2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumLet's not lose sight of how fantastic a Bernie Sanders administration would be for everyone!
For men, for women, for whites, for Blacks, for Latinos, for Chinese, for Asians, for LGBTQ, for the young, for the old, for the healthy, for the sick, for the poor, and for our children.
In 2 years, we are either going to be deeply involved in yet another war in Iran, or we are going to have Bernie as the President of the United States.
It's your choice.
It's up to us.
This is the year to vote to end all of these insane, never-ending wars that America started under Dubya Bush.
It is no longer a time for this country to engage in more 'shock and awe' lie wars.
It is a time we put an end to using cluster bombs, and killing innocent men, women, and children in foreign countries around the world.
Think of all of the money we have wasted on these wars.
Then think of all of the lives we have wasted on these wars.
We, as a group, can resolve from this day forward, to stop wasting American lives on never-ending wars.
Our military defense budget has mushroomed under Obama, and it is a waste of our resources.
Banking reform is desperately needed to prevent the kind of shenanigans that has come to light in the Panama Papers.
Tax reform is also desperately needed to balance the books and give the working poor more of a chance to survive in this stupid "globalized" economy.
TPP should be thrown in the trash can.
Fracking should be outlawed, we only have one planet to live on.
As Americans working together as a group, we can accomplish much.
Nevertheless, the never-ending foreign wars -- and all of the blustering talk of starting more wars -- has to come to a screeching halt first!
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Tough choice for some, unfortunately.
vintx
(1,748 posts)Does Bernie Sanderss economic program amount to pie-in-the-sky nonsense? The short answer is no. All of his major proposals are grounded in solid economic reasoning and evidence.
But that hasnt stopped a major swath of leading liberal economists and commentators to insist otherwise. Paul Krugman has led these attacks from his New York Times perch, charging repeatedly that Sanders makes outlandish economic claims, embraces deep voodoo economics, is not ready for prime time, and so forth. A recent Washington Post article by columnist Steven Pearlstein cites several other liberal economists criticizing Sanderss support for Scandinavian-style social democratic policies, concluding that his program promises all the good parts of the Scandinavian model without any of the bad parts.
(Omitted point-by-point, detailed analysis at link)
It is true that the overall share of GDP going to corporate profits and the rich will decline, and this will likely counteract to some degree the positive factors encouraging private investment and growth under Sanders. But even The Economist recently concluded that corporate profits in the United States are excessive, so much as to be damaging the economys overall performance. The entirely feasible challenge today is therefore to produce higher growth rates through creating more jobs, getting more money in peoples pockets, widening educational opportunities, and raising productivity rather than allowing the country to slip further into economic oligarchy.
In short, if something like a Sanders program is enacted in the United States, the critical point will not be whether GDP grows, on average, at 3 percent, 4 percent or 5.3 percent. A Sanders economy will be fully capable of growing at healthy rates. But more than just growing, a Sanders economy will also deliver standards of well-being for the overwhelming majority of Americans, as well as the environment, in ways that we have not experienced for generations.
http://www.thenation.com/article/bernie-sanders-will-make-the-economy-great
Gwhittey
(1,377 posts)That at least only 99% true. There is at least ~1% of people in US that would lose a shit ton of power.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)and the world, but, they'd gain a SOUL.
(apologies to George Harrison)
puffy socks
(1,473 posts)to have Bernie as the President of the United States." is a Bill O'Reilly worthy, unfounded assertion.
Baitball Blogger
(46,749 posts)Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)kgnu_fan
(3,021 posts)Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)There are two visions, we must choose - unity and shared prosperity or endless war and Oligarchy.
[center][font size="5"; color="blue"]What Bernie Sanders Represents[/font]
[font size="5"; color="red"]What Hillary Clinton Represents[/font]
[font size="3"; color="8B0000"]Unfortunately Many in a country that cheered Bush, shock and awe and the war on the poor choose the latter[/font]
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Octafish
(55,745 posts)Plus, on a related note, no more NSA, CIA, FBI and who knows what-all spying on the American people.