Economic Bill of Rights
Kicking off his 2020 election campaign at George Washington University, Bernie Sanders pitched his Democrat Socialist Plan to the US.
Sanders seeks an “Economic Bill of Rights” that would include the right to a decent job that pays a living wage, quality health care, a complete education, affordable housing, a clean environment and a secure retirement.
Suddenly it is a fundamental right, no matter how little one produces, to have literally everything. Such promises have been made before, never successfully.
Marxist Sanders
Please consider The Marx Brother.
Having parted ways with some non-Marxists who managed to infiltrate his 2016 presidential campaign, Vermont’s Sen. Bernie Sanders will attempt to clarify this afternoon that he is not like other candidates seeking the Democratic nomination in 2020.
Many readers may find it laughable that Mr. Sanders would attempt to position himself even further to the left than he did in 2016. But as a Journal editorial noted in April, there’s nothing funny about the extreme commentary from people who are now members of the Sanders 2020 operation. For example, current Sanders speechwriter David Sirota once wrote an op-ed titled “Hugo Chávez’s Economic Miracle”. And Mr. Sirota isn’t the only Sandernista who has lauded the Chavistas. Assessing the current Sanders team, the Journal observed: “Voters need to understand that they don’t merely admire Venezuela. By their own words, they want America to emulate it.“
Given the long history of Mr. Sanders’ friendly relations with communist thugs, one must be optimistic to assume his brand of socialism would remain “democratic.” How many Americans want to live through a revolution dreamed up by an angry, underemployed writer anyway?
Attendees at today’s Sanders event can expect him once again to urge U.S. adoption of the same health care guarantee that’s been made for years by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Lesson Not Learned
Sanders’ non-Marxist speech writers have been purged. He casts his lot with AOC.
The only thing Sanders learned (using the word “learned” more than a bit loosely), is that he was not far enough to the Left in 2016.
Free education, guaranteed living wages, guaranteed retirement, and free education are amazing promises.
Those are the same promises Hugo Chávez’ made to Venezuela. How did those promises turn out?
Misk “Mish” Shedlock
Rolling Stone, Ned Price, three people with knowledge of the deliberations who couldn’t speak and a CBS anchor trying to prove that Trump’s tweets were lies quite the hard hitting piece Mish. And just for the record Im certainly not an ‘avid’ Trump supporter, but your blog posts as of late has gone off the deep end over him.
Bernie’s plan is amazingly similar to Stalin’s plan for the USSR in 1936 (of course that was also BS): link to zerohedge.com
Actually Bernie supports Canadian Socialist health care (better than US liberatian heath care at half the price)
And Japanese Socialist healthcare (better than US libertarian healthcare at half the price)
And Cuban Socialist healthcare (better than US at half the price)
And French Socialist healthcare (better than US libertarian healthcare at half the price)
And Britsh Socialist healthcare (better than US libertarian healthcare at half the price)
And German Socialist healthcare (better than US libertarian healthcare at half the price)
And Swedish Socialist healthcare (better than US libertarian healthcare at half the price)
And Norwegian Socialist healthcare (better that US libertarian healthcare at half the price)…and on and on and one….
See a trend, Miss?
Clearly not because you are firmly ANTI REALITY.
Miss is officially Fake News Deluxe.
Miss resides in a world of Anti Reality.
This is proven by the fact invokes a nation under brutal sanctions. As if America or anyone else would do better under similar.
The indisputable fact is Socialist healthcare is vastly superior to the Worst In The World American Libertarian not healthcare.
See Medicaid and Medicare for universal health care.both are a disaster , very few doctors accept government health care programs and you get third rate care if you goto the ER or a public hospital and Medicaid or Medicare aka government health care is your health insurance…. People die in the ER from treatable trauma like gunshot wounds or drug overdoses if they aren’t covered by a private Commerv3 provider
That’s not exactly true Medicare is the health plan for senior citizens and most doctors accept this plan furthermore the vast majority of seniors are satisfied with this government program. It’s Medicaid that most doctors won’t take because of very long burst me rates. That’s insurance for welfare patients and low income
It should read low reimbursement rates for Medicaid
It is a sad commentary our our education system that so many young people fall for this. They seem t have no knowledge of the awful history and repression that are socialism.
