Op-ed: 
Numbers Don't Lie...Democrats Do 
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

There's more great news on both the jobs and economic front, yet it can all be wiped out in a heartbeat if Democrat presidential contender Elizabeth Warren was ever to become President of these United States.

But first the good news Democrats are obviously not happy about. And I'll start by saying something I've said many times before yet it bears repeating again...the 2020 presidential election will not be about impeachment...it will be about the economy...always has been...always will be...and it's time the Democrats wise up to that fact.

And to that affect know that President Trump's economic policies are indeed working. In fact, as per the latest Labor Department numbers for October, the unemployment rate still held near a 50-year low, wages increased, and 128,000 new jobs were created last month. And as an added bonus, the all-important labor force participation rate rose to 63.3%, the largest share of the working population employed or looking for work since 2013.

Specifically, as per the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 128,000 non-farm payroll jobs were added up from the 85,000 that were expected; the unemployment rate was 3.6% which is statistically the same as September's 3.5%; hourly wages increased by 0.2% as opposed to no increases in September; and average hourly earnings 'year-on-year' held steady at 3.0%. And in the end these continuing good numbers will show that come November 6, 2020 all the Democrats impeachment brouhaha will have been for nought as middle and especially working class America will still be enjoying more monies in their pockets, and they will remember where and whom it came from.

And while politics is indeed a dirty game which does grab and then holds onto the media headlines, partisan driven politics cannot successfully compete with economic successes no matter how hard it tries.

And so with the October jobs numbers showing that the biggest numbers gains were in the leisure and hospitality sector with 61,000 new jobs being created, as well as October seeing yet another 34,200 jobs being created in the health care and social assistance sector...the media as well as the Democrats are still more than a wee bit shocked that those two sectors together were able to offset what was expected to be and was “softness” in manufacturing. And that “softness” was directly due to the 40-day United Auto Workers (UAW) strike against General Motors (GM)...a strike supported by 46,000 union workers. And while manufacturing jobs did decrease overall by 36,000 in October due to both the strike itself and its so-called “ripple effect” on GM’s suppliers, even those jobs lost were almost 20,000 under the 55,000 jobs that were projected to be lost. Translation: even a large strike in a key manufacturing area could not deter nor diminish October's overall strong net gains.

Now add in that the September and August final jobs numbers were revised and were significantly higher than first reported. In fact, August’s initial low estimate of 168,000 jobs being created was revised up to show that 219,000 jobs were actually created, while September’s final job numbers rose from 136,000 to 180,000 jobs being created. And this means that when all the final numbers are calculated for October that those numbers most likely will increase as well. And still the Democrats are trying to get the American public to cower in fear of what they claim is an upcoming recession...just more nonsense spewed as numbers don't lie.

And while these newest jobs numbers are great, know that there was also another October plus of sorts buried within those numbers...something we knew would be coming and which we should shed no tears over...as in the reduction of what are more useless “big government” employees. How so? Federal government employment numbers themselves fell in the month of October mostly due to 3,000 temporary workers, as was expected, now leaving their temporary positions...temporary workers hired by the feds for the 2020 census. Remember, this is the upcoming census where the liberal courts ruled that key questions regarding a persons legal status cannot be asked by those conducting the census...so I ask why even hire extra workers, temporary or otherwise, to do what amounts to a dishonest job. And with those temporary jobs now gone it allows that portion of our our taxpayer monies to be spent in more important areas, like helping to secure our southern border or helping our homeless veterans perhaps, and honestly we need more of the same federal type job cuts being made.

So with what President Trump rightfully calls the “longest economic expansion in its history”...an expansion that began soon after he became president...over 6.7 million new jobs have been created which is almost 2 million more jobs than the Congressional Budget Office projected would be created in its final forecast before...with “before” being the key word...the 2016 election. And that projection is really not at all surprising for such a miscalculation is quite expected when those involved in such a critical numbers game probably flunked both economics 101 and general math.

Simply, whether the Democrats like it or not the American labor market not only remains strong and robust, but it's growing more so by the day. How so? It's because most states themselves are continuing to see what are record-low unemployment numbers which helps to prove that President Trump's sound economic policies are working to benefit both local communities and the American worker. And something else that cannot and must not be overlooked...whether it's seen specifically in October's jobs numbers or overall since Trump took office...is that the U.S. stock market itself is one of the biggest benefactors of Trump's economic policies. And remember, when the stock market soars it's actually a prime indicator of just how strong our country's economy really is.

