I thought the same about Obama.
She is useless without her handlers. I have read what she has said in congress and it is obvious when she goes off script. She make less sense than Pelosi. At least Pelosi’s excuse is her dementia brought on by Botox abuse and overdose. Ocasio-Cortez was overeducated and was not capable of absorbing what she supposedly learned.
Supposedly she has an economics degree and never learned about free markets and why profits are a better incentive than government redistribution of wealth. People work hard so that they can have a better life. When the government takes away what they have worked for and gives it to those that are unwilling to work then the workers stop working. Fast forward and you end up with Venezuela. All those natural resources and people are starving.
Social Justice Econ 101-105 is pure redistributionist gobbly-gook.
“Ocasio-Cortez was overeducated and was not capable of absorbing what she supposedly learned.”
“When you take a gallon of knowledge, and pour it into a shotglass of a brain, you’re going to spill some.”
- Bud Bundy from “Married, With Children” following his abortive attempt to educate his sister Kelley.
She’s been fighting for a different compensation system for restaurant employees to replace the current (for the most part) tipping system. This is of course after she made plenty on tips in her previous position.
Her fellow bartenders and servers want none of it. They say we like it this way, don’t save us.
Right now, no employees lose. If your tips don’t amount to what you would have made at only the minimum wage, your employer has to bring you up to minimum-wage level. Under the system she advocates, there are no tips, and everyone makes the minimum wage.
How does that sound, high-end-restaurant employees?
The owner of the place where she worked also owned a high-end place, and when he put the no-tip system she recommends into place, his high-tip employees all left.
Not to even mention that the fact that the tipping system builds community. You act nice, the diner loves you, the diner pays you for your service. It’s one of those things that can’t be faked, so it keeps the good feelings going in the eating establishments.
It works to form people, as a good corporation does. I worked for corporations for 50 years, and I have very low tolerance for people who never did, people who have very little incentive to do what they say they’re going to do and to do it when they say they’re going to do it or faster. You act at your own inclination and when you feel like acting in a corporation and you are out on your face the next week.
My work with volunteers when I first got active in politics was an excruciating eye-opener. I was once stuck with 50 or so folding chairs that someone had promised to get over to the rummage sale site and then never showed up. She was a teacher in the NYC public school system.
Start all new schools, and send the social engineers to learn how cultures and societies really work and succeed.