Can America afford Sanders’ big plans? YES

[rapbeats]

He just throws numbers out there (when he actually has one) and hopes people believe it. When the country can't afford his tax increases placed on the wealthy, he won't want to scrap his ideas and his costs will get passed down the chain. Dumb liberals haven't the slightest clue about anything.

This is your typical Sanders supporter..

wait is this FOX? STOP IT.

i already posted the other thread countering this argument of IT WONT WORK. So MJ laugh all you like.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

you can do all the critical scrutiny on berns you want. just dont do it trying to prop up Hil who aint saying anything really. especially in regards to black folks and what she would actually DO. or attempt to DO.

I dont fukk with Hillary either breh. Either way u are way too emotionally invested in this dude. He only has one pair of socks and drives a Toyota Tercel.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

wait is this FOX? STOP IT.

i already posted the other thread countering this argument of IT WONT WORK. So MJ laugh all you like.

My dude...you didn't even know Bernie sanders existed this time last year.

Stop it.

 

[rapbeats]

I think Sanders has a lot of great ideas. He just has no idea whatsoever how to realistically and responsibly implement them.

He is also a little too single minded for my comfort. I don't see him being very good at shyt like energy policy, foreign policy or pretty much anything geopolitical. His ideas are mainly focused domestically, which is good... but with how global the world is, and all of our issues abroad, we need someone who can navigate that. I guess he will have advisors and a cabinet, but we need a real leader and expert in that regard.

I dont fukk with Hillary either breh. Either way u are way too emotionally invested in this dude. He only has one pair of socks and drives a Toyota Tercel.

you sound like those people in big churches, when talking about someone in a different church saying "look at my pastor. he drives a big body benz and has his own plane. look at yours, he's driving a camry. haa haa."

Uh...yeah... i'm glad he's in the camry, it tells me when i kick in money to the pot, i know its not going to his clothing, and cars. i know he's doing whats right with my $$$.

and no i'm not invested in Bern at all. I'm a fair reporter. If you got a bunch of false reports about someone. anyone. i'm going to get at you about it. its that simple. if you dont like dude fine. but dont try to bombard the board with Pro HIl anti bern speech. and dont try to reply with the same pro hil anti bern talking points. you're going to have to prove what you say is true.

 

[rapbeats]

My dude...you didn't even know Bernie sanders existed this time last year.

Stop it.

uhh We all knew bernie existed, this dude has been around since forever has he not? he's been screaming these lefty loosey plans since forever. so anyone that this stuff resonates with would've known he was around for awhile.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

uhh We all knew bernie existed, this dude has been around since forever has he not? he's been screaming these lefty loosey plans since forever. so anyone that this stuff resonates with would've known he was around for awhile.

YOU didn't know about Bernie.

We all know it.

You need someone to rally against and you don't understand who bernie is directing your hate towards. Under the guise of being aware, you've accepted that Bernie is supposed to protect you.

 

[tmonster]

Plans that rely on tax proposals that have to remain static for 10 years when a president can't even be in office for more than 8 are a little unrealistic.

This is incredibly shortsighted. Where will you and I be in 8 years? what about right here looking to vote in a successor who can keep the movement going.
Wat about changing the laws to stop gerrymandering? what about voting those repubs out of office?
How the hell do you not start any progressive movement with the only guy in the race saying progressive things?

He just has no idea whatsoever how to realistically and responsibly implement them.

can you prove or at least substantiate that?
this guy has been a politician (in high office positions) for 40 years, If I had to bet just on that his experience alone, I would suspect he has forgotten more about real implementation then you would know. what are your credentials for knowing that, "He just has no idea whatsoever" how to implement his ideas?
is there something he has done in while in office that supports that?
He is the only politician that appears to not be tone deaf to the needs of the population, IMHO, on that alone he is way ahead of his peers.

