March 8, 2020 - Liberty Hangout - Kaitlin Bennett
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| We interrupt our programming. | |
| This is a national emergency. | |
| Important details will follow. | |
| This protest. | |
| Inequality is immoral. | |
| It is mad economic. | |
| It is unfair. | |
| If I break the company, it's not what America is supposed to be about. | |
| This has got to change. | |
| And it's your president. | |
| Together, we are going to change it. | |
| The 2020 election is heating up, and the Democratic primary has narrowed down to just two candidates. | |
| Donald Trump will definitely have his work cut out for him this November as he goes up against either Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders. | |
| Clearly, some very stiff competition. | |
| But before we get cocky and assume Trump's going to win in a landslide, it's important to remember that the media said Hillary Clinton had a 98% chance of winning the 2016 election. | |
| I think most people do already have their votes decided, but a mere three million votes separated Trump and Clinton the last go around. | |
| And we need to make sure those people are making the right choice this November. | |
| That's why I've come up with a list of 10 reasons why you shouldn't vote for Bernie Sanders. | |
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| So as the election heats up, Bernie Sanders seems to have a much better chance of grabbing the Democratic nomination this year rather than in 2016. | |
| And that's seriously a terrifying prospect because that man should be nowhere near the White House. | |
| Between him and Biden, the differences aren't too far off, but between Bernie and Trump, they're night and day. | |
| Which is why I think it's so important to highlight why Bernie Sanders presidency is not in the interest of the average working American. | |
| Now I could discuss how Bernie has praised communist dictators, honeymoon and the Soviet Union, and has some pretty vile quotes over the last few decades, but since almost everyone is well aware of those already, I thought I'd hone in more specifically on Bernie as a politician and how his policies spell doom for this country. | |
| So here are my top 10 reasons why you should not vote for Bernie Sanders. | |
| Reason number one. | |
| Bernie Sanders is a career politician. | |
| What attracted so many voters to Donald Trump in 2016 is the fact that he was an outsider who wasn't part of the DC swamp. | |
| Bernie Sanders, on the other hand, began his political career nearly half a century ago in 1971, when he was just 30 years old. | |
| Bernie was a guy who was such a failure in the real world that he struggled to earn a real paycheck until the age of 40. | |
| And it was a government paycheck at that. | |
| According to a 2016 story from Investors.com, Sanders took his first bride to live in a maple sugar shack with a dirt floor, and she soon left him. | |
| Penniless, he went on unemployment. | |
| Then he had a child out of wedlock. | |
| Desperate, he tried carpentry but could barely sink a nail. | |
| He was a sht carpenter. | |
| A friend told political magazine. | |
| In fact, Bernie was so bad at fitting in as a functional member of society that he was kicked out of a hippie commune in 1971 for being lazy and refusing to work. | |
| Sounds a lot like some of his supporters today, doesn't it? | |
| Since Bernie was too lazy to get a real job, he decided to try his hand at politics and make it into a professional career. | |
| Knowing this, do you really trust a guy that's been mooching off the taxpayers for most of his life to have your interest in mind, or is he only thinking about himself? | |
| And that leads me into reason number two. | |
| Bernie Sanders has gotten super rich from politics. | |
| The guy who markets himself as a man of the people, even though he can't relate to working people since he's never worked, boasts of a 2.5 million dollar net worth, which is nearly twice as much money as the average American will earn in their entire lifetime. | |
| And he owns not one, not two, but three homes. | |
| After conning teenagers into making him a millionaire in 2016, Bernie immediately purchased a $575,000 lakefront vacation home. | |
| Even Democrats like Mike Bloomberg were calling him out on this. | |
| What a wonderful country we have. | |
| The best known socialists in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses. | |
| What did I miss here? | |
| And that's why Bernie went from criticizing millionaires in 2016 to criticizing just billionaires here in 2020, because he knows he'll be a hypocrite if he talks about people who own as much wealth as him. | |
| Bernie's net worth before the 2016 election was just $800,000, and he had up to $65,000 in credit card debt. | |
| All it took was one presidential election to turn Sanders into a millionaire and get him a new lakefront home. | |
| Surely his run this time isn't also a cash grab, right? | |
| Reason number three. | |
| Bernie Sanders is 78 years old and has ailing health. | |
| During his 2020 run, Bernie Sanders has already suffered a heart attack and had an episode where he fell out of the shower and cut his head open. | |
| Needless to say, Sanders is probably too old for the White House. | |
| Therefore, a vote for Bernie might really be a vote for whoever he chooses VP. | |
