Well Said, Bernie Sanders!

[Jonathan Whatley]

• Sanders identified three contributing causes, not just the wars.

• I take it the one trillion figure from the CBO reflects direct costs of the wars. Besides continuing direct costs like veterans service and capital replacement, there will also be debt service costs on the additional borrowing on account of the initial direct costs.

FACT: the "recklessness and illegal behavior" of Wall Street was made possible and even facilitated by reckless, shortsighted legislation from Congress.

• Well, I think Sanders and his supporters would agree with this entirely, though we'd all proceed to break down some on which legislation was reckless and shortsighted.