Posted on 06/30/2018 11:09:05 AM PDT by Simon Green
In May, three young progressive women running for the state Legislature in Pennsylvania, each endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, won decisive primary victories over men heavily favored by the political establishment. Two of the women, Summer Lee, 30, and Sara Innamorato, 32, ousted incumbents, the distant cousins Dom Costa and Paul Costa, members of an iconic Pennsylvania political family.
Elizabeth Fiedler, 37, announced her run three months after giving birth to her second child, and she had a nursery in her Philadelphia campaign office so other parents could drop off their kids before canvassing shifts. Talking to voters, she spoke of depending on Medicaid and CHIP for her kids’ health insurance, and of the anxiety she felt during two weeks when their insurance lapsed.
Lee was open about the more than $200,000 in student loans that have weighed on her since graduating from law school, which gave her a visceral sense, she told me, of the “need for free, quality education for everybody.” (An African-American woman running in a largely white district, she ended up with 68 percent of the vote.) Innamorato spoke about how her father’s opioid addiction had pushed her and her mother from the middle class. “I’ve lived the struggles of my district,” she told me.
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The Big Question for all Air Head Socialists: Who is going to pay for that? There is no money tree, and Santa only comes once a year.
“Struggles”.
Marxist word. Hard core left term.
The "rich", by getting them to pay their "fair" share.
It's not a good answer, but it's the one they'll give you.
Are they all Women ?
Free education = worthless education.
First try stopping the scam of paying colleges for all the nutcases on payroll.
Perhaps she shouldn't have borrowed almost a quarter million dollars if she didn't intend to pay it back.
Or am I just being mean and insensitive?
And then the socialists will re-define “rich” as “anyone who works,” thereby excluding themselves and their truly very rich connected friends and backers.
She saw that her education clearly wasn’t worth anywhere near that much and now feels that she shouldn’t have to pay. Sounds like she should be suing her college.
>>It’s not a good answer, but it’s the one they’ll give you.
And they are NEVER wrong. History, statistics, laws, etc do not beat their “feelings”. But our generations created these pampered brats by never letting them feel the consequences of their actions. But, as adults, they could have grown up and chose not to so I don’t pity them. I do feel sorry for their children and grandchildren who will be born into the communist “workers’paradise“.
Yes , they’re coming, but don’t expect too much from them as they are still in their parents basement watching anime’.
CC
It is a pretty good system: You redistribute wealth from the workers to the deadbeat majority so they vote you in office. When the country falls apart, you schlep out the back door with your skimmings and live in a walled exile for the duration.
Isn’t it nice that they obey their children?
If you’ve gotta be a socialist, be a “good” socialist...
This sounds like the NYT trying to whip up some momentum for the left. Thank goodness it’s a weekend, but I think that this tactic may be ongoing. They see what sincere and honest enthusiasm is doing for President Trump and his policies. They have to stop that, while drumming it up for the left.
The Big Question for all Air Head Socialists: Who is going to pay for that? There is no money tree, and Santa only comes once a year.
It’s exactly what happened in Venezuela.
By “rich”, they mean the middle class they continue to squeeze. Their own billionaire globalist elites would never allow the truly “rich” to be squeezed. And even the billionaires’ money alone couldn’t pay for all the left’s social engineering. Only squeezing the middle class can do that.
Give me. Free for everyone.
Communist.
“Lee was open about the more than $200,000 in student loans that have weighed on her since graduating from law school, which gave her a visceral sense, she told me, of the “need for free, quality education for everybody.” “
So basically you want to vote your debt away, because you are too damn stupid to have actually received a degree in something useful.
A clown that hasn’t produced one blasted thing, wanting to be an elected official?
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