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"Bernie Sanders Blows Wolf Blitzer Away With His Plan for Free College" (Original Post) berniepdx420 Feb 2016 OP
Somebody had to merrily Feb 2016 #1
Is Blitzer even phototrophic? He got owned on Jeopardy by a comedian Fumesucker Feb 2016 #2
Blitzer Goes Uses The Toxic Words - So You're Going To Raise Taxes...... global1 Feb 2016 #3
This is the first time I've heard a definition of "Wall Street speculation" nt firebrand80 Feb 2016 #4

merrily

(45,251 posts)
1. Somebody had to
Thu Feb 18, 2016, 05:16 AM
Feb 2016

(1) Blow Wolf Blitzer away

and

(2) realize that free tuition in state institutions is about as revolutionary as providing free high school was when that happened.

global1

(25,253 posts)
3. Blitzer Goes Uses The Toxic Words - So You're Going To Raise Taxes......
Thu Feb 18, 2016, 10:12 AM
Feb 2016

He is attempting to taint the minds of the 99%'ers - that it is their taxes that will go up.

When Bernie talks about a tax on Wall St speculation - he's talking about the millions upon millions of split second trades that go on in the market by the big Wall St. companies on an on-going basis. They are making money on very minute market changes every millisecond. These Wall St. companies have the jump on the common investor and this is another way that the system is rigged against the common folk.

If Wall St. insists on continuing this system - then they should pay for their corrupting the system. Maybe if they knew it was going to cost them money they would think twice about doing this - or at least cut back.

The average day trader sitting at home by his/her computer - watching the market and thinking that they have beat the system - is beaten themselves before they ever get to their keyboard.

Like Bernie says - the system is rigged. Wall St. and the stock market is that big casino in the sky - where fleecing is the modus operandi. We're all subject to the whims of Wall St. The market turns on rumor and innuendo and the common investor is at their mercy.

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