Barack Obama and Comrade Bernie Sanders
When researching Obama’s supporters and ideological kin, one does not have to turn up too many rocks before uncovering yet another Ameri-phobic pimp for socialism. Bernie Sanders, a long time denizen of such rocks and a self-proclaimed socialist, is much admired by Obama, and, as evidenced in the video below, the admiration is mutual. The video itself, from Sanders’ 2006 campaign, is the same predictable prattle one has come to expect from Obama.
And god knows what people in the “People’s Republic of Vermont” are drinking to re-elect this man to the Senate. An Obama win would be a socialist’s wet dream for Sanders. The links below the video give you a clearer picture of what beliefs Sanders espouses and what policies he works to have implemented, comprising a left-wing agenda that Obama is clearly comfortable endorsing. I damn well hope that come election time the majority of people in this country make it indelibly clear that America is not, nor will ever be comfortable with turning this great nation into the welfare state that these men aspire to bring to fruition.
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Bernie understands that the United States is a great nation, and that we have much to be proud of. But he strongly believes that Congress, in many instances, has its priorities backwards. Bernie has strongly opposed increases in spending for the military, Star Wars, the CIA, corporate welfare, the Space Station and other programs. He believes it is absurd that we spend hundreds of billions in these areas while, at the same time, inadequate federal spending denies millions of Americans the most basic necessities of life. While Bernie wants to cut spending on the military and corporate subsidies, he wants to increase federal funding for education, affordable housing, childcare, workers’ rights, social justice, veterans’ needs, environmental protection and other initiatives that improve the lives of ordinary Americans.(Source)
But, one might respond, isn’t Sanders, a socialist who espouses some very radical things, so far outside the ideological mainstream that it’s unfair to focus on him? After all, as a House member Sanders favored massive government redistribution schemes and sky-high taxes on the “rich”; the creation of a government-run health system; slashing military spending in half; turning our energy policy over to the government; repealing the Patriot Act; and terminating all trade agreements (“workers in both the United States and in foreign nations,” he once said, “would be better off without free trade agreements”).(Source)
Remember when Bernie Sanders made big headlines for himself by disrupting a board meeting at IBM? The issue at that time was retirement benefits and, regardless of the merits of the issue at hand, his uncontrolled rant has proven disastrous for Vermonters. Since then, the number of Vermont jobs at the IBM facility in Essex has dropped by 2,000 employees. With no significant new investment, the value of the plant has depreciated by 30 percent. This was a severe blow to Essex property taxpayers who had to (and will continue to have to) make up the difference. IBM is growing worldwide and the investment that should have gone into the Essex location has been re-directed to Fishkill, New York.
The lesson here is that when legislators attack or undermine tax generating businesses it is regular working people who suffer with job losses, tax increases, program cuts, or the combination of all three that we are seeing today in Vermont.(Source)
Our other senator, Sen. Bernard Sanders, a fervent Socialist, believes America should withdraw from the World Trade Organization because it favors multinational corporations and The Rich. The WTO is the very organization the world’s major socialist state, China, was so desperate to join that it spent over 15 years trying to look winsome to WTO members. When you’re flying to the left of Communist China, you may want to check your oxygen gauge. These gentlemen subtracted from their repute recently when they co-signed with Sen. John Kerry and Sen. Dianne Feinstein a letter to the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.
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Sanders, in a statement on his official web site, was more explicit: “It’s outrageous that a right-wing think tank with ties to Big Oil and the Bush Administration is trying to twist scientific findings for their political purposes…Is there no limit to the lengths that some corporate-funded groups will go to protect their donors’ short-term profits? Is the fate of the entire planet not important enough for them to put the common interest above their narrow self-interest? The truth is that this scandalous behavior on the part of AEI is just the latest example of how big money interests distort and undermine honest debate on the important issues facing our country in so many areas.” (Source)
The Democratic Progressive Caucus (DPC) is an organization comprised of about sixty Members of Congress. It was founded in 1991 by Rep. Bernie Sanders, former socialist mayor of Burlington, VT and member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). The DSA describes itself as, “the principle U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International.” (Source)
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