Bernie Sanders, the independent socialist who votes with the Democrats on virtually every issue, gives away his allies’ game with this comment on MSNBC:
“At the end of the day, if you are going to provide health care to all of our people in a cost-effective way, you have to get rid of the health insurance companies, not profiteering and bureaucracy.”
Ssssssh. Quiet, Bernie. The sheeple aren’t supposed to know that’s the real goal.
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At least Sanders is straight up about his political beliefs. He does'nt hide behind the labels of progressive or liberal, he just comes out & says he's a socialist. Too many who really are socialists get their panties in a bunch when they are called socialist...like Obama.
I think they're afraid the rest of us would go McCarthy on them if they did!
McCarthy was on the right path.
555 PEOPLE--By Charlie Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them..
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes,WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 555 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but PRIVATE, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 555 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits..... The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who was the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She was the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 555 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 555 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 555 people exercise the power of the
federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red ..
If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it's because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan ...
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 555 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 555 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power..
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.
Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees...
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
This is an excellent post! To the point, gripping and powerful! Excellent!
A little note for you. Nothing critical but your math is off a little.
100 Senators
+ 435 Representatives
+ 9 Supremes
+ 1 President
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545 Buffoons total
We don't elect the SCOTUS justices but the vice president is part of the presidential package, if you will, so maybe the real number should be 100 plus 435 add 2 equals 537 elected personnel. Supreme Court justices? Ach! Still, your math needs a little polish.
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An aside-
The electorate proved they're not racist in 2008. Hopefully they will prove they're not stupid in 2012.
Actually, the electorate proved they ARE racist in 2008. That's how Odummy got elected.
The word "Profiteering" is the new White House spawned catch-word for libs in their defense of Obamacare.
Cat. Bag. Out.
But really, when liberals in Washington pass legislation designed to "help" the people, there is always an additional agenda hidden behind the words written on the 1100 pages of legalese. Come on Bernie, you're counting on the bureaucracy, you love the bureaucracy. Personally, I trust the free market before I would trust the government.
To get to Bernie's single payer Utopian goal you have to imagine an HMO with 305 million members...good luck with that! Just how cost effective would such a medical behemoth be? It wouldn't be, it would bleed us dry and our children and grand children will be paying our medical bills and theirs for the rest of their lives. But do the liberals care? Hell no. As long as their socialist agenda is rammed down our throats, they are happy as clams.
Yes... the socialist goal to have everything under government controlled. The truth emerges even in a trickle.