Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: An excellent message to the Bernie or Bust crowd. [View all]Hav
(5,969 posts)For quite some time, he wouldn't even know or say how much his plans would cost. He probably had no idea how to finance those and I go a step further, he probably never believed himself they'd become a reality or that they'd get through Congress.
I saw one of his "explanations" for how to pay for his plans and it was laughable, seemingly making up numbers and oversimplifying things at every step.
For example, he claims to generate or save trillions with supposedly millions of new jobs in the health sector. Those just come out of nowhere. And while I support every effort to fight climate change, the same kind of fantasy and simplified thinking was the case for the 20 million new jobs created by the new green deal. There is just no basis to just simply add up these numbers, even if they were accurate, and treat them as new income and that they come with no cost to other sectors. He's insulting the intelligence of his followers by engaging in his interpretation of Bernie math.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden