I don’t think Ocasio-Cortez was deliberately lying when she made her comment.
Posted on 08/15/2018 4:38:38 AM PDT by grundle
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said:
“They [national Democrats] were campaigning most when we had more of an American middle class. This upper-middle class is probably more moderate but that upper-middle class does not exist anymore in America.”
The Washington Post responded with the following:
“… the upper-middle class has actually grown. In a 2016 paper published by the Urban Institute, Stephen J. Rose documented that the upper-middle class has grown substantially, from 12.9 percent of the population in 1979 to 29.4 percent in 2014.”
The same Washington Post article also included this chart:
I don’t think Ocasio-Cortez was deliberately lying when she made her comment.
Instead, I think she is genuinely ignorant of a lot of basic facts that get regularly reported in the mainstream media.
What a dochebag.
The Upper middle class is comprised of rich gov workers such as herself.
And it’s growing.
At the expense of everyone else.
This genius has an Ivy League economics degree.
what is the income range of “upper middle class”? for that matter what are all the ranges? Anyone know? Thanks.
She’s so dumb I actually have to check my impulse to feel sorry for her.
what we’re learning is that to be a socialist in this country, you have to be either dumb as a stump, or fully indoctrinated.
I’m not completely sure which one this little snowflake happens to be.
She should ask her dad in Scarsdale. And BU is not ivy league, it’s just expensive.
What party do the billion dollar marxists who have become millionaires then billionaires, all since 2001, belong to?
these are the leftist hypocrites who offshore and use visas to stifle wages in high paying degreed tech sector jobs.
also what does importing 30+ million low wage immigrants (20+ million of whom are here illegally and working off the books) do to wages (cumulative as well as competitively)?
stifle wages and importing more low wage people equals a much much bigger impoverished low class society.
She’s so dumb she thinks the Canadian border should pay rent.
Most Ivy League schools teach Marxism and little else.
Well, it is being taxed into extinction...
That’s probably what she meant!
Well, apparently 90% of all statistics are made up 75% of the time...so, yeah, there is that also.
Instead, I think she is genuinely ignorant of a lot of basic facts that get regularly reported in the mainstream media.
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Occasional-Kotex? Ignorant? Do, tell!
Until last week, I bet she was still wiping herself with her fingers until she finally figured out what those strange rolls of white paper were for.
Thanks for the link, so I know a lot of people that make over 100G so yes there is an upper middle class. Just call us the 14%ers.
Well, if that’s the case, what’s she so worried about? Socialism is an elimination of the middle classes. In socialism, you just have the elite class (what she is aspiring to) and the drones.
She is a clown.
If you Google it, you will get:
“Search Results
The upper middle class grew to 29.4% of the population in 2014, up from 12.9% in 1979, according to a new Urban Institute report. It defines this group as having household income of between $100,000 and $350,000 for a three-person family”
Here’s what amazes me. Even the thoroughly brainwashed useful idiots can figure this out on their own simply by looking around and using their own identity politics to get jealous over the upper middle class driving around in nice cars and having nice homes.
Such an ultra stupid remark has gotta come from that vacuum space between her ears. There’s no way she has handlers that feed her what to say.
The best thing for our country right now is for her to just keep talking.
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