Again how so? Simply stated, to date the Dow Jones finished through October with an overall 15.94% yearly gain, and the S&P 500 gained a minimum of 21.7% through October 31st, together translating into an overall full year stock market gain to date of roughly 37.64%. Even Nasdaq is showing a probable year-end gain of 42.81%. And with last Friday's Dow Jones reaching an all-time high of 27,347.36, and with the S&P 500 hitting 3,066.91, there should be no doubt that Trump's economic policies are on strong footing both at home and abroad. And with the way the economy is now we should see at least another 5% gain in those overall numbers by years end proving once again that the economy drives the stock market as much as the stock market drives the economy.

And even with the still unsettled trade war with China being a point of contention...a point of contention that finally seems to be winding down which translates into another economic plus...that coupled with consumer confidence will most assuredly drive not only our domestic markets even higher but the foreign markets as well, especially with stocks now entering what’s actually  historically been a strong end-of -the-year period for all equity markets.* In fact, data shows that November through January is the strongest three-month span of any given year, and according to Market Watch when the Dow and S&P 500 are up by numbers like those witnessed in October...as in 0.3% and 0.5% respectively... and with Nasdaq ended October up 0.6%...all are practically guaranteed to rise in the next two months according to previous patterns.

Bottom line...without a strong economy...without consumer confidence due to Trump's economic policies working...these stock market numbers would not be the numbers we're seeing today.

Now for the bad news and it concerns Elizabeth Warren...Pocahontas if you will...and her inane nonsense regarding “Medicare for All.” And while the concept alone is not something the majority of Americans want or need, as it would be a government-run health insurance program that would completely do away with private insurance...let's first talk about it strictly from a numbers angle to see just what a nightmare such a program would be.

So let's begin with a really big number, as in the actual cost of “Medicare for All” that Warren is proposing... which is somewhat different than what Bernie Sanders is now proposing...as in it costing a whopping $52 trillion... yes trillion dollars...over the next ten years making it more expensive than Medicare and Medicaid combined within the same time period. And get this...Elizabeth Warren's “Medicare for All” proposal actually is more than double the current national debt which stands at over $23 trillion and counting.

And while Ms. Warren claims that her vision of “Medicare for All” would cut costs by reducing spending on actual health care...death panels anyone...how does she propose paying for such a program...basically by raising taxes on businesses and the super wealthy, imposing new levies on investment gains and stock trades, eliminating the critical Overseas Contingency Operations military fund, and by counting on state and local governments to contribute additional monies to help pay for the very program that will severely alter consumer spending and critical business investment.

Simply, the robust economy we're all now seeing under President Trump will start to unravel. And why...because when taxes are significantly raised...as they must be for such a single-payer program as “Medicare for All” to even have a snowball's chance in hell to succeed...history itself has shown that it's the economy that takes a direct hit. And again why...for the simple fact that with the raising of taxes, no matter which segment of the population is now affected, it translates into the American consumer having less money to spend...hence less disposable income...to keep bolstering what is now a thriving economy.

And while Warren continues to claim that she will not be raising taxes on the middle class, know that is simply not true especially when then heavily taxed businesses will have to pay the government a similar amount to what they're currently spending on their employees' health care. And that in turn will either force employers to withhold more monies from their employees' paychecks (as in cutting salaries), put raises including COLAs on hold, or actually let some employees go in order to make up what will then be the difference in cost. And that difference will translate into what's estimated to be an $8+ billion payroll tax on employers...a tax which will then have to be passed onto their employees which in turn will have to passed onto the customer via an increase in consumer prices...something itself being a tax of sorts on the middle class.
 
And then there's this little piece of not so good news concerning the taxing of businesses that seems to be being hushed up...as in there is actual business inequity for employers with fewer than 50 employees under Ms. Warren's “Medicare for All” proposal. How so...while such small businesses are currently not required by law to provide health insurance, the fact is that a bit over half do. And right now Warren’s proposal states that small businesses “would be exempt from the Employer Medicare Contribution unless they are already paying for employee health care today.” Translation...that in itself places a direct penalty on small businesses that currently offer employees health insurance in that they will have to continue to pay a cost their competitors have until now dodged.

