Infrastructure is a fundamental part of our everyday life, and, because of this, Bernie Sanders wants a major rehaul of it. In January 2015 he introduced a bill about federal investment into American infrastructure to the US Congress. Bernie is not waiting for the Presidential campaign to bring his thoughts to the table. …show more content…
On international trade, Sanders, like most other democrats, with exception of President Obama, believes that the Trans-Partnership only benefits large corporations “at the expense of workers, consumers, the environment, and foundations of American democracy.” (Feldmann) Since 2001 the USA lost 60,000 factories and 4.9 million “decent paying manufacturing jobs” (Senator Bernie Sanders). International Trade Policies was initially created for participating countries to lower tariff levels. It has been economically proven that tariffs lower overall trade. This occurs because the government lowers the demand for foreign products by making them more expensive, since their prices have to reflect the market entry cost, also known as the tariff. The initial trade policies were successful increasing trade by lowering tariffs. However, when all the tariffs had been lowered to a minimum, countries still wanted to increase trade through trade policies. The countries started to form exclusive deals with shady provisions. As the time went on the policies grew more complex, and yet had no significant supervision. Today this policies wreak havoc on the countries involved by exporting decent-paying jobs to countries with very low wages. This system benefits corporations at the expense of the poor (Irwin). When a few of the latest Presidents of the USA promised to create …show more content…
He thinks that Obamacare is not adequate enough and suggests “a Canadian-style single-payer health-care system” (Senator Bernie Sanders). Today in the USA many people have trouble affording health care. Instead of being a right for all, it is a privilege for some. The present health care system in the USA is too complicated. “Over 40 million people are uninsured and millions more people have inadequate health care coverage with high deductibles and copayments” (Bernie Sanders Video) Such characteristics of health care as infant mortality and life expectancy placed the United States almost on the last position after all “other advanced country in the world” (Bernie Sanders Video). In contrast to this fact, the cost of health care has doubled for US government compared to other industrialized nations. “As a result of an incredibly complicated, wasteful, bureaucratic, and profit-driven system, the USA spends 17 percent of its gross domestic product – approximately $2.7 trillion annually – on health care and yet tens of millions remain uninsured” (Senator Bernie Sanders). “A 2009 study published in the American Journal of Public Health found that nearly 45.000 people died a year because they do not have health insurance, including more than 2,200 veterans” (Senator Bernie Sanders). Many of these people died because they got medical help too late as a result of the absence of health