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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 272 - Can Trump Actually Fulfill His Promises?

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News, News Commentary

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Can any politician actually fulfill promises that should never have been made? Meanwhile, Democrats backtrack on their Russia allegations, and Tomi Lahren gets in hot water on The View. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

On Saturday, socialist Septuagenarian Loonbag, Senator Bernie Sanders, independent of Crazy Land,

0:23.9

took to Twitter to fire off a missive about how evil and terrible Americans are. Here's what he tweeted. Quote, we are living in a nation which worships wealth rather than caring for the poor. I don't think that is the nation we should be living in. Well, he can move. This isn't the first time Sanders has expressed this idea. In January, Sanders said America was, quote, not a compassionate society and stated, quote,

0:28.8

our record is worse than virtually any other country on earth. This is stupid. First off,

0:33.2

Sanders obviously worships government power rather than caring for the poor. The notion that the socialist nations with which he sympathized throughout his youth cared more for the poor

0:36.8

than the greatest prosperity-generating nation in the history of mankind is absurd on its face.

0:41.7

Sanders merely wishes he ran the world's wealth because he thinks he could allocate it better than

0:45.3

billions of people exchanging in free exchange goods and services all around the planet.

0:50.3

In fact, he routinely stands against such free exchange.

0:53.2

Second, the American people actually don't worship wealth in the way Sanders does.

0:56.9

Marxists are materialists.

0:58.6

They think that all of human happiness amounts to material well-being.

1:01.6

The American people willingly give of themselves far more than residents of any other country.

1:05.4

The American almanac of philanthropy found that Americans, quote, out-donate Britain and Canada two to one, and nations like Italy and Germany, 20 to 1. What's more? More than half of every single income class except those earning less than 25 grand donate to charity. Gritty evil 1%ers, we give one-third of all that charity, and the wealthiest 1.4% of Americans are responsible for 86% of the charitable donations made at death.

1:30.1

America is by far the most religious country in the industrialized world.

1:33.4

The notion we sit around worshipping money is a leftist conceit that identifies good middle-class living built around church and family as babetry.

1:40.7

But Sanders engages in just that sort of babetry while ignoring community on his own. He owns

1:44.7

three homes. And as for his claims that Americans are selfish, he donated about 8,300 bucks to

1:50.2

charity in 2014 on earnings of $205,000. That is half the percentage of income given to charity that

1:55.5

the Clintons handed over, not exactly the record of a man who proclaims that wealth means nothing

1:59.5

and that the trappings of materialism must be shed in favor of redistribution. The media constantly pay attention to President

2:06.0

Trump's Twitter feed. They should, but Sanders' Twitter feed is far more idiotical, and

2:10.3

ideologically, it's actually more dangerous. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro show.

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