OUCH! About Those 4 Economists Dissing Bernie's Policies...

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50. SO where were the four economists on the following issues??

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One, endless ever expanding Surveillance monies, with a good deal of the monies going to local PD's. (Santa Rosa Calif. police department had so much money back in summer of 2014 that they went door to door, supposedly to help people know about the existence of AFDC programs and Food Stamps. Of course, the bonus pay off for the police was that if as a typical Santa Rosa inhabitant, you have that freshly lit joint lying on your kitchen counter,w hen the police unexpectedly ring at your door... )

Meanwhile the Calif fire departments have suffered terribly, in terms of not having revenue.

Also and quite importantly, one black op program operating 24/7 in the USA is estimated to cost over 10 billion a year per COUNTY! I am not making that up. If we can afford that black op program, that benefits only Monsanto, I guess we can afford free college.

Two, endless ever expanding monies to house the inhabitants in the USA in jail and prisons any time they "goof" up. Currently, the state of Calif. is looking into making DUI's even more prevalent - the prison industry can no longer grab as many people for smoking that joint so they need too toughen up the drinking laws and turn them into zero tolerance.

Many people are in jail for failure to pay court costs. And court costs do not even mean you were guilty of any offense. I once contested a $ 25 ticket I got from police for "wrongful illegal parking," and I won. But the city of Tiburon CA none the less charged me $ 30 for paper work! This happens all the time to people who cannot afford the court costs of items they may or may not have been guilty of. John Oliver did an excellent ten minute exposure of what happens to people in this situation.

Three, endless ever lasting and increasing amounts of monies for wars, wars that we do not plan properly, execute properly or win.

Our Iraq/Afghanistan incursions cost us at least 6 trillions of dollars, between the years 2001 and 2011. And we need to expand the wars - so we now have boots or advisers on the ground in Yemen, Syria, Libya etc. (Plus a plethora of Navy ships off the coasts of those countries.) All because someone in the military either thoughtlessly allowed our weaponry to remain in side the desserts of Iraq for capture by ISIL, which many people inside the Middle East think has been brought forth by the USA's CIA, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, or else they wanted to perpetuate the wars.

Why would anyone inside our military want to perpetuate our wars? Well, for one thing, many generals are directly connected to armaments sales! And then the history of the war in Iraq reveals how there were entire PALLETS of US Currency, which some have valued at a total of 20 billions of dollars, that just sat around in desolate outposts in Iraq, waiting for someone to take. (Despite the massive numbers of military personnel there, we couldn't afford to take people off duty from going down the infamous Highway of Death in their SUV and Hummers, as that plan was too vital to the war effort, she said sarcastically.)

I could go on, but by now you might have gotten my point!