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Alexandria Ocasio Cortez: Medicare For All Is Cheaper Because It Reduces Funeral Costs
Townhall.com ^ | August 9, 2018 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 08/09/2018 11:52:04 PM PDT by Kaslin

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is fun. No, I mean that in all sincerity; she’s a fun candidate. She’s now one of the faces of the emerging left wing of the Democratic Party. Some have even called her the future of the Democratic Party. Maybe they should slow their roll on her, but hey—a Democratic implosion of rising talent is always a fun show to watch. She’s feisty. She has her moments, but when it comes to the policy discussion for her television hits, she veers into rocky shoals.

casio-Cortez is clueless on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, playing whack-a-mole concerning whether there should be a two-state solution. Don’t expect anything rational from here on out. Three days after her interview on PBS’ Firing Line, in which she voiced her support for a two-state solution, she moved away from that position. She recently attended a conference with anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour, so that’s all you need to know where she’ll probably land. The far left is viciously anti-Israel. You have to be in order to call yourself a proud left-winger.

CNN’s Chris Cuomo had her on his show, where she proved once again that she has no clue what she's talking about concerning economic policy. Ocasio-Corez thinks the military got a $700 billion increase, wrote a $2 trillion check for the Trump tax cuts, and the Medicare for All initiative isn’t bad because it would reduce the costs of funerals. Yeah, no one will die under a single payer system. Hey, not dying—sounds great on paper. Concerning application, you’d have to be on crack cocaine to think this would ever be cost-effective. It’s not. It has a $30+ trillion price tag. The three-decade price tag for the Left’s goodie bag—free college, Medicare for all, etc.—lands in the neighborhood of…$218 trillion.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Israel; US: New York; US: Vermont; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2018elections; alexocasiocrtez; aoc; berniesanders; chriscuomo; clintonnonnews; cnn; democialism; healthcare; incometaxes; israel; jerusalem; joecrowley; letshavejerusalem; lindasarsour; mattvespa; medicare; medicareforall; michellewolf; newyork; ocasiocortez; singlepayer; sochealthcare; socializedeconomy; taxcutsandjobsact; taxreform; tcja; vermont; waronterror; whcd
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To: Kaslin

My God, whenever this woman speaks something is subtracted from the sum total of human knowledge.


61 posted on 08/10/2018 4:41:22 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Kaslin

Of course costs are reduced when everything is free, including end of care funeral costs. Wow, she’s so smart. Let’s raise her taxes to 100% then she’ll never have to worry about money again, because 100% taxes will make everyone rich. - Sorry! Not so. > lol & hahaha Roflmao She’s best Dem comedian yet. Let’s pray that the every day Democrat liberal progressives are smart enough to not to fall for communist socialist nonsense like this. As the old saying goes “Fools and their money are soon parted. So don’t vote Democrat.”


62 posted on 08/10/2018 4:50:47 AM PDT by This I Wonder32460 (I'd rather be a conservative deplorable, then a democrat corruptible.)
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To: Vendome

Just euthanize all taxpayers. That will save medicare a bundle and you can have all the country’s wealth for the needy around the world.


63 posted on 08/10/2018 4:53:18 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Vendome

Medicare? How about “Is she medicated?”


64 posted on 08/10/2018 4:54:14 AM PDT by This I Wonder32460 (I'd rather be a conservative deplorable, then a democrat corruptible.)
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To: Texas resident
This goof graduated with an economics degree? I think she was passed along.

Apparently she learned nothing but graduated anyway.

Maybe the final exam was summing up her economic knowledge by chanting "government spending good, private spending bad" for ten minutes.

At least her gums and sclera are healthy and she is proud to show them to the world.

65 posted on 08/10/2018 4:55:16 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (I can't tell if we live in an Erostocracy (rule by sex) or an Eristocracy (rule by strife and chaos))
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To: Reno89519
"She’s only 28."

Based on her statements, isn't that also her IQ?

