Jon Jordan, a local business owner entrepreneur in Lake Worth and who owns a bar called Propaganda located on J Street, is a big supporter of Socialist, Bernie Sanders. Jordan says Bernie's message is consistent and heartfelt.
Jon Jordan has obviously worked hard to have a successful business as well as putting on special events that make money or raise money. He caters to the youth that supports his bar and a large percentage of them support Democrat Socialist Bernie Sanders. He has fundraisers for Bernie; he even gets some old hippies to attend.
Owning a business is capitalistic and what makes America great. He has invested money, ideas and blood, sweat and tears to have a successful enterprise. But he supports a socialist who wants to take most of his money--who wants to stomp on that ambition--that he has worked so hard to make. Bernie wants to regulate and redistribute capital in ways that he believes strengthens the bargaining power of those who don’t own much capital even the deadbeats--in other words, having us all live essentially the same regardless of hard work and ambition and the risk we take to be successful.
Life sometimes does not make any sense and neither do people who support socialism who really believe in and are capitalists.
Jordan, who doesn't live here, says he has aspirations to be Lake Worth's mayor and has endorsed the present one, Pam Triolo, who is the polar opposite of a socialist. Perhaps Mr. Jordan is just a smart capitalist afterall.
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You, like a lot of Americans, are confusing socialism with communism, but regardless...whether you agree with Sanders or not, it doesn't take a lot of intelligence to realize that money has been redistributed in this country for a long time now. Look at how much of the wealth is held by so few of the people and how they continue to get tax breaks and handouts because they can afford the accountants and the politicians. They have been very successful in influencing Washington and the 50% of Americans who are gullible enough to fall for their "job providers" line even while they continue to consolidate companies and eliminate jobs. Wealth has already been redistributed in America, it's just that some folks are too immersed in their ideology to realize it.
ReplyDeleteProceed with your usual line of attack which is calling names and reminding us how Obama has ruined the country...and nothing else.
He's s smart businessman like Dylan Harrison. They know what buttons to push to make the money. There's a lot of crime around that area.
ReplyDeleteWith Bernie, there is a fine line...socialist or communist. Bernie actually hung a Soviet Flag in office when he was mayor of Burlington and he even praised Fidel Castro. he hasn't diverted from what he believes in all the years that he has been in elected office. He now just admits that he's a socialist.
ReplyDeleteGood point in blog. Clearly Propagana is there is make money and the socialists are just a means to an end. Way to go, Jon.
ReplyDeleteHow does this owner always get away with closing off that street when he wants an event that he makes money from? Maybe that's socialism? He closes off the parking and no one can get to the other businesses. If they are going to give him a permit every time he asks for one, then he should be limited to one or two a year. It's not his street..
ReplyDeleteIt makes sense for business owners, especially small business owners, to support Bernie. The cost of providing health insurance via employment is a huge drag on our, wait for it, capitalistic society. Business owners don't want to provide benefits to employers, pushing it off onto the government via medicare for all makes complete and total sense. Imagine how many people in this great country would start their own business if they didn't have to worry about losing their employer provided health insurance.
ReplyDeleteI'm not actually a Bernie supporter but I do think Medicare for all makes good sense for this country.
Well, I have never been a proponent that the world owed me a living or that the government owed me anything other than enforcing laws and policies on the books.
ReplyDeleteDuring my entire working career, I only had two companies that provided me with health insurance. I paid for it myself. All this country owes anyone is life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness...not being taken care of from cradle to grave. Our government has to protect us from discrimination, hatred and persecution. We have laws. So, I finally got smart and found a position with a company that did have benefits.
Medical insurance is exorbitantly and ridiculously expensive. Doctors and hospitals and pharmaceutical companies are too greedy. I retired early so that I could take care of my ailing Mom. I could not afford the $1,000 a month for medical insurance through cobra with no income coming in from a job. The cost of a steak is too high too. Sometimes you just have to stop expecting everyone else to support you and your wants or you will have a totally different government.
This place has helped to further Lake Worth turning into a ghetto hangout. Disgusting place. I feel bad for the businesses stuck next to them.
ReplyDeleteTo me, medicare for all is a good solution for our health insurance problems. We pay way more than any other civilized country for less care. Why, b/c so much of what we pay goes to insurance companies.
ReplyDeleteIts not free, of course, Medicare for our seniors is not free either. We the working people pay into the system that provides for the retired, as those who are retired did for the generation before.
It sounds like you know first hand how difficult this problem is for many, surprised you do not support this kind of policy.
I think I've stated my beliefs. As far as Medicare goes, I paid into the system for 40 years and paid into Medicare since it became law in 1965. That's a little different than just GIVING people free stuff.
ReplyDelete"The cost of a steak is too high" Awesome comment, this is the stuff that keeps me coming back! Thank you
ReplyDeleteI knew that you wouldn't get it.
ReplyDeleteAnd that's why we don't need Bernie.