Here's the Republican front runner...

[The Prowler]

Mussolini did a great job running Italy.  He was a socialist. 







Why Socialism doesn't work:

Socialism is the Big Lie of the twentieth century. While it promised prosperity, equality, and security, it delivered poverty, misery, and tyranny. Equality was achieved only in the sense that everyone was equal in his or her misery.

In the same way that a Ponzi scheme or chain letter initially succeeds but eventually collapses, socialism may show early signs of success. But any accomplishments quickly fade as the fundamental deficiencies of central planning emerge. It is the initial illusion of success that gives government intervention its pernicious, seductive appeal. In the long run, socialism has always proven to be a formula for tyranny and misery.

Why socialism doesn't work:
Under socialism, incentives either play a minimal role or are ignored totally. A centrally planned economy without market prices or profits, where property is owned by the state, is a system without an effective incentive mechanism to direct economic activity. By failing to emphasize incentives, socialism is a theory inconsistent with human nature and is therefore doomed to fail.

Why socialism doesn't work:

Socialism is particularly dangerous because it's so perfectly suited for the modern era. It's the ultimate "miracle" product: it's "nice," it's "fair," it'll make you feel good about yourself, it'll "help" people who "deserve it" by taking things away from people who "have so much" they'll barely miss it. It sounds wonderful, doesn't it? But, like most products with sleazy salesmen and hidden track records, the promises socialism makes are all a mirage.

1) It kills economic growth: Strong economic growth is what produces jobs, tax revenue and a better standard of living for everyone, including the poor and middle class. Socialism strangles economic growth in the crib by penalizing success and rewarding failure. When you loot the successful people in a society to give it to the less successful, you quite naturally reduce the number of successful people and encourage more people to fail. This leads to a never-ending cycle.

2) It stifles free speech: Why is there ridiculous government propaganda in nations like North Korea? Why are most schools, papers, and colleges run by liberals in the United States? Why do liberals often try to disrupt conservative speakers on college campuses? Why are there such extreme speech codes in Canada that it practically makes some conservative arguments illegal? Why does speaking out against the government risk imprisonment in China and the old Soviet Union? Because socialism requires protection, propaganda, intimidation, and darkness to survive. Socialism can't survive honest, informed debate about its merits among people who are free to choose or reject it because it would not survive the conversation.

3) It leads to an increasingly tyrannical government: Freedom and socialism go together like oil and water. The more socialism you have, the less freedom you will have because socialism can't survive if people are free to choose whether they want socialism or not.

4) It creates strife and division: Socialism is all about turning people against each other. It has to be. After all, if you believe in controlling people's lives, the people who don't wish to be controlled need to be vilified. If you believe in confiscating the wealth of successful people who won't give it up willingly, then others must be convinced they're terrible human beings who deserve to be punished. "Victim" classes must be created for the socialists to defend because if everyone is responsible for himself, what need is there for the socialist?

5) Socialists believe the ends justify the means: Like the pigs in Orwell's Animal Farm, socialists believe that, "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." For a socialist, the overriding concern is always promoting socialism; so process, rules and regulation mean different things for different people.

Bernie is a dangerous dumbass with no understanding of human nature or history.

Oh look, yellow journalism is still alive and well.

Keep spouting garbage that you have zero clues about Kaos, it's what you're good at.

[The Prowler]

Have any of you read up on Bernie's life. He's a proverbial loser. The only thing he's ever done is convince people he's a capable politician.

Just like most dims, he is a failure in the real world.

Just like the other morons here...have you actually read up on Bernie Sanders' life or are you just spouting garbage that you've heard on the radio or seen from the intelligent FoxNews people?

(A website with links to back up their statements, you know...factual information regardless if it's a pro-whatever site)
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/02/19/heres-a-long-list-of-bernie-sanders-accomplishments-with-citations/

#RubioisGay
#CruzIsSociopathWithAGodComplex
#TrumpisAFascist
#CarsonisStillAsleep
#MicDrop
#KnowledgeBomb
#FeelTheBern

[Kaos]

Oh look, yellow journalism is still alive and well.

Keep spouting garbage that you have zero clues about Kaos, it's what you're good at.

You're right.  Starting and owning five businesses, buying one and selling two gives me no insight into motivating employees or making the economy work. 

That isn't yellow journalism.  It's well thought out and perfectly reasoned arguments for why socialism has always failed and will always fail. 

[Pell City Tiger]

blah blah blah ...have you actually read up on Bernie Sanders' life ..... blah blah blah

I have. He was a no load bum who evolved into a deadbeat communist. He rode the deadbeat angle to convince young idiotic mush brains in Burlington that he was their answer to those "mean old go getters who go out and do stuff." These societal pissants elected him mayor.

He convinced more of Vermont's dimest bulbs to vote him into the senate where he has spent the past 25 years doing nothing but suckling at the government teat.

Now, he is taking his "mooch off the doers" tour nationwide where he is in a dead heat with a known - and soon to be convicted - felon , liar, and turd magnet in Hillary Clinton.

I think that just about covers it.

[Snaggletiger]

I have. He was a no load bum who evolved into a deadbeat communist. He rode the deadbeat angle to convince young idiotic mush brains in Burlington that he was their answer to those "mean old go getters who go out and do stuff." These societal pissants elected him mayor.

He convinced more of Vermont's dimest bulbs to vote him into the senate where he has spent the past 25 years doing nothing but suckling at the government teat.