66 posted on 08/10/2018 4:56:31 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: All

Early on, many WERE calling her the “new face” of the Democrat Party. Those quotes may come back to haunt these idiots.


67 posted on 08/10/2018 4:57:15 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: cynwoody

“S- o- y- lent Green

(I had to write it that way because spell check either kept correcting or perhaps censoring me, as I sometimes suspect is its agenda.)


68 posted on 08/10/2018 5:04:28 AM PDT by This I Wonder32460 (I'd rather be a conservative deplorable, then a democrat corruptible.)
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To: Kaslin
"Idiot wind

Blowing every time you move your mouth

Blowing down the back roads headin' south

Idiot wind

Blowing every time you move your teeth

You're an idiot, babe

It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe." Dylan

She should stand back from the fire but she has no clue she's a fool and no one is telling her .

69 posted on 08/10/2018 5:21:23 AM PDT by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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To: Kaslin

What a dumb bunny. Cremation costs a couple thousand whereas medical care can cost millions.


70 posted on 08/10/2018 5:21:57 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Jack Hammer

I’m in too!
Whoda thought ‘Medicare for All’ would end Funeral Costs?


71 posted on 08/10/2018 5:24:17 AM PDT by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
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To: Kaslin

I know. A pretty face doesn’t have to have an intelligent brain behind it, but this one is too much. Listen, babe, your pretty face will get you only so far, and then your brain has to take over. Looks like your brain won’t be helping you very much.


72 posted on 08/10/2018 5:26:30 AM PDT by I want the USA back (If free speech is taken away, dumb and silent we are led, like sheep to the slaughter: G Washington)
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To: Kaslin
Ocasio-Cortez "thinking"...and chimpazee "painting"


73 posted on 08/10/2018 5:27:34 AM PDT by drpix
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To: RandallFlagg
It’s unfortunate that the keyword, “TijuanaDonkeyBarBecky,” has too many letters...

When I was young a half century ago there was a bar in Ensenada that had that very show and their, "Eat At The Blue Fox" t shirts were a big hit.

74 posted on 08/10/2018 5:29:21 AM PDT by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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To: Kaslin

Making the School Lunch Program serve Soylent Green will achieve the same ends.


75 posted on 08/10/2018 5:42:18 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Kaslin

This creature is totally insane. A perfect new resident for the swamp.


76 posted on 08/10/2018 5:49:49 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: jmacusa

True on the ‘Baby Bug Eyes’,
-—but those TEETH!!!!!!!!-—

What has teeth like that? Horse? Termite? Beaver?

I love it when we on the right figure out how the left absolutely cannot take being laughed at.

It drives them insane!!!! (well,,, more insane anyway)

Anyway, what does Rush say about the intelligence challenged? “glittering jewel of ignorance”?


77 posted on 08/10/2018 6:18:22 AM PDT by Wildbill22 ( They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton William Abrams)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

I suspect she would ban all traditional funerals and just have bodies that accumulated all month shoved into a pit and doused with lime. It’s far cheaper to have bulldozers cover up the corpses all at once than to dig individual holes and have all those obnoxious relatives standing around weeping and wailing while a religious person makes some incantations over the corpse. Just let The State handle it. The State knows what is best.


78 posted on 08/10/2018 6:18:57 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
"I suspect she would ban all traditional funerals..."

They're already moving to that! It's called a "Green Funeral" and it's the rage among the leftwing eviro-socialists - who always try to mandate their wacko preference on everyone else.

"Green Funeral" means not only no embalming, but also no burial vaults, no caskets and no carbon fueled hearses. The idea is to degrade in the ground like compost as quickly as possible.


79 posted on 08/10/2018 6:49:44 AM PDT by drpix
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To: Kaslin

>>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is fun.<<

This freaking moron is the best gift Neu Yawk has EVER given to the Republican Party.


80 posted on 08/10/2018 7:49:37 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat ( I would propound that that RT AmeriObama's legacy to the USA: A Criminalized Department of Justice.)
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