| Whether you like Bernie or not, there's no denying that this could be a serious issue for any candidate his age. | |
| Even the 73 year old Donald Trump will still be younger than Bernie Sanders is today if he finishes out a second term in office. | |
| Now that we've quickly covered why Bernie is a hypocrite and why he's not trustworthy, let's move more into his policies and why they'd be harmful for the country. | |
| Reason number four. | |
| As president, Bernie Sanders will bankrupt the country. | |
| I don't know if Bernie is just naive or if he genuinely wants to see America fail, but either way, his economic policies spell doom. | |
| There is nothing I can think of that Bernie doesn't want the government to be in charge of. | |
| He supports Medicare for All, which would cost $40 trillion. | |
| He supports the Green New Deal, which would cost $16.3 trillion. | |
| He wants to cancel student loan debt, which would cost $3 trillion. | |
| He wants to guarantee housing for all, which would cost $2.5 trillion. | |
| He supports universal childcare and preschool, which would cost $1.5 trillion, and he wants to expand Social Security by $1.8 trillion, spend $1.6 trillion on paid family leave, and spend $1 trillion on infrastructure. | |
| The scary thing is that most of these numbers are coming from his own campaign's website. | |
| So Bernie acknowledges how expensive his plan is. | |
| According to Brian Reidel, an economist from the Manhattan Institute, when you add it all up, Sanders' current plans would cost as much as 90 oh my gosh. | |
| 97.5 trillion dollars over the next decade. | |
| Oh my god. | |
| And that's in addition to the $60 trillion our government is projected to spend over the next 10 years anyway. | |
| For comparison, the GDP of the entire US is just around $19 trillion. | |
| And our country is already more than $23 trillion in debt. | |
| So yeah, we're kind of screwed if Bernie's elected president. | |
| This leads me to reason number five, not to vote for Bernie Sanders. | |
| He loves taxes. | |
| The money for Bernie's 97.5 trillion dollar plan isn't just going to grow off trees. | |
| He'll have to extort it from the American people. | |
| On his own website, the Sanders campaign proposes a capital gains tax and wants to increase estate taxes to 77%. | |
| He also wants to increase the top federal corporate income tax rate to $5%, which it used to be under the Obama administration, but was lowered to 21% once Trump took office. | |
| Since lowering the tax rate to 21%, we've seen record low unemployment rates and economic growth under the Trump administration. | |
| Bernie Sanders cares so much about poor people that apparently he wants to put them back on the unemployment line. | |
| In a 2015 interview with CNBC, Sanders even floated around the idea of a 90% tax rate. | |
| When asked if he thinks that's too high, he said no. | |
| When you think about 90%, you don't think that's obviously too high. | |
| No. | |
| Not only did Sanders float around the idea of a 90% tax rate, but billionaires could be taxed as high as 97.5% under a Sanders presidency, which is three times higher than what even Joe Biden wants to tax them. | |
| I don't care how rich you are. | |
| Imagine only getting to keep 2.5% of the money you earn. | |
| If that isn't theft, then I don't know what is. | |
| And if you think that taxing people who give other people jobs is going to benefit the poor, then I got some more bad news for you. | |
| Reason number six. | |
| Not even the poor people that Bernie claims his policies will help want him to be president. | |
| NPR recently took a closer look at how Democrats are voting in the Primary and found some pretty telling results. | |
| They discovered that amongst Democrats of high unemployment, 43% support Joe Biden, while only 26% support Bernie Sanders. | |
| They also found out that 50% of Democrats with a median household income below 42,000 support Joe Biden, while only 21% support Bernie. | |
| Meanwhile, 30% of the slightly richer families, which make more than 58.4,000 support Bernie, compared to 33% support for Biden. | |
| One more interesting detail was that nearly half of voters in counties with the lowest education levels choose Biden. | |
| He beat Sanders by 27% points in those counties. | |
| Pretty telling that those who Bernie's policies are intended to help don't even want him to be their president. | |
| So if they don't support these tax programs, why should we? | |
| I think it's especially interesting that those without a college degree don't support the guy that wants to give everyone free college. | |
| Which brings me to reason number seven. | |
| Bernie's free college for all plan is not free. | |
| Who would have guessed? | |
| Bernie's fan base seems to be mostly amongst college students that are upset that they have to pay to attend a university. | |
| What his supporters fail to realize is that calling something free doesn't actually make it free. | |
| In fact, it will cost an estimated 47 billion dollars per year and will force each American to pay an additional 20,000 in taxes. | |
| And that's not even including the 3 trillion Bernie wants to spend to cancel out student loan debt. | |
| So not only will you still have to pay for your own college, but you'll have to pay for everybody else's as well. | |
