Home Depot Co-Founder: Bernie Sanders Is the “Enemy of Every Entrepreneur”
FOXBusiness / June 24, 2019The co-founders of Home Depot believe if Bernie Sanders were president when they tried to open their business in 1978, the home-improvement retailer may never have existed.
In an exclusive interview with Neil Cavuto, Bernie Marcus and Ken Langone explain why.
“Home Depot is the poster child for capitalism,” Marcus said.
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When asked about Bernie Sanders’ plan to have Wall Street pay for $1.6 trillion in student-loan debt, the two had a few things to say about the self-proclaimed socialist’s plan.
“[Bernie Sanders] is the enemy of every entrepreneur that’s ever going to be born in the country and has been born in the past.”
— Bernie Marcus, Home Depot co-founderLangone agreed, “if the people in America today … if they want to know what the future holds for them following Bernie Sanders, go to Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, Eastern Europe. Guess what? It doesn’t work.”
Instead of backing people who have gotten rich helping others do-it-themselves (never a popular concept for socialists), Bernie has come up with this brilliant plan: take your money, take the wealthy’s money, and punish everyone involved! Including those who want to do it themselves.
Note: The following is NOT from the Babylon Bee:
Sanders Unveils $2.5 Trillion ‘Housing for All’ Plan
The Hill | 09/18/19White House hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday released a $2.5 trillion plan to guarantee housing for every American.
Sanders said the plan would “guarantee every American — regardless of income — a fundamental right to a safe, decent, accessible, and affordable home” and would be paid for by a wealth tax on the top one-tenth of 1 percent of income earners.
“There is virtually no place in America where a full-time minimum wage worker can afford a decent two bedroom apartment. At a time when half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck, this is unacceptable,” he said. “For too long the federal government has ignored the extraordinary housing crisis in our country. That will end when I am president.”
Sanders’s plan seeks to invest $1.48 trillion over 10 years in the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund to build and maintain 7.4 million “quality, affordable and accessible housing units” that he says will eliminate the gap in affordable housing for the lowest-income renters. It would also invest another $400 billion to build 2 million mixed-income social housing units.
I’ll evade Godwin’s Law by just pointing out that Russia and China have also had “mixed-income social housing units” for those who displeased the government.
“There is virtually no place in Hollywood, Sundance, or Manhattan — West Side, overlooking the park — where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a decent two bedroom apartment. At a time when half of our people are living socialist promise-to-socialist promise, this is unacceptable.”
Bernie’s gotta lot of big plans that are going to add to this big time………………
https://www.davemanuel.com/us-national-debt-clock.php
I am always amazed how socialists/liberals/Democrats can pack so much stupidity into so few words.
Full-time minimum wage worker? You mean they can never do better? If you want to get paid more find a job you can do that pays more.
Decent? Well there is a word with a sliding definition scale.
two-Bedroom? Has Bernie never heard of one-bedroom and studios? You live where you can afford to live.
Paycheck to paycheck? Half? I guess I qualify since I have to wait for my paycheck to pay my rent. I also have a two bedroom apartment. Decent, but I could find something cheaper if I didn’t want to live exactly where I want to live.
Life is full of choices and trade offs. The government cannot fix that by taking away some people’s money and giving it to someone else.
Thank god that old commie will never be president. And he knows damn well he’ll never get elected. So he can afford to sit back and promise anything. But he’s forcing Democrats to move further Left to ‘one up’ him making them just as un-electable. So, maybe we should thank him for that.
It is the “Transition”
Democrat – Democratic Socialist – Socialist – Hey Buddy, can you spare a dime?
Bernie Marcus has just now figured out that communists are anti-capitalists? How in the heck did he ever get this far in life without knowing this simple fact? This is like issuing a general warning to the public that Mike Tyson likes to hit people, as if you’re exposing some sort of secret that nobody knows. Of course Bernie Sanders is the enemy of every entrepreneur – he’s been very loud and proud of that title and screaming it from the rooftops for 50 years!
Everyone supposedly got a place to live in the USSR/Eastern bloc also. Anyone who votes for him and his kind are willfully ignorant.
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You know that technically a “Gulag” is a place to live. Technically.