I can attest to the 100% leftist propaganda that my kids are subjected to in government school. In the last 3 weeks, the 9th grader was shown Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 911” in history class, and the 7th grader was shown DiCaprio’s “Before the Flood” in science class. I can’t make this stuff up.
Pervasive, publicly funded indoctrination, is an integral component to he way by which all totalitarian regimes aim to perpetuate themselves. I can’t imagine children in North Korea being any less subjected to the stuff.
“I was reading a little history, and I think that in the end the Soviet Union was done in by these types of promises because women would retire at 50 and men at 55.”
See the problems you cause by reading and thinking. You just need to be a bit more creative, like 10-hour work-weeks for life so people never need to retire.
That will fix everything
It’ll be just like what happened in France, when the work week was reduced to 35 hours in order to get more people employed.
Wonder if any of the dimbulbs behind that particular feat of economic “reasoning,” bothered extending their (lack-of) logic all the way to a zero hour workweek….. “Hey Francois, the way to reduce unemployment is to ban anyone from working…Man, we’re, like, smart progressives and, like, stuff…..Vive la Huh, what?????”
I think Bernie’s speech writers must have gone back to the 1960 Democratic Party Platform. Jobs and health care and education and housing for everbody: it’s all in there. Even the reverence for Grandpa FDR.
The lefties in this country think they are cutting edge, but they are truly a conservative bunch embracing a long tradition of small ideas.
But it seems to work in China, India, Canada, Japan and Scandinavian country’s
You really want to compare China and India to the US at this moment? I can tell you that if you want good healthcare there you WILL have to pay. As for Canada, refer to their immigration requirements, something that Trump would love to have. Japan is a dying, debt-ridden basket case, and in Sweden there is such a thing as a balanced budget requirement, where everybody, not just the rich, pays gobs of taxes.
I was reading a little history, and I think that in the end the Soviet Union was done in by these types of promises, because women would retire at 50 and men at 55.
“Economic Bill of Rights: Bernie Wants Same Healthcare Promise as Venezuela”
It seems to me that the people of Venezuela don’t have much in the way of health care under Maduro.
I’m sure Maduro has some. And that Sanders will get the same. Which is all that matters, to Maduro and Sanders.
Healthcare is free in Venezuela. You just can’t get medicines and medical supplies because of US sanctions.
That is a leftist lie.
There are no US sanctions on any medicines or medical supplies on Venezuela.
You are a liar trying to cover for the absolute failure of socialism and “free health care.”
Prove me wrong. Post a legitimate source for your Venezuela medical santions.
“Healthcare is free in Venezuela. You just can’t get medicines and medical supplies because of US sanctions.”
It’s fun to run across people who call you liar on something you never said. Yes, I did say that the US has economic sanctions on Venezuela.
But you followed that with “There are no US sanctions on any medicines or medical supplies on Venezuela.” Then you call me a liar. I didn’t say that there are US sanctions on any medicines or medical supplies on Venezuela.
US sanctions on Venezuela simply do not allow Venezuela to borrow on the international credit markets. And the US has sanctions that do not allow Venezuela to purchase American parts for its oil industry.
Together, these sanctions have crushed Venezuela’s oil industry, along with mismanagement by the government and former industry owners. The loss of international revenue due to the collapse of oil production and sales, has left Venezuela with only enough money to make its international debt payments, and minimal money for other critical imports like foods and medicines.
So a few other things you might find interesting:
There is no such thing as “free healthcare”. Doctors, nurses, administrators, pharma manufacturers don’t work for free. They’d starve to death if they did and no one would get any health care. Who pays them is the question. It could be individuals, insurance companies, governments, collective church groups or any combination. But it is never free.
