Bernie Sanders Kicks Homeless Out of Warming Station on Coldest Night of the Year

Communist demagogue Bernie Sanders will be quick to shout that he doesn’t want to seize up to 90% of the wealth you create because he is greedy; actually, he cares about the plight of the poor. Lucky for him the media won’t call on him to explain this:

With temperatures in Birmingham expected to dropped to 20 overnight Monday — the lowest temperature thus far in 2016 — the place where the city’s homeless usually go to seek shelter from the cold was unavailable.

Boutwell Auditorium, typically used as a warming station in such situations, was not available Monday night because presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders spoke to a crowd of thousands. Factoring in wind chill, it was expected to feel more like 15 degrees on the streets of Birmingham.

Last week, the auditorium housed about 300 people a night when it served as a warming station for three nights.

“We’ve never had a night like this where it will be in the teens and we weren’t able to open,” said Don Lupo, of the mayor’s office of citizen’s assistance.

Was there some other location those down on their luck could use as a warming station?

“Unfortunately, no, we do not have an alternative location and were unable to have the warming station tonight,” Birmingham city spokeswoman April Odom said Monday night.

But let’s not single out Sanders. Literally every leftist who claims to want to alleviate the plight of the poor is either an idiot or a liar. You don’t love the poor by creating more of them. Poverty is the absence of wealth. You fix it by allowing people to create more wealth. It is beyond dispute that free enterprise creates vastly more wealth that the slave state economics progressives impose.

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