Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Originally Posted by Sluggo1

What does all this mean???

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That you're too old for anyone to give a crap what policies you think this country should enact

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Originally Posted by Sluggo1

But their concept of the future is the next iPhone release. Their future is concert tours.

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And yours (and mine) is cremation or burial.

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Originally Posted by valade16

On the other hand, they are voting on laws that impact the future. As Chris Rock said "how you gonna make good decisions about what we need in the future when you won't be in it?"

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So, politics should have a maximum age of ... 45?

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Originally Posted by Scoots

So, politics should have a maximum age of ... 45?

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Well if you're 45 you have the possibility of living in society for a minimum of 20 more years, that's a little different than the possibility of only being alive due to natural causes for the next 2 lol

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Originally Posted by Hawkeye15

no, there will be more public housing, more people living under one roof, etc. Housing costs are rising far faster than wages. As are health costs, childcare costs, and pretty much every other cost out there.

I mean, by all means, let's live like the chinese do. 7 people in a 2 bedroom apartment, sleeping on bunks in the living room, all because it's so expensive to rent/buy.

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Public housing to me is essentially homeless. The homeless have the option and choose not to take it.

And you are still talking about the future and I'm talking about now.

And many people living under one roof is common, they are called roommates, but they all pay rent theoretically.

The point I made was that until you were living without depending on your parents maybe you shouldn't vote. That would apply to all those who move out with multi-million dollar "trusts" from their parents. They are not independent if their lifestyle is paid for by their parents.

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Originally Posted by valade16

Well if you're 45 you have the possibility of living in society for a minimum of 20 more years, that's a little different than the possibility of only being alive due to natural causes for the next 2 lol

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Yeah, but a new law takes 5-10 years to have it's effect and be understood, and if you set it at 55 that means they won't be still in politics to bear the results of their decisions.

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Originally Posted by Scoots

Public housing to me is essentially homeless. The homeless have the option and choose not to take it.

And you are still talking about the future and I'm talking about now.

And many people living under one roof is common, they are called roommates, but they all pay rent theoretically.

The point I made was that until you were living without depending on your parents maybe you shouldn't vote. That would apply to all those who move out with multi-million dollar "trusts" from their parents. They are not independent if their lifestyle is paid for by their parents.

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yes

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Originally Posted by valade16

A 68 year old went to college at around 1970. In 1970 a year of college was $8,800 in today's dollars. A house cost $65,000 in today's dollars. They grew up in a different reality than we did.

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exactly, meaning, they have literally zero understanding of what people face today, just because they went through it decades ago.

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Originally Posted by Sluggo1

If everyone over 68 simply disappeared, I wonder how many jobs would be left.

RE: para 2…with unionized/organized labor they have little say in keeping tenured employees. The tenured/experienced employees leave at a young age, get another job and wind up with two, usually pretty good incomes. Who wouldn't do that? Cop/Fireman retires at 45 at half pay with benefits and gets a cushy job using their skills in a similar field. Seems wasteful to me. But I would do it if I had the opportunity.

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a ton. Life goes on dude, always has, always will. YOU are replaceable. So is the CEO of Exxon.

Regarding your para 2- look, I am not saying you wasted your life, but if you still view things from the businessman perspective, instead of the individual perspective, that is too bad, and I feel sorry for you. Life is not about work, its about enjoying life. Work is simply the means to get that. Nothing more.

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Originally Posted by ManRam

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Or they weren't making enough money on it so they bailed out.

Either way, I suspect someone will loan them money if they make a dime.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc...terrible-ideas

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AOC stars in GOP congressional ad: 'Bless her heart, she has some terrible ideas'

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Less than three months after taking office, New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose favorability numbers have plummeted in some recent polls, is already front and center in a GOP congressional candidate's upcoming campaign advertisement.

The 30-second spot, obtained by Fox News and currently available on YouTube, features Michele Nix, a candidate for the North Carolina 3rd Congressional District seat in the race to replace the late Republican Rep. Walter B. Jones Jr., who died in February.

"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: she has the media, she has the followers, but bless her heart, she has some terrible ideas," Nix says. "Guaranteeing government jobs for some, while killing small-town jobs for others. Her 'green deal' is a bad deal for North Carolina."

Nix concludes: "I'll stand up to socialism. Congress needs a good, strong dose of conservative, mature common sense."

More than a dozen other Republicans and several Democrats have entered the district race, with a primary set for April 30 and runoffs tentatively scheduled for July 9 if needed. The general election will either occur in July or September, depending on whether a primary runoff is necessary.

Nix's ad in the strongly Republican-leaning district offered a strong signal that upcoming congressional campaigns will take their cue from President Trump's messaging on Ocasio-Cortez, and on socialism in general. Trump has repeatedly vowed amid a humanitarian and political crisis in Venezuela that "America will never be a socialist country," and his administration has dismissed Ocasio-Cortez as a clueless politician who's in over her head.

A Gallup poll released Friday shows that Ocasio-Cortez's unfavorable rating has risen by 15 points since last September, when she had yet to win the general election, increasing from 26 percent to 41 percent of the American adults polled.

Among the possible causes: The Green New Deal resolution Ocasio-Cortez introduced earlier his year suffered a botched rollout, including the release of an official document by her office that promised economic security even for those "unwilling to work," as well as the elimination of "farting cows" and air travel. Prominent Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, have criticized the plan.

And a newly published poll from Siena College shows that Ocasio-Cortez is seen as New York's "biggest villain" when it comes to Amazon's decision to spurn the city and abandon plans for a second headquarters in Long Island City. Ocasio-Cortez repeatedly suggested that Amazon was receiving billions in cash handouts from the city -- though it would have received tax reductions as incentive to build the headquarters. New York City's Democrat mayor, Bill de Blasio, publicly called out Ocasio-Cortez's confusion on the topic.

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Originally Posted by Scoots

People who can't afford rent/mortgage ... you mean homeless people ... or are you just talking about people who still live with Mummy/Daddy?

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Have you seen the rates of rent in cities like NYC?

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Originally Posted by Hawkeye15

age has minimal to do with understanding policies. Hell most people I know as adults are clueless when it comes to politics. I still go back to having a very, very simple test in the voting booth. You pass, you get to vote. You fail, you don't get to vote, and just thank everyone else who gives a **** on the way out.

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Minimal? Lol, whatever you say buddy.

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Originally Posted by Scoots

Who doesn't pay rent or a mortgage other than children and homeless people?

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Try $2k rents at a minimum anywhere near NYC?