What are three things money can't buy?

[Fearless]

Hillary? Not so much.

[merrily]

1. Like hell in all three cases.

How much do you think Milania (sp?) would love The Donald if he were a poor, homeless man?

Taking hundred millionaires and billionaires as one class, and destitute people as a second class, in which class would you find more happy people, bearing in mind no one is perfectly happy all the time?

As for that Bernie Sanders, he is so deep in the pocket of Big Voter, it's not even funny! And then, there was that $500,000+ from a PAC associated with a union of nurses who are just evil enough to support Medicare for All. Please, Louise!

[Fearless]

4. Do you really think those are examples of love and happiness?!

[merrily]

6. You don't think a younger, attractive woman can be genuinely attracted to an

older, less attractive man with power and bundles of money? I do.

Do I think more destitute people are unhappy than billionaires? I do.

When the wind chill was about 10 degrees in Boston last week, I saw a homeless woman with an old coat and a thin blanket around her shoulders trying to stay out of the way of early morning customers in a convenience store that looks the other way for her. (I think they look the other way only because she is the only homeless person I've ever seen in my neighborhood. If five or ten homeless people were lurking in those narrow aisles, I think they might call the cops.)

By the time I left the store, she was back on the street, huddling up against a building with an awning. She didn't look anywhere near as happy as Warren Buffet.

[Fearless]

8. Love is not buyable with money

Lust, sure, it's the world oldest profession. Not love. And money does not buy happiness. Money does not make people happy.

[merrily]

9. My prior posts did not say lust. Love is complex.

[GeoWilliam750]

18. Money can't buy you love

But it sure can get you some mighty fine rentals

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

10. My father used to say that while money won't buy happiness

It will allow you to be miserable in comfort.

[merrily]

12. I won't debate you or your Dad, but I definitely think money can buy

a hell of a lot more happiness than desperate need of money can buy.


As a book title says,

I've Been Rich and I've Been Poor
And Rich is Better.

Greed, on the other hand, which can be found in all income levels, stinks.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

13. Heck, you could have quoted Dickens

In David Copperfield, Mr Micawaber says, "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery."

And you are not really disagreeing with me or my father, since we weren't speaking of a lack of money bringing unhappiness.

[murielm99]

2. Not true. If that was true, he would be running as an independent.

He sure likes the infrastructure of the Democratic Party. That has been put together by hard work and MONEY, by Democratic loyalists.

[Kalidurga]

3. You should keep going down that road

Saying that 90% of the people here that vote are not real Democrats and do not fight for Democratic values or candidates. Yeah it looks like a winner you got there.

[murielm99]

16. Here at DU?

I believe a lot of them who have come here as Bernie "supporters" are not Democrats of any kind.

[Kalidurga]

17. believe what you like if you are right then

The Democratic Party is being overtaken by people who are not Democrats. Bernie has over 40% support in a whole lot of states.

[senz]

5. He didn't want to be the spoiler who elects a Republican president.

He's a hell of a lot more high-minded than you give him credit for. In fact, he's a hell of a lot more high-minded than about 90% of all politicians everywhere. And that's conservative estimate.

He's also the most democratic/Democratic candidate running.

[merrily]

11. Seems like you don't know the facts. It's not only running for President that is easier

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with a major Party infrastructure behind you. Running for the Senate or for Congress or for Mayor is much easier if you have either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party behind you. Sanders ran for all those. However, he ran as Indie, though that was harder, because he never wanted to be beholden to big donors of a party. He's not running as an Indie now because he promised long ago that he would not run for President as a "spoiler." However, he is still not--so far--beholden to any big party donors. He is running on small donations, even though that, too, is harder.

And, if he ran as an Indie and split the vote in the general, you'd love that, right?

[Proserpina]

15. I don't see Bernie benefiting from the INFRASTRUCTURE of the Party

All he's benefiting from is the label. Because being a Democrat used to mean something. And with Bernie, being a Democrat has meaning again!

I would argue that the Democratic Party is the real beneficiary, from having Bernie as its leading candidate. The swell of enthusiasm, the growth in membership, the outpouring of volunteers...all this can translate into a healthy, vital, growing organization....if DWS doesn't manage to kill it.

[rpannier]

7. Class

Just ask trump and palin

[Proserpina]

14. And Ethics

Good for those that can afford them, but after a certain point, ethics get in the way of satisfying greed.