You don’t have to put sanctions specifically on medical supplies to disrupt a population’s ability to access those supplies. Sanctioning the economy as a whole will reduce the supply of those goods, making them too expensive for most of the population due to something called “supply and demand” in economics. Look it up.
You’ve apparently put yourself in a mental straight-jacket regarding certain topics. Let’s call whatever you deem “socialism” one of those topics. When you find yourself calling other random people on the ‘net a “liar” for something they didn’t say, you should step back a second, and question your own motives. Are you so intent on defending your position that you are willing to defame others? Is that who you want to be as a person?
Finally, I am an Eisenhower Republican. That means that I believe in a competitive capitalism that is regulated by the government in the interests of the population, as opposed to an unregulated, monopolistic free-market, built in the interest of globalist oligarchs.
Yes the government currently sucks at regulation, but that is only because it has been taken over by Libertarian free-marketeers (Republicans and Democrats) intent on defenestrating the American working class by off-shoring our manufacturing industry and unlimited immigration.
Other than Sanders, though, Democrats specialize in symbolic trivialism.
Warren is going for a “wealth tax” which will raise $2.5 billion per year. She’s not going to do anything with that money, other than perhaps reduce the current deficit by one tenth of one percent. It’s just for the purpose of “attacking wealth inequality” at a rate of 2% per year.
Kamela Harris is going to raise pay for 1.75 million teachers, and do what for 318 million of the rest of us?
The rest are even more ridiculous.
Actually, it makes perfect sense, the same way some GOP guys who run will have insane positions. In a sense, Bernie is the victim of his own success! If he’s going to be the Democrats’ candidate to the left…he’s got to have leftist positions. Otherwise he’s like everyone else. He’s still running well behind Biden, and there are 20 horses in this race.
Don’t really understand why you don’t get that, since you seem to get it when its members of the GOP who pull stupid stunts like that (granted no one thought that Trump was going to win…still)
Venezuela was never the global reserve currency. We already spend more and get less than any other developed nation. MMT is already happening – its just the money goes to the banksters first. Getting rid of the stock market in favor of 100% employee owned companies is a better solution in the long run.
“People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction, rather than surrender any material portion of their advantage”
John Kenneth Galbraith
I think Stalin, Mao, Mugabe, Duvalier, Putin, Castro, and many others would agree with that as well.
Well, we’ve had “free everything” and socialism for the rich for decades in America. Funny how hysterical everyone gets when someone else might have a little of that same “socialism”.
What’s funny is how you think crony capitalism makes socialism viable for the masses.
What’s funny is you are dumb enough to think they are different.
They are different: crony capitalism benefits the few and destroys itself over time while socialism promises to benefit the masses and destroys itself much quicker.
Crony capitalism promises a lot of benefits to few in the form of transfer payments via money center banks. If crony capitalism actually worked there would be no clamoring for anything else.
What part of ‘destroys itself over time’ did you interpret as me saying crony capitalism worked?
We are there now. Truthfully there are minimal differences between the two. The differences between the two are much less than you and others think.
Someone else had to pay for all that “free” everything. It didn’t just spring into being, by printing Washington’s head on paper pieces. IOW, a society built on systemic theft, doesn’t scale beyond a small subset of said society being beneficiaries. With the rest, by necessity, being reduced to indentured slaves.
Come on Mish, it worked for the National Socialists, oh wait…
If the government takes all my money, then gives it back then takes it again, has my wealth doubled?
In financialized dystopias, where the language of the land is Newspeak and the MO is economic (and general) illiteracy: Yup! Just look at stocks, bonds and houses being mindlessly handed back and forth. “Creating wealth” for the involved Fed Welfare Queens….
I wonder if Bernie supports the 10hr work week, like some of his UK counterparts.
