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Ocasio-Cortez rails against overpriced croissants at LaGuardia
nypost.com ^
| April 1, 2019
| Nikki Schwab
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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: anotheraocthread; aoc; berniesanders; cortez; croissant; minimumwage; newyork; ocasiocortez; rentfree; rentfreeonfr; vermont
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To: sheana
Airport prices are awfulTends to happen when your customers are held captive.
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posted on
04/01/2019 2:25:53 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(This week I'm dfwredraider)
To: butlerweave
I bet you’re right. She probably tried the “don’t you know who I am” maneuver to score one for free.
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posted on
04/01/2019 2:27:50 PM PDT
by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
To: Larry Lucido
I haven’t heard that name in a long, long time.
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posted on
04/01/2019 2:28:14 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: lowbridge
The REASON her croissant was $7.00 Is because NY already pays $15.00 an hour STFU AOC!!!
To: lowbridge
Have a double cheeseburger and cheddar fries you scarecrow.
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posted on
04/01/2019 2:38:04 PM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: ealgeone
“Isn’t the airport run by the city/county?”
And the concessions are all run by “associates” of politicians who also have to get their skim.
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posted on
04/01/2019 2:41:21 PM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: ealgeone; lowbridge
"The businesses in airports know they have a captive market" When AOC gets her new green deal done, they won't!
127
posted on
04/01/2019 2:44:17 PM PDT
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
To: lowbridge
She could pack a lunch for that long hop to DC.
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posted on
04/01/2019 2:44:25 PM PDT
by
ptsal
To: lowbridge
This means that I can afford 2 croissants for every employee I get fired? Can this principal be applied to the federal no-work force?
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posted on
04/01/2019 2:48:32 PM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
To: dp0622
“...Ok, so there’s ONE upside to islam.”
Stoning would be appropriate in this case. Is being a snot against Sharia law?
130
posted on
04/01/2019 2:49:07 PM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: Bonemaker
ROFL!!!
I should have known it was you :)
Always love your posts.
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posted on
04/01/2019 2:50:29 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
To: lowbridge
“...it’s about the value of human worth,”
Some people...like you...have no human worth.
132
posted on
04/01/2019 2:51:02 PM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: lowbridge
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posted on
04/01/2019 2:53:37 PM PDT
by
seawolf101
(Member LES DEPLORABLES)
To: realcleanguy
True...She should complain to the Mayor...
134
posted on
04/01/2019 2:53:37 PM PDT
by
Deplorable American1776
(Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
To: conservative98
This single, no-kids brat and no responsibilities other than to herself making 174 large per year is worried about a slight haircut for a croissant? Wait til she sees her tax bill in two weeks...that might tamp down her ardor.
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posted on
04/01/2019 2:56:00 PM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: conservative98
Going to Dunkin for 2 of them...but maybe I should pay $14 for them to make sure Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez be happy...
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posted on
04/01/2019 2:58:12 PM PDT
by
Deplorable American1776
(Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
To: DesertRhino
No, she was trying to figure out how to build a bridge to Iceland to get our ice...
Oh wait, I bet she thinks ICELAND is the nation of ICE employees...
137
posted on
04/01/2019 3:01:17 PM PDT
by
Deplorable American1776
(Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
To: lowbridge
She’s as factually challenged as always. The airport already enforces a $15 min wage, and the croissants there are $3.79
138
posted on
04/01/2019 3:02:23 PM PDT
by
Teacher317
(We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
To: capydick
Before I retired, I worked for a manager who referred to us at various times as ‘her children’ and conversely ‘Human Capital’. Infantilizing AND dehumanizing. Oh, and she’s a Socialist.
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posted on
04/01/2019 3:02:56 PM PDT
by
originalbuckeye
('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
To: dp0622
I'm not a paisano but we think alike!😎
140
posted on
04/01/2019 3:07:42 PM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
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