Posted on 04/02/2019 7:51:40 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Recently sworn-in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called for a $15 minimum wage at a New York City airport Monday; bizarrely complaining about the price of a croissant while seemingly unaware the minimum wage at the transportation hub is actually $19 an hour. “Croissants at LaGuardia are going for SEVEN DOLLARS A PIECE,” she tweeted. “Yet some people think getting a whole hour of personal, dedicated human labor for $15 is too expensive??”
Croissants at LaGuardia are going for SEVEN DOLLARS A PIECE 😱 Yet some people think getting a whole hour of personal, dedicated human labor for $15 is too expensive?? — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 1, 2019
The Congresswoman is apparently unaware the minimum wage for New York airport workers was raised to $19 in September 2018. “On Thursday, the campaign ended in victory for as many as 40,000 airport workers who are now on a path to earning at least $19 an hour, the highest minimum wage target set by any public agency in the country,” reported the New York Times. “It will go well beyond the $15 minimum hourly wage that several cities have enacted and that New York State will adopt as the base wage for many workers at the end of the year,” adds the article.
The minimum wage at LaGuardia Airport is not $15 per hour, it’s $19 per hour https://t.co/c90KCjoaZy
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Go for it. Drop their hourly wage by $4.
In other news, water is wet, dog bites man, and the sun rises in the East.
yawn.
Central planning based on the whim of the politician leads to exactly this.
LOL
I hate to bother the board, but I don’t know how to post a vanity.
Anyone ever have a hearing aid and wore it in the shower and it stopped working?
If so, any advice?
First off, what is she doing at an airport, at all? She is supposed to be using trains.
I am beginning to think she is Trump’s secret weapon. NOBODY could be so ignorant and stupid.
She finally gets something right!....................
AOC was complaining about paying $4 for a croissant at LGA and the minimum wage there is $19 an hour and she does not make the connection between the two.
Yes, I have a couple of times.
Blow dry it , toss the battery and put in a new one................
Did the hearing aid stop working or the shower?
I’m confused. Was she complaining that a croissant costs so much at the airport?
Maybe next she will look into the pricing of beer and food at stadiums???
Wow, $38,000 per year to sling coffee and empty garbage cans.
LOL. What an idiot.
Make a sign that says, “I can’t hear you”, and hold it up when people are talking to you?
How about, can you open it up and see if it will dry out and then maybe work again?
Take baths in the future?
Be sure to take the hair dryer into the shower with you to dry the hearing aid on-the-spot.
B-b-b-b-b-but she was “morally correct!”
Seems the important question is - what did that croissant cost a year ago, before the minimum wage was raised to $19?? I’m guessing it was less than $7 since labor cost was a less.
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