Posted on 04/01/2019 12:27:47 PM PDT by lowbridge
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez turned an overpriced croissant into a lesson on the minimum wage.
“Croissants at LaGuardia are going for SEVEN DOLLARS A PIECE,” the New York Democrat tweeted Monday morning. “Yet some people think getting a whole hour of personal, dedicated human labor for $15 is too expensive??”
She said her point wasn’t that the croissant cost too much.
“GOP taking every tweet so earnestly, making my point for me. It’s not an argument against the price of the croissant – it’s about the value of human worth,” she continued. “But I guess the idea is foreign to them since their policies treat people as disposable anyway.”
When AOC ran for Congress last year, she supported a $15-an-hour minimum wage, as well as a federal jobs guarantee.
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Who?
When you say your point wasn’t that the croissant cost too much, it’s that the croissant cost too much.
>>“Croissants at LaGuardia are going for SEVEN DOLLARS A PIECE,” the New York Democrat tweeted Monday morning. “Yet some people think getting a whole hour of personal, dedicated human labor for $15 is too expensive??”<<
Hey a0c. You are not worth croissants to me.
I can get her a couple of bags of croissants for $7.00.
She’s an idiot if she pays $7.00 for one.
The businesses in airports know they have a captive market as you can no longer bring your own food/beverages through security.
She could go to a Burger King and get a “Crescent” that had some meat and cheese inside for less than two bucks.
And when croissant prices mysteriously double, she’ll demand an even higher minimum wage. Shazam, instant inflation. Thanks.
Working big to small on the issues, I see.
Good Lord she is SO clueless about market-set prices, supply and demand, economic freedom, the free and voluntary exchange of goods and services between people to improve the “utility” of each person, the use of prices to communicate information about value.
What exactly IS her point? That some people are worth only 3/5 of a Croissant?
What IS she talking about? Wage, price and croissant controls?
Well, at least she hasn’t let her job go to her head!
What was the value of TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND jobs in LIC??
How many “starving” people would have gotten jobs at Amazon.
####ing dingbat.
And PLEASE someone tell me what the price of a croissant has to do with the minimum wage?
In a muslim country she wouldn’t even be able to give her opinions every ten minutes.
...Ok, so there’s ONE upside to islam. Everything has at least one.
Brown bag your croissant from the Walmart bakery, less than $2, and go back to tending bar.
Wage and price controls, that’ll show ‘em...
[A PIECE]
Should that be “apiece”? That would be how I would have put it. Dunno....
I guess she never learned about Cause and Effect. One reason the croissant is $7 is BECAUSE the minimum wage is $15.
And she has been told all her life, that she is beautiful, smart and more important than anyone else.........she has no inner voice tempering her narcissism.
Yep. One day it’s “Ban all cows. Ban all airplanes. Tear down every building in America.”
The next day is “There’s no economic justice in croissants at La Guardia.”
She knows everything. What an amazing woman. We should put her in charge of setting all prices for everything in the U.S.
She’s a Congress Critter so she’s supposed to get everything for free
AOC: Why does this croissant cost $7? We should pay the workers who sell it $15 per hour!
::Price of croissants rise to $9::
AOC: Why does this croissant cost $9? We should pay the workers who sell it $17 per hour!https://t.co/wCUYkKpjFb— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) April 1, 2019
But she wants to impose sky high government on us.
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