Millionaire Sen. Bernie Sanders calls Elon Musk's wealth "immoral" in a tit-for-tat

Sanders and Musk

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has never produced anything of public value, never created a job, never had more than his "one-trick-pony" socialist approach to his politics, and while he used to blast "millionaires and billionaires," he only attacks the latter group as he is now a millionaire himself.

Sanders is the epitome of envy; most socialists and communists are, but he wears his moral superiority proudly in his words. And like the good socialist that he is, he virtue signals by spending other people's tax money and hates people with more money than he has.

The ironic thing is, Sanders has often defended his millionaire status to the disappointment of many of his idealistic liberal arts majors who followed him.

This past weekend, Sanders got into a social media kerfuffle with SpaceX CEO and Tesla "Technoking"  Elon Musk, a person who is clearly smarter, more creative, and more of a visionary than Sanders, who, I remind you, has never created anything of value or provided even one job for another human being. 

Okay, Sanders did write porn as a young man, I'll grant him that.

But Sanders cannot stand people like Musk and other successful people like Jeff Bezos, for example. 

According to the envious Sanders, Musk's wealth is somehow a moral issue. 

The old fart tweeted Thursday:

 "We are in a moment in American history where two guys — Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos — own more wealth than the bottom 40% of people in this country. That level of greed and inequality is not only immoral. It is unsustainable."

And that's supposed to be a bad thing? They didn't steal it. They provide something that people are willing to pay for and that makes their lives better. What has Sanders done but complain?

Sanders' attack came one day after he and a handful of his fellow left-wing legislators introduced their "Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act," which, according to the senator's website, would hike "taxes on companies that pay their top executives at least 50 times more than the pay of a median worker."

Envy sucks, Sanders clucks.

In a piece for CleanTechnica, which frequently covers Musk, according to the New York Post, Zachary Shahan responded to Sanders' tweet, calling the remarks "ridiculous" and "idiotic."

The problem with Sanders is that he isn't very bright and knows nothing about economics, much like his colleague Rep. Alexandria Obviously-Comatose (D-NY) who scared away Amazon from her New York district and lost about 25,000 high paying (average $100,000) jobs for the city. 

Shahan is exactly right about Sanders--he is an idiot and ridiculous.

Musk is rich because the companies he has founded have become large and successful and holds onto his stock from those companies. He also is not hoarding his money because he doesn't even have cash to hoard. He takes out loans based on his net worth when purchasing things. Just because he's wealthy and getting richer, doesn't make him greedy, like Sanders claims about everyone with more money than him.

Sanders, as is his wont, remained focused on the only thing he is able to focus on and once again went on the attack against Musk's wealth and the "obscene" American inequality that it allegedly represents.

You know what's obscene? Bernie's Brooklyn accent--I'm originally from Brooklyn and we don't all talk like him. 

"Space travel is an exciting idea, but right now we need to focus on Earth and create a progressive tax system so that children don't go hungry, people are not homeless and all Americans have healthcare," Sanders wrote. "The level of inequality in America is obscene and a threat to our democracy."

Sure, if we listened to Sanders we wouldn't have any growth or exploration in the country. Sanders is a cancer to growth. And a progressive tax system wouldn't solve the hunger situation in the country--having two parents in the home and a change in our cultural attitudes would certainly help--throwing money at the problems didn't work in the past.

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