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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nader/Gore/Bush = Sanders/Clinton/Rubio.

Or sanders drops out but had pulled Clinton so far left before the general that she can't win.  
I'm becoming so hopeless I am now wondering if the best possible outcome is trump getting the R nom and then Bloomberg jumping in.  I could live with him.  At least he probably wouldn't ruin the country. [/quote]

Don't be afraid of Sanders.  What's so scary about him?  Do you like his positions?  Do you think he's advocating for a kinder, smarter, fair-er America that invests in its families, children, young people?  Are you afraid of your taxes going up?  What exactly is it that is so scary about Sanders' campaign?[/quote]

His plans for implanting his policies are simplistic  and well cost way more than he has acknowledged.  While affordable college is a worthy goal free college for all is not.  Single payer healthcare in the US will be a disaster.  I could go on.  For example, widely expanding social security is not feasibl

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Looks like you aren't listening carefully.  Sanders is advocating free PUBLIC college as a right.  Private colleges will not be free, and it's not clear how much a Sanders administration would push for legislation that provides grants to cover the expenses of room and board.

Expanding social security benefits can simply be done by asking every one to pay the same percentage of their income into social security.  My wife and I stop contributing to Social Security in April and we are not alone, in making an HHI over $118K!

A phased in public option (Medicare for all who want it) will certainly cause a lot of pain to private health insurance providers, but a lot of money will be free'd up to do more productive things such as research into disease and cancer prevention.  Sanders is correct that we can learn from other countries' successes and do better than the status quo.[/quote]
When Nixon signed the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 to pay back his campaign financier Edgar Kaiser, he made healthcare or, lack of providing healthcare, big business. It has ugly incentives provided by a rigged, and now federally backed scam system, in which giving care is punished, while denying it is rewarded.

We also spend over $60 Billion a year in excess administrative costs for by marketing and underwriting – costs that don’t exist in single-payer systems.[/quote]

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