Honestly, he's something of a refreshing change. He's not afraid to give an opinion, no matter how bombastic. He's really a nice alternative to the tumblr, liberal puss-hole generation that America and the rest of the world seems to be suffering from. I'll elaborate on this when I get to work in a little bit.
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I can't trust that Bernie or Hillary will do what's right for me, just a regular white dude who works 40 hours a week, making a pretty fair amount of money. I get taxed plenty for things that I don't agree with. I paid my way through college by working 3 work study jobs at one point, and taking out student loans. I also graduated with a 3.3 gpa, not great but decent. I worked shit jobs for years, plugging away at my student loans abs paying them off within 3 years of graduating. I chose not to go to a super expensive school because I didn't want to get slammed with debt.
That's a huge problem that I have. I don't want to pay for anyone else to go to college, unless it's my own future children. When you start to pay for things yourself, you start to appreciate hard work and it's a powerful moment when it hits you, that you'd better maximize your education and work hard. Giving everyone free college will only help to foster more feelings of entitlement that are already plaguing society today. Education is absolutely a right, but it's not my right to pay for you. There are lower cost alternatives and merit and need based scholarships.
Not only will this devalue a bachelor's degree further than its been in the past 20 years, but it will only serve to turn many colleges into high school part 2. Trades will suffer because people would rather dick around for 4 years instead of becoming skilled laborers or tradesmen. While everyone should be allowed to pursue higher education, school isn't for everyone.
Back to the taxes. All of this free shit will come from taxes. They keep talking about how it works in Sweden. They have a fraction of the population, and have a very different way of life. It works for them, but it would cripple us. For example, I work in construction, which is booming in New York right now. I make good money and there is plenty of work for me. That being said, a lot of it comes from private sector jobs, where people are building luxury high rises. If you take away half of people's salaries, European style, people won't be able to afford living there. Buildings will sit abandoned or made into low income housing, neighborhoods that were on the rise turn into shit again. Construction jobs will dry up, people will spend less as jobs become scarce, and crime will go up.
When crime goes up, arrests go up and people (morons) already hate cops enough. The people who have already been committing crimes will still commit crimes, but the liberals will blame "racist cops." It'll be an even more dangerous situation for them and that's just not a good thing. That being said, I fully support the police.
I'm also anti illegal immigration. That's more tax dollars that I'm spending. I'm also staunchly against allowing refugees in. Look what's happening in Europe with that. If they were really escaping war, they'd go to neighboring countries, not to the wealthiest counties in Europe. And then they have the balls to complain and try to make Sharia Law zones. I'm sorry, but if you don't want to assimilate into the culture of the country you're moving to, you can just get the **** out. If you want to follow your own customs at home, fine, but in public, you have to accept the rules and customs of the land that took you in.
And Hillary? She's just an evil ****
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