I stick to people who believe in America.

Voodoo the fetus that got away from the abortionist.


You can stand with Pedophile Bill and criminal Hillary or an a bum named Bernie who never had a real job till he was 40,


http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/bernie-sanders-the-bum-who-wants-your-money/


Bernie Sanders, The Bum Who Wants Your Money


2016: Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said Monday his parents would never have thought their son would end up in the Senate and running for president. No kidding. He was a ne’er-do-well into his late 30s.

“It’s certainly something that I don’t think they ever believed would’ve happened,” the unabashed socialist remarked during CNN’s Democratic town hall forum, as polls show him taking the lead in Iowa and New Hampshire.


He explained his family couldn’t imagine his “success,” because “my brother and I and Mom and Dad grew up in a three-and-a-half-room rent-controlled apartment in Brooklyn, and we never had a whole lot of money.”

It wasn’t as bad as he says. His family managed to send him to the University of Chicago. Despite a prestigious degree, however, Sanders failed to earn a living, even as an adult. It took him 40 years to collect his first steady paycheck — and it was a government check.


“I never had any money my entire life,” Sanders told Vermont public TV in 1985, after settling into his first real job as mayor of Burlington.

Sanders spent most of his life as an angry radical and agitator who never accomplished much of anything. And yet now he thinks he deserves the power to run your life and your finances — “We will raise taxes;” he confirmed Monday, “yes, we will.”

One of his first jobs was registering people for food stamps, and it was all downhill from there.

Sanders took his first bride to live in a maple sugar shack with a dirt floor, and she soon left him. Penniless, he went on unemployment. Then he had a child out of wedlock. Desperate, he tried carpentry but could barely sink a nail. “He was a shi**y carpenter,” a friend told Politico Magazine. “His carpentry was not going to support him, and didn’t.”

Then he tried his hand freelancing for leftist rags, writing about “masturbation and rape” and other crudities for $50 a story. He drove around in a rusted-out, Bondo-covered VW bug with no working windshield wipers. Friends said he was “always poor” and his “electricity was turned off a lot.” They described him as a slob who kept a messy apartment — and this is what his friends had to say about him.

The only thing he was good at was talking … non-stop … about socialism and how the rich were ripping everybody off. “The whole quality of life in America is based on greed,” the bitter layabout said. “I believe in the redistribution of wealth in this nation.”

So he tried politics, starting his own socialist party. Four times he ran for Vermont public office, and four times he lost — badly. He never attracted more than single-digit support — even in the People’s Republic of Vermont. In his 1971 bid for U.S. Senate, the local press said the 30-year-old “Sanders describes himself as a carpenter who has worked with ‘disturbed children.’ ” In other words, a real winner.

He finally wormed his way into the Senate in 2006, where he still ranks as one of the poorest members of Congress. Save for a municipal pension, Sanders lists no assets in his name. All the assets provided in his financial disclosure form are his second wife’s. He does, however, have as much as $65,000 in credit-card debt.

I think the major difference is in process not necessarily in the substance.

There is absolutely no way that a person would be allowed to stand up and ask that question at a town-hall-syle-debate in a US presidential race. The campaigns choose who has access to the event; the audience members are required to write down their questions beforehand; and the campaigns choose from among those questions to decide which ones can be asked.

I just watched a significant chunk of the entire town hall hearing, and what he said is all the more pertinent when you hear the speakers immediately after him. Without exaggerating, the person who followed this speech gave essentially the same talk but without the switcheroo.

The attempted quality from the broke Sifter....

Warms the cockles of my heart, the desire to Qualify.

Thanks for the attempt!


In reply to this comment by albrite30:
*quality

>> ^beekinder:

>> ^NetRunner:
>> ^beekinder:
According to Palm Beach Post today Republican Congressman Allen West warned constituents at a Tuesday town hall event that he's "heard" that dozens of his Democratic colleagues in the House are members of the Communist Party.
We haven't left Joe McCarthy very far behind it would seem.

You mean this, right?
http://videosift.com/video/Allen-West-78-81-Democrats-are-in-Commu
nist-Party

I mean that Allen West is an idiot. I can't stand this kind of idiotic garbage that passes for patriotism. Good luck to this country if he is the kind of politician getting elected.


Yes that is the video where he calls some 80 democrats in congress members of the communist party.

>> ^NetRunner:

>> ^beekinder:
According to Palm Beach Post today Republican Congressman Allen West warned constituents at a Tuesday town hall event that he's "heard" that dozens of his Democratic colleagues in the House are members of the Communist Party.
We haven't left Joe McCarthy very far behind it would seem.

You mean this, right?
http://videosift.com/video/Allen-West-78-81-Democrats-are-in-Commu
nist-Party


I mean that Allen West is an idiot. I can't stand this kind of idiotic garbage that passes for patriotism. Good luck to this country if he is the kind of politician getting elected.

>> ^beekinder:

According to Palm Beach Post today Republican Congressman Allen West warned constituents at a Tuesday town hall event that he's "heard" that dozens of his Democratic colleagues in the House are members of the Communist Party.
We haven't left Joe McCarthy very far behind it would seem.


You mean this, right?

http://videosift.com/video/Allen-West-78-81-Democrats-are-in-Communist-Party

According to Palm Beach Post today Republican Congressman Allen West warned constituents at a Tuesday town hall event that he's "heard" that dozens of his Democratic colleagues in the House are members of the Communist Party.

