{"id":31384,"date":"2016-02-16T13:50:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T17:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=31384"},"modified":"2016-02-16T17:40:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T21:40:34","slug":"feeling-the-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=31384","title":{"rendered":"Feeling The Burn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Rohnert Park, CA<br \/>\nFebruary 16, 2016<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>Bernie Sanders has done a great job attacking that<br \/>\ncareer criminal, Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been very effective promising to tax the rich and<br \/>\nredistribute the wealth of those who either actually<br \/>\nearned their billions or&#8212;just as likely these days&#8212;stole<br \/>\na large chunk by manipulating the system or getting bailed<br \/>\nout by big government.<\/p>\n<p>By including Hillary as a beneficiary of the fat cats like<br \/>\nGoldman Sachs, he has her feeling &#8220;The Bern&#8221; during<br \/>\nthe primaries.<\/p>\n<p>But now it is Sanders turn to feel &#8220;The Burn&#8221; as his<br \/>\npast is revealed along with a dubious record as a<br \/>\npublic servant: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/bernie-sanders-a-bum-who-didnt-earn-his-first-steady-paycheck-until-age-40-then-wormed-his-way-into-politics\/\">http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/bernie-sanders-a-bum-who-didnt-earn-his-first-steady-paycheck-until-age-40-then-wormed-his-way-into-politics\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like the simple truth is that he is a loser who\u00a0has to mooch off of others to succeed in life either as\u00a0a welfare recipient or as a public official.<\/p>\n<p>This might even be somewhat acceptable if Sanders\u00a0manifested a unique spiritual dynamic like a Gandhi\u00a0or a Martin Luther King. No, his is the politics of jealousy\u00a0that relies on fooling folks who feel cheated by our very\u00a0corrupt system that they are entitled to their fair share.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds good until you get into the reality of how wealth<br \/>\nis created in the real world when things are based on truth,<br \/>\ncreativity and hard work rather than on gimmicks, bankster<br \/>\ngreed and corporate corruption.<\/p>\n<p>So in a year of weak choices, Sanders actually looks<br \/>\ngood to many who are praying for the kind of hope and<br \/>\nchange Obama did not deliver during his 2 terms where<br \/>\nhis agenda was another Neocon dominated one of more<br \/>\nwars and posturing for global domination.<\/p>\n<p>Will a President Sanders be any different? If his voting<br \/>\nrecord on issues of war and peace are any indication, the<br \/>\nanswer is a clear NO! Despite voting against invading<br \/>\nIraq in 2003, he has been consistently supportive of both<br \/>\nRepublican and Democratic Administrations in their foreign<br \/>\nadventures.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=31125\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=31125<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those are the ones that Donald Trump has no problem<br \/>\nstrongly criticizing even though that entails blaming<br \/>\nGeorge Bush for the mess a President Trump might<br \/>\ninherit in the Middle East and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders is unwilling to hold Obama accountable for his<br \/>\nexpansion of these wars even though as in Libya, Syria<br \/>\nand elsewhere, the President&#8217;s action violate the Constitution<br \/>\nand international law.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders record regarding the F-35, auditing the Fed,<br \/>\nthe Dodd-Frank Bill, his unwillingness to criticize Hillary<br \/>\nfor Benghazi or her e-mail scandal as well as other issues<br \/>\nwill start to get more scrutiny in the months ahead.<\/p>\n<p>His whole campaign constitutes attacking Wall Street greed<br \/>\nand distancing himself from Henry Kissinger while making<br \/>\nwild promises of goodies for the middle class.<\/p>\n<p>That may work\u00a0for many voters. But\u00a0it is definitely not enough<br \/>\nfor me&#8230;.and if Donald Trump\u00a0is his opponent in November, I<br \/>\nseriously doubt it will be\u00a0good enough for the rest of America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZNuHRyip3iA\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZNuHRyip3iA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=31376\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=31376<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}