The members of the top 20% are more politically connected than everyone else. The Federal government has unconstitutionally seized excess power under the guise of helping the poor, providing security, etc.. and the insiders have gained that power and used it against their competition and to entrench themselves in the upper echelon of society.
Laws and regulations are almost always created by lobbyists. Because we no longer follow the Constitution's prescription of a limited federal government, politicians are currently little more than PR spokesmen for a group of lobbyists.
b-b-but Bernie isn't one of them, he's on our side. He has good intentions.
Doesn't matter. Bernie will continue to expand the federal government and in doing so he will ultimately give lobbyists, bureaucrats and the politically connected more power.
Today in Washington, it is one lobbyist vs another lobbyist, both represented by a politician who argues that one group has the people's interest over another.
Drug company lobbyists vs Hospital lobbyists. Health insurance lobbyists Vs AMA. Nurses unions vs medical equipment manufacturers.
"People" are the only ones left out of the fight and we are only good for paying taxes.
Watch decades old movies like Mr. Smith goes to Washington and voters have the same complaints because the game is the same.
It's all nothing more than political theater and feel good BS.
Johnson & Johnson wants to give welfare to the poor so they can jack up the prices of band aids to equal the welfare increases. The poor never get ahead and the J & J family gets wealthier with taxpayer subsidies.
Large Health Insurance companies want to force people to buy healthcare so they can make more money, and they want more regulations so they can crush the smaller health insurance companies.
Same chit different day.
As for the free college, that's a horrible idea. Most people who are going to college now, should not be going to college.
It's funny how people always get butthurt against certain industries. "Oh, those evil oil industry are fuking us over." "Those evil Health insurance companies are fukking us over for more money.."
But the College industry is so great, everyone needs to go to college, it's fantastic.
1) Most people don't need to go to college unless they're pursuing a STEM degree. Before the government inflated the college bubble, people got by fine in life and were able to get solid corporate jobs without spending a fukload of money going to college and getting a degree. High school used to prepare students for life. Today, HS prepares you for college. Now you need a degree to get a basic clerical job because everybody and there brother has a degree thanks to the govt fuking things up with federally ensured student loans, pell grants etc. The federal government needs to stay the fuk out of college.
Today students are literally paying money to waste their time. Under a Sanders government, we'd be paying over 80 billion to encourage kids to waste their time. And when EVERYONE goes to college, anybody who wants a decent job will need to waste 4 years of their life in order to get a piece of paper. It will be even worse than it is now. Not having a college degree will be like not having a HS diploma.
Next, everyone will need a Masters degree because a bachelor's degree will be absolutely worthless. And I'm sure people will then be caterwauling for the government to pay for their masters degree. Then when that happens we'll all need to get Ph.D's in order to set ourselves apart... And then people will be whining for free Ph.D's.
At that point, we will have a bunch of 28-33 year olds who have spent nearly their entire lives in school. The vast majority of people do not need 22 years of schooling. It's literally a massive waste of resources and productivity.
Fact is, the college industry has profited so much off of lobbying Washington. The Federal Government doles out FAFSA pell grants left and right to the tune of almost $6000 per semester to almost anyone with a mouth. What do universities and book companies do? They jack up the price of books and tuition, to get more of that money. Same with student loans. They know kids can get the loans because the federal government ensures private student loans and even gives out federal loans. Banks know they'll get paid even if the retard spending $80,000 on a sociology degree can't pay it back.
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