And so the woman whose proposal sees taxes being raised with the government alone setting the prices doctors, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies can charge, has also publicly stated that she will totally do away with all private insurers. So what is Warren's “Medicare for All” but yet another form of redistribution of wealth in disguise.

But know that some in her own party, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her nomination opponent Joe Biden, are not really smitten with what she is proposing. And why is that...because her plan does not seem to be politically viable, it will never pass in Congress, it's technically and monetarily unworkable, nor can it ever meet its stated goal of actually covering all Americans. And with “Medicare for All” doing away with all private insurance...a key sticking point remains for many moderate Democrats...especially those moderates up for reelection in red states.

So the bottom line with Elizabeth Warren's “Medicare for All” proposal is that it simply cannot work as it's unfair to some while at the same time it caters to others, and it's all at the expense of not only “We the People's” health, but with it's outrageous implementation cost it would most likely crash the American economy as well...something Pocahontas is probably secretly wishing would happen.

So there you have a dose of both good and bad news on the economic front, but hopefully the good news surrounding the jobs numbers will override Elizabeth Warren's “Medicare for All” nonsense...nonsense that just might with a bit of good luck become like shriveled up grapes left too long on the vine...as it simply withers and dies what is an ever so rightful political death.
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Op-ed:
Two Losers and the Ghost of John McCain 
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

While the current news cycle is all about impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, and Syria, Syria, Syria... there are a few other news worthy items that are both comical and maddening at the same time while receiving but cursory attention at best. So along those lines let's start with the fact that Bernie Sanders...2016 's Mr. “Feel the Bern” himself...has not a snowball's chance in hell of getting the 2020 Democrat nomination let alone winning the presidency...both his heart attack and his far left politics have sealed that fate.

The now shadow of the man he once was...Bernie Sanders remains the man who continues to espouse the supposed virtues of socialism no matter its many proven foibles while still enjoying living large off the millions of dollars capitalism has afforded him, doing so while refusing to follow doctor's orders to slowdown. Instead, Bernie has upped his anti-American vitriol to such a degree while out on the campaign trail, during the Democrat debates, as well as in the media, that it's quite possible Bernie won't be around come nomination time...after all the heart can only take so much...but know I don't wish him harm and neither should you.

The simple fact is that Bernie Sanders cannot win as he's even a bit too far left for some progressives lurking within the now Democrat-Socialist party...progressives who while championing Bernie's “free stuff” mantra along with a growing number of millennials currently in his corner... have started to...albeit to a small degree...come to the realization that nothing in this life is actually free. And when you now add in that the leader of the infamous “Squad”...one Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...has just formally endorsed him...Bernie's Sanders chances of winning anything have gone down from slim to none.

Why so...for starters how about Bernie's adding AOC to his campaign team. Remember, this is the woman who is not well liked even in her own 14th Congressional district as she is the one who almost single-handily killed the Amazon deal...a deal where Amazon was going to open up a new headquarters in New York City...a deal that would have created 25,000 new jobs and added about $30 billion in revenue to not only the very city deep in debt but to New York State itself. Even the infamous Mayor Bill DeBlasio called AOC to task for her job-killing stance. In fact, DeBlasio went so far as to say that, “[I have] progressive roots [and will] take on any progressive – anywhere – that thinks it’s a good idea to lose jobs and revenue.” And AOC then had the gall to say that fixing the subways instead of creating jobs would have been money better spent.
 
And so this delusional ex-bartender...and not a very good one so I've been told...is who Bernie Sanders is welcoming with open arms to his official team of campaign endorsing supporters...not the greatest idea I would think.

But to make matters worse, Bernie Sanders recently stated that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will have an “important position” in his administration “when”...yes he said “when”...he becomes president. Seems like Bernie's heart attack caused a serious momentary lack of oxygen to his brain.

