If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. No doubt, the economy needs some fine tuning (increase the minimum wage, investment in the infrastructure, Obama care should be made more affordable), but definitely not some kind of socialist revolution.
Let me briefly explain what scares me:
1. For the last three years the US has top the foreign direct investment confidence index (FDI), in 2015 the US received $384 billion FDI, and with that investment almost 800,000 jobs were created. For the last five years the US has attracted $220 billion FDI annually. But guess what, if Trump of Bernie is elected then the FDI can take a nosedive (
Source).
2. According to the Wall Street journal, Bernie Sanders proposals could cost $18 trillion. Nationalizing the US health industry will cost $15 trillion. Social Security will cost another $1.2 trillion. Our national debt is $19 trillion, can we afford more dept, I don’t think so.
3. There is no way that Sanders can accomplish any of his proposals in the U.S. Congress, which is today dominated by Republican. Mr. Sanders say that if he is elected he will abolish Obama care and replace it with Medicare for all. When Pres. Obama’s health care bill was approved (affordable care act) the Democrat had a house majority 257-178 and almost 60 seats in the Senate, today the Republicans have the house majority 246-188 and are also majority in the Senate, 54 Republic, 44 Democrats and two independent. Anyone who understands how the US system works knows very well that it’s going to be a gridlock. In other words, nothing will be achieved, four years will be lost, can the US afford that, of course not.
4. In the early days in his campaigns and debates, Sanders always used to mention Denmark as a the socialist role model,
here is what Prime Minister of Denmark had to say:
While speaking at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the center-right Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said he was aware “that some people in the U.S.
associate the Nordic modelwith some sort of socialism.”
“Therefore,” he said, “I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy.” (
Source).
Of course, after the embarrassment, he does not mention the great socialist republic of Denmark anymore.
The bottom line is, big promises ($18 trillion cost), there is no way can pass through the U.S. Congress and no other rich country follows what Mr. Sanders is proposing.
Donald Trump wants to divide us with his anti-Muslim agenda and Bernie Sanders with class warfare, both are dividers. We need a president who’ll unite us, not divide us.
Mr. Bernie Sanders, just like Trump, is a chaos candidate and will be a chaos president.
Bty, I am supporting Hillary Clinton, but if Hillary loses and I have to choose between Sanders and Jeb Bush, John Kasich, or Marco Rubio, I’ll definitely vote for Republican.
