AOC mixes up two 'very different' economists in Instagram post about 4-day workweek

Fox News ^ | 9 February 2020 | Brie Stimpson

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Boston University, had to correct herself Saturday evening after mixing up two "very different" economists during a lengthy Instagram discussion.

"UGGGH TYPO,” the freshman congresswoman wrote after confusing John Maynard Keynes, an early 20th-century British economist who theorized that government spending was linked to economic growth, with Milton Friedman, a free-market American economist and 1976 Nobel Prize winner, according to The Washington Examiner.

Ocasio-Cortez mistakenly combined their names into "Milton Keynes."

“I was just reading today about how in 1930, famed economist Milton Keynes predicted that by 2030 GDP and technology would have advanced so much that it would allow everyday people to work as little as FIFTEEN HOURS a week and provide for their families,” Ocasio-Cortez said while discussing the benefits of a four-day workweek with her Instagram followers.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Great comment at Fox News website:

"UGGGH TYPO,

Except it's not a TYPO when it happened because you are stupid!!!

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Exactly. A typo is something like “fro” instead of “for”, or hitting the key next to the one you want. This was a mistake, due to ignorance or carelessness. Not good qualities for one who is supposed to represent a district full of people.

[MV=PY]

That’s no typo.

Two completely different schools of thought.

She offended both of them.

[duckman]

“Jesus Christ”
With all due respect, not a good thing to say.

[wastoute]

Sorry. I didn’t mean to offend. That was so much more acceptable than what I wanted to type.

[StAnDeliver]

"I was just reading today about how in 1930, famed economist Milton Keynes predicted that by 2030 GDP and technology would have advanced so much that it would allow everyday people to work as little as FIFTEEN HOURS a week and provide for their families"

Actually she meant to cite Milton Bradley, famed boardgame maker of "Life" and "Easy Money"...

[tinyowl]

It's so insincere. 'Typo'.

She and her production company are garden variety traveling con artists, they are not even leftists or ideologues.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Actually she meant to cite Milton Bradley, famed boardgame maker of "Life" and "Easy Money"...

ROFL.

[duckman]

“Sorry. I didn’t mean to offend.”
No problem. Been saying that to myself all thru this impeachment process. DM

[MayflowerMadam]

“Jesus Christ.”

“Thou shalt not...”

[stanne]

I would like to have someone explain how she got an Econ degree

Is she like Obama or Chris cuomo getting Ivy League degrees because someone paid for it?

Who paid BU? Soros?

[Veggie Todd]

Marry me, Lexi. I can fix you.

[preacher]

L8r

[Drango]

She is bat *poop* crazy.

*sorry* for the typo.

[EvilCapitalist]

You must be a glutton for punishment. Lol!

[Moonmad27]

I’m sure she wasn’t referring to Milton Keynes, the British city, either.

[Veggie Todd]

You must be a glutton for punishment. Lol!

Nope. One weekend with me and she'll be singing Republican's praises.

[Psalm 73]

"...Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who holds a bachelor's degree in [home] economics from Boston University..."

[Springman]

Might have worked for it oh her knees.