 

[Jello Biafra]

This is incredibly shortsighted. Where will you and I be in 8 years? what about right here looking to vote in a successor who can keep the movement going.
Wat about changing the laws to stop gerrymandering? what about voting those repubs out of office?
How the hell do you not start any progressive movement with the only guy in the race saying progressive things?


can you prove or at least substantiate that?
this guy has been a politician (in high office positions) for 40 years, If I had to bet just on that his experience alone, I would suspect he has forgotten more about real implementation then you would know. what are your credentials for knowing that, "He just has no idea whatsoever" how to implement his ideas?
is there something he has done in while in office that supports that?
He is the only politician that appears to not be tone deaf to the needs of the population, IMHO, on that alone he is way ahead of his peers.

Playing Devil's Advocate here...one could say that Bernie has shown no noteworthy ability to push his personal political agenda during his time in The House/Senate and has only had 3 bills that he was the chief sponsor of get passed in his entire time in Washington: 2 to rename post offices in Vermont and 1 to give vets a cost of living raise while he was Chairman of the Veterans Affairs Committee.

 

[tmonster]

Playing Devil's Advocate here...one could say that Bernie has shown no noteworthy ability to push his personal political agenda during his time in The House/Senate and has only had 3 bills that he was the chief sponsor of get passed in his entire time in Washington: 2 to rename post offices in Vermont and 1 to give vets a cost of living raise while he was Chairman of the Veterans Affairs Committee.

Bernard “Bernie” Sanders, Senator for Vermont - GovTrack.us

Let's see:

-Wildly popular in a state that is not the liberal monolith some think it is, winning many elections with as much as 86% of the vote
-Several businessmen called him Burlington's best mayor, because he did things like revitalize the waterfront and create opportunity there.
-Never ran a single negative attack ad in a 30 year career
-Opposed TPP, NAFTA, CAFTA, Keystone XL, the Patriot Act, and the Iraq War from day one
-Strongly supports Medicare for All, repairing our crumbling infrastructure, and debt-free college
-Fought for civil rights (including for gays) before it was cool
-Champion of the common American
-Actually tells the damn truth




You don’t have to like Bernie Sanders’s ideas. I get it. He’s a Democratic Socialist, a progressive, and some folks don’t like that. However, you can't say he doesn't have any accomplishments. Here are 28 of them, just to name a few.

BERNIE SANDERS: Former student organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Led the first ever civil rights sit-in in Chicago history to protest segregated housing. One of only 2 sitting US Senators to have heard MLK's "I have a Dream Speech" in person in the march on Washington, DC. Former professor of political science at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and at Hamilton College. Former mayor of Burlington, VT. Elected by the state of Vermont 8 times to serve in the House of Representatives. The longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history. He was dubbed the "amendment king" in the House of Representatives for passing more amendments than any other member of Congress. Ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee. Author of 2 books, and co-author of 3 others. Has recorded and released a folk music album. Self-described Democratic Socialist. Married to a woman named Jane, who is a former president of Burlington College.

~In a stunning upset in 1981, Sanders wins the mayoral race in Burlington, Vermont's largest city, by a mere 10 votes. Running as an independent, he shocks the city's political establishment by defeating a six-term, local machine mayor.

~During his tenure as mayor, he balanced the city budget, drew a minor league baseball team to Burlington, turned the formerly industrial waterfront into a mixed-use district featuring housing, parks, and public space. Burlington is now reported to be one of the most livable cities in the nation.

~In 1991, he was the first independent elected to the House in 40 years. He will be re-elected by the people of Vermont to serve eight terms.

~Votes against a measure providing President George H. W. Bush with authorization to use military force in the Gulf War. "I have a real fear that the region is not going to be more peaceful or more stable after the war," he says at the time.

~Co-founded the Congressional Progressive Caucus and chaired the group for its first 8 years.

~In 1992, Congress passes Sanders' first signed piece of legislation to create the National Program of Cancer Registries. All 50 states now run registries to help cancer researchers gain important insights.

~Voted against the Clinton-era North American Free Trade Agreement, which we now know sent millions of American jobs overseas.

~Sanders is one of only 67 votes against the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act, which denied federal benefits to same-sex couples legally married. It took 17 years to overturn this Act.

