Who is Yuri?

Remember when Toyota eclipsed GM? Toyota made better cars. Instead of learning from the competition, GM stood around patting themselves on their backs. The gov. claims it lost 11 billion on that bailout. So, yeah, Ikea makes better furniture, and some obstructionists are too proud to learn anything.

Who is killing the Golden Goose? You have to feed it with new ideas. It's growing. I'm proud to be an American. We keep going forward. We keep getting better. Yes - Progress. I'm sure you must have some ideas on how to make the country better. Care to share them? or are you afraid that that would make you look Progressive? and subject you to the criticism of your peers?

lmgtfy? I had to look that up - "let me google that for you."

I just wanted to hear that it was a failed attempt at bribery. Your explanation is perfectly correct. It does cast some doubt as to Pegula's political leanings, though. Let me be clear: I don't see old and white as an impediment, but when they are also Conservative - my definition - impeding change, and leaning on their own myopic views on "tradition," and the "founding fathers," then I do see them as an impediment to progress. I'm glad with the job that Cuomo is doing. NYS isn't a "banana republic." Google (or Yahoo, I am guessing, in your case ) "banana republic meaning." Click on one of the search results. "Banana republic is a political science term for a politically unstable country, whose economy is largely dependent on exporting a limited-resource product, e.g. bananas." Banana Republic is a tortured metaphor for the great state of New York. Excelsior! Los Angeles sux.

It does cast some doubt on his conservative roots, though, that he gave 25k to Cuomo. What do you think it means?

He may be old. He may be white. But,http://www.wgrz.com/story/news/politics/2014/10/10/new-bills-owners-donate-25k-to-andrew-cuomo/17030575/ I did stop. Coming up on 2 years.

You think I'm fantasizing? I live in Buffalo, voted for Brown, Cuomo, Obama. The biggest impediment, as I see it, are the old, white, Conservatives, and now they are fractured and bickering. What's your political identity?

I think it translates to reality just fine. Haven't you seen the latest polling numbers in Iowa? For those of you who are still curious about owner co-ops, Google "owner co-ops." That will provide some good basic information if you click on one of the search results. "Sanders, a Vermont U.S. senator, has become a liberal Pied Piper in Iowa not as a vote against Clinton, but because caucusgoers genuinely like him, the poll shows. An overwhelming 96 percent of his backers say they support him and his ideas. Just 2 percent say they're motivated by opposition to Clinton."

I gave up Ayn Rand for Bernie Sanders: How I grew up and traded libertarianism for a progressive socialist" http://www.salon.com/2015/07/20/why_libertarians_should_love_bernie_sanders/ Quote: For too long, the anger and passion has been driven by Tea Party types and libertarians. Their solution seems to be throwing more gasoline on a trailer-park fire. Inequality? Cut taxes for the wealthy and implement a flat tax. Poverty? Eliminate the social safety net and cut food stamps. Those not actively making problems worse are obsessed with non-stories and fictitious scandals, featuring Benghazi, Jade Helm, e-mail servers or any of the other innumerable, invented outrages. Even issues I care deeply about, like prison reform, can distract. Our country grows more lopsided by the day, and despite big wins on gay marriage and health care, too many trends are moving in the wrong direction. Are we a society that works for people or are we in something like feudalism, where corporations and private organization all but own their employees? The current problem with politics, the economy and culture comes from treating human beings like just another business asset to be exploited or replaced. We say a persons value is what the market will bear, and if the market has no use for a particular human, he or she has no inherent worth. Thats pretty sick. Should we just let them starve to death? For the radical right, the answer is an enthusiastic absolutely. If all else fails, deport them.

The only reason it was brought up is that it was cherry-picked from Sanders' senate site as an example of communism. I don't need to advance co-ops as superior and don't want to. They have their merits, such as attendence and self worth, which have been mocked. Why hang out with dicks?

You're right. I do understand it, and just think that the questions being asked by some posters are passive-aggression, and not worth my time

If you want to learn more about it, I suggest going to the library. The answers that I can provide are superficial at best and unlikely to satisfy your deep curiosity.

