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[–] 9-11 9 points 1 point 10 points (+10|-9) ago
the media and his party have judged him inadequate and moved on. he will never win a general election with a full on socialist platform - i'm not rejecting it just being realistic. but jeez, just imagine bernie winning, he'd have his inauguration in january and putin would be in Prague by february. without the 'crazy' factor of the american president, adversaries start thinking gibmedat.
[–] FriedrichNietzsche 2 points -2 points 0 points (+0|-2) ago
Yup, right wingers are duped into going against their self interest
[–] STARVE_THE_BEAST 21 points 32 points 53 points (+53|-21) ago (edited ago)
Bullshit. Bernie sabotaged the FED audit bill from 5 years ago.
[–] sinjinsmythe 0 points 14 points 14 points (+14|-0) ago
Look them up for yourselves. www.govtrack.us . Sanders introduced Paul's House bill into the Senate. Neither bill was passed and the text of both is exactly the same. Paul reintroduced the bill in 2012 where it passed the House but was never passed in the Senate. Why would you just believe some loser on a blog instead of doing a quick bit of research...?
This was one of the comments on Starve's link. Anyone care to actually research this before making proclamations?
[–] pilot_2 9 points 25 points 34 points (+34|-9) ago (edited ago)
Don't know how many times this has to be disproved. Ron Paul was in office for 16 years and could not get an audit passed. Bernie got the first ever audit passed by compromising to audit just the bailout period. Of course he wants to go further by doing a full audit. That's what he wanted then and that's what he wants now.
[–] STARVE_THE_BEAST 12 points 2 points 14 points (+14|-12) ago (edited ago)
Uh no, he bated and switched it at the 11th hour with an impotent audit that included ZERO provisions to monitor the discount window, interest rates, or foreign contract activities of the Fed, i.e. the entire basis of how it sets monetary policy.
Your spin notwithstanding, Sanders was just another Judas on behalf of banking interests, because he sabotaged a real audit and pushed through the bill they were lobbying for.
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[–] the_doctor_is_in 3 points 2 points 5 points (+5|-3) ago
Oy vey, the goyim are waking up. It's anuddah shoah, kvickly kvickly, shut it down!
[–] FriedFood100 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Very skeptical of this. If it was one of the Pauls I'd understand.
[–] brother_tempus 6 points -1 points 5 points (+5|-6) ago
Hypocritical Sanders jumps on the wagon that has been pushed by GOP politicians for years
[–] RedditIsPropaganda23 1 point 4 points 5 points (+5|-1) ago
You realize Bernie wanted to audit the Fed -for just the bailout period- so that the damn bill could get passed in the first place.
No audit the Fed bill had passed before that.
[–] brother_tempus 5 points -1 points 4 points (+4|-5) ago
Your apologist attempts are noted
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[–] 33degree 2 points 1 point 3 points (+3|-2) ago
By an independent committee that will release their findings to the public. No one is allowed to know what kind of deals the Fed has made with other countries and private banks from other countries. There's absolutely no real audit going on right now because it's all internal and paid for by the banks being audited.
[–] CatNamedJava ago
Deloitte did their audit for 2014. Not some internal committee.
[–] FriedrichNietzsche ago
Why wouldn't they pay for their own auditing? Why would they publish it? Do you know what auditing is?
[–] CatNamedJava ago
By congress because the goal is to take away the independence of the central bank.