Bernie Travels First Class
Socialism has its perks.
by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr
Washington
I wonder if at the outset of his career back in woodsy Vermont Bernie Sanders — Crazy Bernie, as we say — ever imagined that years later at the age of 77 he would be running for president, have developed a taste for private jets, be the master of three homes, and run on a platform that included Medicare for All, Free College for All, and a Minimum Wage of $15 an Hour for All, that and the rest of the Green New Deal with no hint of how he would pay for it. No one is making a very big issue of it that Crazy Bernie has already rung up a tab of trillions of dollars that the taxpayers will have to pay somewhere down the road.
There was a day when we chuckled about Limousine Liberals. What do you call Bernie? A Sybaritic Socialist? Sure he still dresses like a rag doll, but his transportation is another matter. He does not fly first class. He flies private jet, and lounges about in his three homes, all tended to by his wife who just bankrupted a minor university. I wonder if she is paying off any of that university’s debt that she rang up.
Bernie is not being questioned about the enormous amount of debt his campaign promises are bundling on the taxpayer so it is a bit churlish for me to complain, but let me follow the Good Times, that is the Washington Times, and question how he is planning to cover the enormous carbon footprint that his use of private jets accounts for.
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