I Laugh At How Bernie Sanders Gets Treated

Mojave, California
May 26, 2019 7:13pm CST
Apparently had a book deal, another book deal. The corrupt politicians just in it to get book deals. No one had to buy the book, how about that? I did not, did you, bet you did not? Yet somehow Bernie Sanders became a millionaire. He made 1.1 million Last year. We know this because he showed his taxes. Mostly because of his book deal. Pretty sure he was already a millionaire before that. Politician since the 80's, Yet, he still sounds more punk rock than even me. Somehow, people calling him out as a hypocrite. Where did he ever say you could not be a millionaire? All he wants is for people to be able to afford to live in this country and sure some can even become a millionaire like him. They use this argument on Rancid all the time because they like to stand up for the poor. You just using the poor to make money. Are they really? because these days that goes against you. Standing up for them, not exploiting them. Exploiting them is an American tradition, we love that. Please stop standing up for them though. I think Russell Brand said something like, "When I was poor and I complained about inequality, they said I was bitter. Now I'm rich and complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm starting to think they just don't want to talk about inequality" I found that gem on Reddit and sounds about right. "Bernie's been living his whole life off government handouts! He's never earned anything!" Makes money through free market capitalism by providing a product people want "I still don't like him!" Another one. Moral of the story kids, never become rich or else you can never say anything bad about the rich. Let alone fixing the system to where it actually works for everyone. Yet, people yell all day, nothing ever changes. Just same old crap different person. I wonder why with that Logic.
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Jim Bauer
@porwest (91092)
• United States
27 May 19
The one area where I disagree is that the system needs to be fixed so it works for everyone. In fact, the system DOES work for everyone, but not everyone participates, and not everyone KNOWS how to participate, and that's the real difference. I remember talking with a poor person who lived mostly on welfare who could tell me all the ins and outs of that system. They knew exactly how to get the most out of it because they studied it. I thought, if only that person put as much effort and energy into studying the stock market, or how to start a business? Where would they be? As for Bernie Sanders, he IS a hypocrite. If the world operated under his idea, he could have sold as many books as he wanted and someone else would have gotten the money since everything would be spread out equally amongst the masses. He'd not have three houses, he'd have an apartment in public housing complexes like everyone else. If you want to be rich in this world you have to work for it, you have earn it, you have to want it, and you have to know how to get it. That's how the rich got it. I have never made a lot of money but I have a lot of money. How is that possible if the system is broken or rigged against me? I am just doing something that others may not be to make my money work for me using the system just as everyone else has the opportunity to do.
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Go Crossbones
@crossbones27 (49491)
• Mojave, California
30 May 19
I gottcha, problem is it makes people not want to work for it like that and they rather be poor. or homeless. I will be honest, I could sell out, but why , if everyone uses that logic system will break because it abuses the most of society more than society abuses it or could really. Most people just do not have the smarts, drive or most of all narcissism it takes to make it to the top. I am not saying all people on top are like that but most of them are. Most people just are happy and commit to do their little thing in their little corner of the world without anyone knowing their name. The problem with most of our leaders is they they think everyone wants to be like them, to a tiny degree, if we really wanted too. would have done it. So think people need to rethink that kind of logic also.
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Jim Bauer
@porwest (91092)
• United States
2 Jun 19
@crossbones27 If someone is broke and does not take the great opportunities offered to them, it's their fault they are broke. Period. End of story. As for people at the top being narcissistic I don't agree with that either. Look, rich people generally own and/or start businesses, which provide people like you and I the opportunity to have a job, AND it allows people like you and I to participate in the business (provided it is public) to buy into ownership of that company as well. We get a LOT of benefits from the rich so many claim to hate. We buy products they make, which improves our lives, have jobs we can be thankful for that improves our lives, and we have opportunity to invest and even one day maybe have the opportunity to start our own business. We like to chastise the rich. But in reality, if we did not have the rich, none of us would have anything at all. Conversely, although capitalism gets challenged by a lot of people, we have to understand that most of everything we have is a direct result of someone having the INCENTIVE to get rich by making something people want. Steve Jobs may never have invented what he did had there been no incentive to make a profit, and so we'd probably still be making phone calls on a rotary dial. In fact, we might not even have telephones at all because even way back when Alexander Graham Bell would have not had any interest in inventing the telephone in the first place. Henry Ford would not have bothered to make cars, and the list goes on. Without the rich, and without the incentive to become rich we would still be living in the stone ages. Look at third world countries where there is no incentive or even chance to become rich. What great inventions in the world have come from places like that? Practically none at all, and there is a reason for that.
John Welford
@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
27 May 19
You make a very good point. Who exactly IS allowed to make critical comments about the rich? I'm glad that I live in a country where it is possible to go a long way in politics without having made a fortune first.