I finally got some tax relief, starting this year. I don't think many people my age are eager to see that reversed. But, I can understand why Bernie appeals to very young voters. What he's advocating would only affect them positively.
Do you have to be born in Sweden to get those benefits?
I finally got some tax relief, starting this year. I don't think many people my age are eager to see that reversed. But, I can understand why Bernie appeals to very young voters. What he's advocating would only affect them positively.
nah, just gotta be a citizen. her parents were born in iran, moved to sweden and became citizens there.
not just young people. what about middle aged people who dont have high income, have kids in school, struggle to pay for health insurance, etc.
So to get benefits in Sweden you must have citizenship?
Stop having kids.
i think so. not entirely familiar with their system.
they already had them
It's a personal choice to have kids. Personal choices can cause you to have either a better lifestyle or worse lifestyle. Other people who made more early sacrifices to have a better lifestyle later should not be punished to level up those who just ignored the debt to income ratio problems associated with having children.
if you had a kid 20 years ago, you might have had a different expectation of what child care, health care, and college costs would be than what we currently see
regardless of what you think the parents should have done, darrin's point was about who bernie appeals to... not if those people have made perfect decisions in hindsight
You're describing a rare problem, no doubt - we saved for college but didn't factor in the increase in costs. Mostly they didn't save for and the kid will either join the military or struggle through the 20's and, if fortunate, smart or lucky, land a decent gig somewhere along the way so they have a stable career and can better plan for their own children's futures.
Doesn't need to be perfect decisions - sometimes having the child is the perfect decision even if it means you struggle early on, and the last thing I'd do is tell them what they can or cannot do with their own bodies, but I am not going to pay for it.
regardless of what you think the parents should have done, darrin's point was about who bernie appeals to... not if those people have made perfect decisions in hindsight
like i showed earlier in the discussion about college tuition, years ago the student could pay it off themselves with a frickin summer job, so "saving up for college" wasn't necessarily a thing, and not something that every parent thought about before boning. not to mention, college degrees have become a lot more common than before, and are becoming more and more of a barrier to entry in professional fields. somebody born 50 years ago who had kids 20-25 years ago would have had a very different perspective than they do now in hindsight, nothwithstanding the cost increase
I went to college in the early 90's and it was expensive then, no summer job was going to pay for it, even with the GI bill. If you have a 20 year old kid, that kid was born in 2000. College was not summer job cheap then. Even in the early 80's the Army was touting the GI bill to get people to enroll. I didn't go to college for fun. Even after I left the military with the best military training in my career field, I saw degrees as being almost a requirement if you didn't want to be entry level for 5 years and some jobs like engineering you likely couldn't crack at all by then without a degree.
So knowing what we know now, how many people are actually saving up for their kid's college vs just boning and spitting out trophies?
Children= trophies
That's the future, you dumb .
Teach them well and let them lead the way.
Did people really believe Obama would do this
Seriously doubt it
Bernie world has a little of the same conspiracy mindset as Trump voters tbh. The main Bernie Sanders subbreddit just banned CNN for being "fake news" (srs) but then pushed a poll from CNN to the front page because it showed Bernie doing well. It's fake news until it's something good
then they complained about CNN's wording the whole thread because it wasn't complimentary enough
CNN = Clinton News Network
Kobestans
Thanks, that's the first time I ever heard that.
CNN is pretty terrible, tbh
With a grain of salt, because polling and months to go until the election. This blog argues that Sanders may outperform Biden in the Electoral College in battleground states even though he trails in national polls:
https://www.carlbeijer.com/2020/01/s...et-in.html?m=1While Biden leads in several states, these are either states that Sanders wins too (Michigan, Nevada) or states where both nevertheless lose (Georgia, Iowa). Sanders, meanwhile, overperforms where it counts: in states with smaller margins like Florida and New Hampshire.
I don't watch CNN but some of it is that the average cable news viewer is like 65 and that is Bernie's weakest group by far so the audience probably dislikes him more hence there is more of an audience for negative coverage. Same thing with the "Bernie blackout" on cable news or whatever as he polls at 8% among 65+ so less interest in him than in Biden who polls at 40% with the olds
Same reason a progressive site that targets young people is not going to run pro-Joe Biden pieces but instead s on him every day as it's what their audience wants. They're not clicking on a Joe Biden human interest stories.
People bag on Fox News for having Trump's in their mouth but if Fox put on anti-Trump show in the Hannity slot their ratings would plummet down to zero. I guess my point some of the "conspiracies" are just what that particular audience wants ratings wise
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