Many folks rent because they can't afford to buy a home. Some are lucky and own a home. How many homes do YOU own? Bernie Sanders just bought his third home. Do Bernie Busters know?

First off, what business is it of yours or anybody else's? Second, why do you need to try to trash Bernie, who didn't do anything wrong throughout the whole campaign, and has now bowed out and endorsed Hillary? Third, are you just another bandwagon jumper that barks along in chorus with sensational headlines, without even doing the slightest investigation? Fourth, O'Meara Sanders has stated already that she inherited a home in Maine which sat unused, so it was sold to buy this new place in Vermont. 

Mostly is not luck that allowed someone to buy a home ... my dad started on low wages as an apprentice knowing eventually he would be better off. He studied and worked hard and didn't travel a lot. . They were smart choices not luck

Oh, my!  I see you're catching some of the same abuse that I did when I posted a similar question under separate cover. :-)

Anyway, a couple of things:

1) There's nothing wrong with owning three homes.  It only looks bad in Bernie's case because he's been tooling his constituents on the grounds of being a champion of the little guy. (Hint: anything which anyone who aspires to rule/own you tells you is a lie. There's no such animal as a non-hypocritical politician.)

2) Typically, it is not 'luck' which affords a person the opportunity to buy a home.  It takes work and sacrifice. Lots of both.

3) I own zero homes.  I've only owned one before, but in any case I now live in my wife's family's old homeplace. She bought it from the family's estate.

Congratulations! As ad hominem strafing runs go, on a scale of 1 to 10 this one gets an 8.3!

Be that as it may, it's her business because Bernie MADE it her/our business when he aspired to the office of the president.  He's a PUBLIC official.  He TRADED 'his business' for a chance at becoming head honcho.  All politicians do.  They are all PUBLIC meat!  Get over your (self) righteous indignation.

Bingo!

And kudos to your dad!

Rent

LOL!

You're consistent, SKOS.  I'll give you that.

Who the hell are you?

Who the hell are you?

IOW, does it matter? Or will you now simply redirect your attacks against her onto me?

That is what I would expect, but you do have the capacity to prove me wrong. Use it. :-)

Just because someone is a public figure does not justify heaping scorn on them for no reason. If you can enlighten me as to what Sanders and his wife did wrong with regards to them buying a house, please do so.

Focusing on individual behavior instead of systemic incentives which shape individual behavior is a non-productive errand.

So what if Bernie opted to NOT purchase the specified home? Who would that action have benefitted?

Nor does flinging around the terms "socialism" and "capitalism" (neither of which actually exist in the real world) move any significant discussion forward. It simply activiates non-reallty-based cognitive framing.

This strikes me as just as much a non-story as the Olympic athletes who didn't put their hands over their hearts during the national anthem.

1) How does asking a question 'heap scorn' on someone?

2) Incorrect. Precisely BECAUSE a person has CHOSEN to be a PUBLIC figure, he or she has GIVEN the public permission to scrutinize his/her decisions, actions, thoughts, etc.  That is the well-understood PRICE for BEING a public figure.

As for your last sentence, I've already addressed this:

http://answermug.com/xn/detail/6445461:Comment:1528304

@IveGotNuggetsJunior  -- I note your reply above is essentially this.

And, yes, I try to be consistent in pointing out bulls**t when bulls**t occurs. So thanks for the compliment....;-D..

@Troll --

LOL!  How long will you remain an obsessive one-hit wonder, SKOS?  Seriously. Such puerile behavior is unbecoming of one who holds himself in unrealistically high esteem. You realize, I hope, that you're becoming my pet.  Since you've mastered fetching, I think I shall have you roll over and play dead. With a flick of a word here and a tweak of phraseology there, I gain even more real estate in your vacuous noggin.

You're being played, sir, and you're too focused on oneupsmanship to realize it. But continue on, brave defender of the controller class.  The more you crusade, the more I win.  The more those upon whom your ilk tread win.

The clintons make more than $575,000 for many of their bribes (aka speaking fees).  So the guy is wealthy, he is still better than corrupt fraudster with hundreds of millions of dollars.

The bank owns my home. If I had enough money I would buy a home in Maine and one in Arizona.

In truth, $600K isn't that far above the median cost for a home of that size/locale, and certainly wouldn't, by itself, be indicative of extraordinary wealth.  From the sound of it, they got a screaming good deal.

And yeah, by comparison to other uber-wealthy (non) champions of the proletariat, Bernie's acquisitions are the least of our worries. 

FWIW, I personally liked Sanders.  No way could I ethically vote for the man, but of all the contenders available once the threshing was done, he was the most agreeable.

The only thing bernie did wrong was to sell out at the end, he must have known how corrupt the party was and he supported it.

Two.

So what?  That envy is bad for your health. 

rpf

Ah, yes. And be forever in debt to somebody else.  That's a plan! :-)

Ayup!!