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That hill she'll die on: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez still championing the 'unwilling to work'
American Thinker ^ | 04/25/2020 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 04/25/2020 7:29:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Talk about dimwit.

At a time when millions of Americans are demanding to be allowed to return to work, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is calling for a "work strike."

According to PJMedia's Tyler O'Neill:

"When we talk about this idea of reopening society you know, only in America does the president — when the president tweets about liberation — does he mean 'go back to work.' When we have this discussion about going back or reopening, I think a lot of people should just say no — we’re not going back to that," AOC told Anand Giridharadas in the first episode of his upcoming Vice show.

"We’re not going back to working 70-hour weeks just so that we could put food on the table and not even feel any sort of semblance of security in our lives," she argued.

Which ought to go over real well with hungry workers wondering how the rent's going to get paid. They know it's bad for them.

But Ocasio-Cortez isn't really thinking it's about them. With everyone out on 'work strike,' it certainly ends the obligation of government to ensure that the private sector can create jobs, doesn't it? Never mind the wishes of 22 million unemployed Americans.

 

Seems it's easy to tell unemployed people to go on a work strike when you have a $200,000 a year job yourself, plus an apartment with a working garbage disposal.

 

People have been working for tens of thousands of years just so that they could "put food on the table" but now this socialist, who knows better than any of us, is trying to tell us that not working is better and we should all be glad to go without paychecks,

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: New York
KEYWORDS: antifa; aoc; newyork; ocasiocortez; occasionalcortex; unemployment; work
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1 posted on 04/25/2020 7:29:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I just decided to quit clicking on links that have anything to do with AOC. Mushbrain.


2 posted on 04/25/2020 7:32:54 AM PDT by upchuck (Tired of all the tyranny brought on by leftist politicians.)
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To: SeekAndFind

In the past, not just in America, the “unwilling to work” starved.


3 posted on 04/25/2020 7:32:58 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SeekAndFind

Isn’t one thing we have learned in all this that “Society may tolerate you as “excess population” but Nature won’t? Intelligent people learn.


4 posted on 04/25/2020 7:33:37 AM PDT by wastoute (Anyone who believes PsyOps are not involved has never met a PsyOps Officer.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s hope they’re also “unwilling to vote.”


5 posted on 04/25/2020 7:33:51 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: SeekAndFind

What percentage of the population has a 70-hour work week?


6 posted on 04/25/2020 7:35:14 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Lurkinanloomin

One of my first jobs was working underground in a mine. Where I learned the “Miner’s Code”. Basically, when things go South you don’t want that guy asking himself if you’re worth saving.


7 posted on 04/25/2020 7:36:54 AM PDT by wastoute (Anyone who believes PsyOps are not involved has never met a PsyOps Officer.)
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To: GSWarrior

That percentage is likely shrinking with more temporary and part time hiring.


8 posted on 04/25/2020 7:37:22 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Lurkinanloomin
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. - 2 Thessalonians 3:10
9 posted on 04/25/2020 7:40:37 AM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: SeekAndFind

She should lead by example.

Who the hell voted for her?

It makes me wonder which came first the stupidity of the NYC voters or people like AOC and De Blasio that are attracted to the dumbest voters in the country. No wonder NYC is the center of the epidemic.


10 posted on 04/25/2020 7:41:58 AM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: SeekAndFind

This twit benefited from a perfect storm of apathy and ignorance.... the dinosaur she beat in the primary was lazy, fat, dumb & happy and didn’t bother to campaign. I’m sure if he did, he would of crushed her. So with only 4 or 5 percent of the voters bothering to turnout she pulled it off. Now the voters in her district know she’s more interested in being a celebrity, couldn’t care less about her district. And now with 30% unemployment on the way and Amazon being one of the few companies making money these days, no one is going to forget she went out of her way to kill the Amazon development. This kid is toast.


11 posted on 04/25/2020 7:43:27 AM PDT by wny
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To: wny
You are forgetting an old adage. Never underestimate the stupidity of the average voter.
12 posted on 04/25/2020 7:49:52 AM PDT by attiladhun2
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To: SeekAndFind
AOC, if you support those who are unwilling to work to put food on the table, how can you make the farmers work to put it there?

Why do the "unwilling" get a free paid vacation at the expense of the "willing"?

13 posted on 04/25/2020 7:53:55 AM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: SeekAndFind

OK, we’ve got lots of illegals who are actively looking for, and willing to work. Let’s keep them and banish our homegrown unwillings to the illegals’ countries of origin, one for one. Keep a thousand Mexicans, send a thousand gangbangers, bebymamas, meth heads and generational welfare clients to Mexico.


14 posted on 04/25/2020 7:56:57 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
In the past, not just in America, the “unwilling to work” starved.

Or stole, or scammed. Looks like nothing's changed.

15 posted on 04/25/2020 7:59:51 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: JimRed

Barmaids and waitresses, who are paid below minimum wage and depend on tips, (mostly) are making more on unemployment than when they were employed. Why do you think they want to stay unemployed?


16 posted on 04/25/2020 8:14:26 AM PDT by TStro (/)
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To: SeekAndFind

DONT GO TO WORK TRUMP WANTS YOU DEAD, tell me you didnt see this coming


17 posted on 04/25/2020 8:20:53 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: SeekAndFind

When you have a $200,000 a year job yourself

Trump takes no money for the job something she can’t say,the poster girl of stupidity.


18 posted on 04/25/2020 8:24:02 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: TStro
Barmaids and waitresses, who are paid below minimum wage and depend on tips, (mostly) are making more on unemployment than when they were employed. Why do you think they want to stay unemployed?

The total of compensation from all sources of unemployment should not equal or exceed the wages that were being earned prior to the layoff. Cash tips frequently go unreported, so those who fail to report them receive less.

When called back to work, refusing should end any entitlement to benefits.

19 posted on 04/25/2020 8:53:03 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: SeekAndFind

AOC... CLUELESS BITCH!


20 posted on 04/25/2020 10:08:42 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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