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Ocasio-Cortez responds to Ivanka Trump: 'I actually worked for tips and hourly wages'
The Hill ^ | 26 Feb 19 | Michael Burke

Posted on 02/28/2019 9:13:57 AM PST by SkyPilot

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) responded Tuesday to criticism from Ivanka Trump by suggesting Trump's daughter learned about working "for tips & hourly wages ... 2nd-hand."

"As a person who actually worked for tips & hourly wages in my life, instead of having to learn about it 2nd-hand, I can tell you that most people want to be paid enough to live," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, with a link to reports of Ivanka Trump slamming Ocasio-Cortez earlier in the day.

"A living wage isn’t a gift, it’s a right. Workers are often paid far less than the value they create," she continued.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) responded Tuesday to criticism from Ivanka Trump by suggesting Trump's daughter learned about working "for tips & hourly wages ... 2nd-hand."

"As a person who actually worked for tips & hourly wages in my life, instead of having to learn about it 2nd-hand, I can tell you that most people want to be paid enough to live," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, with a link to reports of Ivanka Trump slamming Ocasio-Cortez earlier in the day.

"A living wage isn’t a gift, it’s a right. Workers are often paid far less than the value they create," she continued.

Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) introduced the "Green New Deal" earlier this month. The climate change resolution seeks to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions while also creating millions of jobs. The resolution includes a universal jobs guarantee.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts; US: New York
KEYWORDS: anotheraocthread; aoc; edmarkey; edwardmarkey; greennewdeal; ivanka; ivankatrump; markey; ocasiocortez; rentfree; rentfreeonfr; taxes; tip; tips; trump
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To: Candor7

We need live Congressional hearings on this. Is she a thief? Was she denying a woman equal pay? Was it a person of color?


61 posted on 02/28/2019 11:41:11 AM PST by spudville
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To: SkyPilot
"'Workers are often paid far less than the value they create,' she continued."

Echoing Marx's discredited labor theory of value.

62 posted on 02/28/2019 11:45:59 AM PST by Fedora
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To: Fedora
'Workers are often paid far less than the value they create,' she continued."

It’s a fact that you might be worth less than you actually believe you’re worth. In extreme cases, worthless.

63 posted on 02/28/2019 11:52:58 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: SkyPilot

Who are these workers who AOC says are so stupid that they allow themselves to be paid far less than their value?

What business would allow a worker to quit, rather than pay them, if the work that person did was valuable enough?


64 posted on 02/28/2019 11:57:40 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: SkyPilot

“A living wage isn’t a gift, it’s a right. Workers are often paid far less than the value they create,” she continued.


Yet again, this low-grade moron is demonstrating that she simply does NOT understand economics.

If someone is paid far less than the value they create, that is because: 1) if they were paid the actual value they created, no business owner would even think of hiring them; 2) there is a surplus of labor in that particular market. Greater supply vs. demand pushes down prices. Damn, you learn that in the first WEEK in economics class, let alone if you major in it.

To quote the great philosopher, Dr. Bugs Bunny: “What a marroon!”


65 posted on 02/28/2019 12:17:23 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: SkyPilot
...as a person who actually worked for tips & hourly wages ..."

Yep! She learned the "hard" way, the life of a prostitute is tough...

66 posted on 02/28/2019 12:19:09 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: SkyPilot

is she that ignorant that she doesn’t know that Ivanka has been a successful businesswoman for decades?


67 posted on 02/28/2019 12:37:05 PM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: SkyPilot

More like, “Yesterday I was a bartender. Today I’m an investment banker.”


68 posted on 02/28/2019 12:39:39 PM PST by HotHunt (Reagan was good but TRUMP IS GREAT!)
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To: SkyPilot
“Workers are often paid far less than the value they create,”

Workers often think they provide more value than they actually provide. A b'tender in a taco bar brings little value to the business because it's a dime a dozen job. A bookkeeper, otoh, adds value to the business because of their skills and knowledge.

69 posted on 02/28/2019 12:41:49 PM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: Fiddlstix

Like the trunk of a 1970s Buick.


70 posted on 02/28/2019 1:03:25 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: N. Theknow
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.... caption please.

71 posted on 02/28/2019 1:28:58 PM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: a little elbow grease

America’s Socialist Sweetheart


72 posted on 02/28/2019 1:32:54 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: a little elbow grease

Just putting in her three cents.


73 posted on 02/28/2019 2:52:10 PM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: Ancesthntr
To quote the great philosopher, Dr. Bugs Bunny: “What a marroon!”

LOL - good one

74 posted on 02/28/2019 9:26:09 PM PST by GOPJ
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To: SkyPilot

Guaranteed govt job and is what was asked about, not minimum wage rate or law. Ivanka used the word ‘minimum’ in her reply which has nothing to do with a guaranteed govt job for everyone. Ivanka said a ‘guarantee minimum’ which usually refers to a minimum wage. She also said she didn’t believe most people want to be given something .... they want to work for what they get.

Did she misunderstood what the subject was she was being asked about? Or she decided to move the conversation to that of minimum wages. Neither is likely.

Or ... I think she wanted to speak against a socialist system that guarantees jobs for everyone and possibly against a universal income for those who don’t want to work. I don’t think she was talking about minimum wage laws, and I doubt she spends any time thinking about minimum wages, but has thought a great deal about socialist guaranteed jobs and universal income system. She should have left the word minimum out and been more clear but I doubt she was speaking against existing minimum wages, as the left is trying to claim.


75 posted on 03/01/2019 2:13:23 AM PST by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: SkyPilot

Ivanka owns and runs a couple of businesses. Why don’t YOU, Brainiac?


76 posted on 03/01/2019 2:23:30 AM PST by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: SkyPilot

“A living wage isn’t a gift, it’s a right.”

It isn’t a right, it has to be earned. That’s why they(we) are called WAGE-EARNERS, not WAGE-RIGHTERS.

” Workers are often paid far less than the value they create,”

SO.... she is saying people should be paid based on the value they create ? Isn’t that capitalistic ? Shouldn’t she be paying her staff based on the ‘value’ they create instead of paying them all the same ?


77 posted on 03/01/2019 5:44:18 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: HotHunt
speaks out of both sides of her mouth at one time.

Well, there's plenty of mouth there for her to do that.

78 posted on 03/02/2019 8:19:18 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The Obama is about to hit the fan.)
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To: SkyPilot

Makes you wonder how she transitioned from working as a bartender of a dead end dive bar, to becoming the newest Democrat/Socialist sensation from NY? Someone’s definitely propping her up.


79 posted on 03/03/2019 9:59:08 AM PST by Blue Highway
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To: Blue Highway

Soros.


80 posted on 03/03/2019 2:34:46 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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