And so the woman whose sole claim to political fame is that she has 5.6 million Twitter followers is also the woman who introduced the cost prohibited, bat-loon crazy Green New Deal to the American public...a deal that would see all buildings in this country being torn down and rebuilt to stringent new EPA standards; would see "planes, trains, and automobiles" becoming but a thing of the past; and would have cows either wearing diapers or with a cork up their butt, And AOC claims it's all in the name of protected the world from what was originally Al Gore's “global cooling” nonsense morphed into “global warming” nonsense now morphed into “climate change” nonsense... as in what's simply the “weather”...and that's not nonsense at all. 

And Bernie seems to have no problem with the cost of AOC's Green New Deal...nonsense he supports no matter that it's implementation cost on the low end would be $52 trillion over the next ten years up to $92 trillion on the high end, also spread out over the next ten years. But when you add in Bernie's Medicare for All proposal...now estimated to cost at least $34 trillion over the same ten years...with that being more than the total current cost of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid combined...you cannot ignore the fact that these two socialists obviously care nothing about adding to our already staggering national debt...a debt currently standing at $22.03 trillion and growing. Nor do they care that the American taxpayer would again be forced to foot the bill...via drastically higher taxes...for both new proposals and more, including a single-payer healthcare system, student loan forgiveness, free public college, a wealth tax on the super-rich, universal childcare, and early childhood education...which would add to the percentage we taxpayers already pay to help bring down the national debt. 
 
And the bottom line here is that all the “free stuff” proposed by Bernie Sanders and seconded by AOC, sees only the “gimme-gimme folks”...folks now generationally with their hands out...not understanding that while these are promises made they're simply promises that cannot be kept, but they're promises that will help Bernie “buy” their votes come the primary elections. 
 
So if Bernie Sanders thinks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's endorsement will help him garner the much needed mainstream Democrat vote he is sorrily mistaken for the only ones AOC really appeals to are young clueless millennial sorts who talk a good talk but who are just too lazy to get off their parent's couch and actually go out and vote...as in the newest generation of young people who've been indoctrinated into believing that it's better to receive than to go get a job and be responsible for one's own self.



And while AOC is now being called to task by some leading Democrats for not endorsing a “woman of color” or at least another minority candidate, her support for Bernie Sanders was actually a pre-ordained given as AOC got into politics as an organizer for Bernie's 2016 presidential campaign, as well as it being Bernie's staffers who recruited her to run for Congress. And dare we forget two important commonalities shared between these two, with the first being that both want to literally “overthrow” our capitalistic economy and replace it with socialism...that is until they run out of other people's money...and second, both are card carrying members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the very anti-capitalist group working within yet standing apart from the Democrat party. Translation: both Bernie Sanders and AOC are hypocritical sorts who enjoy reaping the benefits of what the more mainstream Democrat party and our country has to offer while at the same time relishing in destroying the once honorable party of JFK from within.

So while some still believe that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's endorsement will at least bring enough “energy” into Bernie's campaign to see him make it to the primaries, the fact remains that AOC may do little to nothing to bring much needed minority votes...especially black votes...over to Bernie. And besides, Bernie Sanders campaign is already faltering what with major polls now showing “Pocahontas” Warren kicking him out of second place and even overtaking “Uncle Joe” in a few of those polls. Bye-bye Bernie, it's time to accept your moniker as “socialism's grandfather” and just fade away for you will never be president nor will America ever become a socialist nation...President Trump will surely see to that.

And then there's Utah's now junior Senator Mitt Romney, the man I supported for president back in 2012 who has now sadly morphed into the ghost of John McCain. So filled with hate for President Trump this once honorable man has made taking down Trump his 24/7 agenda, basically picking up where McCain left off. But don't think that doesn't come with consequences because it does.

But before I get into those consequences let's take a brief look at the latest in the ongoing Romney/Trump feud...a feud that started on the day Mitt Romney lost to Obama and Donald Trump...whose support he had garnered... publicly stated that Romney was not strong or assertive enough during the campaign...which was one hundred percent correct. Making amends of sorts when now President Trump considered Romney for his Secretary of State, things got even more unsettling when Rex Tillerson was chosen instead.