~Standing up against the major pharmaceutical companies, Sanders becomes the first member of Congress to take seniors across the border to Canada to buy lower-cost prescription drugs. The congressman continues his bus trips to Canada with a group of breast cancer patients the following April. These women are able to purchase their medications in Canada for almost one-tenth the price charged in the States.

~Thanks to Sanders' efforts, IBM agreed to a $320 million legal settlement with some 130,000 IBM workers and retirees.

~About 10 years before the 2008 Wall Street crash spins the world economy into a massive recession, Sanders votes "no" on a bill to undo decades of financial regulations enacted after the Great Depression. The House passed the bill 362-57 over Sanders' objection.

~Sanders votes against the USA Patriot Act. "All of us want to protect the American people from terrorist attacks, but in a way that does not undermine basic freedoms," Sanders says at the time.

~Sanders votes against the Bush-Cheney war in Iraq. He warns at the time that an invasion could "result in anti-Americanism, instability and more terrorism." We now know that that war was one of the worst foreign policy decisions in our history.

~Sanders passes an amendment in the House to stop the government from obtaining library and book-buying records on Americans.

~Sanders defeats Vermont's richest man, Rich Tarrant, to be elected to the U.S. Senate. Sanders, running as an Independent, is endorsed by the Vermont Democratic Party and supported by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

~Sanders' authored energy efficiency and conservation grant program passes into law. He later secures $3.2 billion in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for the grant program.

~Thanks to Sanders' efforts, funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funding doubles, helping millions of low-income Americans heat their homes in winter.

~Sanders works with Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley to pass an amendment to an economic recovery bill preventing Wall Street banks that take taxpayer bailouts from replacing laid-off U.S. workers with exploited and poorly-paid foreign workers.

~Sanders passes language in the Affordable Care Act to allow states to apply for waivers to implement pilot health care systems by 2017. The legislation allows states to adopt more comprehensive systems to cover more people at lower costs.

~In 2010, President Barack Obama signs into law the Affordable Care Act with a major Sanders provision to expand federally qualified community health centers. Sanders secures $12.5 billion in funding for the program which now serves more than 25 million Americans. Another $1.5 billion from a Sanders provision went to the National Health Service Corps for scholarships and loan repayment for doctors and nurses who practice in underserved communities.

~Sanders works with Republican Congressman Ron Paul in the House to pass a measure as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill to audit the Federal Reserve, revealing how the independent agency gave $16 trillion in near zero-interest loans to big banks and businesses after the 2008 economic collapse.

~In 2012, he becomes Chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee.

~Sanders, backed by seniors, women, veterans, labor unions and disabled Americans leads a successful effort to stop a "chained-CPI" proposal supported by Congressional Republicans and the Administration to cut Social Security and disabled veterans' benefits.

~Sanders introduces legislation to break up major Wall Street banks so large that the collapse of one could send the overall economy into a downward spiral.

~A bipartisan $16.5 billion veterans bill written by Sanders, Sen. John McCain and Rep. Jeff Miller is signed into law by President Barack Obama.

~In 2015, Sanders takes over as ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, using the platform to fight for his economic agenda for the American middle class.

~Sanders votes against the Keystone XL pipeline which would allow multinational corporation TransCanada to transport dirty tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

~Both the NAACP and the NHLA (National Hispanic Leadership Agenda) have given Sanders 100% voting scores during his tenure in the Senate. Earns a D- from the NRA.

 

[CHL]

Bernard “Bernie” Sanders, Senator for Vermont - GovTrack.us

Let's see:

-Wildly popular in a state that is not the liberal monolith some think it is, winning many elections with as much as 86% of the vote
-Several businessmen called him Burlington's best mayor, because he did things like revitalize the waterfront and create opportunity there.
-Never ran a single negative attack ad in a 30 year career
-Opposed TPP, NAFTA, CAFTA, Keystone XL, the Patriot Act, and the Iraq War from day one
-Strongly supports Medicare for All, repairing our crumbling infrastructure, and debt-free college
-Fought for civil rights (including for gays) before it was cool
-Champion of the common American
-Actually tells the damn truth




You don’t have to like Bernie Sanders’s ideas. I get it. He’s a Democratic Socialist, a progressive, and some folks don’t like that. However, you can't say he doesn't have any accomplishments. Here are 28 of them, just to name a few.

