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Thanks for the link.  I found the information I was looking for there. 

According to several reports, Sanders didn’t collect a steady paycheck before being elected to office as mayor of Burlington, Vt., in 1981. After graduating from the University of Chicago in 1964, though, Sanders did work a series of odd jobs before his political career began. Some of the positions he held include: an aide at a psychiatric hospital, a freelance writer, a preschool teacher and a carpenter.

Many of these jobs were likely part time, as Sanders ran for office a few times before winning, but we could not find evidence that proves none were full time, either. And the Sanders campaign did not respond when we asked if any of these jobs were considered full-time positions.

That said, Sanders held office for over 30 years in positions that, some would argue, are probably worth the designation full-time positions.

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Listen to the Democratic nominee from 2016 on this. It's ghoulish.

This is the establishment. This is what Biden will end up advocating. This is what the professional class wants, is for this woman to be led around by the nose and told to shop around while they rake in tens of billions of dollars.

100% free at the point of use healthcare for 100% of people in this nation. That's it. Anything less than that is unacceptable.

There is one candidate who will absolutely fight for it.
There's another candidate who will probably fight for it.

And that's it. It's disgusting.

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2 hours ago, bad_teammate said:

This is the establishment. This is what Biden will end up advocating.

It’s ObamaCare. She’s advocating for ObamaCare.  

Just say ObamaCare sucks, because it does. 

It was nothing but a big subsidy to the health insurance companies so they could better rip people off.  

Obama helped a lot of people and it was an improvement on the system at the time but the legacy of the ACA made advocating for universal/MFA healthcare a little more politically tricky because you have to take a position that Obamacare isn’t good or good enough. “Why are you shitting on Obama’s crown achievement?!?”

It’s a lot like, “You’re going to cut military spending?  Why don’t you support our troops?!?” 

Hillary lost her way on healthcare and many other things but never forget she way a trailblazer for universal healthcare in the early 90s. 

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Thanks for that. I had no idea he was going to issue a housing plan today.

- Rent control proposal is great
- 7.4M unit rehab/construct is great as long as it isn't a gift to private developers
- See above; public housing is what we need, not "public/private partnership" BS
- lol ok (I'm sure there are some good ideas, but good lord that's vague)
- love this

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Opening up wealthy areas to affordable/public housing is the real answer, honestly. Raising rents in wealthy areas push people out and they then use their capital power to displace down the chain and on and on and on.

- Building public/affordable housing to meet demand
- Rent control
- Preventing the displacement of affordable housing/public-good infrastructure for luxury housing

Bernie is on record for those three for sure.

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Hey guys here's a surprise. Bernie's "Housing for All" plan is very good.

There's a ton, but here are my favorite parts:

  • Invest $1.48 trillion over 10 years in the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund to build, rehabilitate, and preserve the 7.4 million quality, affordable and accessible housing units necessary to eliminate the affordable housing gap, which will remain affordable in perpetuity. Units constructed with this funding will be eligible to be located in mixed-income developments.
    • Use federal preemption laws to ensure these new units are not segregated or excluded by local zoning ordinances.
  • Invest an additional $400 billion to build 2 million mixed-income social housing units to be administered through the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund, which will help desegregate and integrate communities. This plan will guarantee equity in social housing units, ensuring no inequality of services or conditions within units.
  • Increase funding for the Indian Housing Block Grant Program to $3 billion to build, preserve, and rehabilitate affordable housing in Indian country.
  • Invest $70 billion to repair and modernize public housing including making all public housing accessible and provide access to high-speed broadband for all public housing residents.
  • Repeal the Faircloth Amendment to allow the construction of new public housing units.
  • Fully fund tenant-based Section 8 rental assistance at $410 billion over the next 10 years and make it a mandatory funding program for all eligible households.
  • Expand and strengthen enforcement of the Small Area Fair Market Rent rule to make sure that landlords are fairly compensated when they participate in Section 8, but do not make a windfall from the program.
  • Enact a national cap on annual rent increases at no more than 3 percent or 1.5 times the Consumer Price Index (whichever is higher) to help prevent the exploitation of tenants at the hands of private landlords.
    • Allow for landlords to apply for waivers if significant capital improvements are made, which will incentivize landlords to improve the conditions of their properties.

 

 

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Bernie 2020 reached 1 million donors on September 19, 2019. 5 months before the first primary
Obama 2008 reached 1 million donors on February 27, 2008. 1 month after the first primary.
Clinton 2016 reached 1 million donors on March 18, 2016. 2 months after the first primary.

Bernie is 7 months ahead of Clinton's media/power-anointed run in terms of bringing in donors and volunteers.

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These campaign organizing videos are hilarious because they reveal the divide between online rhetoric and in-person rhetoric.

Yeah yeah yeah Becca. Sure thing, OK, but if all we're going to do is unite people behind shared motivations and dreams for a better future for ourselves and our kids, HOW AM I GOING TO GET TO RUDELY DUNK ON PEOPLE ONLINE!?!?!?!?

Did you ever think of that, BECCA!?

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Bernie's campaign manager tweeted a link to this WSJ article about his time as mayor. 

 Which includes this fun anecdote: 

Mr. Sanders again found himself on opposite sides of progressive activists in June 1983, when hundreds of antiwar activists protested General Electric Co. for making military weapons at a plant here. Greg Guma, a progressive journalist who was involved in the antiwar movement, remembers telling Mr. Sanders of the plans to protest.

“He was very upset with us,” said Mr. Guma, who wrote a book about Mr. Sanders’s tenure as mayor. Mr. Sanders told the group to demonstrate at congressional offices instead, Mr. Guma said.

Mr. Sanders followed up with a call to tell Mr. Guma that if he protested at the plant, he would be arrested. Mr. Guma went anyway. Eighty-eight people were arrested, including Mr. Guma, who went back to the protest after getting out of jail and was arrested again. Mr. Sanders observed the arrests and didn’t intervene, Mr. Guma said.

“My view was you had hundreds and hundreds of jobs that were decent-paying union jobs. You shut them down here, they’re just going to move someplace else,” Mr. Sanders told The Wall Street Journal.

 

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