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Ocasio-Cortez needs to wait for lawmaker salary to kick in to afford DC apartment
The Hill ^ | November 8, 2018 | Chris Mills Rodrigo

Posted on 11/08/2018 1:08:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They don’t have waitress jobs in DC?


81 posted on 11/08/2018 3:41:31 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Cowgirl of Justice
"I have three months without a salary before I’m a member of Congress. So, how do I get an apartment? Those little things are very real."

That is quite a statement for Boston University when a person who holds their degree in economics doesn't have the presence of mind to execute a short term loan secured by a GUARANTEED employment contract of $348,000 for the next 24 months.

82 posted on 11/08/2018 4:53:18 PM PST by Baynative (their degree in economics)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“You just pay for it.”


83 posted on 11/08/2018 6:30:26 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Maybe she can hock some of her $5,000 outfits.


84 posted on 11/08/2018 6:31:38 PM PST by Califreak (Take Me Back To Constantinople)
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To: ctdonath2

She has guaranteed employment for the next four years at $700,000. I hardly think she would be considered any kind of a risk.


85 posted on 11/09/2018 8:08:31 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: ctdonath2

Oops, $350,000. Hopefully her constituents will realize their mistake and not reelect her.


86 posted on 11/09/2018 8:09:26 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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She’s an avowed socialist with no expressed sense of financial realities, and currently unemployed. Yes she’s assured a good income in the near future, but you _know_ she’s gonna be blowing thru that like a firehose.

If OC had any business sense/experience, she’d see this problem as a simple matter of travel expenses. My wife was a traveling consultant for years; I’d drop her off at the airport Monday morning, and pick her up Thursday night ... in the meantime, she’d work long hours, and sleep at a cheap hotel near the client’s site; food/housing/travel was reimbursed by the business. OC should have absolutely no trouble doing the same until she can afford her own preferred solutions.

That OC doesn’t see this as a standard solved business problem shows how absolutely unprepared she is to address a $5,000,000,000,000 budget and bossing around 350,000,000 complete strangers.

...and that’s one reason we DO elect “one-percenters” to such offices: they KNOW how $#!^ works at that scale, and already have people handling mundanities like transport & housing.


87 posted on 11/09/2018 10:00:14 AM PST by ctdonath2 (The Red Queen wasn't kidding.)
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To: Bon mots
Actually, full-bore socialists consider Venezuela a failure of capitalism. They absolutely deny it's a socialist country. (Seriously, I've had several avowed communists tell me this.)
88 posted on 11/09/2018 10:02:21 AM PST by ctdonath2 (The Red Queen wasn't kidding.)
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