Bernie Sanders is massively popular among people under the age of 45 (especially under 30) and massively unpopular among people over the age of 65.
He's essentially saying #OKBoomer.
Bernie Sanders Is About to Become President
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Bernie Sanders is massively popular among people under the age of 45 (especially under 30) and massively unpopular among people over the age of 65.
He's essentially saying #OKBoomer.
why number 3 trad? Why should the state intervene and what is the common good?
btw. good seeing you posting again. I am no longer regular here
This is literally what the Catechism says:
"The Church has rejected the totalitarian and atheistic ideologies associated in modem times with 'communism' or 'socialism.' She has likewise refused to accept, in the practice of 'capitalism,' individualism and the absolute primacy of the law of the marketplace over human labor.
So what this is saying is:
1. People have private property rights.
2. An economy run solely by central planning is bad.
3. An economy where the market dictates everything is also bad.
4. Authoritarianism and atheism are also bad.
"The Church has rejected the totalitarian and atheistic ideologies associated in modem times with 'communism' or 'socialism.' She has likewise refused to accept, in the practice of 'capitalism,' individualism and the absolute primacy of the law of the marketplace over human labor.
Regulating the economy solely by centralized planning perverts the basis of social bonds; regulating it solely by the law of the marketplace fails social justice, for 'there are many human needs which cannot be satisfied by the market.'
Reasonable regulation of the marketplace and economic initiatives, in keeping with a just hierarchy of values and a view to the common good, is to be commended" (CCC 2425).
So what this is saying is:
1. People have private property rights.
2. An economy run solely by central planning is bad.
3. An economy where the market dictates everything is also bad.
4. Authoritarianism and atheism are also bad.
I was addressing usernames vagueness.
You do know Sanders is not a boomer? We are both silent generation, so that source contends:wave:
OK, that is the Catholic church and one area i FIND AGREEMENT with the Church. I was asking if you saw any flaws with libertarians?
The parts I put in blue font are the parts that "Trump Gurl" does not understand and chooses to completely ignore.
The problem here is that there are different senses of the word "socialism" when it's used by different people. When the Catechism says "socialism," it's clearly talking about authoritarianism + complete centralized state planning of the economy vis-à-vis the soviet union. In the "bad" sense it also means collective ownership of all property.
But that's not all that socialism does or has to mean. At the end of the day, what socialism means is worker ownership of the means of production (in other words, socialism means "not capitalism"). There are various ways that workers can own the means of production.
Distributism is arguably a Catholic version of socialism. They just don't call themselves socialists.
Any candidate who is running against what is currently in office would be a 100% improvement ...
How would four more years of Donald Trump be different from four years of Bloomberg?
If anything, Bloomberg might actually be worse.
How so? What makes you say that?
Well, Bloomberg IS sane. Being an improvement, BTW, is not an endorsement of the candidate. Trump IS an immediate threat to our national security as are every member of the GOP who supports him.
:doh::rotfl:
The Berean
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I'm not a Trump supporter nor will I vote for him this November. Trump always seemed like a clownish, buffoonish type of personality to me. I remember him from the early 1980's. He's always been this loud obnoxious guy that people kind of shrug off as Trump being Trump. Underneath most people probably didn't take him seriously This is why he was buddies with all those entertainment stars for decades. He's not dumb by any means but I never get the sense that he thinks about things on a very deep level at all. He just blusters long enough to get his way. Bloomberg seems far more calculating and somewhat sinister to me. People hammer Trump for his "racism" yet Bloomberg has said many similar things about people of color. Also, as NYC mayor Bloomberg unleashed the police (stop and frisk) on minority areas in the name of "being tough on crime'. Bloomberg eventually apologized for his stop and frisk policies (which was eventually deemed unconstitutional) but only after he ran for president. His apologies ring hollow.
The Berean I agree, I don't like Bloomberg either for the reasons you listed and more. Oh well, I think the point is moot anyway. Everyone could see that Bloomberg was eviscerated in the last debate, so I don't think he stands a realistic chance of getting the Democratic nomination, no matter how many hundreds of millions of his own dollars he spends to promote himself.
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total bankruptcies last year were 773,361
you're claiming that 65% were for medical debt?
your link doesn't support that
My link supports the fact that medical costs are one of the major factors in bankruptcies: "According to a study published in early 2005, 46 percent of bankruptcies were related to outstanding medical conditions." -- https://www.debt.org/bankruptcy/statistics/