BERNIE SANDERS: Former student organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Led the first ever civil rights sit-in in Chicago history to protest segregated housing. One of only 2 sitting US Senators to have heard MLK's "I have a Dream Speech" in person in the march on Washington, DC. Former professor of political science at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and at Hamilton College. Former mayor of Burlington, VT. Elected by the state of Vermont 8 times to serve in the House of Representatives. The longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history. He was dubbed the "amendment king" in the House of Representatives for passing more amendments than any other member of Congress. Ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee. Author of 2 books, and co-author of 3 others. Has recorded and released a folk music album. Self-described Democratic Socialist. Married to a woman named Jane, who is a former president of Burlington College.

~In a stunning upset in 1981, Sanders wins the mayoral race in Burlington, Vermont's largest city, by a mere 10 votes. Running as an independent, he shocks the city's political establishment by defeating a six-term, local machine mayor.

~During his tenure as mayor, he balanced the city budget, drew a minor league baseball team to Burlington, turned the formerly industrial waterfront into a mixed-use district featuring housing, parks, and public space. Burlington is now reported to be one of the most livable cities in the nation.

~In 1991, he was the first independent elected to the House in 40 years. He will be re-elected by the people of Vermont to serve eight terms.

~Votes against a measure providing President George H. W. Bush with authorization to use military force in the Gulf War. "I have a real fear that the region is not going to be more peaceful or more stable after the war," he says at the time.

~Co-founded the Congressional Progressive Caucus and chaired the group for its first 8 years.

~In 1992, Congress passes Sanders' first signed piece of legislation to create the National Program of Cancer Registries. All 50 states now run registries to help cancer researchers gain important insights.

~Voted against the Clinton-era North American Free Trade Agreement, which we now know sent millions of American jobs overseas.

~Sanders is one of only 67 votes against the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act, which denied federal benefits to same-sex couples legally married. It took 17 years to overturn this Act.

~Standing up against the major pharmaceutical companies, Sanders becomes the first member of Congress to take seniors across the border to Canada to buy lower-cost prescription drugs. The congressman continues his bus trips to Canada with a group of breast cancer patients the following April. These women are able to purchase their medications in Canada for almost one-tenth the price charged in the States.

~Thanks to Sanders' efforts, IBM agreed to a $320 million legal settlement with some 130,000 IBM workers and retirees.

~About 10 years before the 2008 Wall Street crash spins the world economy into a massive recession, Sanders votes "no" on a bill to undo decades of financial regulations enacted after the Great Depression. The House passed the bill 362-57 over Sanders' objection.

~Sanders votes against the USA Patriot Act. "All of us want to protect the American people from terrorist attacks, but in a way that does not undermine basic freedoms," Sanders says at the time.

~Sanders votes against the Bush-Cheney war in Iraq. He warns at the time that an invasion could "result in anti-Americanism, instability and more terrorism." We now know that that war was one of the worst foreign policy decisions in our history.

~Sanders passes an amendment in the House to stop the government from obtaining library and book-buying records on Americans.

~Sanders defeats Vermont's richest man, Rich Tarrant, to be elected to the U.S. Senate. Sanders, running as an Independent, is endorsed by the Vermont Democratic Party and supported by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

~Sanders' authored energy efficiency and conservation grant program passes into law. He later secures $3.2 billion in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for the grant program.

~Thanks to Sanders' efforts, funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funding doubles, helping millions of low-income Americans heat their homes in winter.

~Sanders works with Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley to pass an amendment to an economic recovery bill preventing Wall Street banks that take taxpayer bailouts from replacing laid-off U.S. workers with exploited and poorly-paid foreign workers.

~Sanders passes language in the Affordable Care Act to allow states to apply for waivers to implement pilot health care systems by 2017. The legislation allows states to adopt more comprehensive systems to cover more people at lower costs.

~In 2010, President Barack Obama signs into law the Affordable Care Act with a major Sanders provision to expand federally qualified community health centers. Sanders secures $12.5 billion in funding for the program which now serves more than 25 million Americans. Another $1.5 billion from a Sanders provision went to the National Health Service Corps for scholarships and loan repayment for doctors and nurses who practice in underserved communities.

~Sanders works with Republican Congressman Ron Paul in the House to pass a measure as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill to audit the Federal Reserve, revealing how the independent agency gave $16 trillion in near zero-interest loans to big banks and businesses after the 2008 economic collapse.

~In 2012, he becomes Chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee.

~Sanders, backed by seniors, women, veterans, labor unions and disabled Americans leads a successful effort to stop a "chained-CPI" proposal supported by Congressional Republicans and the Administration to cut Social Security and disabled veterans' benefits.

~Sanders introduces legislation to break up major Wall Street banks so large that the collapse of one could send the overall economy into a downward spiral.

~A bipartisan $16.5 billion veterans bill written by Sanders, Sen. John McCain and Rep. Jeff Miller is signed into law by President Barack Obama.

~In 2015, Sanders takes over as ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, using the platform to fight for his economic agenda for the American middle class.

~Sanders votes against the Keystone XL pipeline which would allow multinational corporation TransCanada to transport dirty tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

~Both the NAACP and the NHLA (National Hispanic Leadership Agenda) have given Sanders 100% voting scores during his tenure in the Senate. Earns a D- from the NRA.

@wire28

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

I don't want to pay anymore taxes

And Bernie Sanders is nothing more than a propped up trendy viral candidate.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

you sound like those people in big churches, when talking about someone in a different church saying "look at my pastor. he drives a big body benz and has his own plane. look at yours, he's driving a camry. haa haa."

Uh...yeah... i'm glad he's in the camry, it tells me when i kick in money to the pot, i know its not going to his clothing, and cars. i know he's doing whats right with my $$$.

and no i'm not invested in Bern at all. I'm a fair reporter. If you got a bunch of false reports about someone. anyone. i'm going to get at you about it. its that simple. if you dont like dude fine. but dont try to bombard the board with Pro HIl anti bern speech. and dont try to reply with the same pro hil anti bern talking points. you're going to have to prove what you say is true.

nikka ask @ThreeLetterAgency how I feel about Hillary. You claim you are fair but you are hard for Bernie. I dont see u in threads dumping on Hillary or any of the Republicans. If u are gonna support a candidate support a candidate.... no need to pull the "objective" card and play both sides

 

[rapbeats]

nikka ask @ThreeLetterAgency how I feel about Hillary. You claim you are fair but you are hard for Bernie. I dont see u in threads dumping on Hillary or any of the Republicans. If u are gonna support a candidate support a candidate.... no need to pull the "objective" card and play both sides

never expect me to be in a republican thread until the repubs get their act together. they are idiots without a clue and they have been that way since bush jr got in office. holler at me when they are back to being intelligent human beings who just choose to be a bit more conservative. not people who just yell stuff to get a rise out of the crowd and a bunch of angry broke white people.

there's no reason to hang out in a hillary thread. the entire world knows the DNC and everyone else ASSUME she was the easy nominee. berns came along and things are getting a little muddled. os the DNC starts to cheat for hillary. see i dont like cheaters. let it play out fair and square. if hil wins, she wins. but dont be so afraid of another candidate to the point you start not showing debates during any primetimes ON PURPOSE. i mean dont hit us with the blk caucus supports hillary, then in reality its a blk caucus PAC that is filled with lobbyist. you keep trying to pull fast ones.

If hil is as good as people think she is. she doesnt need help to win outside of her running her campaign and seeing where the chips will fall.

lastly, as i posted in another thread. i have never forgot the ish hil and bill said to and about obama when things got heated. they were race baiting. so that again showed me another side to them i didnt know was there. foolish me. they are white. so is bernie. since i'm not fooled by the Clinton mystique any more, i can clearly see a situation where what bernie is talking about(if it happened) could be better for minorities in general and black people specifically. where as i'm seeing hill and i see a centrist corporatist now. you can't hang around the big boys and get paid millions in speeches just cause. you have to pay them back. no one gives you that kind of money just to run your mouth and nothing more. i've seen where she agreed with her husband on a lot of those trade agreements. until it was after the fact and we all found out it hurt a lot of people.
this is why i'm down with berns policies moreso than hills. and again, i still havent said i'm voting for either whtie person yet. i just make sure its a fair and balanced discussion. before it was a 99.9% hillary takes all wins all discussion. so we have to throw a little love to bernie. otherwise you start making up a narrative that the sheeple believe is true.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

"Bernie has never accomplished anything in his political career."

