Posted on 02/15/2019 5:52:22 PM PST by Rummyfan
The two hottest commodities in the Democratic Party are Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Earlier this week, Omar exhibited stunning ignorance in her hostile questioning of Elliott Adams Abrams. Similarly, Ocasio-Cortez has often displayed a surprising lack of knowledge for someone who apparently is a college graduate. Don’t get me started on the “Green New Socialism.” But she outdid herself yesterday.
The context was Amazon’s announcement that it would not, after all, build a second corporate headquarters in Long Island City, which I understand is close to, but not within, Ocasio-Cortez’s district. The project reportedly would have entailed 25,000 new jobs–normally considered a good thing by Congressmen. But Ocasio-Cortez thought it was wonderful that her constituents would not have the option to compete for those jobs:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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@AOC
Anything is possible: today was the day a group of dedicated, everyday New Yorkers & their neighbors defeated Amazon’s corporate greed, its worker exploitation, and the power of the richest man in the world.
I suppose if AOC’s constituents thought they would be “exploited” by Amazon they wouldn’t have to apply for jobs there. Now, they don’t have the choice.
Whether New York should have given Amazon incentives necessary to cement the Long Island City deal is debatable. As a conservative, I might say No. So, putting aside the idiotic Marxist rhetoric, there is nothing wrong with saying adios to Amazon. This is where Ocasio-Cortez went off the rails and took a deep dive into stupidity:
You know, I think it’s really important that we understand that we need to invest in our economy, but we need to invest in our people, and to give away $3 billion to a company that has a history of worker exploitation that’s paying below what the cost of New York City is not acceptable for us.
Of course, New York wasn’t going to “give” Amazon anything, let alone $3 billion. The $3 billion is an estimate of foregone tax revenues. In other words, money that Amazon won’t pay New York, not money that New York will pay Amazon. This is childishly simple, but apparently too much for AOC:
What’s great is that our economy, our local economy, is already growing. So I firmly believe that if we want to take that $3 billion dollars that we were willing to give to Amazon and invest it in our local community, we can do that. We can make those jobs. We can make 25,000 jobs. But we don’t have to give away and allow our subway system to crumble so that Amazon essentially owns a part of New York City. We can create 25,000 jobs with Mom-and-Pops; we can create 25,000 jobs with companies that are willing to come to the table, but we should not be giving away our infrastructure, our subway system, our schools, our teachers’ salaries, our firefighters’ budgets, to a company that has not shown good faith to New Yorke
This is almost unbelievably stupid. Obviously, there is no “$3 billion dollars that we were willing to give to Amazon.” No one ever proposed to give money to Amazon. Those were dollars that “we” hypothetically would have refrained from collecting from Amazon. Those dollars do not exist. They are not in the possession of New York State or any other public entity. They cannot be “invest[ed] in our local community.” The absence of those funds will not “allow our subway system to crumble.” No one has ever proposed “giving away our infrastructure, our schools, our teachers’ salaries, our firefighters’ budgets,” to Amazon or anyone else.
This isn’t complicated stuff. If Ocasio-Cortez is really this stupid, she shouldn’t have graduated from high school. She certainly shouldn’t be representing many thousands of constituents, who must assume that she is of at least average intelligence, in Congress.
Aoc hasn’t learned to lie and not be so open with her real plans and ideas. Seasoned demonrats know not to admit what they really think or what they are planning...
That Economics degree from Boston Univ really was WORTHLESS!
Over the years I have had to deal with many college grads who are retards.
Education is not the same as intelligence.
She’s as dumb as a bag of hammers. Problem is, she’s now in Congress.
She’s a radical who was elected by radicals.
Don’t dismiss her, she’s very dangerous to our Nation.
I'm convinced it's her boyfriend, Eric Holder's former lead speechwriter, who is behind a lot of the stuff she spouts.
She makes a box of rocks look smart.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking that Crazy Eyes is stupid.
The problem is that she knows so many things, with absolute certainty, that simply are not true. Democrats have been feeding this bullschit to Millenials almost since they were born, starting with social justice characters in chilcren’s TV shows.
She is the product of Soros/ liberal racist indoctrination and Propoganda, come home to roost.
She’s dangerous but a tremendous asset. She will win back at least a dozen seats for our side. She’s painting the Dem party with idiotic and radical ideas. That won’t play in the suburbs. Only in failed areas like nyc. She is the new face of the radical left.
It’s unbelievable what comes out of her mouth. How in the heck does she have an economics degree, but doesn’t have a basic understanding of economic concepts?
It would be fun to compile a list of inane statements by her. Start with her statement that the unemployment rate is low because so many people are working two jobs. Someone with an economics degree who doesn’t know how the unemployment rate is calculated clearly missed some classes.
It turns out the “boyfriend” you’re describing isn’t the same guy. He has the same name and they have an uncanny resemblance, but AOC’s guy is a tech geek of some kind, not a speechwriter.
Stupid people don’t know they’re stupid.......because they’re so stupid.
Yes she sounds exactly like that retard.
“That Economics degree from Boston Univ really was WORTHLESS!”
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just like L.A. Unified school district, it is very, very obvious she passed her courses BECAUSE of those idiot teachers who cant get themselves to actually fail a student.
Explain why she ended up a barista who STOLE tips?
Boston University...what a joke.
This dopey broad has a 70 IQ...being generous.
Give her a few years and she won’t look so photogenic. The looks slide for Hispanic women can be pretty steep, and I’d bet in a few years she’ll be unrecognizable from today.
It’s her chief of staff...the Indian guy with a T shirt of some Indian commie revolutionary.
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