Bernie Sanders Is Wrong by Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Bernie Sanders Is Wrong Reviews

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  Scout Collins

  Complete crap. These arguments are so stupid I can barely stand to read them. Essentially an e-book of "alternative facts". Not even structured opinions specifically about Bernie, just interviews with random people on subjects Bernie has opinions on.
  
  From Chapter 4 about Energy:
  "My view is that if you actually look at the relationship between fossil fuel energy, both its benefits and its risks, if you really look at those in a full-context way, it’s an unbelievably positive thing that you should want more of, just as you would say: I’d really like more people in the world to have access to antibiotics. You wouldn’t say, oh, it’s a necessary evil because it has side effects."
  Yep. We should all want to pollute the planet. Such a positive thing! So many benefits for everyone!
  
  From Chapter 7 about Healthcare:
  "Another great analogy would be the iPhone to most medical technology. Most medical technology is a decade behind where we’re at with anything else. But the iPhone, with limited government restriction, can create the best software that they know how to make and meet the needs of their clients in whatever way they see fit, to the point now that a billion apps have been made. Okay, fantastic. But that’s without regulation and everybody’s free to create a unique product."
  Don't compare an iPhone to the entire healthcare industry. Stupid comparison. Public healthcare requires regulation, yes. But that way prices are lower and everyone benefits instead of just the richest.
  
  "Part of that is the grading criteria: you pre-weight the scales so that the people you want to win, win. So part of that is the grading scale for how points are awarded to rank health-care systems is based on egalitarian distribution of health care. Well, Cuba has a very egalitarian distribution of health care. Everybody gets the same awful health care. And countries like Canada won’t diagnose cancer after 75."
  Don't insult Canada's healthcare system. It's better than America's for sure. At least people can afford to get screening tests for cancers and other illnesses... and they don't have to pay thousands of dollars any time they need a procedure done.
  
  I gave up reading after Chapter 7. Total waste of time.
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  Tadas Talaikis

  No data, only hanging on every word. Dropped after 1/2.
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  Seth

  A collection of interview transcripts from libertarian Tom Woods' podcast, dealing with many of the topics Bernie Sanders is wrong about: poverty, inequality, energy policy, minimum wage, healthcare, the so-called gender wage gap, and free trade. I am not a card-carrying libertarian, but these arguments powerfully demolish the lunacy that is Bernie Sanders.
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  Conor Fogarty

  A truly in depth critique that responds to every argument with such clarity, and covers pretty much every counter-argument I can think of. A truly worthy read for supporters of free market capitalism and small government or those wishing to find a sophisticated critique of Bernie Sanders' positions.
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  Yuri Zbitnoff

  Tom Woods compiles an excellent selection of transcripts from his podcasts which tackle the central pillars of the Sanders agenda and expose the fallacies, distortions, and delusions of this insufferable charlatan.
  
  
  http://wp.me/s6lj8t-581
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  Josh

  While this book provides good information, it's simply a collection of transcripts of shows. I loathe books that are a collection of articles, as they lack a proper flow and could easily expand on the information provided if the author bothered to invest more time.
  
  Let me make clear that I'm no Sanders fan. His foreign policy is simply more of the same, and he's economically clueless. That said however, reading through these transcripts makes me want to gouge my eyes out because of the terrible formatting; it's simply blocks of speech!
  
  Woods really would have done his readers a better service if he would have taken the time to actually write this as a book instead of just throw a bunch of transcripts together. Even adding a hyperlink to each show would have been nice. But no, just blocks of text. Ugh.
  
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  Christopher Goins

  One of the best books on my 2015 reading list. The future looks great. Our human progress looks great. Technology has brought the prices of many things down and made products not accessible to the richest person 30 years ago common to the poorest people today.
  
  This book goes beyond Bernie Sanders and addresses the fallacies of those who whine about income inequality, climate change, fossil fuels, the minimum wage, and so much more. As with any good libertarian work, it (rightly) places the blame on government as being most culpable for society's ills. Thank God technology is going to undermine the government's control of humanity.
  