Bernard “Bernie” Sanders, Senator for Vermont - GovTrack.us

Let's see:

-Wildly popular in a state that is not the liberal monolith some think it is, winning many elections with as much as 86% of the vote
-Several businessmen called him Burlington's best mayor, because he did things like revitalize the waterfront and create opportunity there.
-Never ran a single negative attack ad in a 30 year career
-Opposed TPP, NAFTA, CAFTA, Keystone XL, the Patriot Act, and the Iraq War from day one
-Strongly supports Medicare for All, repairing our crumbling infrastructure, and debt-free college
-Fought for civil rights (including for gays) before it was cool
-Champion of the common American
-Actually tells the damn truth




You don’t have to like Bernie Sanders’s ideas. I get it. He’s a Democratic Socialist, a progressive, and some folks don’t like that. However, you can't say he doesn't have any accomplishments. Here are 28 of them, just to name a few.

BERNIE SANDERS: Former student organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Led the first ever civil rights sit-in in Chicago history to protest segregated housing. One of only 2 sitting US Senators to have heard MLK's "I have a Dream Speech" in person in the march on Washington, DC. Former professor of political science at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and at Hamilton College. Former mayor of Burlington, VT. Elected by the state of Vermont 8 times to serve in the House of Representatives. The longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history. He was dubbed the "amendment king" in the House of Representatives for passing more amendments than any other member of Congress. Ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee. Author of 2 books, and co-author of 3 others. Has recorded and released a folk music album. Self-described Democratic Socialist. Married to a woman named Jane, who is a former president of Burlington College.

~In a stunning upset in 1981, Sanders wins the mayoral race in Burlington, Vermont's largest city, by a mere 10 votes. Running as an independent, he shocks the city's political establishment by defeating a six-term, local machine mayor.

~During his tenure as mayor, he balanced the city budget, drew a minor league baseball team to Burlington, turned the formerly industrial waterfront into a mixed-use district featuring housing, parks, and public space. Burlington is now reported to be one of the most livable cities in the nation.

~In 1991, he was the first independent elected to the House in 40 years. He will be re-elected by the people of Vermont to serve eight terms.

~Votes against a measure providing President George H. W. Bush with authorization to use military force in the Gulf War. "I have a real fear that the region is not going to be more peaceful or more stable after the war," he says at the time.

~Co-founded the Congressional Progressive Caucus and chaired the group for its first 8 years.

~In 1992, Congress passes Sanders' first signed piece of legislation to create the National Program of Cancer Registries. All 50 states now run registries to help cancer researchers gain important insights.

~Voted against the Clinton-era North American Free Trade Agreement, which we now know sent millions of American jobs overseas.

~Sanders is one of only 67 votes against the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act, which denied federal benefits to same-sex couples legally married. It took 17 years to overturn this Act.

~Standing up against the major pharmaceutical companies, Sanders becomes the first member of Congress to take seniors across the border to Canada to buy lower-cost prescription drugs. The congressman continues his bus trips to Canada with a group of breast cancer patients the following April. These women are able to purchase their medications in Canada for almost one-tenth the price charged in the States.

~Thanks to Sanders' efforts, IBM agreed to a $320 million legal settlement with some 130,000 IBM workers and retirees.

~About 10 years before the 2008 Wall Street crash spins the world economy into a massive recession, Sanders votes "no" on a bill to undo decades of financial regulations enacted after the Great Depression. The House passed the bill 362-57 over Sanders' objection.

