Bernie Sanders Bought a House for $600k

[jsgolfer]

I don't give two craps about Bernie, Shillary or Trump, but for someone who preaches socialism (e.g wealth redistribution), buying a second or third house for any amount of money strikes of hypocrisy. When most can"t.

6 hours ago, Valleygolfer said:

 

Otherwise so what, he bought a house. Politicians deserve better than us lowly citizens anyway...

+1 for sarcasm, if not..........

[newtogolf]

It's not news that politicians are corrupt and follow a do as I say not as I do mentality.  This is a non-story unless Hillary or Clinton Foundation wrote Bernie a check.   Let's not react to every partisan story that gets released on both sides of the aisle.  

[Valleygolfer]

10 minutes ago, jsgolfer said:

I don't give two craps about Bernie, Shillary or Trump, but for someone who preaches socialism (e.g wealth redistribution), buying a second or third house for any amount of money strikes of hypocrisy. When most can"t.

+1 for sarcasm, if not..........

Um, absolutely sarcasm for me... Probably not for the politicians...

[jsgolfer]

4 minutes ago, Valleygolfer said:

Um, absolutely sarcasm for me... Probably not for the politicians...

+2

[Gunther]

2 hours ago, newtogolf said:

It's not news that politicians are corrupt and follow a do as I say not as I do mentality.  This is a non-story unless Hillary or Clinton Foundation wrote Bernie a check.   Let's not react to every partisan story that gets released on both sides of the aisle.  

I think the general gist is that yes, Bernie was paid off to shill for Shrill at the DNC, which is why the story was released.  I'm sure it happened but we'll have to wait for Assange to let us know in a year or two.

[newtogolf]

22 minutes ago, Gunther said:

I think the general gist is that yes, Bernie was paid off to shill for Shrill at the DNC, which is why the story was released.  I'm sure it happened but we'll have to wait for Assange to let us know in a year or two.

Even so, to buy a $600,000 home you need to have a household income of about $200,000 and worst case, $60,000 down payment.  Let's not pretend he bought a $1,000,000+ mansion.  

[Pete F]

Don't worry, Putin will let all the cats out of the bags the first week in November.

[Buckeyebowman]

4 hours ago, newtogolf said:

It's not news that politicians are corrupt and follow a do as I say not as I do mentality.  This is a non-story unless Hillary or Clinton Foundation wrote Bernie a check.   Let's not react to every partisan story that gets released on both sides of the aisle.  

Well, that's part of the speculation. And let's say, right up front, that this is speculation. But there's no doubt Bernie got hosed in the Dem Primaries, but he was supposed to be! After all, Shrillary couldn't be seen as running unopposed. That would smack of subterfuge, so Bernie played along in return for a nice check. Admittedly, all speculation.

What I would present as fact, however, is that Sanders owns over 1 Million dollars in housing while screeching about the rich! And Shrillary just released her 2015 tax docs, which revealed that she and "Hillary Billy" earned about 10 Mill last year. But, all the rich people are Republicans!

[pganapathy]

I still don't get what the problem is with a guy who has to be a millionaire (he earns 200K a year from what I gathered in this post) buying a house that he can afford to.  Why do people care how he spends the money that he earned himself.  Bunch of morons in my opinion

[Strandly]

It's not a house, it's his third house.  And from what I read his wife had a relative die recently and they inherited money which allowed them to buy the house.

Personally, I don't care if the guy buys 100 houses but I do find it funny that the most prominent socialist in America is living like a king.

[pganapathy]

1 hour ago, Strandly said:

It's not a house, it's his third house.  And from what I read his wife had a relative die recently and they inherited money which allowed them to buy the house.

As far as I am concerned, the more houses a person can buy, the better.  It is a good investment in general, except when the real estate market is in a bubble.  Land and houses will almost always appreciate purely because of the growing world population.  So he chooses to invest his money in a third house.  Assuming it is legally earned money (and not say some payoff as seems to be implied) then why shouldn't a socialist also own more than one house.  It is just another investment for me

[Valleygolfer]

3 hours ago, Strandly said:

It's not a house, it's his third house.  And from what I read his wife had a relative die recently and they inherited money which allowed them to buy the house.

Personally, I don't care if the guy buys 100 houses but I do find it funny that the most prominent socialist in America is living like a king.

Don't you understand that these recommendations of sharing wealth, having mediocre insurance and conservation of the environment is stuff for the plebians. It most definitely not for the noble government aristocrat. He deserves at least 5 houses.

[newtogolf]

2 hours ago, Valleygolfer said:

Don't you understand that these recommendations of sharing wealth, having mediocre insurance and conservation of the environment is stuff for the plebians. It most definitely not for the noble government aristocrat. He deserves at least 5 houses.

Exactly, this is old news.  Al Gore preaches about the environment and global warming while he jet sets across the country in his private jet and limo's.  

A politicians job isn't to make personal sacrifices to better the world it's to pass laws and regulations that ensure the lowly voters do.  Somewhere along the way, we lost the concept that politicians are supposed to "serve" the people.  

[Ernest Jones]

I haven't read much of Bernie's policies, but I'm pretty sure he and other socialists are more concerned with corporations paying little to no taxes on multi-billion dollar profit margins. I don't think he has ever suggested that working people can't own a nice house.  In fact, I'm pretty sure he is saying that all working people should have the opportunity to own a nice house, which can't happen as long as a tiny minority of people control the vast majority of the world's wealth. 

[Jmdmbike]

On August 12, 2016 at 3:52 AM, Ernest Jones said:

Seriously?

Y'all got yer knickers in a knot because the dude bought a house?

exactly, nothing left to say on this topic......

[Buckeyebowman]

On 8/13/2016 at 10:06 AM, newtogolf said:

Exactly, this is old news.  Al Gore preaches about the environment and global warming while he jet sets across the country in his private jet and limo's.  

A politicians job isn't to make personal sacrifices to better the world it's to pass laws and regulations that ensure the lowly voters do.  Somewhere along the way, we lost the concept that politicians are supposed to "serve" the people.  

HUZZAH! At least some of you are getting the point! Sanders, Hillary, and others like them constantly inveigh against the rich, while conveniently ignoring the fact that they ARE rich! They promote behaviors and pass laws for the rest of us from which they are exempt!

And that's the core of the problem, hypocrisy! I don't care that Sanders or Hillary are rich. More power to them. It's when they pretend that they are on the side of "the poor" or "the working class" when it's only about votes that my stomach turns.

Hell, this country, every country, needs rich people! Movers and shakers, innovators, risk takers. Where would this country be without the Rockefellers, Fords, Morgans, Carnegies, and others? Like my Dad used to say, "No poor man ever gave me a job!"

[Chilli Dipper]

Someone has been reading a lot of Ayn Rand lately...

[boogielicious]

6 hours ago, Chilli Dipper said:

Someone has been reading a lot of Ayn Rand lately...