We haven't left Joe McCarthy very far behind it would seem.

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

@honkeytonk73
The police are there to collect revenue, not "protect and service".
"Law Enforcement Officers" are nothing more then muscle for the state mob.


The current way most police are managed these days, I'd have to say this is quite true. The town neighboring mine is a very tiny town. The police are notorious for pulling people over for the sake of earning cash. 1 mph over - pulled over. Not white - increased chance of pullover (very white town). Drive a truck - avoid main street if possible. They love to ticket big trucks, especially semis (delivering goods to local businesses by the way). One cannot even try passing by a car, even slowly, if they are turning right or left in front of you. If you try to go by, even with no other traffic, you'll get pulled over. In my town. You are lucky if you see a cop. Town has budget problems. Town hall has spiders and maybe one person (the clerk to pay off parking tickets). Meters are most definitely monitored very closely. Of course.

QM,
There is no need to put labels on these people. Labels are a sign of weakness in any argument. The OWS have repeatedly stated that they are not affiliated with any party. They are mad at the current state of our government; they are not promoting a political agenda - I didn't see a single banner promoting somebody's name on it. I think you, and many others, keep missing the fundamental point that these people are attacking lobbyism and backroom deals that happen in Washington - most of which are triggered by the oil industry, big pharma, and the financial sector. The focal point of their day-to-day transactions is indeed Wall St.

Why not Washington you say? People are mad at the economy (outsourced jobs, bailouts, foreclosures) and the pulse of our economy is measured in Wall St. Why is this a surprise? The medial keeps trying to funnel the OWS people into a political agenda, which in fact, is non-existent. As LaGreca stated so eloquently, this is a "general assembly vs. top-heavy town hall" issue; I think people from all parts of the political should agree with that, regardless of their affiliation. The assumption that people are going to come with a list of demands is based on the fact that this is a political movement with a leadership. Many people at OWS have different conflicting concerns, and there is nothing wrong with that. That's how democracy works. One thing they all agree on is that change is needed (and by change I don't mean replace President A with President B).

I know you are going to attack Obama and Liberals (I despise Obama btw), but you have to understand that this collapsed economy was created by Bush and happened on his watch - the house has been under republican control for quite some time now and the senate has 13 centrist democrats that lean toward republican ideology and vote against their own party consistently. You just can't blame one man or one party. The whole system is rigged. When it comes to the economic policies, it's not who's playing the game that's the problem, it's the rules of the game itself.

So in short, QM, I think you're not always wrong as I tend to agree with some of your posts, but you're not always right either. Neither am I. The truth is somewhere in between.

As my old English teacher used to say, the best argument is the one that sits on the fence...

>> ^quantumushroom:

Ah, I see what you attempted, so let me elaborate.
The average oh-so-lovable working class stiff is chock-full of wrongful assumptions about business, law and government, but he's still forgotten more than will ever be known by the self-anointed liberal intelligentsia, whose theories and follies he pays for every day.
>> ^NetRunner:
>> ^quantumushroom:
The average oh-so-lovable working class stiff is chock-full of wrongful assumptions about business, law and government.
Tell me about it.

I really REALLY wanted to do this to that Investment Jackass who complained about Obama treating Wall Street like a punching bag in that town hall last year. That mother fucking needs to be beaten badly.

>> ^mxxcon:

>> ^Psychologic:
>> ^quantumushroom:
Rep. Steve Chabot Criticized By Tea Party Activists For Seizing Cameras From Democrats At Town Halls
Surprised HuffPo would report anything positive about the Tea Party.

The article pointed out an instance of Tea Party members agreeing with Progressives on a liberty issue, which doesn't really sound out of character.
I'd be more surprised to see any republicans defending the confiscation. Hopefully Progressives would be equally critical of any Democrat who would do something similar.
Hey Glenn Beck puppet, do you even understand the meaning of the word "progressive", how it's applied to political believes and the difference between "progressives" and Democrats? Based on your reply above, doesn't look like it. Keep on watching Fox News!


The article specifically references Progressives (ideology) being upset about the actions of a Republican (political party) Congressman and how members of the Tea Party agree. (I tend to share that opinion)

I stated that I'd be surprised to see any Republicans (political party) defending (or even repeating) the same behavior, which was a tacit reference to ideals of personal liberty within Conservatism (ideology).

I then said that hopefully Progressives (ideology) would be equally upset about similar actions from a Democrat (political party), many of whom claim to be Progressives (ideology).

Is there a specific part of that you disagree with? I apologize if Glenn Beck has said something similar... I don't follow any of his shows.

>> ^quantumushroom:

Rep. Steve Chabot Criticized By Tea Party Activists For Seizing Cameras From Democrats At Town Halls
Surprised HuffPo would report anything positive about the Tea Party.


The article pointed out an instance of Tea Party members agreeing with Progressives on a liberty issue, which doesn't really sound out of character.

I'd be more surprised to see any republicans defending the confiscation. Hopefully Progressives would be equally critical of any Democrat who would do something similar.

Rep. Steve Chabot Criticized By Tea Party Activists For Seizing Cameras From Democrats At Town Halls

Surprised HuffPo would report anything positive about the Tea Party.