And so the tensions kept building and reached a culmination of sorts when on January 1, 2019, newly elected Utah Senator Mitt Romney arrived in Washington D.C. with a vehemently anti-Trump op-ed in hand. Printed in The Washington Post and titled, The President Shapes the Public Character of the Nation. Trump’s Character Falls Short, this op-ed was nothing but a hit piece against the man who won the office Romney coveted but could never attain with its bottom line for Romney being that Trump “has not risen to the mantle of the office.” But what makes this even more grievous is that Mitt Romney sought and accepting President Trump's endorsement during his Senate campaign.

And from this point on now Senator Mitt Romney has continued to channel his inner John McCain by painting himself as a true conservative...as McCain tried to do and failed...with Trump being the founder of what Romney calls “Trumpism.” But the fact is that half the nation voted for Trump because of his conservative values, especially on key moral issues, as well as for his known business savvy. Translation: All of Mitt Romney's venom spewed has allowed him to pick-up where John McCain left off, thus affording him the designation of RINO as well, and that comes replete with a healthy dose of Jeff Flake's animosity thrown in for good, or should I say bad measure.

Now fast forward to this past October 5th when Mitt Romney called President Trump's supposed appeals to Ukraine and China to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter "wrong and appalling." The only thing “wrong and appalling” was Romney drawing this conclusion before the phone transcript of the call had even been released...before Ukraine President Zelensky himself said nothing improper had taken place...as in no appeal was made. And President Trump's response came via a tweet in which he called Romney “a pompous ass who has been fighting me from the beginning" adding that Romney could have won the 2012 election if he "worked this hard on Obama."

How right President Trump is as shades of Hillary Clinton sees Mitt Romney also blaming everybody but himself for his loss as well as his seeking revenge for something solely of his own doing.

And dare we forget Mitt Romney's recently taking to the Senate floor after President Trump announced our troop withdrawal from northern Syria to call Trump's supposed abandonment of the Kurds “a bloodstain in the annals of American history.” Nothing like Romney's spouting off without knowing all the facts to add to an already overheated political impeachment fire. 
 

And yet no matter how Trump counters Mitt Romney's accusations, Romney's now over inflated ego and quest for revenge unfortunately sees him remaining steadfast in his threats to see President Trump removed from office. And this can be witnessed by his recent interviews with Axios where he alluded to musings that he might head up what he now calls a “breakaway group of Republican senators” in turning against Trump if he does happen to get impeached in the House. But Mitt Romney can bloviate all he wants as he needs a minimum of twenty Republican senators to pull that off and those numbers are thankfully just not there.

Now as for the consequences of his actions, Mitt Romney has both personal and political egg on his face for it was recently discovered that Romney has a secret Twitter account where he uses the moniker “Pierre Delecto,” and has had said account for eight years, ever since his presidential run against Obama. But even though he only used said account 10 times since 2011...used it to either offer “mild criticism” of President Trump while tweeting “polite defenses” of himself...what's troubling about this is that now Senator Mitt Romney...a man so vocal against President Trump in Congress and while playing to the cameras...did not have the courage to stand by his online convictions needing instead a phony virtual identity by which to do his dirty work. Makes one wonder about the true character of the man who dares to question President Trump's moral fortitude.

And then there's this political consequence few politicians want to see, as in falling poll numbers. In fact, as I write this, Mitt Romney actually has a lower approval rating than a disapproval rating, and it's all because of his very public sour grapes feud with President Trump. The man who in 2018 was elected as Utah's next senator with 62% of the vote now sees himself, as per a Utah Policy and Y2 Analytics survey, with only 46% of Utahans approving of his time on the Hill with 51% disapproving, and with those numbers more than likely continuing to fall.

Not good for the man who not that long ago aspired to our nation's highest office, but like they say “you reap what you sow.” And for Mitt Romney, just like with Hillary Clinton, and like it should have been for John McCain, it would have better served them to let their animosity against President Trump go.

News stories buried by the media now come to light as there's more going on than impeachment and Syria...just wanted you to know.

Copyright @ 2019 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved. 

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Op-ed: 
Buying Votes...Bernie Sanders Style 
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

"We are gonna end that and create a Medicare for All healthcare system which guarantees health care to every man, woman, and child and saves the average American substantial sums of money.”                                                - Presidential contender Sen. Bernie Sanders

He's socialism's “Grandpa” for this generation of young liberal malcontents and “bat-shit crazy” to boot. There's no other way to describe Democratic presidential candidate Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the man who recently said he would “absolutely” give taxpayer-funded health care benefits to illegals, and that he would get Wall Street to pay off all student loan debts.

