You know, not being a brash idiot does not entail weakness.

I won't call Trump an idiot because it's not relevant -- but it's very clear to me that what you're suggesting Bernie should have done (physically detain emotionally unstable black women in the wake of a supremely politically charged race protest) is not "strong" -- it's utterly idiotic.

Alternatively, read bubble (1) in the graphic, which sites the difference between the two to be 2,500 billion. Either way, Bernie would be saving the American people nearly double what we intents on spending.

He's saying something very fucking legitimate when he says that "America is the richest country in the history of the world, but most Americans wouldn't know it."

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Here's the uncharitable, no context version of Bernie's budget plan:

blogs.reuters.com/breakingviews/files/2015/10/SandersBudgetBV.jpg

The thing to notice here is that the single-payer healthcare system is being treated here as if it is an addition to the total amount of money the US citizen needs to spend on taxes, rather than a substitute for the existing, FAR more expensive privatized healthcare system.

The truth of the matter is that the single-payer system will save Americans 5000 billion over the next 10 years: www.huffingtonpost.com/gerald-friedman/the-wall-street-journal-k_b_8143062.html

So basically, just imagine the "single payer" bar in expenditures completely gone, replaced with an additional bar half its size (5000) in revenues.

Have you not been paying attention to him?

I'm not sure what you're suggesting.

On the left, a bunch of supposed BLM supporters with questionable ties to the Clinton campaign stormed Bernie's platform and threatened to shut down his event unless they got to take the mic and say whatever they want. The crowd boo'd them, but Sanders properly understood that if he wants the African American vote, obviously he can't fucking have security physically detain a bunch of uncooperative black women in the wake of massive protests of white-on-black cop violence.

On the right, Trump clearly bought out a bunch of black women to speak against their own self-interest.

You know, not being a brash idiot does not entail weakness.

I won't call Trump an idiot because it's not relevant -- but it's very clear to me that what you're suggesting Bernie should have done (physically detain emotionally unstable black women in the wake of a supremely politically charged race protest) is not "strong" -- it's utterly idiotic.

That's 100% true. It would come out of taxes. In the specific case of free tuition, he's proposed for it to come from a tax on Wall street speculation. So while it's not technically a free lunch, it's a tax on millionaires and billionaires who can spare to give back and educate our youth, which is arguably the most important use of public money.

It's honestly not as bad as most people make it out to be. Single payer healthcare systems, for example, are proven to be cheaper for the government and more effective at providing universal care.