Now, he is taking his "mooch off the doers" tour nationwide where he is in a dead heat with a known - and soon to be convicted - felon , liar, and turd magnet in Hillary Clinton.

I think that just about covers it.

So, I'm getting the sense that you're ruling out Bernie Sanders from consideration?

[Pell City Tiger]

So, I'm getting the sense that you're ruling out Bernie Sanders from consideration?

I cannot vote for anyone who reminds me of the aardvark from the Ant and the Aardvark cartoon every time he speaks. It's so bad that I heard Jackie Mason's voice reading this response as I typed it out.

[Snaggletiger]

I cannot vote for anyone who reminds me of the aardvark from the Ant and the Aardvark cartoon every time he speaks. It's so bad that I heard Jackie Mason's voice reading this response as I typed it out.

[Pell City Tiger]

That's him!

"Hey ant! I just stopped by to invite you to dinnah ..... MY dinnah! (vacuum cleaner sound)"

That's when cartoons were funny, man!

[Snaggletiger]

That's him!

"Hey ant! I just stopped by to invite you to dinnah ..... MY dinnah! (vacuum cleaner sound)"

That's when cartoons were funny, man!

John Byner did the voices for both the ant and the aardvark.  He was impersonating...as you pointed out...Jackie Mason and Dean Martin.

[Pell City Tiger]

John Byner did the voices for both the ant and the aardvark.  He was impersonating...as you pointed out...Jackie Mason and Dean Martin.

You are correct, sir! Mea culpa!

(P.S. I still hate Heinz ketchup and I'm not voting for Bernie.)

[The Prowler]

I have. He was a no load bum who evolved into a deadbeat communist. He rode the deadbeat angle to convince young idiotic mush brains in Burlington that he was their answer to those "mean old go getters who go out and do stuff." These societal pissants elected him mayor.

He convinced more of Vermont's dimest bulbs to vote him into the senate where he has spent the past 25 years doing nothing but suckling at the government teat.

Now, he is taking his "mooch off the doers" tour nationwide where he is in a dead heat with a known - and soon to be convicted - felon , liar, and turd magnet in Hillary Clinton.

I think that just about covers it.

When you say that you have read up on him, then follow that up with him not doing anything in the Senate, tells me that you didn't actually read up on him. You should probably do some homework on him before posting...just saying.

[Kaos]

When you say that you have read up on him, then follow that up with him not doing anything in the Senate, tells me that you didn't actually read up on him. You should probably do some homework on him before posting...just saying.

Dude.  I have to assume at this point that you are just trolling. 

Socialism is a failed concept.  I know you know that. 
Bernie Sanders is a whackadoodle. You have to know that too.


So joke's  over.  It's played out. Haha. We thought you were serious there for a while.  Haha. You got us.

[Token]

Dude.  I have to assume at this point that you are just trolling. 

Socialism is a failed concept.  I know you know that. 
Bernie Sanders is a whackadoodle. You have to know that too.


So joke's  over.  It's played out. Haha. We thought you were serious there for a while.  Haha. You got us.

Either that or dude is about to get a huge tax break.

[Token]

[Pell City Tiger]

When you say that you have read up on him, then follow that up with him not doing anything in the Senate, tells me that you didn't actually read up on him. You should probably do some homework on him before posting...just saying.

You're right - he did do one thing: he oversaw the greatest scandal in the history of the VA system.

Outside of that - nada.

[djsimp]

he oversaw the greatest scandal in the history of the VA system.

That alone baffles me why any person that served this country in any form or fashion would support Bernie.

[The Prowler]

You're right - he did do one thing: he oversaw the greatest scandal in the history of the VA system.

Outside of that - nada.

When exactly did he "oversee the greatest scandal in the history of the VA" was it before he was chairman of the VA (2013-2014)?
Was this before or after he spearheaded a bipartisan effort to pass the most comprehensive veterans’ legislation in decades? The Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act increases accountability within the VA and ensures that all veterans have access to timely health care.

The law written by Sanders strengthens the VA health care system by authorizing 27 new medical facilities and by providing $5 billion to hire more doctors and nurses to care for the surging number of veterans returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It provides incentives to attract young doctors to the VA. It makes it easier for some veterans to see private doctors or go to community health centers, Department of Defense facilities or Indian Health Centers. It expanded VA educational benefits and improved care for survivors of sexual trauma while serving in the military.

...or was it before he was praised by John McCain and Sen. Jack Reed for overhauling the Veterans Administration. Was said to have done such an excellent job of bringing all parties to a deal, that it wouldn’t have gotten done without Sanders’ work.

I'll repeat, I think some here should really do their homework.

I also think that a Socialist Country & a Capitalist economy aren't mutually exclusive and help make America great once again, that's just my opinion.

[Pell City Tiger]

Again, Simple Simon, read up on his REAL actions during this mess. As I stated before, Jeff Miller and others in the committee sprang into action over the objections and stonewalling of that piece of shit communist Bernie Sanders.

[jmar]

CNN exposed the widespread cover up while General Shinseki was Sec. of VA.
It's sad that an honorable highly decorated man had to step down but the abuses took place under his charge.

In reality: The abuses were systemic within the VA hierarchy and Bernie Sanders is in no way to blame.
Have yet to find a source to prove otherwise.

[bottomfeeder]

Washington, you have a problem. Every long read but sums up the present day establish.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=835576809885120&substory_index=0&id=437674196342052

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/02/05/ron-paul-warns-republicans-not-to-vote-for-ted-cruz/