Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and his wife Jane Sanders. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Over a year ago, I posted on how Bernie Sander’s wife, Jane Sanders, engage in what can only be described as a Trumpesque real estate scam during her tenure as a president of a small Social Justice Warrior training facility college in Burlington, VT. At the time I summed the story up this way:
The story is banal. A woman who has her job because of her husband’s clout finagles a credulous state agency into accepting bogus financial documents. Real estate is purchased. The fraud is discovered. The wife of the powerful man is paid a lot of money to leave. Everyone else is ruined.
Essentially what Jane Sanders did was convince a state finance agency that her college, with an annual budget of $4 million, could buy a $10 million piece of property in order to build facilities for students it did not have with money it had no way of getting. In the end, Jane Sanders was paid a hefty severance payment for her just to freakin’ go away.
As Margaret Thatcher said, socialism works great until you run out of other people’s money.
Burlington College announced today that it will close on May 27 after it found itself unable to recover from “the crushing weight of the debt” incurred under Jane O’Meara Sanders, the college’s former president and wife of Bernie Sanders.
At the end of 2010, Ms. Sanders took out $10 million in loans on behalf of Burlington College to purchase a 32-acre swathe of land from the Roman Catholic diocese, which put the land up for sale to help cover the costs of a $17 million sexual-abuse settlement.
As Heat Street reported last month, the college almost immediately fell short on its financial obligations as fundraising pledges and commitments Ms. Sanders cited in the loan agreements never materialized.
Less than a year after leading Burlington College into massive debt, Ms. Sanders resigned, taking with her a $200,000 severance package. By 2014, because of its shaky finances and running deficits, Burlington College found itself placed on probation for two years by the regional accreditation agency.
But this is not an unhappy story. The parents of a couple hundred young SJWs have been bilked out of some $21,000/year in tuition. Many of the students will never complete college, which was sort of the same as graduating from Burlington College. A bevy of left wing faculty members will have to find another way of, or place to, not working for a living. And there may be a criminal investigation into Jane Sanders’s use of a fraudulent loan application for the land purchase.
This is the way that Venture Marxists, like Sanders and his wife, operate. They glom onto a few buzzwords associated with capitalism without understanding the underlying principles. Because they are so much smarter than everyone else, they know that they can make impossible deals work (if you want examples of this, check any grant issued by Obama’s Department of Energy for “green energy” products). The movies all end the same way, the ventures fail, innocent people are hurt, taxpayers are screwed, and the Venture Marxists receive a windfall and move on, all the while complaining about the inequalities caused by capitalism.
Hat tip RedState.com
She got $200,000.00 to leave.
Notice how leftists don't have the humility to leave without being cast out or bought out. This is why non profits are very lucrative.
Larry Sanders grew up with his brother in New York but moved to the UK in the 60s
The UK-based brother of US presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has been appointed as the Green Party’s new health spokesperson.
Larry Sanders, the party’s former candidate for the Oxford West and Abingdon seat, is now Jeremy Hunt and Andy Burnham’s counterpart for the environmentalist party.
Bernie, a self-described US socialist senator in Vermont, is vying with Hilary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for US president.
Larry, who has 30 years’ experience working in the health sector, was elected as a Green councillor on Oxford County Council in 2005.
The British-based brother grew up with his sibling in New York but moved to the UK in 1969. He has been an active member of the Green Party of England and Wales for well over a decade.
“If we want to make the nation healthier, we need to do it by investing in more than the NHS. For example, in housing, we need to insulate our homes better, a measure that could have a profound impact by making the poorest in our society warmer and healthier,” Mr Sanders said.
“I also want to do everything I can to make sure that Caroline Lucas’s NHS Reinstatement Bill makes it through Parliament. This cross-party initiative could act as a roadblock to NHS privatisation and this, for me, is the single most important issue.
“2016 should be another good year for the Green Party, but we’re not in the public’s eye as much as we should be. We’re the only party that is consistently speaking out against NHS privatisation and we know that the public will support us on this issue.
“We just need to be given the opportunity to tell them about the full extent of what’s being done by hard-working Green councillors and activists up and down the country.”
Green Party leader Natalie Bennett said she was “delighted” at the appointment. She noted that over 60 per cent of Green spokespeople were women and a quarter were from ethnic minority groups.
Keep these in mind as you contemplate the direction of the American government over the past 50 years and especially since the Obama election.
The Goals of Communism
(as read into the congressional record January 10, 1963, from "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen)
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
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