I've always liked Bernie Sanders, I see him as the left wing equivalent of Ron Paul.
Passionate and honest, and whether you agree with him or not, I always respect people who don't have a hidden agenda and who are working for the benefit of others. I happen to agree with a lot of what Sanders says, although I tend to differ in the sense that I don't think being 'rich' is the problem per se, but rather corruption and illegal behaviors that go uncontested (by politicians, rating agencies, banks, and some corporations) are the problem.
Corruption (and lack of accountability and morality) in general is always the problem, not just by the one per cent but by everyone in society. The more corruption there is, the less the rules then matter to people, which then breeds further corruption, and so the more lemmings rush towards the cliff.
This recent speech by Sanders is worth watching if you want a preview of things to come. Sanders lays it down and calls a spade a spade (in his view), the war between the one per cent and the 99 per cent is on.
This reflect badly on Obama that his own people (Democrats that is) are calling the system utterly corrupted. While such messaging in 2008 hurt the republicans, as we move in to 2012 it now hurts Obama as this is now his mess. If the system is as corrupt as Sanders suggests, one has to ask what Obama has been doing about it?
I've included a speech Ron Paul gave this year, just because I thought it was interesting to see how BOTH the right and the left are pointing out that the system is totally broken.
You can make big government. You can make small government work. You can make medium sized government work.
But regardless of size, you can never make corrupt government work. And that's where I think both the left and the right could come together (then again, that would require them not to be corrupt, haha).
Passionate and honest, and whether you agree with him or not, I always respect people who don't have a hidden agenda and who are working for the benefit of others. I happen to agree with a lot of what Sanders says, although I tend to differ in the sense that I don't think being 'rich' is the problem per se, but rather corruption and illegal behaviors that go uncontested (by politicians, rating agencies, banks, and some corporations) are the problem.
Corruption (and lack of accountability and morality) in general is always the problem, not just by the one per cent but by everyone in society. The more corruption there is, the less the rules then matter to people, which then breeds further corruption, and so the more lemmings rush towards the cliff.
This recent speech by Sanders is worth watching if you want a preview of things to come. Sanders lays it down and calls a spade a spade (in his view), the war between the one per cent and the 99 per cent is on.
This reflect badly on Obama that his own people (Democrats that is) are calling the system utterly corrupted. While such messaging in 2008 hurt the republicans, as we move in to 2012 it now hurts Obama as this is now his mess. If the system is as corrupt as Sanders suggests, one has to ask what Obama has been doing about it?
I've included a speech Ron Paul gave this year, just because I thought it was interesting to see how BOTH the right and the left are pointing out that the system is totally broken.
You can make big government. You can make small government work. You can make medium sized government work.
But regardless of size, you can never make corrupt government work. And that's where I think both the left and the right could come together (then again, that would require them not to be corrupt, haha).
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