  
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  Adrián Sánchez

  Es un interesante libro (gratis que te ofrece el propio autor en su sitio web) en donde más allá de rebatir las propuestas del candidato a las primarias demócratas Bernie Sanders son demostrar las fallas de las típicas propuestas del liberalismo moderno en Estados Unidos que se centran en una intervención del gobierno bastante grande, el libro cubre los tópicos del mito del modelo nórdico, la brecha salarial, las energías "verdes", el aumento al sueldo mínimo, entre otros, entrevistando a varios expertos en cada una de las materias.
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  Vladivostok

  Not a proper book, but rather a collection of interviews by Tom Woods with various economic and policy professionals. Topics include: Scandinavia, alternative energy subsidies, minimum wages, healthcare, employee benefits, the gender gap, and free trade agreements. Pretty basic stuff, but interesting and fairly comprehensive nonetheless.
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  Ryan Watkins

  I agree with the title that "Bernie Sanders is Wrong" and this free ebook, which features interviews between the author, Tom Woods, and a variety of guests, does a good job of showing why that statement is true.
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  Patrick S.

  This is a free e-book put out by Tom Woods that uses some of his interviews from his podcast to hit some of the high points of Bernie Sanders rhetoric. They are in transcript form but the people he has on are the perfect people to address the specific issues rather than Woods writing and citing what others have done before and what he's interviewed specifically for.
  
  Woods covers points like reasons the US shouldn't be modeled after Sweden or Denmark, the problem with alternative energy, the $15 minimum wage, American health care, the supposed inequality problem, the false gender pay gap, free trade, and an overview of Sanders' approach.
  
  As they are transcripts there's not really much new that I haven't listen to before. However, having something I can convert and mark up for notes is very helpful. The weakest chapter was on health care. However, Woods presents an alternative program to use rather than through insurance agencies; although he does touch on issues with how it's viewed now. A better work on the subject would be "Primal Prescription" by Doug McGudd and Robert Murphy. The Sweden and Denmark interviews were interesting as Woods spoke with people from the area and so knew the history better than outsiders. The best chapters were probably covering how minimum wage hurts and the supposed problem with wealth inequality.
  
  The pro and the con of this free ebook is that you get a good sense of the issues and you can research a particular topic more. The negative being that Woods doesn't take quotes from Sanders or specific statements of ideology and refute them. However, the guests Woods interviews know their subjects well and do a good job of laying out arguments backed up by real numbers and not just talking points.
  
  Free and a good resource to have for dealing with the main topics of "exactly-at-this-right-moment" progressive thought economics. Final Grade - B+
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  Qasim Zafar

  Bernie Sanders, the projected nominee for the Democratic party, often makes the claim that "The middle class is disappearing," and those emotionally inclined, those who are feeling the hardships imposed on them by the current economic climate, are inclined to take this to believe that more people are becoming poor. But in reality when presenting his numbers to prove this point, he fails to account for taxation, government transfers, household size, household size, and the monetary value of healthcare, or inflation. The reality is that when these factors are taken into account and adjusted for we see that more people, and families, have been pushed into higher classes than into poverty.
  
  Another example of where Bernie Sanders uses emotionally manipulative rhetoric to push his brand of socialism is when he propagates the claim that, "No-one working 40 hours a week should have to live in poverty." The reality is that 94% of people working full time do not live in poverty, and 78% of people living in poverty do not work at all. These and other increasingly false claims, misleading and emotionally manipulative rhetoric have made Bernie loose all credibility with me.
  
  In this book Tom Woods explores the economics behind Bernie's policies, and he does this through interviewing those well versed in economics. Through the 12 chapters of this book the four main questions which are explored are:
  
  1. Should the U.S. model itself after Scandinavia?
  2. Should the government spend money on alternative energy?
  3. Is a $15 minimum wage a good idea?
  4. Would more government intervention improve the economy
  
  Unlike other books which I read on economic matters, there is no technical language in this book, it is easy to read for the layman, and I highly recommend it to those who wish to go beyond the demagoguery.
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  Mark Smaling

  Debunks socialism very well.
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  Aaron Dutton

  This free book was worth every penny. Basically just a collection of somewhat random podcast transcripts, thrown together and wrapped in advertising for Woods' other paid products.
  
  I almost gave up half-way through but glad that I powered through it. The first part is rough and the straw man arguments are so plentiful that it was hard to get through. However, the chapter on income inequality was particularly good and worth reading. Still, there is not enough redeeming material to deserve more than 1 star.
  
  I'm sure there are better books if you are interested in this subject. I would not recommend this one to anyone. If you're already a Tom Woods listener than you've probably heard all these arguments before.
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  Joshua

  Would I be a libertarian now without this collection of podcast transcripts? …I mean, yeah, probably. But you never know, eh?