Posted on 12/04/2018 8:26:44 AM PST by COUNTrecount
Fact-checkers at the Washington Post gave Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “four Pinnochios” for posting a claim on Twitter about out-of-control Pentagon spending.
Ocasio-Cortez, who supports Sen. Bernie Sanders’ proposal for Medicare-for-all, which estimates say would cost $32 trillion over 10 years, claimed in the tweet Sunday that “Pentagon accounting errors” could help pay for part of the coverage.
“$21 TRILLION of Pentagon financial transactions ‘could not be traced, documented, or explained.’ $21T in Pentagon accounting errors. Medicare for All costs ~$32T. That means 66% of Medicare for All could have been funded already by the Pentagon. And that’s before our premiums,” she wrote in the tweet that has been retweeted 25,000 times.
In the posting, Ocasio-Cortez, who defeated Rep. Joe Crowley in June’s Democratic primary, referred to a report in the Nation that tracked Pentagon spending from 1998 to 2015 and found $21 trillion in “unsupported budget adjustments.”
The Washington Post took issue with the estimate.
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What facts need to be “busted” with her? She’s a frickin’ idiot.
She is keeping the attention on herself, she is trying to be the Trump of the democrats
Think about it
We are giving her too much attention
This is an act
To distract
Nah, she is exempt from the “fact checkers”.
But she's THEIR idiot!
It doesn’t matter because she won’t officially be in office until she gets inaugurated and stuff
Keep in mind this idiot has a degree in economics from Boston University. As an economist, I love the quote:”Unemployment is so low because people have two jobs”. Really? She’s the gift that just keeps on giving. Take a look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3IQYNYD4zk&feature=youtu.be&t=108
She’s too stupid to lie.
She’s a Democrat. The press will run with their lies rather than call them out.
She is going to be a gift that just keeps on giving.
Yogi Ocasio-Cortez.
Ocasio-Cortez is definitely being “put out there” by somebody with a lot of bucks to spend. For somebody supposedly just a waitress, she always has the nicest, most fashionable clothes. I wonder who is her designer and how much is she spending. It's not cheap to show up in a new, high-fashion outfit every time she gets her foolish face on camera.
They’re going to have fun with her quotes.
This woman is functionally illiterate.
It’s can’t be a lie, really, because she believes it’s true.
She Guevara
> She’s a Democrat. The press will run with their lies rather than call them out. <
Oh, yes. Today’s press no longer reports. They interpret.
Trump gives a speech. The press will say that the speech was “divisive”, and “hateful”.
A Democrat says something that is simply not factual. The press will say “it’s the right idea”, and “minor errors don’t matter”.
Just look at how Snopes (the on-line “fact-checking” site) treats Hillary Clinton. They bend over backwards to modify and explain away her many lies.
It is really frightening knowing idiots like her have access to some of our nations most sensitive information.
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