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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams critics calling her agenda too radical
NY Post ^ | 1/06/19 | Mark Moore

Posted on 01/06/2019 4:46:42 PM PST by Libloather

Rookie Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shot back at critics who say her progressive agenda is too radical and expensive, saying there’s nothing revolutionary about providing people with good jobs, healthcare and an education.

“When you can’t provide for your kids working a full-time job, working two full-time jobs. When you can’t have healthcare. That is not dignified,” Ocasio-Cortez told CBS’ “60 Minutes” in an interview that aired Sunday.

The 29-year-old newly minted House member is entering office with an ambitious agenda — including Medicare-for-all, tuition-free public college, and sweeping environmental protections.

“How are you going to pay for all that?” CBS’ Anderson Cooper asked her.

“No one asks how we’re going to pay for this Space Force. No one asked how we paid for a $2 trillion tax cut,” she said. “We only ask how we pay for it on issues of housing, healthcare and education. How do we pay for it? With the same exact mechanisms that we pay for military increases for this Space Force.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cortez; craycray; radical; socialist
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To: Snickering Hound

I guess Mitt was going for the gayest pose in his mom jeans that he could strike.

Meanwhile, Man’s Country Barack was body surfing for transgender bathrooms.


61 posted on 01/06/2019 5:52:02 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Jane Long; NIKK; WVNan
Am hoping that a few less liberal Rats will decide to switch parties. 😴
62 posted on 01/06/2019 5:54:38 PM PST by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: broken_clock

Who went by the name of Sandy until she decided to make politics her career.


63 posted on 01/06/2019 5:56:43 PM PST by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: Libloather

Aren’t her 15 minutes over yet?


64 posted on 01/06/2019 5:57:44 PM PST by mombonn (God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
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To: Libloather

Hey you ignorant scum (Occasional Cortex), the tax cut has resulted in MORE income tax revenue. See http://www.crfb.org/blogs/has-revenue-risen-2018 (Note the linked article spins the increase as being “despite” the tax cut, but the facts are self-evident.)


65 posted on 01/06/2019 5:58:37 PM PST by piytar (If it was not for double standards, the Democrats and the left would have NO standards.)
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To: dowcaet
Tom Perez, the head of the DNC, said she is the future of the democRATic Party.

From the horse's mouth to your ears....

66 posted on 01/06/2019 6:00:16 PM PST by HotHunt (Reagan was good but TRUMP IS GREAT!)
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To: Libloather
No one asked how we paid for a $2 trillion tax cut,” she said.

Pay for a tax cut?! Right.

67 posted on 01/06/2019 6:03:04 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: digger48
What was hilarious, is that the guy interviewing her is one of those at the “tippy top” who would be hit by her new tax....

Pooper Cooper has the Vanderbilt fortune to fall back on. He is not worried.

68 posted on 01/06/2019 6:04:58 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables
She is dangerous to the republic.

I agree.

69 posted on 01/06/2019 6:06:28 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: broken_clock

We know she is. But the kids she’s pandering to don’t.


70 posted on 01/06/2019 6:07:09 PM PST by LoveMyFreedom
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To: 4integrity

Oh Demscum supporters just wont bother paying and they’ll get away with it. Look at Al Sharpton. And they know it.


71 posted on 01/06/2019 6:07:38 PM PST by piytar (If it was not for double standards, the Democrats and the left would have NO standards.)
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To: Electric Graffiti

She could use a little support.


72 posted on 01/06/2019 6:07:48 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Ruth Bader Ginsburg doctor is a taxidermist.)
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To: hoosiermama

Hmmm...by the looks of her dancing and prancing, maybe she imagined herself as Sandy from Grease.


73 posted on 01/06/2019 6:08:54 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: HotHunt
Tom Perez, the head of the DNC, said she is the future of the democRATic Party.

p28

Tom Perez would say that.

Her problem is that she's too pretty and dresses too well for liberal women to identify with.

74 posted on 01/06/2019 6:12:20 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: Libloather

She said President Trump was a racist. She is an idiot. The people who elected her are idiots.


75 posted on 01/06/2019 6:14:43 PM PST by freedom1st (Build the Wall)
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To: gaijin

I don’t have a problem with that video. She seemed like a cute college chick having some fun. Now? She’s a radical feminist lesbian. So it looked like she was indoctrinated at Boston University.


76 posted on 01/06/2019 6:21:32 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: ThunderSleeps

But wait Julian castro says 90% on the rich, trying to out socialist each other.


77 posted on 01/06/2019 6:28:09 PM PST by magamomma
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To: Libloather

Democrat leaders are not saying it, but, Alexandri Ocasio-Cortez is the true new leader for the democratic party. She embraces and represents best what the democratic party is all about, and she’s not afraid to speak her mind. “Speak” her mind. Kind of says it all, and she speaks for democrats, and therefore should rightfully be called: the “real speaker of the house” while democrats are in the majority. Pelosi? Nope! AOC outshines her, and represents the party’s ideals best. Speaker Ocasio-Cortez. Pelosi is kidding herself if she thinks she is controlling the agenda for democrats. AOC will be voted official speaker if democrats retain control in 2020.


80 posted on 01/06/2019 6:52:04 PM PST by adorno
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