did you know that iowa has a homeless population of 2,315
did you know that if he wanted to he could give every homeless person in iowa a free apartment at an average cost of 80k per apartment
did you know that obliterating homelessness in an entire state would probably make you win that entire state because you could just say 'lol i eradicated homelessness in iowa what did these other nerds do'
I'm sure it had to be more than 30, but even if it were 300, it's absolutely ridiculous that he wouldn't use this money to directly improve peoples' lives!
I'm so upset I gave that fucker 100 dollars of my <20k/year salary and I'm even more upset that I felt guilty for not giving more.
Okay so according to https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race/bernie-sanders/candidate?id=N00000528 he spent about 205 million on the campaign. I'm still salty that my 100 dollars ended up in some advertisement exec's wallet instead of the local pantry.
I'm pretty sure even if they wanted to during the election season, it's illegal to use campaign donations like that. Like legally, campaigns can give to charity, but only if if it does not benefit the campaign.
Okay, but with how much corruption people get away with in embezzling campaign funds, I don't think it's unreasonable to set up a charity that provides benefits directly to people and have the campaign committee donate to that.
yep just get some socialist org like food not bombs or dsa or psl or your flavor of choice to set up a new org and just dump it all in there and you could just be like 'see! im not even touching that charity.'
I mean now that it's over they can dump it all into charity, which I think they have been doing along with distributing it to endorsed local campaigns. They had 16 million left in April 2020 they can do charity with.
Yo, with all due respect, what did you think you were donating to? It was a presidential campaign.
That's totally valid and this has been a valuable learning opportunity. I thought bernie had a real chance to amass enough power to directly improve my life and the lives of my loved ones.
Yeah, this sort of stuff makes leftists look naive. We lost, and when you lose your donated money is gone. No election has ever worked differently, and there was no promise that this one would work differently.
Want to give your hundred bucks to a mutual aid organization? Do that; that's a fine use of it. But you didn't, and you knew where your money was going when you cut the check.
yeeep. if i were running it i'd basically just make a charitable organization and get all the other (responsible with money) socialist orgs in on managing the homeless outreach for a state