Free stuff, that is predominately private Banks who are given the right by government mandate to create our money supply out of thin air and lend that money to us or to the government at interest, when it would be trivially easy for the government to create the money themselves, no need to borrow off of criminal banks. These Bankster parasites produce nothing but are the richest persons on the planet due to this gift. Talk about free stuff.

"Free stuff" in more advanced countries is considered part of the commons and every citizens right. Those countries actually promote the general welfare of their people. If you add everything up, the average citizen already pays at least as much tax in this country, as do the citizens in the countries with Democratic Socialism. However we get far less in return because half of our revenue goes to the military industrial spy complex in addition to all the revenue drains Thom already pointed out in his blog.

Bernie needs to keep pounding away at what "good government" can really do for citizens.....talk about the things "good government" is already doing in Democratic Socialist countries. We already know what bad government is, one in which the will of the billionaires Trumps the will of the people.

I imagine if everyone actually knew the truth of how screwed we have been since Reagan's overthrow of good government, there would be riots in the streets. The economists certainly know what a screw deal the middle class has been handed the last 30 some years....the ones that are honest about the stats anyway! They must have to drink heavy just to prevent their heads from exploding.

That would be a hell of a writeoff - over 1 trillion dollars. Shoud be scaled somehow. Just not sure how it could be fairly done.

I think you are absolutely correct, Thom. I've been screaming this for months. I'm glad to see you, with the platform you have, pointing this out. I'll tell you what's more, it occures to me that we have two major political parties in this country, and they are both socialists. One is the Democratic Socialist Party and the other is the Darwinian Socialist Party. I'm a Social Democrat.

Tuition free college is not "free" - it costs full-time students all the hours and energy you can invest!! That's a committment! Once we learn what we are there for, there is no guarantee all those YEARS of effort will add to any monitary wealth -- WTF if that's all you are going to school for is to learn how to be a bigger consumer, stay away. But if you are determined to make this planet a better place for us all, we ought to pay you a stipend during your student years like some countries do -- Grow up, America!

Try this
http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/23/pf/college/free-college-europe/index.htm...

Here's one for youse
http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/the-urgency-of-opposing-a-hillary-clinto...

I agree with Tinmanth....it is not "anti-Semitic" to criticize the policies of the Israeli government.

Thom, I am just so disappointed in you. I never thought you would become a sell out. I find I have to turn your radio program off now. I will watch your show tonight. If it is too biased toward Hillary, I will have to quit you all together. Bernie is not a protest candidate, he is for real. I thank you for introducing Bernie to us many moons ago. We will take him. Thank you. You can keep the other one. Good luck with that. Don't believe she is a changed person until she refuses the big money and releases the actual transcripts of her speeches.

Raypc800; Exactly what I was going to say ! Change at the top in our system of government is an exercise in futility given the limited authority awarded that individual by the Constitution. The Right in this country permanently hindered any President from orchestrating any meaningful long range programs when they banded together to pass the 22nd Amendment in the late 1940s, we haven't seen a unified effort to reform this system like the New Deal since but various private financial interests have done quite well. Changing the makeup of the Congress is infinitely more difficult as it requires fifty separate groups working toward a single goal. Fifty different sets of voting rules in this country and two political parties that have been awarded guaranteed ballot access in every state. Why are we so surprised that our system no longer works for the average American ?

So what if her rhetoric co opts Bernie's positions? As soon as she's elected she'll shit can all that, forget the people and serve the big money.
Talk is cheap as piss, why does ANYBODY think what she says means ANYTHING AT ALL?

Frankly Queen, I think much of what you say is unfounded. Bernie's type of social democracy is tried and proven.
The problem I see is the public which must be detoxed from consumer capitalism. They need the will power for the discipline you talk about. Much fault lies with the comsumeristic, advertiser driven media. If the people could be properly informed instead of willfully misled and eroded of their capacity for discipline then the problems would fall away.
We need a BBC or German type national broadcasting here. PBS and NPR would have done something like that but, with their establishment in the U.S., Lyndon Johnson and House Ways and Means Committee chairman Wilbur Mills made public broadcasting dependent on appropriations rather than making it truly independent with a separate tax of its own.
Public financing of election campaigns as in Europe and something like we had in Maine and Arizona until Citizens United would help a lot too. What we have now is a system of legalized bribery.