Forum Overview :: Balance of Power :: Re: Bernie's platform

[quote name="Fullofkittens"][quote name="blackwater"] The thing is, these policies have been tried before, and they failed. [/quote] <img src="http://content.screencast.com/users/CH_JingTesting/folders/Jing/media/60e2d158-0df9-4ed9-8ca3-52d25af5c787/2016-03-09_1932.png" /> Witness the disastrous prosperity of the mid-20th century United States of America. [quote]We raise a huge amount of taxes and we spend a huge amount of taxes, on an enormous military budget and a very large healthcare and pension system. The budget of all the other departments in the government is essentially a rounding error at this point. But nobody wants to talk about improving any of that, rich people are bad, mmmkay?[/quote] Sanders talks about all of that shit all the time. One of the main reasons he wants to move towards single-payer healthcare is that it's cheaper and has better outcomes. He's also - not that he has put it this way - not a neocon like Clinton with regard to foreign policy.[/quote]