Independent Senator Bernie Sanders is a socialist and a progressive liberal. Either way he has that thing where words mean what he says they do rather than what their actual definitions are. The word he wants to butcher today is freedom. According to him, Americans are not truly free unless they are crushed under the non-voluntary burden of socialism. You know, because freedom means the government telling you what to do and taking all of your money.
Here’s a real tweet from the socialist kook:
Are you truly free if you work 100 hours a week because you can’t find a job with a living wage? Are you free if you have no health care?
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) October 29, 2017
“Are you truly free if you work 100 hours a week because you can’t find a job with a living wage? Are you free if you have no health care?” sanders wrote.
You would be free if you worked 100 hours a week and the government didn’t take half of your earnings, but that ain’t the case. You would be free if you got to chose whether or not you had health care coverage, but that also isn’t how things work thanks to the democrats. You see, people have to pay a crazy amount of taxes to fund the freeloaders and the ACA forces them to buy health insurance with super-high premiums, also to pay for mooches and losers.
Looking at this another way, let’s take a pop quiz:
Q: Which of these two things more represents freedom:
A) Being able to work as much as you want and being able to to choose if you want to buy a product from a private company.
B) Having no choice in surrendering half your pay and being forced under penalty of law to buy a product from a private company.
And because this is a quiz for liberals, let’s add another option:
C) F*ck you, Nazi!
If you chose B or C you just might be a liberal.
Sanders also indicates that working 100 hours a week is not enough to live on, so let’s explore that bullshit as well. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. According to federal law, any person working over 40 hours a week is entitled to time and half for each additional hour. Going by this, a person making minimum wage and working 100 hours a week would make $290 in base pay and $652.50 in overtime. That’s $942.50 a week or $49,000 a year. That’s sounds like a pretty decent yearly income to me.
The problem is, since the government is going to take a huge chunk of that money, it then becomes not so much a livable income. It gets worse because a person making that much money year is not eligible for government subsidies and is forced to but an expensive and shitty health insurance plan, which drains the money even more.
I wouldn’t expect Bernie Sanders to understand this kind of financial reality, he’s a rich asshole with 3 mansions. He thinks letting people keep more of the money they earn is stealing from the federal government and the poor. He believes that taking people’s money to pay for bloated federal programs is “free stuff” for everyone.
Bernie is under investigation for bank fraud so maybe he’s not the right guy to talk about how money works. He’s also proud of being a socialist so he’s definitely the wrong guy to talk about freedom.
via Downtrend.com
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