I'm not an expert on worker Co-ops, but if Reagan was for them, I know they're not Communist. http://ourfuture.org/20150817/bernie-sanders-proposes-to-boost-worker-ownership-of-companies

You can't see the differences between a small co-operative startup and US Congress? You need me to tell you, or can you do it yourself?

I guess this is a joke. Who are you endorsing? You going to go with the Muppets endorsement, once they figure whatever things out, or are your own man, willing to put it all on the line? Are you man, or are you muppet?

A business with multiple partners, isn't typically set up with one member having one vote. Votes are weighted, and one partner typically holds a majority share in the arrangement you are describing. In a co-operative, it's one person, one vote.

No, you're looking at it from the perspective of an individual. You'll have to break yourself of that habit, in order to understand co-operation. Most often, a group of people share a common business interest and start a business together. They write bylaws, sometime incorporate - all this info is available on the SBA.gov website. SBA is the government agency that you brought up. Co-operatives generally have organization wide meetings, and seek everyone's input. When or if the size becomes unmanageable, they might elect representatives. It's a small form of government. The philosophy of co-operation, as I understand it, believes that everyone brings their own unique perspective, and the collaboration of these varied perspectives makes for a better end product. The results are rarely measured in profit, rather by quality, enjoyment, and self-worth. It's basic democracy, not what we think of as Communism. The main-stream of the Co-operative Movement believes strongly in small, local, and unique businesses. It's mostly basic small scale democracy. Sometimes, like businesses form a co-op, like in the dairy industry, so they are not racing towards the bottom, undercutting each other, and putting each other out of business.

That's up to the co-op. In reference to the quote in question, which I'll remind you was given as evidence of communism, we should only be talking about business start ups. These presumptions that corprations will be forced to collectivize, or that property will be siezed are slanderous. Bernie's not even a big spender, nor is he authoritarian. Poor, white, rural Vermont loves him. That discredits the Communist boogeyman hypothesis that some are throwing out there.

I quoted the relavent passage from his speech. Creating a new program, or agency in place of the SBA was your strawman. The cooperative model isn't exactly being championed by the SBA. I don't think you get the idea of cooperation.

Are you implying that Biden looks dumb, in comparison to Bernie, who is advocating these common sense policies that, in your opinion, improve worker productivity?

Fair enough. I see where you where going with that. "We need to provide assistance to workers who want to purchase their own businesses by establishing worker-owned cooperatives. Study after study shows that when workers have an ownership stake in the businesses they work for, productivity goes up, absenteeism goes down and employees are much more satisfied with their jobs." I doubt that he's backed down from that stance. It's very Burlington. It's not seizing property. Co-ops don't have dictators, and he's not saying that anyone has to become Co-operative. I see the strength of the argument, as being, increased productivity when each worker in the start-up has skin in the game. I could see this "encouragement (tax incentives)" being good for very small businesses. The co-operative system breaks down, though, as it grows with size. Having to recognize each workers input grows burdensome past a certain point, say 30 workers, or about the size of a good sized classroom. It's great for local bakeries, coffee shops, breweries, restaurants, farms, etc. It would be bad, and impractical for big businesses.

I can't the commune mention that you speak of. But it's some great reading. https://berniesanders.com/issues/

Trump doesn't strike me as that type, as you said, but I read there was some prior conflict between the two. Didn't Trump publish Ramos cell phone number? http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/06/trump-publishes-jorge-ramos-phone-number-209568.html

I may agree with you, that the problem isn't that those who don't deserve it can't afford it. The problem is that most have to borrow large amounts, and some who do deserve it, can't afford it. I don't think that a "free for all," system will be proposed. That's impractical. And, even if you don't deserve it, there will still be plenty of private institutions who will accept you, if you can afford it. If you don't deserve it, and can't afford it, well, college isn't for everyone. Oh yeah. Then it would be easy for us to pull up a relevant quote.

From what I saw, he was persistent, but the problem was that the other reporters deferred to him, rather than standing up to ask their questions. Maybe they hold much respect for the "Walter Cronkite of the Latinos." I'm mostly surprised that Trump said he hadn't ever heard of him.