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![Bernie Sanders, Click, and cnn.com: So You've Seen This CNN Article Claiming An
Economist Just Vetted Sanders' Plan And
Announced It Would Be Wildly Successful?
ANNUAL
GDP GROWTH
MEDIAN INCOME
UP BY
52%
$22,000
ouroney 24%
POVERTY
6%
14.8%
UNEMPLOYMENT
38%
"currenty: 4.9%
Under Sanders, income and jobs would soar, economist
says
Problem Is. That Economist Just Happens To Be
The Same One Who AUTHORED Bernie's Plan.
ALL HE DID WAS PROCLAIM HIS OWN IDEAS TO BE
GREAT! THAT'S NOT A LEGIT VETTING PROCESS!
<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://redbloodedamerica.tumblr.com/post/139003454115">redbloodedamerica</a>:</p>
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<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://gop-tea-pub.tumblr.com/post/139002706652">gop-tea-pub</a>:</p>
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<p>This
popular CNN article has been circulating recently, claiming that an
economist has studied Bernie Sanders’ plans and concluded that they’d be
an astounding success. [a]<br/><br/> Here’s the problem, THAT economist
happens to be the same exact economist who AUTHORED Bernie’s proposal.
Published back on July 31, 2013, rogue economist Gerald Friedman, a man
who proudly refers to himself as a “heterodox economist,”
[b] which means that he doesn’t adhere to widely accepted economic
beliefs, released a healthcare proposal that involved scrapping the
entire private health insurance system in favor of government managed
health insurance. [c] That plan was based off of a hypothetical one year
budget. Then, a few years later, when Bernie Sanders decided to run for
president, Sanders adopted this proposal as “his” plan for healthcare.
Friedman then revised the plan to make it a 10 year proposal, since
presidential budgets are often 10 year plans. A Huffington Post article,
written by Friedman, lays out his 10 year plan as he attempts to defend
Sanders from earlier attacks. [d]<br/><br/> Then comes this latest
article where CNN acts almost as though Sanders just had his plans
thoroughly vetted by an impartial economist. He CLEARLY didn’t. <br/><br/>
This article, on the grounds that it’s a conflict of interest,
shouldn’t be regarded as independently verified vindication of Bernie’s
plans. It’s not legit. Sanders has ALWAYS had this one rogue economist
on his side. This CNN article is the equivalent of WAC authoring a
“jobs-boosting” proposal back in 2013, where Rand Paul then chooses to
adopt it as “his” presidential plan around 2015, then someone questions
whether or not the plan would actually work as advertised, so WAC writes
an essay defending what is now referred to as “Rand Paul’s Plan,” and
CNN references that new essay with the narrative, “independent
researchers confirm Paul’s plan would work,” despite it really just
being us declaring our own ideas to be sound. THAT would NOT be
independent verification, and neither is Friedman declaring his own
ideas to be wonderful.<br/><br/> Let’s end with some important notes, some of which were even found in the CNN article:<br/><br/>
“Other economists feel that Friedman’s analysis is overly optimistic,
saying it would be difficult to achieve that level of economic
prosperity. [Furthermore], last week, the Committee for a Responsible
Federal Budget said Sanders’ plan to pay for health care would fall
short by at least $3 trillion.” [a] Lastly, even Paul Krugman, of all
people, has come out against Sanders’ plan, acknowledging that it would
require so much additional tax revenue that the middle class (not just
the wealthy) would see tax increases. He also points out that those with
high quality private insurance would have to trade it in for mere
satisfactory insurance via the the proposed single payer system. [e]<br/><br/>
Regardless of the details, which can be debated at length another time,
one should not be tricked into thinking that Sanders just had his plan
successfully vetted and vindicated. He didn’t. All that happened was ONE
rogue economist announced he thought his own ideas were really smart.<br/> ————————-<br/> Sources:<br/> [a]<br/><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/08/news/economy/sanders-income-jobs/index.html">http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/08/news/economy/sanders-income-jobs/index.html</a><br/><br/> [b]<br/><a href="http://www.pnhp.org/sites/default/files/Funding%20HR%20676_Friedman_7.31.13_proofed.pdf">http://www.pnhp.org/sites/default/files/Funding%20HR%20676_Friedman_7.31.13_proofed.pdf</a><br/><br/> [c]<br/><a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pnhp.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2FFunding%2520HR%2520676_Friedman_7.31.13_proofed.pdf&h=6AQE18lVO&enc=AZPJb2tURL4hl7HsxW9zy7_RszEMSPot0Kn-nYZ5wI2PPiGBqSRUiYz_uucz05mzbr5vYkOa94fSDuknU3-QqWxvPDiVBnHTVVjnd38uSmJqHODBbCS_KcwH1wVNLxZFJ0AhS9JxzUUxv1Se2bX4UhJvQLtQU8H07v_otMpRSZ606wzhnjtPT_ttRQllRN0_4zM&s=1">http://www.pnhp.org/sites/default/files/Funding%20HR%20676_Friedman_7.31.13_proofed.pdf</a><br/><br/> [d]<br/><a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fm.huffpost.com%2Fus%2Fentry%2Fthe-wall-street-journal-k_b_8143062.html&h=LAQE05D6K&enc=AZMfGZXQvt08iFQktBja-5jFJU6sk6N4vua6LVJm7S5q86EAFjcq_PPAeFfc4DxZFbQ3yFjy1qizaNQOi8RDiLQfNpYn9K6NAmbHPekay1bhAGT1VbNXZ25iIkqgJkSb-Mh4q7aPph3qExhcq1UEwQqpVtgDcqY2WKhHLef7iIUBxbkYZxd8ymIYfzfqjW0ZRF8&s=1">http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/the-wall-street-journal-k_b_8143062.html</a><br/><br/> [e]<br/><a href="http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/18/opinion/health-reform-realities.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region&region=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicususa.com%2F2016%2F01%2F18%2Fpaul-krugman-hillary-bernie-wrong-healthcare.html">http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/18/opinion/health-reform-realities.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region&region=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicususa.com%2F2016%2F01%2F18%2Fpaul-krugman-hillary-bernie-wrong-healthcare.html</a><br/><br/><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/feelthebern">#feelthebern</a><br/></p>
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