2022: $715 B requested + supplementals Source: US DoD Comptroller (basically the accounting agency for DoD, which I check monthly). Something horribly wrong is happening with your search. Whatever sources are responding to your queries with $1.94 Trillion are enormously erroneous.
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@miscaccount9438 Neither of Steve Jobs’ adoptive parents had a college degree. He was almost aborted.
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@knowledgeanddefense1054 I have never seen any healthcare statistics or actual institutions and procedures in Sweden or Finland that are on-par with any of the 8 States I have lived in the US, and all the State statistics from individual US States out-perform the Nordic countries. You’ve been lied to by professors and corporate journalists who parrot sensationalist headlines to get more viewers for ad dollars. They’re lying, and I’m telling you what the ground truth is there.
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@pillscottvt6628 Multimillionaire-says vote for me so he can make more millions.
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@knowledgeanddefense1054 Much of the US defense budget goes into Continental defense of North America through NORAD, continental defense of Europe through NATO, and Pacific region defense through our force presence and allies throughout the Pacific rim. The US has been withdrawing from these regions since 1992, not increasing our presence, despite everything that has been erroneously reported by the media. It’s not just an Army, but a massive, multi-continental Air Force, and a Navy that polices the trade routes. Without the US navy and forward-deployed USAF bases, regional dictators get adventurous and like to flex on their neighbors and choke points for trade. We don’t really need to be in all those places for our own benefit, since we make our own energy, food, and essential products.
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@arcanondrum6543 Incorrect, incorrect, and incorrect. DoD budget included O&M, as well as salaries, medical coverage for personnel, RDT&E, and a laundry list of things you never heard of-all in those figures I listed. $1.94 Trillion is basement dweller insanity, nowhere near reality.
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@arcanondrum6543 Think carefully though this: US DoD active duty personnel in 2020: 1.33 million. Total personnel with civilians and reserves was 3.494 million. US total population in 2020: 331.4 million The idea that 3.494 million people are beating US domestic consumption is a gigantic mathematical failure. Whoever told you that as a factual statement should be disregarded as an ignoramus at best.
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@mariagarcia-eggly9833 Been studying history since the 1970s. Go back and look at quality of life in all the developing countries back then, before the US incorporated them into the trade network.
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@factstogrind9496 Emergency Democrat talking loint/distraction since they can't run on economy, border, crime, National defense, etc.
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Median household income in the US for 2021 was $70,784. In Switzerland, it was $48,041 normalized for PPP (Switzerland is extremely expensive). What we call "poor" in the US is obscene wealth in other countries, including ones people who have never been there tell you are better off than you.
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@bigfriki Switzerland is a beautiful place to visit for sure, with one of the most ethnically-homogenous populations in Europe, and a population of 8.7 million people (same as Virginia). Switzerland is extremely strict on who they allow into the country to work or live, and it's very difficult to get citizenship there. They are not members of the EU, not in NATO, and have tight border controls. Cost of living in Switzerland is very high, in addition to high taxation rates. Geographically set in a high mountainous enclave of the Alps, they are unique even by European standards. It would be difficult to apply the Swiss model to any other country or State really, though Austria is the closest nation I can think of that I've been to. They do have an interesting approach to distribution of select-fire (automatic and semi-automatic capable) military assault rifles into all the residences where trained Swiss Army able-bodied citizens reside, and regularly get together for shooting matches with these assault rifles, then have a large glass of beer in tents afterwards laughing at how barbaric the US is.
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