Bernie Sanders has made history, but not in the way the media tells it. In short, he’s committed what may be the largest and most brazen piece of fraud in, well, ever. He managed to raise $208 million, and he did so by convincing a huge number of gullible children that politics is a retail transaction.
They actually believed his promises of a $15 minimum wage, single-payer healthcare, and free college education. They deserve to be parted from their money.
Let’s start with the minimum wage thing. It’s not going to happen. The last time it was raised was in 2009. Even that was the product of a very contentious process that had begun in earnest two years earlier. Despite having an unassailable majority in Congress, Democrats still had to shoehorn it into the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans’ Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act.
And that was only to get it to $7.25/hour. Continued...