Bernie Sanders And The Economy

The government of the United States is bought and sold like stocks. Billionaires and corporations have poured an incomprehensible amount of money into thousands of political campaigns. According to opensecrets.org, the average cost to win a senate race is now $11,474,362. For the 2016 presidential race alone the Koch brothers plan on spending $889 million. It is nearly impossible to win an election without the support of billionaires and corporations. The impact that money has on elections has spiraled of control. A political revolution to fix the power the wealthy have in politics is already happening. Senator Bernie Sanders is the one leading this revolution. Even without the revolutionary policies, Sanders would set in place to end the American Oligarchy his campaign is still important. Sanders leading by example and showing the country that it is possible to run a campaign without support from the elite. Sanders campaign has raised $75 million so far with an average donation of only $25. If

On Tuesday, February 9 Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republican Donald Trump won the New Hampshire primaries. With these two wins it is apparent that more than just a political tide is overcoming America, but a populist tide is. Using populism, both Sanders and Trump have tapped into the economic and political frustration of the middle class, projecting them to top and forcing “establishment” candidates to either adapt or drop out. Sanders and Trump may be ideologically different, but their methods as politicians are similar.

One of the economic issues we see today in the United States is the unemployment rate. In the article "Why doesn't 4.9% unemployment feel great?" by Heather Long, she explains why even though unemployment rate has decreased, people still are not satisfied. For the first time since the great great recession in 2008, the employment rate has fallen below 5% in the United States. Obama says he does not get enough credit for creating 14 million jobs, and that we should be proud how long we have come after the biggest economic crisis since the 1930's. Long also refers to Bernie Sanders, a democratic candidate for the U.S. presidential election in 2016, who says that the economy is "rigged," and that the real rate is higher than 5% (Heather Long, "Why doesn't 4.9% unemployment feel great?").

Senator Bernie Sanders is primarily a democrat but has socialist ideologies. Sanders holds a strong stance on “Shrinking the American middle class” (Sanders, 2017) and increasing income for middle class families by taxing the rich and spreading the wealth. Sanders deals in national politics that affect laws, amendments, and rights. He sponsors and cosponsors bills that he believes will help Americans.

One metapor used to describe contemporary elections is “choosing the lesser of two evils”, however, unlike other elections, this year's is one of the most controversial and dividing elections in recent years. This year there is a chance for change, and currently there are four main head runners for the presidential nomination; out of these candidates only one shines as someone who will really change the US for the better, Bernie Sanders. He plans to rejuvenate the economy, and support the middle and lower class. Bernie also is easily one of the only candidates that support civil rights that help the people, not some values that would increase voter polls. When it comes to international affairs Bernie respects other countries and understands

Bernie Sanders is socialist but is written down as a independent which is a big turnoff for most people. When people think of socialist they think of Lenin, Castro, and Stalin who were not the most pleasant of people. Sanders totally different then all of them though. First off he’s Jewish and these people don't seem Jewish. Second off he has not killed anybody like the people listed. And third is he has modern and past democratic views. He is a supporter of gay marriage and abortion which is modern democratic views. He wants the minimum wage raised which has been an ongoing fight for many years with republicans and democrats fighting over it. One more thing he's done is trying to reach out to our younger generation who is voting for the first time. In a New York Times article entitled “The Socialist Senator”, he visited South Burlington High School where he answer some question to some 6o kids. This is what you want in a president, who speaks at schools and answer question for them. In another New York Times Article, he states, “Doctors have told me about patients who died because they put off their medical visits until it was too late”(Sanders, 3). This proves a point that he does not want people to die. Now we can disagree that Sanders should or should not be president but what we can most definitely agree on is we don't want people to

The 2016 presidential election is shaping up to be one of the most important elections in recent memory. As all pundits know, the media plays a very large part in shaping the way voters view the candidates. Much time has been spent discussing Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont), a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination and one of the most polarizing figures on the political scene today. Some journalists say he is a modern prophet; others believe he is an unelectable far-left ideologue.

