Slamming 56-year-old billionaire Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for raking in billions during the coronavirus global pandemic, 79-year-old Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) highlighted things to come under former Vice President Joe Biden, namely, whopping tax increases for billionaires. Sanders railed over the fact that 50 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits since the Covid-19 crisis while U.S. billionaires raked in over $750 billion. Sanders built his 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns on how the top 1% steals 90% of the country’s wealth, a kind Bernie-style-Marxism, demanding billionaires to pay their fair share into U.S. coffers. Sanders couldn’t get a consensus from what he calls the billionaire class as to what percentage of their annual income they should give to the government. For that and other tax schemes, Bernie will have to wait like the rest of cash-strapped Democrats until after Nov. 3.
Bernie complained that Amazon denies its employees paid sick leave and personal protective gear, while Bezos rakes in unprecedented amounts of cash while the rest of America files for unemployment. Bernie doesn’t congratulate Bezos whose business model revolutionized online shopping far before Covid-19 rained on the U.S. parade. Yet to Bernie, Bezos, whose net worth is about $192 billion, making him the richest man in the world, gave away $60 billion to his ex-wife July 6, 2019, still the richest man in the world by far. Bernrie and other socialist-minded politicians like 30-year-old Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [AOC] (D-N.Y.), finds it disgusting with American entrepreneurs get pad for the talent and hard work. “While Amazon is denying paid sick leave, hazard pay and personal protective equipment to 450,000 of its workers, Jeff Bezos has increased his wealth over $70 billion,” Sanders tweeted.
Sanders, who influencing Biden’s economic policies, finds it disgusting that billionaires like Bezos get richer while ordinary workers get poorer, suffering from the indignity of unemployment. Yet Sanders would be first to insist that government shuts down businesses to combat the coronavirus global pandemic, something that tossed ordinary Americans out of work. It’s no accident that National Institutes of Health [NIH] infectious disease chief Dr. Anthony Fauci gets “death threats” for urging 74-year-old President Donald Trump to lock down businesses around the country. Sanders and Fauci have much in common when it comes to blaming Trump. Sanders pulls no punches when it comes to ripping Trump, while Fauci does it the quiet way letting interviews in the anti-Trump press do the dirty work. Both Fauci and Sanders encourage government to shut down businesses around the country.
Bernie’s gripe with Bezos mirrors the current national trend driven by Black Lives Matters [BLM], seeking to redistribute wealth to the African American community. When you really look at BLM, it’s less about ending police brutality and more about redistributing wealth in the United States. Sanders fits right in with BLM because he’s a Marxist, that wants wealth in the country capped, redistributed to the have-nots. Whacking Bezos and Amazon, Sanders proves he’s ready for retirement, spewing socialist slogans and claptrap, not realizing that Bezos employs millions of citizens at a time or rising unemployment. When you consider everything Amazon does for jobs and the economy, you’d think Sanders would be more complimentary. No, Sanders likes to make headlines, when if he thought for a second, he’d realize Bezos has been a great friend to the economy during Covid-19.
Bezos should take Bernie’s comments personally because he pulled the nonsense on 49-year-old Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Bernie went off on Elon for opposing future bailouts because of its effect on the economy. Bernie accused Elon July 25 of taking “corporate welfare,” for accepting millions for R&D to develop zero tailpipe emissions Tesla vehicles. Bernie and his pal AOC have pushed the “Green New Deal.” a radical approach to ending fossil fuel use for the U.S. at the earliest possible time. Yet, Bernie had no problem ripping Musk when he just single-handedly salvaged the U.S. manned space program, completing SpaceX Demo-2 space mission to-and-from the International Space Station [ISS] in his newly designed Crew Dragon spaceship with two NASA astronauts. No, Bernie doesn’t express gratitude toward Musk, he rips him for taking “corporate welfare.”
Sanders has been relegated to the dustbin other than placated by Biden to capture his youthful constituents looking for student loan relief debt, free college tuition, free health care, fossil free energy, criminal justice reform, etc. Bernie’s critique plays to headlines but doesn’t acknowledge the incredible contributions made by Bezos and Musk during the Covid-19 crisis. Whatever money Bezos made supplying goods to people without the risk of Covid-19 infections, he earned every penny, providing an invaluable service to millions of Americans. When it comes to Musk, no one has done more to end tailpipe pollution and lift the spirits of ordinary citizens to believe that the sky is the limit again in America. Bernie wants to count Bezos and Musk’s money but doesn’t want to acknowledge how much both do improve the lives of U.S. citizens. With Bezos and Musk leading the way, Sanders should only have gratitude.
