Posted on 04/10/2020 7:40:10 AM PDT by Libloather
In videos posted Thursday night, far-left U.S. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar push for a seemingly socialist overhaul of the U.S. government in reaction to the coronavirus outbreak.
The first-term progressive Democratic congresswomen, from New York and Minnesota, respectively, call for the removal of a “profit motive” from lawmakers’ decisions and the “nationalization” of the nation’s health care system.
They and other Democrats have been critical of President Trump’s decision to allow the governors and legislatures of the nation’s 50 states, as well as U.S. territories, to largely set their own strategies for reacting to the virus - which has affected regions to varying degrees.
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“For some reason we have an enormous problem with enacting the Defense Production Act for saving lives and guaranteeing health care,” Ocasio-Cortez says in her video, referring to the Korean War-era legislation that allows the president to order private companies to produce goods deemed as vital to national interests.
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Meanwhile, Omar takes aim at the Trump administration’s policy of promoting state autonomy.
“The states themselves are being put at disadvantage when we have the federal government bidding against them” for medical equipment, Omar argues.
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How about removing the profit motive from running/holding PUBLIC OFFICE?
Politicizing the delivery of goods and services is how you become Venezuela or North Korea.
Motivating resource allocation using profit is how you become Hong Kong or Singapore. Or the United States during the first 150 years of its existence.
NO!! AOC - go back to mixing drinks. Omar - go back to your Muslim $hithole.
tell her its like taking the tip jar off the bar
Take the profit motive out of political office, no investments no job for your spouse no kickbacks for your kiddos
Gosh the leftists/socialist/fascists sure are coming out of the woodwork now - all trying to take advantage of the situation. Pigs. In fact they all view themselves as the “more equal” farm animals I’m sure...
If leftists required gov’t to pay $1,000 to each woman who had an abortion, AOC might not have been here.
Nationalizing health care, establishing Marxism, and consequently precipitating a complete economic, social, and political collapse in the USA would be an excellent way to destroy America.
I have 3 letters for that dingbat: N.H.S.
Cortez, stop; you’re killing me.
Nationalizing Health Care + Hillarycare + Obamacare = No Care
The outdated liberal slogan of “Tax it!” has been replaced with “Nationalize it!” Which, I believe, is Venezuela’s national motto (stolen, no doubt, from someone in the private sector).
I wish every one of those leftist that so love socialism and communism WOULD move to the Soviet Union (with Puke-tin in charge I still call them that), Cuba, North Korea or Red China. Move where they already have it. Leave us the hell alone.
Instead of nationalizing healthcare and removing profit motives, how about we arrest DemocRat Congresspersons and remove dingbats, whose designated virus investigator is so ignorant she doesn’t even know how to wear a hospital mask correctly?
If a community organizer, whatever that is, can ascend to mastery in all known disciplines, then I suppose a bartender can also.
Remove the profit motive by moving a system where your level of care is determined by your political connections. Where it is the job of the government to decide whether your life is worth living.
I'd rather have my doctor working for me (and profiting) than for people who act like I'm their property.
Political motive kills more than profit motive
Governments kill way more people withnway less accountability than private companies.
I’d call her an idiot but she’s so far worse than a mere idiot.
1. I agree with you 100%, General.
2. "Puke-tin"?? Lol.
It's MY opinion that he wants to be Czar Vlad/Tsar Shortstuff...undisputed leader of "Mother Russia."
Yeah. I bet he wants to be called Czar Vlad “the impaler” Puke-tin!! That would fit the former (and still in my humble opinion in charge of) KGB top honcho.
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