Absolutely agree. People do not understand the economics of a college degree, ie, an oversupply of degrees reduces their value, general speaking, and will likely drive wages down. Most undergrad degrees will basically = a high school diploma. Not to mention it does nothing to address the real issue, which is skyrocketing costs. It’s the same with healthcare. The ACA and Bernie’s Medicare for all does zero to address the cost of healthcare.
Except Bernie’s estimates are that by going to single payer he will cut costs by close to 50%
At least that’s what he says. Just like how Obamacare saved every family $2500. /sarcasm
Right, exactly, it’s total non-sense.
Not to mention Bernie oversaw the healthcare nightmare at the VA
From your link…
“We went further in than any time in recent history in improving health care to the men and women of this country who put their lives on the line to defend us,” Sanders said Tuesday, referring to $15 billion given to the Department of Veterans Affairs to decrease wait times and reform the troubled agency.
Bernie (and many others) need to realize that money doesn’t solve problems, solutions solve problems.
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That is exactly why he’s never held a position of authority in any private sector context.
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I think this is because people seem to think money is the end-all, be-all.
Money can be an incredibly powerful incentive to get people to put in genuine, intelligent work.
Or money is a representation of a great deal of (possible) physical materials that can be used for an awful lot of stuff.
But money in of itself doesn’t achieve anything.
Honestly, Sanders talking about taking money and doing X with it sounds like conservatives saying they’ll dramatically increase the amount of bombs we’ll drop in some Middle Eastern country or some such.
Both sound fancy and amazing, but they don’t mean jack shit if they don’t come with a very detailed and comprehensive plan with concrete stages in place.
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A chronic bureaucrat like Sanders simply doesn’t understand that throwing piles of money at other bureaucrats just c9nfirms that their lack of action is the correct course of action. In fact, if they do nothing in the future better than they did in the past, it could even justify giving them more!
Bernie just got a real dose of Socialism, as he won New Hampshire handidly, but lost the super delegates which should go to him. The system he is pushing just took what he deserved and gave it to someone else.
Things I’ve learned from the frontrunner for repubs.
- Bush lied, people died. Bush’s fault for 911, should’ve prevented it.
- Single payer health-care is the best (unfortunately this just isn’t the right time for it)
- Don’t touch entitlements, just cut “fraud, waste, abuse…”
HA!
It wouldn’t surprise me if Donald Trump was a 9/11 truther.
Sure seems to think Bush 43 could have somehow prevented it and is thus culpable. Absolutely disgusting.
My favorite recent Trumpisn is “I think I know more about foreign policy than anybody running.”
I couldn’t figure out whether to laugh derisively or throw up all over the TV when I heard that
Will Trump putting his tin foil hat on and spouting conspiracy theories change the outcome in SC? Hopefully just like skipping the debate before Iowa, people who are late deciders will take notice.
I would challenge anybody who is a Trump supporter as to how they can possibly think 1. he could win (his negatives are hyoooooge) 2. How they support a conspiracy theorist for president.
It is one thing to think Bush made a mistake and Iraq was the wrong choice, it’s an entirely different thing to say Bush knew there were none and lied about it.
“They lied. And they said there were weapons of mass destruction and there were none. And they knew there were none.”
Trump is a clown, I’ve been saying it for a while. Funny guy, but enough is enough already.
I’m just waiting for him to come out and say something like, “You know jet fuel can’t melt steel beams. We need to get guys like Bill Nye the Science guy and other leading experts together to really prove this and I know all the best. Bush lied and Obama was not born in America… Make America Great Again!”