| Sounds like Bernie isn't being honest with his middle class supporters about how his policies will actually harm them. | |
| And speaking of Bernie not being honest with his supporters, that leads me to reason number eight. | |
| Bernie Sanders is not anti-war like he and his supporters claim. | |
| In fact, he has a history of being very pro-war. | |
| In the 1990s, Bernie should have just called himself George Bush because he supported virtually every single conflict that the United States intervened in. | |
| Bernie supported the war on Serbia, the Kosovo war, and voted for the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998. | |
| He supported ousting Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and voted for the 2001 authorization unilateral military force against terrorists, which let President Bush wage war anywhere he wanted. | |
| In 2017, Sanders supported regime change in Syria, calling for the removal of Bashar al-Assad and then condemned President Trump for withdrawing troops from Syria in late 2019, arguing that we shouldn't be abandoning our Kurdish allies. | |
| In fact, Bernie has such a history of being pro-war that his office was stormed by anti-war protesters in 1999. | |
| And Sanders had 15 of those activists arrested for trespassing. | |
| I thought he didn't believe in prisons. | |
| It's very ironic that Bernie would be such a warmonger considering reason number nine. | |
| Bernie Sanders wants to let violent criminals vote, including convicted terrorists. | |
| When asked in a CNN town hall last summer if terrorists and sex offenders should be allowed to vote from prison, Sanders said, Yes, even for terrible people, because once you stop chipping away and you say, Whoa, that guy committed a terrible crime, not going to let him vote. | |
| Well, that person did that, not going to let that person vote. | |
| You're running down a slippery slope. | |
| He continued. | |
| So I believe people commit crimes and they pay the price and they have the right to vote. | |
| I believe even if they're in jail, they're paying the price to society, but that should not take away the inherent American right to participate in all democracy. | |
| Keep in mind that in a democracy, your vote counts as much as the next guy. | |
| So if Sanders were to get his way, you would have as much of a say in the election process as a literal terrorist. | |
| That right there goes to show how much Bernie cares about this country, which leads me into my 10th and final reason not to vote for Bernie Sanders. | |
| His radical agenda would destroy America as we know it. | |
| The United States has been able to recover from the failures of past presidents, but Bernie Sanders would transform the country in such a way that our entire economy, our culture, and the system of government would be ruined. | |
| According to economist Brian Riedel, approximately half of the American workforce would be employed by the government under a Sanders presidency. | |
| He continues, current government employment at all levels is just under 23 million. | |
| The job guarantee would likely attract 45 million new participants. | |
| More than 16 million private healthcare employees would essentially become government employees. | |
| That's 85 million total government employees out Of a 170 million person American workforce. | |
| Yikes! | |
| Can you imagine if half the country was run by the post office or the Department of Motor Vehicle? | |
| Can you imagine if the people who can't even fill in potholes were in complete charge of your health care, your infrastructure, and your education? | |
| This is why socialism has and always will result in red lines and mass graves. | |
| The government is vastly inefficient and has zero incentive to provide you with a quality product. | |
| Private companies have to fight for your money and produce something you actually want in order to get you to voluntarily give them your money. | |
| But the government just has to pass a bill and they can forcibly take anything from you that they want. | |
| A lot of Americans already feel like their taxes are way too high right now, even after the Trump tax cuts. | |
| Can you imagine how much worse it would be if Bernie Sanders became president? | |
| I could probably go on for hours about why you shouldn't vote for Bernie Sanders. | |
| But these are my top 10 most immediate reasons that I hope you can share with anybody you know that is thinking about casting a vote for him. | |
| Simply saying that Bernie Sanders is a communist might not be enough to sway someone's vote. | |
| But showing them how his disastrous plans will bankrupt the country, transform our culture, and eradicate any semblance of capitalism that we have left will show people how Bernie will actually turn us into a real life communist nation. | |
| Over the years, conservatives have called everyone from Barack Obama to Nancy Pelosi a communist. | |
| But this guy actually is one. | |
| And if elected, it's not hard to see why he would turn the United States of America into a carbon copy of the Soviet Union. | |
| I believe it's important for every American to be informed of the facts and understand why this man is so dangerous to our republic and why we should choose someone else this November. | |
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