Posted on 11/15/2018 8:17:59 PM PST by bitt
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), made headlines when she revealed that she wouldn’t be able to afford Washington, D.C. rent until her government salary kicks in.
The lack of affordable housing in Washington is no joke, but the predicament also speaks to the young lawmaker’s financial literacy — or lack thereof. The 29-year-old didn’t think to consider something as basic as the relocation expenses of a new job opportunity.
If she doesn’t know how much an apartment costs, how much confidence should taxpayers have in her ability to effectively deliver trillions of dollars in campaign promises?
Ocasio-Cortez has proposed free "Medicare for All," free college tuition, guaranteed federal employment at $15 an hour and free houses for the nation’s poorest. These ideas have been conservatively priced at $40 trillion — twice as much money currently listed on the national debt.
It’s the kind of extremist proposal you’d expect to hear from someone who has never made a budget, never been responsible for a business and payroll and never had taxes deducted from a hard-earned paycheck. It's the kind of proposal you've heard from Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro and Hugo Chavez before him.
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This entitled society of people who give up makes me sick
Bunch of criminals mainstreaming criminal parasitism
So did we!
The advertisers -who pay for the media- love young fools.
The election results didn’t turn out as we all would have like, not even remotely. However, this moron getting elected my prove to be one of about 3 or 4, silver linings, in all of it. If any of the Old Guard Dem’s think that she’s going to sit in the corner and speak, only when spoken to, they have another thing coming.
Not only economic illiteracy.
I’m so glad to see you two again! Remember what we did to JF’nKerry in the “Photoshop this Picture” threads?
Now we call theme “memes”... lol
I wish someone would get her to stop her woman of color nonsense. I dated Bensonhurst Sicilian gals several shades darker than Loopy. In fact I’m only half Calabrese and I’m as dark as her.
And racism. A lot of Hispanics voted for her because, well, she is Hispanic. Aside from that, no talent or ability or real intelligence.
But then hey, it’s New York where ethnicity comes first, even if your last name is German but you are willing to change it for votes.
The Bernie bots proved economic illiterate idiocy long before Occluded Cortex came along.
it’s not the voters who are stupid, it’s the FakeNewsMSM:
What We Can Learn From Our Newly Elected Women In Congress
Forbes-13 Nov 2018
And of course, “the rock star of the class,” as the New York Times dubbed her, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...
Meet the New House Democrats: They May Not Toe the Party Line
New York Times-12 Nov 2018
embodied by the rock star of the class, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Emerges as a Political Star
New York Times-27 Jun 2018
...was now something else: an instant political rock star
Commentary: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez becomes the Sarah Palin of ...
CBS News-13 Aug 2018
...new political rock star, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Can out-of-state money swing elections? Don’t Beto on it.
Washington Post-5 Nov 2018
In New York, democratic socialist media darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Message to the Democratic Party
The New Yorker-29 Jun 2018
On Thursday, she appeared on Colbert’s show, and an article in the Times described her as “an instant political rock star.”
Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Too Far Left for Hollywood?
Hollywood Reporter-2 Aug 2018
With rock-star Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
AND EVERY PIC IN EVERY FAKENEWSMSM REPORT IS CAREFULLY CHOSEN TO ENHANCE HER MSM-CONTRIVED ‘ROCK STAR’ IMAGE.
Each picture I have seen of her, shows a different $300.00 handbag
How about just plain idiocy?
Yeah, true.
And it is a shame. She is kinda hot looking, but with crazy eyes.
What did anyone expect from a two-bit Marxist ignoramus and bartender/waitress?
She is the Dem’s “socialist” hoax on America. The Marxists took advantage (they were smart) of a corrupt, incompetent Democrat and organized against him, listening to pure Marxist bullshit from her/campaign and thinking it was their road to “free stuff”.
Says too much about her stupid constituents as well as the Marxist Left’s ability to organize Stupids into a voting block. One good reason not to let the uneducated vote, regardless of where they came from.
But New York City is one of the triad of Marxist-controlled major cities (NYC, LA and San Fran, with Portland, Seattle and Tallahasee being others).
From her election you can see that Marxist penetration of our schools, the seizure of control of the teachers’ unions, and the use of Marxist-socialist indoctrination textbooks, speakers, and other materials over the decades has successful far beyond their wildest dreams.
That is why one Marxist group is called “The Dream Defenders” and DACA is for immigrant “dreamers”, legal or not.
These “dreams” are America’s Marxist nightmares and they are not stopping. We need to do some re “Dreamscaping” in the next two years to transform the American political landscaper back to what it was about two generations ago - pro-America, legal immigration only (NO MORE AMNESTIES), hardcore criminals being put in and kept in jails, drug pushers and traffickers getting long sentences, and a need to clean oup the American education system.
It ain’t even true that she can’t afford it. She can. What she did was to send a virtue signal that she was down with the struggle. Even though she wasn’t.
She isn’t illiterate. She’s a literate liar.
#3. Sorry “btt”. Those weren’t “facial aging techniques” pictures you saw. They were proctologist photos of Maxine Waters butt, a warning to Cortez that in a few years she’ll also look and sound like a horse’s ass.
She did have a star named after her by the International Astronomical Union and wrote an article for a Jesuit magazine.
:)
Great article
Thanks for posting
Rampant economic illiteracy is the result of rampant innumeracy, the desired result of the progressive education system.
With such a constituent base the continued power of the “progressives” in both houses of Congress is not only insured but will continue to grow.
The progressives desire for the rapid influx of even more ignorant people might be attributed to the rise of Donald Trump.
Follow the money, or rather the diminishing presence of paper currency in our economy.
Until the latter part of the 20th century, blue collar workers and lower tier white collar workers received their wages in pay envelopes containing cash, thus forcing a rudimentary family accounting and budgeting system. One could only spend what one physically held. Checking accounts were practically unheard of in that demographic until, maybe the early sixties. Passbook savings accounts were however readily available.
Fast forward to the rise of cheap business computers and digital transfer of currency, money became notional, add the sudden expansion of credit cards to a broader base and suddenly among that demographic, tracking spending and budgeting became more complex than counting the cash on hand and setting portions aside for specific expenses. Consumer debt soared.
Recall the old joke about the wife complaining of overdrawn accounts, “there must be money in my bank account, I still have blank checks”.
Well, today that attitude prevails among those on government social assistance with the introduction of the debit card...spend until the card gets kicked back until the government electronically fills it back up. So of course there is rampant economic illiteracy..math is SO HARD and the NEA is hell bent on making it even more incomprehensible to the general population.
And as we’ve seen in the past few months, electronic banking has become a political tool, denying access to fund transfers for daily commerce to classes of people defined as not being politically correct.
Ain’t any wonder that Occassional-Cortex and Bernie Sanders have risen along with the various black caucuses. Brave New World.
Don’t count on it, after Maxine has not self destructed, and there are none with a lower IQ than Maxine.
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