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Still doesn't make it right. He knows he cant accomplish most of this stuff period, on his own or with the help of an army of supporters.
This is where you are wrong-when masses of people become engaged in the political process-not just every four years-is when the corruption/theft all comes crashing down. There is only so much people can/will take and the people HAVE the power when they want/realize it.
This is where you are wrong-when masses of people become engaged in the political process-not just every four years-is when the corruption/theft all comes crashing down. There is only so much people can/will take and the people HAVE the power when they want/realize it.
Corruption, maybe, and hopefully because we need to enforce laws in this country, and not just when its politically convenient...changing healthcare and education to socialized models, not so much. Even if they did want it, its a flawed model that would likely have bad outcomes.
Corruption, maybe, and hopefully because we need to enforce laws in this country, and not just when its politically convenient...changing healthcare and education to socialized models, not so much. Even if they did want it, its a flawed model that would likely have bad outcomes.
Corruption is absolutely the #1 issue and hindrance in regards to our Government and the good it does/can do for the American people at whole.
Darn, this is one of the very few things I actually agree with Sanders on and am disappointed he didn't have an answer. The solution is simple: increase the reserve requirements for banks. Right now a bank with more than $110 million in account assets is only required to hold 10% in reserve. The largest banks have over $2 trillion in assets, so you could structure the reserve requirements as follows:
Assets.............Required Reserve
$110 million............10%
over $1 billion..........20%
over $10 billion........30%
over $100 billion.......40%
over $1 trillion..........50%
etc. so that as a bank gets bigger they become more self-insured.
Last edited by Retroit; 04-05-2016 at 08:34 PM..
Reason: adjusted numbers
Nope. He has said 1000 times that no president can do anything on his own. He is the only candidate who says this.
Do you believe Wall Street plays any positive and critical role in the functioning of our economy, or should the whole thing just be scrapped? Bc Bernie seemed to indicate everything banks do is bad.
Do you believe Wall Street plays any positive and critical role in the functioning of our economy, or should the whole thing just be scrapped? Bc Bernie seemed to indicate everything banks do is bad.
It's the bottom line. When our health, welfare, security, and lively hoods all come down to the bottom line for some corporation we are just a number. If every year you need to show a profit off healthcare, how long do you think it will last? When a corporate business, like for instance Nabisco, needs to show a profit and there's a gleaming profit sitting in Mexico, what exactly do you think they'll do? They'll make our feed elsewhere and ship it home to the pigs. (us)
It's not so much bad but impossible to sustain when you have no growth to grab within your own country. You'll find other ways to either make it grow (like ridiculous testing and procedures in our healthcare) or you'll move your business to a place where you can pay the workers less, pay less for product.
The downfall is America is full of people stuck between government regulation (or should I say cooperation) and the corporate bottom line. It's become forced greed. Not only that, it's tied to our well being with a for profit healthcare system. It can get pretty gross sometimes and people are sick to death of it.
Since Obamacare has made our for profit healthcare system a requirement by law it's almost criminal. Especially since he also ran on a non profit healthcare system. At what point do the American people rise up and say we've had it, we have had enough of this crap? At one point the bag will bust. We are seeing the beginning right now. People are willing to hire a president who is promising things as Americans we never would have agreed to before. This will continue as we watch the bag bulge.
Do you believe Wall Street plays any positive and critical role in the functioning of our economy, or should the whole thing just be scrapped? Bc Bernie seemed to indicate everything banks do is bad.
How long can we ride the "wealth effect?" It might have been true before 2008 but it's hardly true now.
Do you believe Wall Street plays any positive and critical role in the functioning of our economy, or should the whole thing just be scrapped? Bc Bernie seemed to indicate everything banks do is bad.
Sure they do, but since Reagan, they have gotten out of control and they need to get knocked down a few pegs. It is also bad for the national economy to have an outsized financial sector. The best and smartest people used to go into engineering in the 60s, when we had a golden age for the country and the middle class. Now they are employed by banks to find the most clever ways to scam people.
Do you believe Wall Street plays any positive and critical role in the functioning of our economy, or should the whole thing just be scrapped? Bc Bernie seemed to indicate everything banks do is bad.
Yes, I do. Thus far ~ Wall Street was very good to my elderly father and he has passed those investments onto me; which I hope to pass onto my son.
Could we better regulate the excesses of Wall Street? Probably.
It's the bottom line. When our health, welfare, security, and lively hoods all come down to the bottom line for some corporation we are just a number.
Stop. Notice what you said, "some corporation." It is not "some corporation" but MANY corporations and MANY businesses. Monopolies rarely ever happen outside of the chalk board of some leftist professor's lecture hall. You have a choice of one business over another, a choice of one non-profit over another. In Bernie's America you will have only one option: the government.
Want healthcare? Only government will run that.
Want education? Only government schools will be allowed to exist.
And if those institutions are sub-par? Too bad.
I would rather have a choice of who I am "just a number" for than be handed out a government number and be told "this is it, take it or go to jail."
Last edited by victorianpunk; 04-06-2016 at 12:17 PM..
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