Posted on 07/27/2018 11:12:55 AM PDT by C19fan
Naw, she actually looks great until she opens her maw...
Idiocracy is now a documentary...
did she really get a degree from BU in Economics?
Has anyone actually verified that?
The top 1% who in theory own about 1/2 of all the wealth in the country will give up half their wealth. Next week, the other half, and after that . . . Venezuela.
Obviously missed basic arithmetic class
Looking at Econ majors graduation numbers. It is the major of the day.hundreds of students enroll in the college of Economics nationwide. Maybe they figure it’s a stepping stone to getting into business school. Which is pretty selective lately.
Looking at Econ majors graduation numbers. It is the major of the day.hundreds of students enroll in the college of Economics nationwide. Maybe they figure it’s a stepping stone to getting into business school. Which is pretty selective lately.
BC is Jesuit.
That's what you get with them.
It’s obvious her abilities peaked as a waitress.
Here is her extra credit class she took from Bernie. These quotes include commentary from the Hotair writer:
>>”“But one of the things that we saw is, if people pay their fair share, if corporations and the ultra wealthy — for example, as Warren Buffett likes to say, if he pays as much as his secretary paid, 15 percent tax rate, if corporations paid — if we reverse the tax bill, raised our corporate tax rate to 28 percent … if we do those two things and also close some of those loopholes, that’s $2 trillion right there. That’s two trillion dollars in ten years.”
I hate to point this out to a math major, but $2 trillion over ten years doesn’t even pay for 20% of Medicare for All even under Bernie Sanders’ rosy projections, let alone the rest of Ocasio-Cortez’ agenda.
And alt- energy solution:
>>“If we get people to pay their fair share, that’s $2 trillion in ten years. Now if we implement a carbon tax on top of that, so that we can transition and financially incentivize people away from fossil fuels, if we implement a carbon tax — that’s an additional amount, a large amount of revenue that we can have.”
Well, how much more? She never says, and it’s clear that she has no idea. Earlier, Ocasio-Cortez also says, “it’s going to take $3 trillion to $4 trillion to transition us to 100 percent renewable economy.” That means that her revenue from the carbon tax and punitive fossil-fuel tax would necessarily decline over the following period, and that the economy would have to generate enough revenue to overcome the $4 trillion spent on the conversion before supplying the first dollar to Medicare for All, let alone the rest of her agenda. It’s worth pointing out too that this conversion would cost double the amount that Ocasio-Cortez says she’d gain from reversing the tax cuts and soaking the rich. We’re actually $2 trillion in the hole just to start with her agenda.
Lastly, start dismantling the military:
>>“Then the last key, which is extremely extremely important is re-prioritization. Just last year we gave the military a $700 billion budget increase, which they didn’t even ask for,” she said. “They’re, like, ‘we don’t want another fighter jet!’ They’re, like, ‘don’t give us another nuclear bomb,’ you know?”
We have to unpack a couple of levels of ignorance in this statement. First off, $700 billion is the entire annual defense budget for the United States, not a “budget increase.” It’s true that the final defense budget outstripped the original Department of Defense request of $639 billion for FY2018, but only by $70 billion, not $700 billion. If we rolled back and capped DoD spending to FY2017 levels, we’d end up saving less than a trillion dollars over ten years — and if she thinks the Pentagon would cheer that result, she’s clearly not taken the time to discuss it with the military branches.
She looks like she should think about gnawing some wood.
"back of the envelope calculations"
"sat down with a (big grin and wide arm motions) Nobel Prize economist"
"if people pay their fair share"
"if corporations and the ultra-wealthy...for example, as Warren Buffett likes to say...if he paid as much as his secretary pays, 15%, if he paid a 15% tax rate, and if corporations paid...if we reversed our tax bill and raised our corporate tax rate to 28% which is not even as high as it was before, if we do those two things and also close some of those loopholes, that's two trillion dollars right there! That's two trillion dollars in ten years!"
"and one of the wide estimates is that it is going to take three to four trillion dollars a year to transition us to 100% renewable energy economy."
"fair share"
"fair share"
"now, if we implement a carbon tax on top of that so that we can transition and financially incentivize people to move away from fossil fuels"
"The last key, which is extremely, extremely, important, is reprioritization. Just last year we gave the military a 700 billion dollar budget increase (high hysterical valley-girl voice) which they didn't even ask for! They're like, we don't even want another fighter jet, like, they're like, like, don't even give us another nuclear bomb!"
I wasn't kidding. You folks owe me big time for watching that for you! (LOL, only kidding, this was a public service!)
You know, there is something about her that reminds me of this girl:
Millennial Job Interview!
The Witless Latina. How many professors did she sleep with to get her college degree? Cos she sure can’t think her way through a wet paper bag. She makes Maxine Wattles look like a freakin’ Mensa member. Duh, girl, somebody’s gotta pay for stuff you get. Economics 101, and I didn’t even have to take the course.
She sounds like she’s 12 years old; if that. She just regurgitates what someone else said but not in an intelligent or meaningful way.
And that voice! Sheesh.
Except her own; nor will she use tax dollars she paid because democrats don’t pay their own taxes. Remember Timothy Geitner (sp?)
I watched it, too - but thanks for covering the high (low?) points of her juvenile blathering.
Thank you for enduring the mental torture. LOL
She is a simpleton who makes the babbling Michael Moore look thoughtful by comparison.
Its actually distressing to know that someone with her lack of sophistication can graduate with a college degree in economics and international relations, much less become a member of the United States congress.
It looks like the Dems had her meet with some academic to try to “coach her up”. The plan obviously backfired.
It’s obvious her abilities peaked as a waitress.
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She may be a standout in congress. Not much original thought there either. /sarc
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