2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhat is Bernie offering other than GOVERNMENT-BASED solutions?
Where is the plan to MASSIVELY expand small business development and innovation? Where is the plan to really get wages up, other than the minimum wage that most American don't work for?
He doesn't say a word about this. Jobs and wages are created overwhelmingly in the private economy, and he is crickets on it in his talking points and stump speeches.
In the general election, Bernie won't be credible on his massive expansion of government plans, on how to expand jobs in the private economy, on raising wages in the private economy, as commander in chief of the armed forces, nor as head of our foreign policy. He is a good man with a good heart who would be destroyed in the general election.
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cali
(114,904 posts)before spouting off.
Do it.
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)Supporting Small Businesses: The backbone of a healthy economy is made up of small businesses on the “Main Streets” of America, not giant corporations on Wall Street. Bernie wants to make sure that small businesses have access to low-interest loans and other forms of support, so that they can thrive. He has a record of supporting legislation to help small businesses succeed.
Entrepreneurship & Innovation: The United States has long been a world leader in entrepreneurship and innovation, which in turn are the engines that drive our economy. To continue this tradition of leadership and growth, Bernie has supported increasing access to education and training, and opposing intellectual property regimes
Net Neutrality: Bernie views defending the openness and neutrality of the internet as vital to supporting small businesses.
Visa Reform: Bernie supports reforming the way we bring workers into the U.S. in order to ensure that they are not being exploited to meet the needs of businesses who want to attract and retain the most talented foreign workers, while ensuring that visas aren’t being granted to fill jobs that could be filled by American workers.
Supporting Small Businesses
Bernie believes that small businesses are essential for America’s economy to thrive. In order to succeed, small business must have access to low-interest loans and other forms of support. To this end, Bernie has supported and helped pass many pieces of legislation to help small businesses grow.
Why should we provide low-interest loans and other support to small businesses?
Small businesses take out loans so that they can improve and grow their businesses. Low interest rates on these loans can help businesses pay them back quickly while maintaining good cash flow, expanding the overall domestic economy, and creating more jobs.
Why aren’t there enough loans available to small businesses?
When Glass-Steagall was eliminated under President Bill Clinton, the wall of separation between commercial banking and investment banking was removed. Local banks increasingly began to invest in risky Wall Street trading and speculation and became less inclined to make low-interest loans to small businesses. This resulted in the 2008 financial crisis. Learn more about Glass-Steagall, as well as why Bernie wants to reinstate it at the Financial Regulation issue page.
How has Bernie acted to support small businesses?
“In the midst of the very difficult recession that we’re in, helping small businesses receive affordable credit is imperative.” — Bernie, October 2010
In his Six-Point Plan to rein in Wall Street, Bernie advocated for laws to hold small business loan interest rates to the same rate offered by the Federal Reserve to foreign banks. Once small businesses have access to the same interest rates as foreign banks to finance their own growth, there will be more incentive for investors to invest their money into domestic small businesses, and not as much incentive for them to invest in foreign banks. The result would be to grow the domestic economy instead of diverting investments overseas to countries having little incentive to reinvest that money back in the U.S.
Additionally, Bernie helped pass the Small Business Jobs Act, which gave low interest loans to small businesses and supported the small community banks through which the loans were disbursed. The legislation also offered some $12 billion nationwide in small business tax relief during the height of the recent economic crisis in 2010 and an additional $30 billion in capital for small businesses.
What about big businesses? Where does Bernie stand on big corporations?
He has lots of opinions, as you might imagine, all geared around making sure big businesses thrive, but not at the expense of small businesses, the environment, our democracy, and regular American people. Check out the Corporate Regulation page to learn more about his stances regarding corporations, and learn more about the influence of money in politics here.
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
The United States has been a world leader in entrepreneurship and innovation, which are the engines that drive our economy. To continue this tradition of leadership and growth, Bernie has supported increasing access to education, reforming intellectual property regimes, and defending the openness and network neutrality of the Internet.
Our businesses rely on high-quality, accessible education.