~Sanders votes against the USA Patriot Act. "All of us want to protect the American people from terrorist attacks, but in a way that does not undermine basic freedoms," Sanders says at the time.

~Sanders votes against the Bush-Cheney war in Iraq. He warns at the time that an invasion could "result in anti-Americanism, instability and more terrorism." We now know that that war was one of the worst foreign policy decisions in our history.

~Sanders passes an amendment in the House to stop the government from obtaining library and book-buying records on Americans.

~Sanders defeats Vermont's richest man, Rich Tarrant, to be elected to the U.S. Senate. Sanders, running as an Independent, is endorsed by the Vermont Democratic Party and supported by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

~Sanders' authored energy efficiency and conservation grant program passes into law. He later secures $3.2 billion in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for the grant program.

~Thanks to Sanders' efforts, funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funding doubles, helping millions of low-income Americans heat their homes in winter.

~Sanders works with Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley to pass an amendment to an economic recovery bill preventing Wall Street banks that take taxpayer bailouts from replacing laid-off U.S. workers with exploited and poorly-paid foreign workers.

~Sanders passes language in the Affordable Care Act to allow states to apply for waivers to implement pilot health care systems by 2017. The legislation allows states to adopt more comprehensive systems to cover more people at lower costs.

~In 2010, President Barack Obama signs into law the Affordable Care Act with a major Sanders provision to expand federally qualified community health centers. Sanders secures $12.5 billion in funding for the program which now serves more than 25 million Americans. Another $1.5 billion from a Sanders provision went to the National Health Service Corps for scholarships and loan repayment for doctors and nurses who practice in underserved communities.

~Sanders works with Republican Congressman Ron Paul in the House to pass a measure as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill to audit the Federal Reserve, revealing how the independent agency gave $16 trillion in near zero-interest loans to big banks and businesses after the 2008 economic collapse.

~In 2012, he becomes Chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee.

~Sanders, backed by seniors, women, veterans, labor unions and disabled Americans leads a successful effort to stop a "chained-CPI" proposal supported by Congressional Republicans and the Administration to cut Social Security and disabled veterans' benefits.

~Sanders introduces legislation to break up major Wall Street banks so large that the collapse of one could send the overall economy into a downward spiral.

~A bipartisan $16.5 billion veterans bill written by Sanders, Sen. John McCain and Rep. Jeff Miller is signed into law by President Barack Obama.

~In 2015, Sanders takes over as ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, using the platform to fight for his economic agenda for the American middle class.

~Sanders votes against the Keystone XL pipeline which would allow multinational corporation TransCanada to transport dirty tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

~Both the NAACP and the NHLA (National Hispanic Leadership Agenda) have given Sanders 100% voting scores during his tenure in the Senate. Earns a D- from the NRA.

"None of that counts."

 

[rapbeats]

I don't want to pay anymore taxes

And Bernie Sanders is nothing more than a propped up trendy viral candidate.

who is he propped up by?

whats trendy about him? he's beeng saying this stuff for decades. thats not trendy. thats him being himself just because youngins like what he's saying doesnt mean HE is actually some trendy candidate that just came up with these talking points last week. and saying "i dont want to pay anymore taxes." without putting things into context is naive.

let me explain.
if we had medicare for all.
your taxes would go up. lets say like he says $500 per year more than you normally pay.now you no longer have a preimum you have to pay to the insurance companies out of your pocket or out of your paycheck with the company you work for. Right now i'm getting hit up for almost 200 a month for insurance coverage at my job. do the math 200 x 12 months. = 2400 - from $500 taxes you have to pay = YOU SAVE $1900 and thats on premiums alone. i also have a Copay for certain things. since i have a HRA plan. after that spending acct runs out i have to kick in the deductible up until 1500. So thats an addtl savings i would have since i would no longer have to pay Coinsurance, copays, nore deductibles. medicare for all means thru our taxes we have paid for our coverage in full.

So never say "i dont want more taxes" when in reality i'm saving you 2 grand+ a year. you take the extra taxes and run with that savings. dont be a fool and get stuck in rhetoric about "i dont like taxes." taxes are great when they help build things, or save us money in the end.