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Hypocrite Bernie Sanders changes his tune on millionaires and billionaires after the media...

wordpress ^ | April 10, 2019 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

Posted on by grundle

Hypocrite Bernie Sanders changes his tune on “millionaires and billionaires” after the media reports that he is one of them

I want to start out by saying that I think it’s absolutely wonderful that Bernie Sanders became a millionaire by selling books to customers who wanted to buy them.

I have no problem with the fact that Sanders is a millionaire.

What I do have a problem with is his hypocrisy.

On many, many occasions, Sanders has criticized “millionaires and billionaires.”

This is a link to a video on C-SPAN’s website, which shows Sanders making such a statement. Here are his exact words: (skip to 0:33)

“There is something profoundly wrong, when in recent years, we have seen a proliferation of millionaires and billionaires, at the same time as millions of Americans are working longer hours for lower wages, and we have shamefully the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country.”

However, now that the media has reported that Sanders himself is a millionaire, he is saying something very different. The New York Times just quoted Sanders as saying:

“I wrote a best-selling book… If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too.”

I agree 100% with Sanders’ statement.

If I can just add three more zeros to my own book sales figures, I, too, will become a millionaire.

Sanders’ association of the existence of “millionaires and billionaires” to the fact that there are children living in poverty is not accurate. According to the book The Millionaire Next Door, 80% of U.S. millionaires are first generation rich. They earned that money legally and honestly, by providing labor, goods, and services that people were willing to pay for. That makes everyone better off. It does not cause anyone to live in poverty.

The real reason there are so many children living in poverty in the U.S. has nothing to do with the fact that there are “millionaires and billionaires.” Instead, the high rate of childhood poverty can be attributed almost entirely to the irresponsible behavior of their parents.

Lets consider two groups of people in the U.S. The first group has a poverty rate of 2%. The second group has a poverty rate of 76%.

The first group consists of people who followed all three of these steps:

1) Finish high school.

2) Get a full-time job.

3) Wait until age 21 and get married before having children.

The second group consists of people who followed zero of those three steps.

Among people who follow all three of these steps, the poverty rate is 2%.

Among people who follow zero of these steps, the poverty rate is 76%.

(My source for that information is this article, which refers to this PDF, and the relevant data is on page 15 of the PDF. The study uses data from the U.S. Census Bureau.)

Wikipedia has published the following chart, which shows the massive increase in the rate of out-of-wedlock births that has taken place in the U.S. since the 1960s. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nonmarital_Birth_Rates_in_the_United_States,_1940-2014.png

According to that chart, since 1960, the percentage of babies born out-of-wedlock in the U.S. has skyrocketed from 5% to 40%.

In the 1960s, the Democrats launched their “War on Poverty,” whereby the government started paying women to have babies out-of-wedlock.

And as anyone who understands economics will tell you, whatever you subsidize, you get more of.

In this video, a happily married woman explains how a government social worker told her that she should get divorced in order to collect more benefits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG6JqmdIubA

The liberals who complain about childhood poverty almost never blame it on the high out-of-wedlock birth rate.

Time and time and time and time again, the media publishes articles about childhood poverty, without even mentioning the fathers of these children.



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To: grundle

Sanders is just a typical garden-variety Communist and ideologue who thinks that the purity of his ideology trumps any lies or hypocrisy he gets caught in along the way.



To: grundle

“I think its absolutely wonderful that Bernie Sanders became a millionaire by blah blah blah” I dont. i dont think Socialists should parasite off our Capitalist Economy while plotting its destruction without challenge, nay without OUTRIGHT CONDEMNATION FROM BOTH SIDES.



To: grundle

So Bernie is a millionaire. Great news! Because I’m assuming that Bernie will distribute all of his wealth to poorer people, as socialism demands. My only question: How do I sign up to get a chunk of Bernie’s cash?



by 4 posted onby Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)

To: Leaning Right

I’m quite unclear about The Burn hasn’t just sent it all in to the Deep State to spend.



To: Leaning Right

I’m quite unclear about why The Burn hasn’t just sent it all in to the Deep State to spend.



To: grundle

Trump should, hencforth, refer to Sanders ONLY with the words “The Hypocrite.



by 7 posted onby TalBlack (Damn right I'll "do something" you fat, balding son of a bitch!)

To: PGR88

Wish he would campaign at Harry Reids house.



by 8 posted onby redshawk (0pansy is a Liar and Hates.........he just hates!)

To: grundle

Surely Bern defensively cited the money he sends to those in need? I didn’t catch the figure.



by 9 posted onby TalBlack (Damn right I'll "do something" you fat, balding son of a bitch!)

To: grundle

Is Bernie still releasing ten years of his taxes ? LOL



To: grundle

How much of his “best seller” book sales was bulk purchases?



by 11 posted onby BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)

To: grundle

Bernie ought to promise three houses and a million dollars to all his supporters



To: grundle

So, Joe Biden has been exposed as a creepy guy who touches women and children inappropriately — now considered a virtual hanging offense among the many Democratic harpies of the #MeToo movement. And now Bernie Sanders has been exposed as the worst possible evil according to the Democratic Left — a millionaire. Eventually, Kamala Harris will be exposed as ineligible to be president or vice-president since she’s not a natural-born American citizen. So who does that leave? Beto? Spartacus? The homosexual Mayor of Indianapolis? Or what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards the Democratic Convention in Milwaukee to be nominated?



To: grundle

Bernie the Bolshevik Bum needs to start re-distributing his wealth immediately!



To: grundle

I wrote a best-selling book If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too... What a PHONY I thought socialists shared.



by 15 posted onby dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)

To: humbleexpert

This scenario is exactly what her thighness is wishing for. Riding to the rescue of the Democrats.



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