Posted on 03/26/2019 4:07:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Speaking to a SXSW crowd, ripped into America — again — and said that while the looming robotic culture and automated economy are things to embrace, the flip side is dire because, after all, this country is a society that simply leaves its jobless “to die.”
Hmm. Wonder where all those millions that taxpayers sent to food stamps and housing assistance and basic living aid went through the years.
Anyway, said this, when asked about the looming automation craze that is predicted to supplant human jobs, The Verge : “We should not be haunted by the specter of being automated out of work. We should be excited by that. But the reason we’re not excited by it is because we live in a society where if you don’t have a job, you are left to die. And that is, at its core, our problem.”
What an interesting theory.
But facts hardly support.
“SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program,” is the nation’s most important anti-hunger program, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities . “In a typical month in 2017, SNAP helped more than 40 million low-income Americans afford a nutritionally adequate diet.”
SNAP provides food for those at or below 130 percent of the poverty level, which in fiscal 2018, comes in around $26,600 per year for a three-person family.
Then there’s this, as Sapling : “The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development provides housing grants to those who have experienced a job loss or a decrease in income. Programs are available to both homeowners and renters who need help with housing. … Several government agencies have provided funding to help distressed homeowners prevent the foreclosures of their homes. The Making Home Affordable Program helps homeowners who have lost their jobs obtain a forbearance on their mortgage payments.”
Food. Housing.
Then there are the federal programs that with health care and even utilities.
Can you say Medicaid? How about CHIP — the Children’s Health Insurance Program? Or the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, TANF, that actually doles out cash for low-income — read: unemployed — citizens who are trying to get back on their financial feet?
“We should be working [because of automation] the least amount we’ve ever worked, if we were actually paid based on how much wealth we were producing,” said. “But we’re not. We’re paid on how little we’re desperate enough to accept. And then the rest is skimmed off and given to a billionaire.”
And then the out-of-work are “left to die” by an uncaring, greedy capitalistic culture, she accused.
Well, once again, has the socialist sound bites — without the facts.
Fact is, America’s capitalistic society is what allows the government to skim so many dollars by way of taxation, to provide so much by way of housing, food, health care and basic living expenses’ aid to those who’ve lost their jobs, to those who are struggling to make ends meet. If it weren’t for capitalism and the free market, there wouldn’t be so much money in America for the poor.
As the former Prime Minister of England Margaret Thatcher famously said: “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
The problem with is she speaks of what she does not know.
nor a smidgeon of corruption. /s
Keep demanding higher and higher minimum wages, leave, etc. and watch automaton replace low-skill jobs faster.
This woman is a true USEFUL IDIOT of the Globalist/NWO crowd. She’ll never realize how she is being used because she is brain dead and thoroughly indoctrinated..
If AOC were to kill poor babies then there would be no poor people in our schools and eventuall the problem would be solved.
Amazon: we want to bring thousands of jobs that will pay well, even by NYC standards to the city.
AOC: *screeches in leftist*Corporate greed! Build a subway line! Pay Teachers!
Amazon: Never mind then. Bye!
AOC: ...... uhhh ..... corporate greed, right?
Sandy-0 would have made a good “Hanoi Hanna”, “Axis Sally”, “Tokyo Rose” or “Pyongyang Sally”. Alas, she was born too late.
Let's have some fun....
What machine would AOC be replaced with. (I know, I know, ended in a preposition.)
I'll go first.
A fire hydrant.
No one should be surprised that she used those particular words. They are reminiscent of the first words in the Communist Manifesto.
A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism.
So, good little commie that she is, it's only natural that her vocabulary would turn so deftly toward her guru's.
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I'm Getting So Sick of This Loudmouth Idiot I Could Pull Out My Hair!!!
Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started a Conversation With on Christmas - SNL (Foreshadowing AOC)
SXSW originally was created to draw attention to SW regional bands and neglected artists.
It jumped the sh!tshark when they got Katy Perry et al to headline.
They freaking hired Barack Obama to their corporate lobbying event (that IS what SXSW is) while he was sitting in the presidency. How is that even legal?
SXSW sucks up to Socialism these days but everywhere you turn they are making dollar dollar dollar pimping someone’s ass.
How about Typhoid Mary?
Then she must really despise second and third world countries that do nothing for the average person except take their money.
How many times did she say “like” and “totally” in the unedited version?
ROFLMAO!!!!!!
I was in a grumpy mood and then I stumbled onto your answer.
laughter is the best medicine!
What a liar, a bald faced liar. How could you not have a job in this day and age with our economy booming?
I will tell you how you did not succeed.
Be a minority who is determined to be a victim, who would rather do without than go to work and who wants free everything.
Be a person who has made bad choices and ether has a bunch of kids that they can’t support as a single parent or been to prison three times before they are 30.
Or be a person addicted, by your own choice and actions, to alcohol or other drugs.
I am not white.
I made it and am successful and financially independent. Not one person went out of their way to help me along the way. I took the opportunities that were presented to me and made the best of them.
I planned well and then worked hard and long on that plan to find success.
If you do not have a plan in life go back and kick your mom and dad in the ass for not teaching you right but do not blame you bad choices and lazy ass entitlement lifestyle on others. You got what you actually earned in life, nothing and that is your own damn fault.
I still maintain that the best motivator is hunger. If you get hungry enough you will get off your entitled ass and go to work.
PDJT says that, because corrupt US leadership was making bad trade deals with other countries until Trump became president, that many US jobs were lost to foreign workers.
But now, thanks to PDJT, many of those lost jobs are coming back to US.
Sorry Queenie. It’s your foreign invaders taking their jobs away that is “leaving the to die”. Wake the **** up, moron.
“this country is a society that simply leaves its jobless “to die.”
Well. Kevin Williamson over at Jonah Goldberg’s Imitation National Review has been writing articles hoping that we would actually do that, but we aren’t.
Williamson is on Team NeverTrump anyway. So to heck with him and AOC both.
A single mother with three kids can get $60,000 a year in government benefits here. And needless to say, all single mothers have 3 kids.
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