Bernie: You already owe $35,000 for the last Iraq war!

[grahamhgreen]

WAR OR JOBS

The Bush administration’s war in Iraq will end up costing the United States some $3 trillion — all with deficit spending. Meanwhile, serious efforts to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and create millions of desperately-needed jobs keep running into Republican roadblocks. “In other words, for most Republicans in Congress it is okay to spend unlimited sums on a war we should never have gotten into but it’s wrong to rebuild our bridges, roads, rail and water systems, wastewater plants, dams, culverts and airports — and make our country more productive,” Bernie said.

[madokie]

1. I'd sure like to see Bernie and Elizabeth team up

That would be my dream team. Either one at the helm would be fine with me even though I'd really like to see a woman President in my lifetime. An Elizabeth Warren President in fact

[Enthusiast]

4. Me too.

They are the only good team.

[woo me with science]

2. Bernie is right on every major issue, and he is the only one speaking on most of them.

Thank you for your voice, Bernie, and please be very, very careful.

[NorthCarolina]

9. He speaks in contrast to the status quo. Not surprisingly, he is among the very few in DC

who are willing to turn their back on funding by the 1% by speaking out on such issues.

[MissDeeds]

11. +1

Bernie Sanders is the voice of reason on important issues. He acts based on what's best for the country and what's best for every day people, not the 1%. I hope with all my heart he runs for the presidency, and has Elizabeth Warren as his running mate.

[grahamhgreen]

16. +1

[Enthusiast]

3. Bernie's position is exactly that of a majority of American citizens.

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The idea that Bernie is too liberal, or Bernie is some kind of radical, is ridiculous. Bernie is THE CENTRIST.

[NorthCarolina]

10. Bernie IS mainstream America, but in a world dominated by push polls and controlled media,

his message is effectively drowned out by "noise".

[grahamhgreen]

15. Exactly why it will be so refreshing when he runs, our policy positions will be heard:)

[gratuitous]

5. Indeed - where are the deficit hawks on this?

When it's spending on the country, spending that benefits the people and through the multiplier effect boosts the economy, Republicans yammer and bleat about the deficit. "We can't afford" to rebuild roads and bridges, invest in education, or whatever. But when someone proposes another hundred billion or more for military action, the deficit hawks turn into clams.

No more elective invasions until we pay for the last two or three. And let's raise taxes on the wealthy folks who did so well by our investment in blood and bones.

[EEO]

6. If the policies of the George W. Bush era continue we will be a third world nation soon.

[maddiemom]

7. Bernie is always So Right. WTF are we doing, continuing to spend money

to interfere and make war in foreign nations while so much is falling apart at home? Rebuilding our sadly decaying infrastructure, thus providing countless jobs, is a no-brainer. The majority of Americans agree in polls (and I don't understand why this isn't closer to unanimous, but I know first hand, how "dumbing down," is occuring. A major reason is the current citizen's focus of just "hanging on." day to day). Cheney and his fellow discredited neocons are so behind the times and so insistent: when will we be able to ignore them and move on? Protecting the U.S. is so beyond having a huge military force. When will these dinosaurs who like to play with the lives of our kids (never their own) just go away?

[grahamhgreen]

13. They'll go away when it is no longer profitable to wage war.

[ManOpeace]

17. Tax it 100%

Insitute a "war tax" on all corporations that profit on wars. Since these corporations are so patriotic I'm sure they won't have a problem with it.

[grahamhgreen]

18. We'd stop having wars if there was a special tax levied on the wealthiest to pay for them:)

[maddiemom]

19. We could only hope. Flinging their own kids into combat/no exceptions would seem to be the obvious

solution, except---an eighteen year old has his/her own choices. Mitt Romney's sons may have been influenced by him, but made their own decisions. The majority of military age civilian kids enlisting have little other choice these days. There were often military recruiters at the high school where I used to teach. Options in today's society are limited,so this is presented as an option for further education. However, my brother, trained in "Avionics" in the Viet Nam era, found a whole 'nuther deal in education later. (He's OK and recently retired, but wasn't enabled career-wise, except from social smarts in his military "training." ) We've waged almost continual war in my lifetime, but the last necessary war did seem to be WWII, which ended about the same time I was born (while my dad was serving in action). I've probably never been as scared of the "Commies' growing up, due to being part of a" liberal/socialistic" family of half Scandinavian and half thoughtful liberal Democrats. Nobody was pushing for Socialist rule, and hated Communists, but political stances seemed more and more uninformed. Certainly we're at a critical point today, when desperately necessary Critical Thinking seems to be losing.

[Historic NY]

8. Adding in those rebate checks of 300 or 600 dollars....

tax cuts.

[JEB]

12. How come nobody else says this?

It is obvious common sense truth. He's got my vote for anything he wants to run for.

[Uncle Joe]

14. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, grahamhgreen.