Bernie Sanders has proven himself a champion of the middle class since his humble beginnings in 1981 as mayor of Burlington, Vermont. Once he became active in office as a member of the Senate in November 2006, Senator Sanders began breaking grounds to help provide “affordable housing, progressive taxation, environmental protection, child care,” and women’s equality. Now that he has officially began his campaign in the 2016 presidential race, Senator Sanders is discussing his ideologies that he believes will help the American people overcome many commonly-encountered obstacles.

The preceding year's election can be unanimously considered one of the most controversial by most sources. While many candidates were considered, the final four contenders could easily be classified as jackass, an extreme far right republican, a feminist, and a socialist. Ultimately, the jackass won the elections, plunging the United States into a thousand years of darkness. After the nuclear fire subsides, and the non-existent middle class comes to it’s senses they will need a new leader to redeem our broken nation. The socialist in particular, could possibly be the United States’ chance for redemption. Bernie Sanders’ progressive policies could, potentially, save the declining middle class. Bernie has shown countless times throughout his

Our founding fathers who established this great country had essential principles that helped set the foundation for what we now stand for. Unfortunately we have been gradually losing our identity as a society and as a nation. All due to the bad governments that we’ve had over the past decade, and have put us in this situation. Our country is more divided than ever and surrounded by so much negativity. However, there is one man whose ideology and transparency can put us back on the right track, that man is Bernie Sanders. Sanders has dedicated his entire political career to fighting for justice; his experience and determination make him the ideal candidate to be the leader of the free world, the president of the United States of America.

This upcoming presidential election includes a diverse pool of candidates, with a wide variety of opinions coming from different backgrounds. There is one candidate that stands out among the rest: Vermont senator Bernie Sanders. He has decades of experience in politics, which is immensely important for someone holding the position of President. During his time in public service he has demonstrated that he is committed, strong, productive, fair, and honest. Sanders relies on his policies and ideas significantly more than flaunting a charming personality to gain support, and he is able to do this because he has always put a lot of consideration into the decisions he makes. Furthermore, he has always been a strong supporter of quality of opportunity, which is the political ideal advocating the view that the assignment of individuals to places in the social hierarchy is determined by some form of competitive process; all members of society are eligible to compete on equal terms. As president, Sanders would take many steps toward improving this aspect of society. He recognizes that currently there is great disparity in the balance of power, and he has consistently fought towards making the U.S.A. a country where everyone is well taken care of and has access to what they need. If Sanders becomes president, he will fight for everyone to have an equal chance of achieving their own American Dream.

In the news lately there has been a lot of conversation about politics and the people running for each respective party. Today I will be talking about Bernie Sanders and his views on socialism, He says that his ideas will bring free collage and while that is true where is that money coming from? I believe that socialism is an idea that will not work because it has not worked in the past and that his ideas for it are mainly lies.

As the longest serving independent in United States congressional history, Sanders has a history that is different from that of many politicians. Raised in Brooklyn, New York, Sanders’s family was a member of the lower middle-class, something that still drives Sanders today, as he said, “That is a reality I have never forgotten: today, there are many millions of families who are living under the circumstances that we lived under” (“Who is Bernie Sanders”). By being raised in a lower middle-class family, Sanders knows the struggles that can come from such a situation and understands that the economic inequality in the United States is an issue that must be

This election is about ending the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality in America today” (Sanders, 2016, para. 30). Bernie raises the concern to the audience that many Americans are in poverty. The audience is filled with fear for American because many of them could not get a job and it is very hard for them to pay for their bills. Furthermore, Bernie Sanders feels trust worth to the audience because he tries to connect to them by using words like we and to show he is a politician of the people. He is trying to serve the interests of the people that just got out of college and find it very hard to get a job in America in the current job market. Moreover, Bernie Sanders raise awareness of anger within the crowd with how 1% controls most of country’s wealth, “It is not moral, it is not acceptable, and it is not sustainable that the top 1/10th of 1 percent now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent.

In CNBC’s statement in the news at exactly 10:20 AM September 22, 2017 (Friday) it says that “Economists at San Francisco Fed were worried that the central bank might not become successful in lowering the rates of the future bank