Thankfully, Bernie Sanders has no chance of becoming president...at least we hope not... no matter that come 2020 the dead and the illegals will be out en-mass to cast their much needed Democrat votes.

Seriously though, let's look at a page torn right out of the newest incarnation of the Democrat-Socialist handbook... the very handbook that dictates promise your audience the impossible as long as it gets you their votes. And in last week's promising “Medicare for All”...otherwise known as “universal health care”...at Miami's 'National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Candidates Forum', what Bernie did was try to “buy” as much of the the Latino vote as he could in light of President Trump's newest call for the deportation of primarily Mexican and Central Americans living in our country illegally... actually criminals all.

And when directly asked by the forum moderator whether or not he would include the “11 million undocumented immigrants” in his “Medicare for All” proposal, “Grandpa” Bernie... the man who guarantees health care to every man, woman, and child living in our country...had to admit that government-run health care indeed comes with flaws. And yet he emphatically stated, “Absolutely. When I talk about health care being a human right, last time I heard that undocumented people are human beings as well.”

Well...illegals might indeed be “human beings” Bernie, but you know as well as I do that both you, your party, and the illegals themselves are hell bent on bankrupting our country in the name of socialism and “free stuff”... “free stuff” that is anything but free. Ignoring the fact that not only would “Medicare for All” do away with all private health insurance by its transferring all private plans to a government-run single-payer plan...a plan he claims would do away with premiums, co-pays, and deductibles...it would also put illegals in the exact same health care pool that we law-abiding American citizens would be in. 
 

So much for putting America and Americans first, huh Bernie.

And while some of Bernie's fellow Democrat presidential hopefuls are not on board with his doing away with all private insurance plans...front-runner Joe Biden amongst them is saying that while the U.S. should most assuredly provide complete health care for people “regardless of whether they are documented or undocumented,” he still would rather add a “public option” into the health care system that would compete with private plans. But know that Biden and the others are not against “Medicare for All” for altruistic reasons, but because it could cost them the votes of those in the Democrat masses who are happy with their private insurance plans. 
 
So this leaves Bernie to continue pushing forward his “one size fits all” Medicare agenda especially to the snowflake kind who want any and everything for free. And to the bleeding heart liberals who cry phony crocodile tears that millions either have no insurance or simply cannot afford insurance deductibles and co-payments, Bernie is selling the nonsense that a single-payer government run insurance program would cover more services than traditional Medicare while at the same time eliminating most out-of-pocket costs. But what the bleeding hearts forget is that when the federal government gets involved in anything costs actually increase not decrease, and that our taxes do go up dramatically.

   

And something truly important that Bernie doesn't want folks to know is exactly how much the nightmare of “Medicare for All” would cost. So here is that very number as per a 2018 Mercatus Center study...the cost to nationalize the health care industry they estimate to be around $32.6 trillion over 10 years. And that staggering number is just the jump off point as said estimate does not include the implementation costs of actually putting the illegals on our taxpayer dime what with apprehension numbers going up by the day.

So while Bernie claims that insurance and major drug companies are starting to “spend tens and tens of millions of dollars to fight against 'Medicare for All'”...I say they know a disaster when they see one. And what's being ignored by Bernie and crew is the very fact that “Medicare for All” is truly unfair to we hard working American citizens who have paid into the Medicare system the entirety of our working lives...we get screwed as the illegals get any and everything they truly don't deserve.
 
“Today, we are entering a proposal which will allow every person in this country to get all of the education that they need to live out their dreams,” or so says Bernie Sanders,

And with those words, socialism's “Grandpa” reiterated his wanting to do away with all current student loan debt. Can it be anymore obvious that he's trying to “buy” the millennial vote...I mean really Bernie, even a blind man can see that.

So what exactly is Bernie proposing that's got millennials drooling over his vote buying shopping list that caters especially to them? To start with how about that all the student loan debts of nearly 45 million graduates (totaling roughly $1.6 trillion) would simply go away, and that tuition and fees for undergraduate students at public four-year colleges and universities as well as at community colleges would now be free...all while Bernie hushes up the fact that it would cost about $75 billion annually to do so.

