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Bernie Needs a Better Cost Analysis
Trump is going to have a field day with “We don’t know how much it is going to cost and we don’t know how we’re going to pay for it.”
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When Sen. Bernie Sanders, champion of the progressive left and self-avowed Democratic Socialist, took to 60-Minutes recently to discuss his policies and plans with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Sanders said a number of things that have since mystified his friends and delighted his opponents.
Sanders seemed to still be engaged in a purely theoretical discussion; he allowed the conversation to devolve into his defense of old communist and socialist systems that have since failed, and he failed to offer key details about the costs of his proposed programs.
Why would an otherwise intelligent person, such as Sen. Sanders certainly is, have gone to bat for the former Cuban dictator and strong-man Fidel Castro on national television?
Fidel Castro is, of course, long gone, though his legacy lives on in his native nation. The blood-tarnished legacy of Castro’s Cuba lives on in the U.S., too; emblazoned in the hearts and minds of the many Cuban-Americans who were fortunate enough to flee to America.
The majority of these Cuban expatriates now reside in the state of Florida where the name of…