That hill she'll die on: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez still championing the 'unwilling to work'

American Thinker ^ | 04/25/2020 | Monica Showalter

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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,

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In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.”

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