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To: Sam who wrote (429099)	2/5/2020 3:04:59 PM
From: M. Murray	3 Recommendations Recommended By epicure Ivan Inkling Sam Respond to of 540807

I am liking Bloomberg more and more every day. I like that he really believes trump is terrible for this country. I like that he wants to make many positive changes. I really like that he is spending a ton of his own money to become our president, as opposed to our president who is fleecing the American taxpayers and putting more money in his own family's greedy, overflowing pockets.

To: Sam who wrote (429099)	2/5/2020 6:37:37 PM
From: Alex MG	Respond to of 540807

>Most people don't know that FDR was regarded as a lightweight and another spoiled rich kid before he was elected from what I've read, he would not be such an historic figure for historic social justice change if not for the influence of Eleanor... who he cheated on but she hung on because she knew she was in a position of influencing much progressivism, and she did

To: Sam who wrote (429099)

2/6/2020 12:42:59 PM

From: koan

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First it is all moot as Bloomberg is going nowhere.

They once asked Picasso what he thought of modern art. He said:" it is fine, but first show me you can draw a horse"-lol!

The very fact that Bloomberg could not tell for all those years the difference between the Democratic party and the Republican party shows he has either limited intellect or conscience.

And we need a president with both and Bernie is both intelligent and a good guy.

The Republican party has been evil for the last hundred years, without exception, and the progressives know it and Bloomberg doesn't and is why the progressives will NEVER vote for him.

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Thanks for the cite to that article. Bloomberg's advocacy of converting to the chained weighted CPI isn't something that I would support either. But the truth is, Bloomberg is first and foremost a pragmatist. My guess is that in the end he would support raising the cap and taxing the rich more--as he has repeatedly done, although it is also true that he does not support the "wealth tax" that Sanders and Warren propose in different iterations. Leading Democrats would have to be true politicians and negotiators to get it done with a President Bloomberg. Someone like Pelosi could do it, IMO. There certainly is nothing in there which suggests that he would privatize SS.

IMHO, Bloomberg would actually be more like FDR than most people suppose. He would, in effect, save capitalism from itself. Most people don't know that FDR was regarded as a lightweight and another spoiled rich kid before he was elected. His party switching shows that he isn't ideological or chained to a party. He actually is what Trump pretends to be--a doer who sees a problem and wants to fix it. Too much sugar in people's diet? Get rid of one of the leading causes of it--sugary drinks. You think a standard R would do that? No way.

That, at any rate, is my POV at the moment.