Posted on 12/03/2018 5:51:54 PM PST by Kaslin
Democratic Socialist darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hasn't even been sworn into office yet and she's already shaking things up in Washington, D.C. Scratch that. She hasn't even been sworn in as a Congresswoman yet and she's already making demands of her fellow legislators...before meeting and working with them.
First, she complained that she couldn't find adequate housing that she could afford. Then, she complained about health insurance as a means of advocating for Medicare For All. And who could forget her crazy comparisons between the Central American caravan and the Holocaust? Or that she didn't know what the three branches of government are?
Now, she's telling her colleagues that they need to pay staffers a living wage:
This week I went to dive spot in DC for some late night food. I chatted up the staff.
SEVERAL bartenders, managers, & servers *currently worked in Senate + House offices.*
This is a disgrace. Congress of ALL places should raise MRAs so we can pay staff an actual DC living wage.— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) December 3, 2018
It is unjust for Congress to budget a living wage for ourselves, yet rely on unpaid interns & underpaid overworked staff just bc Republicans want to make a statement about “fiscal responsibility.”
If that’s the case, they can cut down on staff to pay them well. Or raise the MRA.— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) December 3, 2018
Here's the thing about internships:
Not all of them pay...
My last semester of college, I interned for the American Conservative Union and guess what? I wasn't paid monetarily. I was paid with experience. It was a trade off. I was given opportunities that seriously helped my career. Building contacts and relationships with other people was what I was paid with. That also meant that I had to live off of savings and a few hundred dollars that my parents sent me each money. It was one of the best decisions I ever made for myself. If nothing else, I learned what it was like to work and live on Capitol Hill.
...Unless you're on the Hill.
When I interned at the ACU, I lived in an all girls boarding house. Most of the girls who lived there were in D.C. for a short time. Most were interns, some were staff assistants (the lowest staffers). I was one of the only unpaid interns. Pretty much every intern who worked on Capitol Hill or for a government agency was paid.
People (generally) go into politics for the right reasons.
Most people who work in politics start out as activists who want to make a difference. They somehow turn their activism into a paying job. And anyone who volunteers or works in politics knows one thing: you don't do it for the money. You do it because you care about the future of the nation.
A "living wage" will vary person-to-person.
Where we come from, how we budget our money and what we deem as "necessities" all play a role in what we think we need to earn from a job. This has to do with how we're raised and really, our views on the role government should pay.
The two question I have for Ocasio-Cortez: if you're so concerned about paying staff a living wage, why not shrink your staff size and pay each one of them more? And how much will you be paying your interns?
Occasio-Cortez represents the current plight of the far-left — female-dominated. Which means that it is now grounded completely on emotions.
I’m not a fan of unpaid internships, either. If minimum wage is good for the rest of us, it’s good for them, too.
Community organizing is lucrative business for the organizers. It's not for the people they want to organize.
The minute AOC gets sworn in, all this happy talk about helping the poor, climate change, homelessness, etc. is going to go out the window. Because she'll be receiving fat checks on the side from leftists on K street and from other left-wing orgs to advance THEIR agenda.
Meanwhile, the people in her district and people who believe they'll be taken care of by big government will have been lied to and will be right where they are now. Just like the people on the Southside of Chicago are still poor and crime-ridden after 8 years of Obama.
“If that’s the case, they can cut down on staff to pay them well.”
President Trump and FLOTUS Melania have SLASHED staff compared to what the Socialist 0bamas had for underpaid/overworked staff!
This chick needs to have a one-on-one with President Trump, STAT! Wouldn’t you love to be a fly on the wall for THAT meeting? ;)
Nothing worse than a former bartender/waitress trying to chat up the staff while they're trying to make money.
And most of these people got their internships on the Hill as favors to their parents who are donors/bundlers or influential libs.
She is an expert on any issue. Just ask her.
What a spoiled little princess.
She’s one of the best things to happen for us this year. She is a windfall.
You couldn’t pay for satire as useful as her sincere idiocy.
“...Democratic Socialist ...” CHuckle...
Basically, just another asshole communist that hasn’t found their AK47 yet.
She’s an insufferable twit now, but now she gets to make law.
Which I’m under NO obligation to obey, by the way.
She’s the type who thinks a job at McD should provide to raise a family of 4. It was never intended to do that.
Maybe Nancy will use her to fetch Coffee
Can you imagine her crossed with Camera Hogg? OMG...just the thought makes me want to fall out of my chair and laugh myself silly.
And anyone who volunteers or works in politics knows one thing: you don’t do it for the money. You do it because you care about the future of the nation
Lolz. As if.
“This week I went to dive spot in DC for some late night food.”
‘I don’t have enough money to pay rent or buy health insurance but I’m entitled to eat out’.
Occasional Kotex....nough said.
Mr. Ed goes to Washington
apparently now she is representing DC residents.
She is like Maxine Waters less 50 years ...
Will she be paying her staff $15/hour? If not why not?
The Congressional Dumbbell (Maxine) got an understudy... Congressional IQ got lowered...
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