Leftists think they know how to run everyone’s lives for them.
Busybodies run amuck.
“public” government owned housing given to folks seems by the video to equal Orwells 1984 ‘prole’ housing. NYC seems to have a heads up on the novel.
In some ways I feel sorry for AOC. The leftist think she’s brilliant. The right thinks she’s crazy (and/or dangerous). But both groups pay attention to what she says, though for different reasons. This makes her think she’s pretty hot sh*t.
She’s kind of the anti-Chance Gardner.
I wonder what type of housing she considers “adequate housing” for herself?
How come no one has ever promised this before?
The Dems. lead by Socialist Sanders and company, keep promising everyone free this and that. Who is going to pay for what they promise the sheeple voters? Who is going to work hard to pay higher and higher taxes? Sanders gets rich on offering tax funded goodies. There are others now following his formula to promote Socialism.
Oh wow. How come nothing has been done about this? What corruption. And, New York Democrats want to tell the rest of US how to live. Really? This is fuel for revolution.
Prison state. Everyone will be a happy camper. Or else.
Did she give the Republic of San Francisco as an example of rent controls working?
“safe, affordable, adequate housing” = a one-bedroom apartment in a high-rise, as in the old Soviet Union.
hopefully the voters of NY will show her who the real boss is and elect not to reelect her
Constitutionally low-information AOC has evidently never learned that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to tax and spend on behalf of the poor. This is evidenced by the following excerpts from writings by state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices and a constitutional lawmaker.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The power to regulate manufactures, not having been confided to congress, they have no more right to act upon it, than they have to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws, of the states [emphases added]." —Joseph Story, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, Commentaries on the Constitution 2
”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” — Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So misguided AOC is trying to unconstitutionally expand the already unconstitutionally big federal government’s powers.
AOC should have run for a state office so that she can exercise 10th Amendment-protected state powers to do the things that she wants to do for the poor, as the founding fathers had intended for local and state government leaders, not the feds, to do.
But she would first need to support PJDT in leading the states to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers — no power to provide housing for the poor — so that the states can ultimately find new revenues to take care of the poor.
Gosh.
If people could eat bullshit,
The Democrats could feed the world!
The town I grew up in, across the river from St. Louis, saw its population grow from 800 in 1950 to 10,000 on 1960. That was because of the massive building of subdivisions in the mid-fifties. The houses were modest but comfortable with three bedrooms and a quarter acre of land. Some had attached garages or carports. Some had basement, which was not always the greatest idea in the American Bottoms. The intended buyers were blue-collar workers, but professionals also lived there. My parents paid $12,000 for our house in 1957. People raised large families there. Kids had a place to play. We had one of the better schlol districts in Illinois. It was a great place to grow up. It was all private development.
A return to the housing projects of the seventies. Didn’t work in Detroit.
Paid for by those fools who continue to go out every day to work, because their pride won’t let them become welfare-dependent bums.
Sounds like a return to the Cabrini Green projects, years ago in Chicago.
A house, but with no walls. Walls are immoral.