Businesses need an educated workforce to adapt to the future needs of the marketplace, and Bernie supports several measures that help improve access to education. Dive into Bernie’s record on proposed policies to increase access to education here.
The current patent system is in need of reform.
Businesses rely on the U.S. patent system to protect their innovations from being copied by competitors, but this system is being abused in several ways by large corporations. Bernie recognizes that in some industries, the way the patent system is structured has the effect of stifling innovation, and in the case of the pharmaceutical industry has proposed a solution to this problem.
What is wrong with how the patent system works?
From overly-broad patents, to companies that do nothing but collect patents for litigation purposes, to drawn-out legal battles, to overly-lengthy terms, the patent system is plagued with problems that negatively impact businesses.
Give me an example?
In the pharmaceutical industry, much of research spending by private companies goes toward attempting to make drugs similar to those already patented rather than discovering new medicines and treatments.
An article from the World Health Organizations describes these “me-too” drugs as, “likely of little value” to the public since “they effectively undermine the intent of patent protection, without even providing much benefit from price competition.”
Has Bernie proposed any reforms along these lines?
Bernie has introduced pieces of patent reform legislation designed with the dual purpose of drastically reducing drug prices and incentivizing the pharmaceutical industry to focus on innovation rather than “me-too” medications.
In 2005 and 2007, Bernie introduced legislation that would have allowed generic versions of new medications to be manufactured immediately in order to affordably satisfy demand, while introducing a prize fund to reward pharmaceutical innovations. In 2012, Bernie introduced a similar piece of legislation that focused specifically on AIDS treatments.
(for other actions Bernie has taken to reduce the cost of medication, see Healthcare: Drug Manufacturers.)
http://feelthebern.org/bernie-sanders-on-small-business-and-entrepreneurship/
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)
Wilms
(26,795 posts)Never mind. I can handle it.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)Time to call the computer repair guy. I hope he's open on the holiday.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)that we can be turning down any solutions?
Recursion
(56,582 posts)He's offering slogans, and a vision. Yes, it's frustrating, but it's a year divisible by 4, and that's what you need, and it's what Clinton's campaign doesn't yet have and can't win without.
In the general election, Bernie won't be credible on his massive expansion of government plans, on how to expand jobs in the private economy, on raising wages in the private economy
Successful politicians are rarely credible on policy in the US. Witness the entire Republican field. It's just how the fucked up system works. They say what people want to hear and the media is too timid to do anything more than "report the controversy". (That wasn't always true, of course: even back in the 1990s Sanders's proposals would have been laughed off the stage rather than argued about in newspapers.) Sanders's campaign at least to some extent "gets" the pace of 2016 campaigning -- you don't have time to be right, or to respond to questions.
as commander in chief of the armed forces, nor as head of our foreign policy
I agree: that part will be very tough for him. Someone who applied for CO status during Vietnam and later voted for other wars is going to face a really rough set of ads for that; so far the campaign's "he was a pacifist in 1963 and isn't now" is probably the best answer anybody has, but that will definitely hurt.
Vinca
(50,323 posts)Will you still be blaming Bernie when the next Republican president is inaugurated? I expect you will. You will attack a person who managed to generate some excitement into an otherwise dull as hell race. It's really a shame Hillary chose to run. If the field hadn't been cleared for her, we would have had a much better chance at keeping the White House.
That's it in a nutshell.
MerryBlooms
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Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Hillary supporters are really starting to sound like Republicans.
Capitalist exploration is capitalist exploitation no matter how large or small the business is.
Zen Democrat
(5,901 posts)
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)To my ignore list, congrats on being the first one. Your bs is really annoying and completely false.
My Good Babushka
(2,710 posts)So I would expect he would have some GOVERNMENT solutions. It would be a nice change of pace.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)and almost no focus on 'government' in spite of the fact that the Presidency is the Chief Executive of our government.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)That is the story of his life and the guiding principle of his political philosophy.
He is envious of free enterprise and its successes. If he sees success, he wants to tax it and redistribute.
Where have I read these doctrines before? hmmmmmmmmmmm
GeorgeGist
(25,326 posts)cosmicone
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restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)how nice of you to visit us here!