Also not being said is that the federal government will only fund two-thirds of said cost thus leaving the states to bear the remaining costs. But of course Bernie has an answer for that, whether it be a realistic answer or not, as in that while the amount of federal money exceeds what states take in with undergraduate tuition, the states really shouldn’t have to worry about a shortfall as a result of his program...yeah right...ever so sarcastically said.

And if that's not enough how about Bernie's list including the capping of student loan interest rates, expanding Pell grants, cancelling tuition for both trade schools and apprenticeship programs, as well as giving more funding to “historically” black universities, tribal colleges, and other minority institutions. In other words, Bernie Sanders wants to bring back what was the racist nightmare known as 'Affirmative Action,' just without calling it that.

And Bernie added to this list that those colleges and universities seeking federal higher education aid must enter into an annual agreement with the Education Department that would include a number of stipulations...stipulations like a prohibition on raising tuition for out-of-state students, requiring the maintaining of high educational standards, reducing the number of low-paid adjunct faculty, and doing so while maintaining state funding for need-based financial aid.

So I guess under Bernie's plan we'd see a lot of colleges and universities going broke and having to close their doors for what he's proposing is akin to blackmail of sorts.

So how does Bernie intend to pay for the what would be an estimated $2.2 trillion price tag for his millennial vote buying shopping list...a list he claims would be marked "paid-in-full" within but six months time? Well...of course by raising our taxes and also by imposing a “Wall Street Speculation Tax” on financial investment transactions... taxing the rich yet again by placing a he says small “levy” on every stock, bond, and derivative sold within the U.S. Designed specifically to discourage speculation within the market...as in it's not being aimed at “middle-class” investors who tend to leave their money in the market to grow over longer periods of time, but is instead aimed to curb short-term activity among high-frequency traders...as in cut back on computer-generated, high-speed trading...traders and trading by the rich who Bernie sees as having a “destabilizing effect” on the market. 
 
And Bernie unveiled this very nonsense last month before Congress in what he called the “Inclusive Prosperity Act”...a bill he co-sponsored with of all people America-hating muslima Ilhan Omar...a tax actually that would be used to punish "capital formation." How so...by seeing Wall Street trades taxed at a rate of 0.5 percent for stocks and 0.1 percent for bonds, meaning that a stock trade of $1,000 for example would thus see a cost of $5 being added to it. Seems like small potatoes right...it's not small potatoes when you add together all the hundreds of million of stock trades done daily.



But know this idea of placing a tax on financial transactions is not something Bernie Sanders thought up all by himself, because over the years similar versions of what Bernie is now proposing has already been proposed by economists John Maynard Keynes and James Tobin. In fact, there actually was such a tax in the U.S. until 1966, and such a tax exists in many countries even today.  

So while the 'Joint Committee on Taxation' (JCT) believes such a move would increase revenues by about $777 billion between now and 2028...which is still not enough to pay off the $2.2 trillion student loan price tag...JCT also reminds us that there are other serious downsides to such a Wall Street tax as Bernie is proposing, including the fact that it would “discourage activity that stabilizes asset and stock prices, reducing liquidity, and ultimately possibly even reducing household wealth and consumption.”

So how does Wall Street itself feel about the man who said, “In 2008, we bailed out Wall Street. Now it's time to tax Wall Street's greed to help the American people,” and how do they feel about his tax plan...simply they warn that such a move could make markets more volatile and that the costs would ultimately be borne by American taxpayers. And industry groups and experts say the cost of the “levy” would be shouldered by Main Street investors either directly as trading houses pass along the expense in higher fees and wider spreads, or indirectly through lower returns in mutual fund and pension accounts. 
 

“I don’t often use the phrase, but today we are, in fact, offering a revolutionary proposal. Today, we are entering a proposal which will allow every person in this country to get all of the education that they need to live out their dreams,” So says Bernie Sanders who longs to see socialism's mantra coming to life yet again...as in screw the wealthy until you run out of their money and then go after the monies of the middle class. An idea doomed to fail but an idea that Bernie still hopes will take the America we all know down. 

”Grandpa” Bernie and his fellow Democrat-Socialists must be so very proud.

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