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Armstead

(47,803 posts)
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 05:19 PM Feb 2016

Nope...Bernie could never be a good government CEO, Can't get things done.

Doesn't care about women. Has no clue about government budgets either....

"Here’s A LONG List Of Bernie Sanders’ Accomplishments"
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/02/19/heres-a-long-list-of-bernie-sanders-accomplishments-with-citations/


Mayor of Burlington

Voted as one of America’s best mayors by U.S. News & World Report in 1987.

...He won re-election three times, defeating Democratic and Republican contenders.

Caused voter turnout to double during his tenure.

Burlington became the first city in the country to fund community-trust housing under Sanders’ leadership.

He not only balanced the city budget, but undertook ambitious downtown revitalization projects. He even helped bring in a minor-league baseball team to the town, the Vermont Reds.

He sued the town’s local cable franchise and won reduced rates for customers.

Kept a developer from turning important waterfront property into condominiums, hotels, and offices to be used only by the wealthy and affluent. Instead, it was made into housing, parks, and public space. Even today, the area still has many parks and miles of public beach and bike baths, including a science center.

Provided new firms with seed funding, and helped businesses create trade associations. He funded training programs to give women access to nontraditional jobs and even gave special attention to women wanting to become entrepreneurs.

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Nope...Bernie could never be a good government CEO, Can't get things done. (Original Post) Armstead Feb 2016 OP
A science center? scscholar Feb 2016 #1
Kick! ReasonableToo Feb 2016 #2
Yes, but how much can he pull in for speeches? Politicalboi Feb 2016 #3
He wants to tax the poor middle class millionaire and spend money helping "ugh" workers Dragonfli Feb 2016 #5
These days? he could make a fortune. Armstead Feb 2016 #7
Off to the Greatest page with ye! EmperorHasNoClothes Feb 2016 #4
kick Armstead Feb 2016 #6
Kick to counter the meme that Bernie "can't get things done" Armstead Feb 2016 #8
 

scscholar

(2,902 posts)
1. A science center?
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 05:24 PM
Feb 2016

I like the sound of that. I'd love to see him fire our anti-science government. Fire them. Fire them. Fire them.

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
3. Yes, but how much can he pull in for speeches?
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 05:26 PM
Feb 2016

And does he really care about the middle class who earn a measly $4,000,000 a year.

Dragonfli

(10,622 posts)
5. He wants to tax the poor middle class millionaire and spend money helping "ugh" workers
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 06:05 PM
Feb 2016

Everyone knows that the lower classes can only be kept strong via a Vigilant and aggressive form of social Darwinism that weeds out those too weak to make good servants.

To help them in any way defeats the purpose! It is better as is being proven via a recent promising experiment to make them pay premiums for health insurance (forget care that is a bit of smoke and mirrors, a promise insurance exists to make sure that tho it may appear within grasp is seldom actually received)

This experiment has proven to help the millionaire middle, while making damn sure that because of their meager value as humans (reflected in their already too high wages that should in a healthy society not exceed $1.00 an hr) Millionaires will increasing their wealth off of their lessers as they pay premiums, while still assuring they will never be able to pay the added money (via co-pays and deductibles) to receive any actual health care.

This is but one of many excellent ways to ensure that the herd is thinned leaving the strongest while harvesting some of the money they should not have been given in the first place for their labor, as all civilized men know, if one has to do actual labor, one does not deserve the respect of a true equal (or money at all but that ship sailed after that Lincoln fellow turned traitor) such people as workers are only good as breeding stock, a stock that we must finally admit is long past due for a culling!

 

Armstead

(47,803 posts)
7. These days? he could make a fortune.
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 09:12 PM
Feb 2016

Hopefully he won't have the opportunity because he'll be president.

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