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ShroomyJohn
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Bernie Sanders is the man
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Re: Bernie Sanders is the man [Re: ShroomyJohn]
#14622422 - 06/16/11 12:34 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Yup, oil speculators artificially inflate the price. While I disagree with some of his positions, at least he's honest.
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Re: Bernie Sanders is the man [Re: ShroomyJohn]
#14622531 - 06/16/11 12:59 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I feel as though he is going to the root of the issue. You could get rid of (insert generic entitlement program) or you can fix why good ideas are going wrong. I don't get the all or nothing attitude that the majority of politicians have today. And then when they "compromise " it only adds more complexity and bureaucracy to finding a real solution
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Re: Bernie Sanders is the man [Re: ShroomyJohn]
#14622546 - 06/16/11 01:02 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I could agree with this program if it wasn't bundled with a tax increase. Cut spending elsewhere. Before I read the article, I was going to mention the amount of money these companies put into research, article seems to cover that though. No way around it, this will hurt the pharma industry, so I don't see this passing. To much money in lobbying.
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love2shpongleIRL said: Yup, oil speculators artificially inflate the price. While I disagree with some of his positions, at least he's honest.
I also don't agree with a good portion of what he does. A lot of it makes you scratch your head, bit yes always got ideas and pretty often a good one pops out
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love2shpongleIRL said: I could agree with this program if it wasn't bundled with a tax increase. Cut spending elsewhere. Before I read the article, I was going to mention the amount of money these companies put into research, article seems to cover that though. No way around it, this will hurt the pharma industry, so I don't see this passing. To much money in lobbying.
Apparently the tax increase would be completely offset by savings though... I doubt that is practically possible, but it was being looked at.
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The hunt for speculators continues! lol
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Re: Bernie Sanders is the man [Re: memes]
#14622752 - 06/16/11 01:38 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Speculators don't drive up the prices? In my opinion, there should not be commodity brokers involved. It is the same thing as having a middle man in drug dealing, end result is always the consumer getting fucked. This could be solved by raising margin requirments on oil contracts.
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When the prince or king or whatever of Saudi Arabia is saying that speculators add $40 a barrel, when the supply and demand laws all the armchair economists here live by isn't being followed... something is fucked up.
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Re: Bernie Sanders is the man [Re: memes]
#14622830 - 06/16/11 01:53 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Am I missing something here? Am I completly wrong? Please, would love to hear your thoughts.
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love2shpongleIRL said: Am I missing something here? Am I completly wrong? Please, would love to hear your thoughts.
No I just post from my phone and its hard to properly format stuff... it was directed at means.
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Re: Bernie Sanders is the man [Re: ShroomyJohn]
#14623293 - 06/16/11 02:05 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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This thread has been closed.
Reason: See rule three regarding pasting nothing but links with no thoughts of your own. Saying, basically, "this is cool" does not qualify as added content.
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