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.
If only she were jobless. It would solve two problems.
“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at SXSW: Americans leave jobless ‘to die‘”
In that case I’m looking forward to the day when that bug-eyed horse faced freak is out of a job!!!
I still haven’t found out if she went from DC to Texas and back via electric train or sailboat.
What a twit.
Yeah.....that IS something to look forward to.
No body knows what “SXSW” is and nobody gives a crap.
I think she realized when she hit 29 years old and it matched her IQ she was destined to lead the US into the new world order.
Oh the irony!
This comes from The Thing That Killed Amazon no less.
They truly have not even a scintilla of shame.
... then we'd be living in an economy in which the workers owned the means of production. In other words, communism, as defined by Karl Marx.
what little she knows....
depending where they live, we give the jobless free money, free medical and health care, free transportation, free food, free or reduced rents, free prepared meals, free job placement if they’re interested (many are NOT, they have such a lucrative free ride without working!)...free education including training if they want it for a number of careers, free telephones, free answering/message service,free furniture, free delivered prepared meals if they need them,and free needles so they can shoot up their drugs....
Airhead...
There was a time, a few years back, when I really wanted to go to SXSW. It used to be THE venue to break some of the coolest new Indy bands—indeed some of my favourite artists got their start because of SXSW.
The last few years, however, it seems that SXSW has morphed into a bleeding-edge, AntiFA-Approved extreme-left shitfest.
Yeah, no thank you.
If she spoke only of what she knows, she could have her vocal cords removed.
Went to SXSW about 12 years ago. Was actually pretty good. Got to see some really good bands. Now days it has turned into a political rally for the left.
As usual the left ruins EVERYTHING.
The prices are stunning...I guess it shows how wealthy America really is.
That’s why we have a tsunami of illegal aliens at the border... because they know we are going to leave them to die.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of Arc should be burned at the stake.
In what way are my needs my neighbor’s problem?
In what way are my work/health issues my neighbor’s problem?
In what way is anyone compelled to let me work for them?
The Socialists/Communists want to force my problems on everybody else
Whether I live or die is of little concern in the grand scheme of things
I will be dead soon, regardless
HOW I live this life is a far greater concern
It is of little concern that I am loved by my neighbor
But it is of GREATEST concern that I love my neighbor
But FORCING me to do so is not Love, IT IS SLAVERY
FORCING me to care for my neighbor is SLAVERY
Taxation is NOT an act of LOVE/GIFT, it is forced TAKING/THEFT
Choose LOVE or ENSLAVEMENT; GIFT or TAKING/THEFT
Oh come on, sweetie.
We all know that hoes lookin' like you bring in the small dollars on the street.
I've turned out grandmas with better grills.
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