Bernie Sanders explains his political philosophy

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Re: Bernie Sanders explains his political philosophy

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The Annoyed Man wrote: Another problem with Denmark (AND most of the other socialist european nations)..... Danes have a critically low birth rate - SO low that the danish gov't is on a push to try and increase it. Their official retirement age to collect a retirement pension is 65, BUT, like most european countries, because they have a shrinking birthrate, and because all medical care is essentially free, they have an increasingly larger retired population, supported by the work of an increasingly smaller working population. So....what do they do to have enough workers to support their system? Like most european socialist countries, they import workers, primarily from Muslim nations, most (not all) of whom do not understand, agree with, or accept Denmark's social standards. And with that comes jihad, which they are now having troubles with, in addition to Muslim street gangs and neighborhoods where ethnic Danes are no longer safe to enter. I'm not saying this as a slap to Islam, but rather to point out the simple fact that the mass importation of religiously and ethnically different people with all the negatively attendant issues is the direct result of Denmark's socialist structure. When the US goes socialist (I believe it will unless the American voters pull their heads out of their nether regions), THAT will be our destiny — we'll have a growing pool of retirees who get everything for free, and a shrinking pool of workers to support it, as more and more of them are on the dole, and particularly those of european descent become a smaller minority as their birth rate stays below the rate necessary to keep the population stable (http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-birthra ... 1434513662). That is being made up by an increasing number of immigrants - not all of whom appreciate American capitalism - with higher birth rates, as well as higher birth rates in minority communities. I don't care about the racial/ethnic makeup of this country. I am myself a product of more than one race. But I DO care about individual liberty, and the unsustainability of the socialist economic model.
Dale doesn't need to be confused by the facts, or even to visit Denmark. That same Danish model is playing out right now in Detroit, Chicago and other long-held bastions of Democratic party mis-management where the decreasing working population is being replaced by illegal immigrants!

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The Annoyed Man wrote: Do you see what you did? You turned a simple joke into one of my patented rants. :smilelol5:
Doesn't patenting your rants make you a capitalist? "rlol"
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JustSomeOldGuy wrote:
The Annoyed Man wrote: Do you see what you did? You turned a simple joke into one of my patented rants. :smilelol5:
Doesn't patenting your rants make you a capitalist? "rlol"
Absolutely. All rights reserved. :mrgreen:
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dale blanker wrote:
The Annoyed Man wrote: Dale, Dale, Dale............this is a joke! Does your lack of a sense of humor indicate you're a Sanders supporter? :evil2:

[TAM's thoughtful, well written, but somewhat long and possibly bigotted, dissertation - deleted to save space.]

Do you see what you did? You turned a simple joke into one of my patented rants. :smilelol5:
Thanks for the clarification but if you're thinking about getting into standup comedy, well...

I do agree with some of your conclusions about Sanders and socialism. I'm not a Sanders supporter - he makes me cringe when I see him speak. My concern is that your conclusions are absolute, finding little or no redeeming value in another point of view. This perspective is widespread in our dysfunctional Congress.

Let me temper this thread with a bit more reasonable example of Sanders view on government:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/17/politics/ ... socialism/

Anyway, thanks again for the lesson in Sanders but I suspect you enjoyed presenting it as much as we enjoyed seeing it.
I could not disagree with you more. "Being reasonable", "understanding", and "compromising" is exactly what has gotten us into this mess we're in now.

The left is NEVER reasonable or understanding and they never compromise. Those things are a mask they wear so they can steal our rights and make us look unreasonable when we don't compromise. The only way to fix this country is for the right to be downright unreasonable and take back what the left has stolen from us. Stolen isn't really the right word though. We gave them everything in an effort to be reasonable.
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The Annoyed Man wrote:
JustSomeOldGuy wrote:
The Annoyed Man wrote: Do you see what you did? You turned a simple joke into one of my patented rants. :smilelol5:
Doesn't patenting your rants make you a capitalist? "rlol"
Absolutely. All rights reserved. :mrgreen:
If you could patent your rants and if politicians could patent their rants and campaign promises, they would all be millionaires. :headscratch

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