re: Thinking about voting for Bernie

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Thinking about voting for Bernie

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I am not.

You know Bernie is rich and part of the elite crowd also don’t you?

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You know Bernie is rich and part of the elite crowd also don’t you?

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Good point.

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How are the rich negatively impacting your life?

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They're not really negatively impacting my life, but I guess I am getting a little older and would like to see more support for those less fortunate, health care reform, etc.

The "why don't you get off your arse and work for something if you want it" attitude assumes a lot of things about the capacity of people in a cycle of generational poverty, and it seems outdated and unsuccessful to me.

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Would electing Bernie change anything?

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Yes

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Thanks for an opinion that makes some sense, but what side is it that I don't deserve to be on?

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If you weren't one to skip to the end of the book, you would be able to figure it out. There are words there, but I shouldn't expect a BernieBro to take the time to read them.

You should stop playing around on here and go pick up your wife's kids. She's got a big date tonight and you're supposed to watch them.

Just some random thoughts.

1 - When the FDA was considering lowering the amount of suggested sugar intake daily, food lobbyists absolutely threw a fit and influenced the FDA to pull back the suggestion.

2 - Hated the Obama's, but the one thing I liked about Michelle early on in his presidency was her enthusiasm about the health in school lunches. Again, lobbyists threatened to withhold funding and she stood down.

3 - The rich absolutely hoard more money than a person could probably ever spend and the economy is likely better when they spend money. They generally spend more on high margin items. But the resolution from the left is "we need to take it from them". The conservative approach should be finding ways to encourage them to spend money moreso than simply tax it out of them.

4 - I really hate the FDA. They are the reason that researchers have never been allowed to experiment with the medicinal side of hemp. They instead wanted push amphetamine pain killers.

5 - Farmers are allowed to pump all sorts of stuff into our foods with minimal labeling requirements and they're loose labeling requirements. It makes it damn near impossible to make educated decisions about buying food products.

I say all of that to say that I'm not opposed to bringing balance to the lobbyists. But no way in hell am I voting liberal at the expense of fricking up the economy and our foreign policy and undermining our military and our police officers.