On average, all socialists/statists do: 100 hours of pointless labor devoid of capital for the rest, no hours of any productive work for themselves. After all, they need to use their time for something more important: Preening around lording over the rest while extolling the virtues of socialism and government in general.
Equality = Poverty for All.
Socialism has a 100% failure rate.
Will there really be anything left of the country (other than gov’t)in a year?Hard to say,but at the blinding speed of the economic deterioration….70-80% chance economy collapses before 2021…..no election,martial law,dawn to dusk curfew!!!
Sounds like Detroit or Baltimore or Chicago or…
Except they had a dusk to dawn curfew instead.
Look what the Sandra Occasional Cortex types did to Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Spain, and Mexico.
….with many thanks to our lord and master, the policeman and regime changer of the world : the US of A !
One of Hugo’s first acts when he attained power? Ban and confiscate firearms.
One of the first acts if the socialist democrats ever attain power? Ban and confiscate firearms.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris is proposing a series of executive actions she would take as president to enact gun control policies if Congress failed to pass comprehensive legislation within the first 100 days of her administration.
The number one cause of unnatural death in the 20th century was democide. Over 250 million people were murdered by their own governments, more than all the wars combined. The one thing they had in common was gun control. Yes it works.
And the Republicans differ only in degree. And only a slight one at that.
Even after the Soviet Campaign in Afghanistan demonstrated clearly, to anyone with half a brain, that even buggers as hardened as the Afghans, had a hard time without anti armor and anti helicopter weaponry. And also that all it really takes to hold on to freedom, even against a superpower prospective oppressor, is decent access to such otherwise rather harmless, purely tactical, kit.
I still get a chuckle when politicians say they will confiscate American firearms. Good luck with that. This is not Venezuela and Americans have a lot of weapons and many actually have had intensive training on their use and tactics.
I get a chuckle when people are dumb enough to think control is the same as confiscation.
Yeah. It’s hilarious how a law abiding citizens can’t own a gun/carry it in NYC, Chicago, DC, Mexico, Jamaica, Haiti, etc. unless politically connected.
But crime is so low in these places…it is worth it.
Its hilarious. Just like CA when they required all those who owned an AR-15 to register them. Very benign no worries just wanted to let the dear leaders in the imperial state to know who has them. Then all of sudden out of no where the dear leaders asked those who had registered the guns to now turn them in. Its all for the good of the dear citizens. Its funny how that didn’t stop the Muslim terrorists(husband and wife team during Obama’s term, from going on a killing spree with the outlawed AR 15’s . How could that happen?? It was rich how the ignorant Obama stated that in countries that outlaw these that doesn’t happen…. Until two weeks later the Muslims went on a killing spree in Paris with AK-47’s. Its was a good thing the French had such great gun control measures because most of the police were unarmed also. Good for the terrorists that is. So gun control is the first step to confiscation and you can be one of the good sheep that follows but count me out,
No system will be perfect. Criminals will be criminals. There can be sensible background checks prior to sales but the sellers are greedy. They have blood on their hands.
And the fear is overdone on guns on both sides. You still have a higher chance of dying in a car accident. Everyone carrying a gun wont fix it. Terrorists turn to violence for other reasons mostly from being isolated and unaware of what life has to offer.
Your mixing owning and carrying. Your smarter than that.
You mix up a right and a privilege. You are smarter than that.
Your mixing them up too.
You can’t buy a gun w/o a background check except from private sellers. That is the law. They want to change it to private sales also. That wouldn’t be the end of the world depending on how its worded. The one thing I never hear gun control advocates is mandating a gun education class. I had to take one to obtain a concealed weapons permit,that was the law here in MI. I didn’t own a gun at the time but took it with my teenage son just for the experience. It was great and we learned a lot.
The other thing you will never hear gun control advocates mention is limiting the type of arms that law enforcement can have, or instituting minimum gun training standards for law enforcement. They have complete faith that government will always do the right thing.