PHONY “POPULIST” BERNIE SANDERS
For all of his talk about leading “political revolution” against the “billionaire class,” Sanders backed Clinton, a shill of
Wall Street and
the Pentagon, who has nothing but contempt for the tens of
millions of workers devastated by the 2008 financial crash and Obama’s
pro-corporate policies.
SANDERS INSTITUTE DID LITTLE EXCEPTEMPLOY SANDERS FAMILY
July 30, 2018
America's favorite socialist grifter not named Jill Stein continues to fight for the people by making money hand over fist. And... well... that's it.
While the rest of the media is largely content to print Bernie Sanders' press releases (check the gobbles of fake news about Bernie Sanders not endorsing his own son), VTDigger keeps doing the digging into Casa Bernie that the rest of the media won't. And here's how Bernie is fighting for the revolution/employing his family members.
Last summer, Jane Sanders launched The Sanders Institute, a Progressive think tank backed by star power and big money. It’s goal: “revitalize democracy.” The initiative represented the second stage in what was originally envisioned by Jane and her husband, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., as a three-pronged progressive political machine.Jane Sanders, a lawyer and accountant, wears many hats at the institute: founder, fellow, fundraiser and a non-voting member of the board of directors. The institute is being run by her son, David Driscoll, a political neophyte who previously worked at Burton Snowboards. His estimated salary for the job is $100,000.
And the Institute has accomplished a whole lot. Gobs and gobs.
The Sanders Institute website launched on June 7, 2017, with 29,000 unique page views, according to IRS documents obtained by VTDigger. In the first two months of its existence, the site saw 126,000 visitors. With irregular updates and limited original content, traffic has taken a dive. The Sanders Institute saw roughly 12,300 unique page views in June 2018, according to Semrush, a website analytics company.
This post may very well get as many page views as the Sanders Institute.
Under the organization’s “Research and Reports” section of its website, there are 18 posts, 16 of which are reposted from other sources, including from federal agencies and institute fellows. The remaining two posts are authored by Sanders Institute staffers. One is a breakdown of how citizens can contact their elected representatives; the text of the other — entitled A Freedom Budget For All Americans — is largely lifted from Wikipedia.
Socialism. It works until the suckers stop sending you money.
Shocker: Bernie Sanders Health Care Plan Is A $30+ Trillion Economic Catastrophe
Lefty darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez loves it, as does Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). It’s health care for all people. Single-payer is a core tenet of left wing Democrats. It’s sounds great on paper. It resonates with brain-dead Millennials who don’t know their a** from their elbow. And it’s ruinously expensive. The cost is the same as it ever was at $30+ trillion (via AP):
Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Medicare for all" plan would increase government health care spending by $32.6 trillion over 10 years, according to a study by a university-based libertarian policy center.That's trillion with a "T."The latest plan from the Vermont independent would require historic tax increases as government replaces what employers and consumers now pay for health care, according to the analysis being released Monday by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Virginia. It would deliver significant savings on administration and drug costs, but increased demand for care would drive up spending, the analysis found.[…]Responding to the study, Sanders took aim at the Mercatus Center, which receives funding from the conservative Koch brothers. Koch Industries CEO Charles Koch is on the center's board.[…]Sanders' office has not done a cost analysis, a spokesman said. However, the Mercatus estimates are within the range of other cost projections for Sanders' 2016 plan.
It’s not just Mercatus. Even The Washington Post noted that single-payer is absurdly expensive. They were commenting on California’s push for a single-payer system, which was a massive $400 billion effort that included zero mechanisms within the legislation for how it would be funded. California Assembly Democrats balked, and oh how the hate was hurled at them for that last year. Colorado voters also sunk a universal health care initiative. The Post even noted in 2016, how Sanders’ plan could be a disaster for the working poor. Yet, Democrats seem to be looking at the bigger picture regarding socialized medicine, but when voters are told that their employee-based health care plans would be cannibalized in the transition to a single-payer system, support drops…tremendously [emphasis mine]:
The public is divided over a single-payer health care system, with 47 percent favoring such an approach and 46 percent opposing it.But when supporters are told that all health care costs would be covered under a single-payer system — but that it would eliminate employer plansand that there would be only one government plan — the numbers move to 36 percent favor, 55 percent oppose.
So, it’s not a popular policy proposal. Only the insufferable and urban-based professional Left likes this garbage policy, which by the way isn’t working that well in the United Kingdom.
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