Bernie Sanders

CoreCivic, started a private county jail and private juvenile detention center in Tennessee. Along with this, they also founded a privately-owned institution in Houston, meant to house immigration detainees. In the past presidential election, Bernie Sanders in 2015 co-sponsored the Justice is Not for Sale Act, which proposes banning all…

Who of you remember the very wise words of Thomas Jefferson when he said -”We hold these truths to be self evident; That whenever any Form of Goverment becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government..”? Very wise words indeed, wouldn’t you say? Abraham Lincoln added his two cents on November 19, 1863 when stated in part that “this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom”. In other words the people of the…

Bernie Sanders had once said, “A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much while so many have so little” (@SenSanders). In other words, Bernie Sander is talking about wealth inequality. Wealth Inequality, as Yonatan Berman, Eshel Ben-Jacob, and Yoash Shapira has stated in their article as “one of the most disturbing social and economic issues of our time” (Berman para 1), can be defined as the unfair distribution of assets within a population. Wealth Inequality is…

guarantee for these plans to be in effect. Whether party wins, they both share mutual morals for the desire to help curb the problem of the price inflations. However, until then, I believe that the current government should consider the plans proposed by Sanders and Clinton to help protect not only the patients but the federal healthcare as well. The government should be involved in promoting competition and allowing healthcare providers to negotiate for prescription medication. This will help…

free would drop crime rates, saving the government even more money that could be put towards the cost of tuition free college. A government official, Bernie Sanders adds that this plan could also be possible if we were to turn to the wealthy, Wall street, and Corporate America for funding. An article written by Tami Luhby explains Sanders’ plan “Sanders would impose a 0.5% fee on stock trades, 0.1% fee on bonds and a 0.005% fee on derivatives. This would raise up to $300 billion a year” (2015).…

Although in more modern history it may seem like electoral votes are already set in stone, that is not always true. In fact, there are various factors that contribute to the overall outcome of both the nomination of a candidate, and subsequently, the presidential election. Furthermore, in a presidential campaign, candidates must maintain awareness about state primaries and caucuses (“Presidential Campaigns”). Both state primaries and caucuses are a means of choosing their presidential…

Leaks and their effects in Politics Leaking information is a political weapon. It has a purpose, and requires strategy, as well as confidentiality. Leaks are time sensitive, and apart of an art form. Reporters spend their careers developing relationships with politicians and those in their circle so they can gain access to privileged information and sworn secrecy. Aside from this, political information is also used as a weather vane. Politicians leak information to survey a response before…

College, all of our teachers have been there and most likely hope that their pupils will attend as well. The topic of free college tuition is extremely controversial and is constantly in the news, our schools and for the high school student and the college professor, it is always on our mind. Many political leaders and educational authorities make constant attempts to please everyone by creating their policies which propose various procedures for taking on free college. Many of these policies…

The concentration of media ownership, known also as media consolidation or media convergence, is the business comprised of an increasingly small amount of individuals and organizations that control shares of the mass media. This extensive direction in which media business ownership is changing is deemed upon as not only objectionable, but also results in damaging effects for both the economy and society. Although there is little evidence that this concentration results in harm, media ownership…

The American Void Bernie Sanders once stated, “For many, the American Dream has become a nightmare”. The American Dream was a set of ideas that every citizen has the freedom and rights to achieve opportunity for prospects and success and also upward social mobility for family and children (The American Dream). Sadly, all of the American Dream ideology has been shattered due to lower wages and difficult job market, also the ideas of the American Dream has been overinflated, and the high cost of…