Escape from Socialist Paradise

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Cuban migrant windsurfs to Navy property
BY ADAM LINHARDT Citizen Staff
alinhardt@keysnews.com
A Cuba migrant windsurfed across the Florida Straits and came ashore at Naval Air Station Key West property in the Truman Annex Tuesday afternoon.

The migrant told Navy personnel that he had been on the water for about 12 hours, said NAS Key West spokeswoman. He was spotted by nearby Joint Interagency Task Force South security cameras and received medical care.

Custom and Border Protection agents responded to the Navy property, she added.

The incident marked the fourth time since 2014 that federal agencies have searched or found Cuban migrants using the method to cross the dangerous Florida Straits.

In April 2014, the Coast Guard searched for, but never found, a migrant reportedly windsurfing after they received a call from his wife. It was not clear if she lived in Florida or Cuba.

In February 2014, a Cuban windsurfer came ashore in Key West at The Reach Resort, 1435 Simonton St. He told federal authorities that there were two others still at sea.

Two days later, a good Samaritan found the second man drifting on a windsurfing board, about seven to 10 miles south of Big Pine Key. He was dehydrated and exhausted, but otherwise uninjured.

The next day, a good Samaritan found the third man on the southeast side of Marquesas Keys. The Coast Guard picked him up shortly thereafter.

The three men left from Jibacoa, Cuba, a fishing village in the Mayabeque Province on the island nation’s northwest coastline, according to the first windsurfer who landed at The Reach Resort.

alinhardt@keysnews.com

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I wonder why Bernie didn't take a boat the other direction?

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Bernie Sanders is a self-described democratic socialist. He has been a US senator since 2006 and a congressman since 1988. He is well known for being the first independent member of the House of Representatives in 40 years. Bernie Sanders earned a degree in political science from the University of Chicago. Before becoming a member of the House, Bernie Sanders was mayor of Burlington for seven years.

Title: Senator
Current Salary: $174,000
Average Salary as a US Congressman or Senator since 1988: $130,000+


Bernie Sanders’s Net Worth
Estimated Net Worth as of 2015: $420,000

How in the world can someone be stupid enough to where they make over $130,000 per year, and have all their expenses paid for, for 27 years and only have a net worth of $420,000? No wonder he believes in having the government babysit everyone, he's an idiot.

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Nobody has figured this out yet?

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Most Bernie Sanders supporters aren't willing to pay for his revolution

About 66 percent of Sanders supporters said they wouldn't be willing to pay more than an additional $1,000 in taxes for universal health care. This includes the 8 percent of Sanders supporters who aren't willing to pay anything at all.

About two in three Sanders supporters don't want to pay extra, or no more than $1,000, for free public college tuition

Sanders supporters are far and away the most likely to want free public college tuition. Still, 14 percent said they don't want to pay additional taxes for it — and another half said they would only pay up to $1,000 a year

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/marke...ion/ar-BBrLfpd

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Study: Bernie Sanders's single-payer plan is almost twice as expensive as he says

Thorpe finds that Sanders's plan would cost an average of $2.47 trillion per year from 2017 to 2026, on top of existing federal spending on health care. Sanders's campaign's analysis, by contrast, estimated an average cost of $1.377 trillion.

In a phone call, Gunnels explained the $1.1 trillion gap. It comes down to five factors:

1. Sanders assumes $438 billion more per year in administrative savings than Thorpe; Thorpe assumes that total health spending will fall by 4.7 percent because single-payer is simpler to administer, while the campaign has anticipated a reduction of 16 percent (changed in a later email to 13 percent).

2. Sanders assumes $324 billion more per year in prescription drug savings than Thorpe does. Thorpe argues that this is wildly implausible. "In 2014 private health plans paid a TOTAL of $132 billion on prescription drugs and nationally we spent $305 billion," he writes in an email. "With their savings drug spending nationally would be negative." (Emphasis mine.) The Sanders camp revised the number down to $241 billion when I pointed this out.

3. Sanders assumes $216 billion more per year in savings because Thorpe thinks eliminating copayments and deductibles will lead to people using a lot more health care (10 percent more, to be exact), and Sanders's camp is more skeptical (they assume 6 percent more).

4. Sanders assumes $160 billion per year in savings relative to Thorpe because, they argue, he includes elective procedures like plastic surgery, which single-payer wouldn't cover. Thorpe disputes this: "Cosmetic surgery, really? That's $12 billion a year and in the second decimal of rounding." In other words: There's no way excluding plastic surgery can give you $160 billion of savings.

5. Sanders assumes that states will pay $100 billion more per year in Medicaid and SCHIP spending than Thorpe does, because they think states will keep paying in the exact same amount they currently pay into those programs. Thorpe is skeptical, noting that in the Supreme Court's 2012 Obamacare ruling, it "said in essence you cannot force states to make spending on a expansion of Medicaid —how is the world can you expect states to contribute toward the costs of programs that are eliminated?"

http://www.vox.com/2016/1/28/1085864...e-single-payer