He is. He's not bought owned and paid for. I'd imagine this would make one more comfortable telling it how it is without fear of losing bribes....errr ehhhem lobby money from the crooked cronies and multi-nationals. You know those who truly care about the 99%
I think something like this here could eliminate a lot of waste and corruption!
We'll first have to pry those funds from the cold dead greedy grasp of our corrupted politicians and their tax loop-holed sponsors. On second thought, forget it... ain't gonna happen.Democratic socialism in action
Finland wants to give all citizens, rich or
poor, a monthly payment
A basic income would encourage more people to work, as opposed to disincentivizing them under the current system by taking away their benefits when they start to earn an income.
As it struggles with unabated unemployment and zero economic growth, Finland wants to try replacing its bureaucratic welfare system with a much more simple one: a monthly payment of €800, or $870, to every citizen, with no strings attached.
The Finnish government says it wants to launch a “universal basic income experiment” in 2017 to test the feasibility of this program, which would replace the country’s current benefits system.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Glob...e-all-citizens-rich-or-poor-a-monthly-payment
Isn't it amazing that you can experience enough out of life to develop more than one persona in a single lifetime.So it seems that I am at odds with my generation. It seems that everyone that is around my age is conservative whereas younger people are more liberal. But yet, my generation was the hippie generation and if anything, we were the liberal ones but yet, it seems that most of them, as they aged, become more conservative.
I find this really odd being that I have always been a liberal and I still am even in my older age so I did a bit of research and came across this interesting article which kind of explains it:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mr-personality/201410/why-are-older-people-more-conservative
And after reading that article, I feel kinda good about myself. From a psychological point of view, I seem to be doing just fine, thank you very much.
Barry Goldwater "Mr. Conservative" despised the religious right movement. Was for gays in the military and gay rights well before it became a 'liberal' social movement. Here's a few quotes.
Classical Liberal = Libertarian Conservative 
I vote my conscience every election. I don't ever compromise and vote for the lesser of two evils. Like all the spin doctors tell you too. "If you don't vote for
This is the problem inherent within our system. Did you ever notice how so many people/pundits get into the who celebrity/personality thing when describing their favorite candidates. It can't be helped, human nature being what it is and all that. But, I have only seen one of these candidates in the flesh. (Hillary Clinton) The others are just pixels on my monitor. I try not to be one of those people who speak like I know what is going on in their head and focus on their record. Another one is "He's just saying statement A to appeal too the Group A, His actually one of us."
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It is frustrating when people still rely entirely on the left/right categorization. Without actually examining where the candidates actually stand on the issues.
Good luck with that.
Often though, you have to make the effort to enlighten them first. Look how many have changed their position on an issue, once they got enough backbone and prodding from their constituents. Hillary has changed her position 3x on MJ already as one example. In my state of NY, We had to prod Gov Cuomo to start walking the walk, by petition, after his half-hearted effort to help MJ medical patients.
). I know this might blow your mind but you can still make your point and while also refraining from being rude. Maybe you should look up the definition of a strawman since you laid out a textbook example. Who is saying to not be truthful? 
I'm naive enough to believe that some politicians can be nice folks with enough support (and prodding).
It's still real to me dammit!
I'm with you completely
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