Speaking with host Jon Lovett on Pod Save America, New York Democratic socialist darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was asked for details as to how America would pay for her socialist dreams, such as universal healthcare and free college tuition. Although she spouted for roughly two minutes, the answer Ocasio-Cortez offered was this: she has no idea.
Lovett prompted the descent into puffery and sound and fury signifying nothing by stating:
We dont talk about what defense costs; were about to hit a trillion dollars in debt because of the corporate tax cuts; yet when we talk about pre-K, healthcare, college, suddenly its unrealistic because of the cost. And its not just bad faith Republicans that make that argument; you hear it from Democrats as well. Whats your response to that?
Ocasio-Cortez started like a house afire: Well, I think its that exact same thing.
That makes it abundantly clear.
She continued, Its that we
you know they say, How are you going to pay for it? as though they havent used those same ways to pay for unlimited wars, to pay for trillion dollar tax cuts and tax cut extensions. They use these mechanisms to pay for these things all the time.
What same ways"? What mechanisms"?
But we digress.
Ocasio-Cortez waxed eloquent with more brilliantisms: They only want to know it just seems like their pockets are empty when were talking about education and investing in human capital in the United States: education, healthcare, housing, and investing in the middle class.
It would seem the students who want to game the system by getting college education for free are the ones with empty pockets while in her dreams the adults in the room have to ante up, and what she means by investing in the middle class is anyones guess, but she had more:
All of a sudden, theres nothing left. All of a sudden the wealthiest nation in the world, were just totally scarce. We have complete scarcity when it comes to the things that are the most important.
She might want to visit socialist Venezuela for a look at complete scarcity of things that are most important, such as food.
Ocasio-Cortez continued, "And so for me, I think it belies a lack of moral priority and its unfortunate."
As opposed to making others pay for your dreams, which used to be called stealing.
Ocasio-Cortez then rambled on:
I think that but I also think a lot of these folks, especially those perhaps on the Democratic side, perhaps they dont even see it, you know? I dont know. I dont know if thats a generous interpretation or not, but I legitimately think that they start kind of buying into conservative talking points. They get dragged into their court all the time. And I think it is because theres this really myopic, and also, just misunderstanding of politics as this flat 2-dimensional left/right thing. And so they always feel like, Okay, the Right says this thing. We have to respond to it. And thats why theyre winning. Thats why theyve won for the last ten years, because theyve dragged us onto their court. And we refuse to have our own strong message to force them to play defense on.
In all that verbiage, did you see an answer as to how the young socialist would pay for her dreams?
Didnt think so.
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Poster Comment:
Nutsy is a plethora of ideas. Get this gal in Congress!
I have a five point plan to pay for these ideas:
1. um, yeah, Catch a leprechaun.
2. uhhhhh, harvest Unicorn Horns, and sell them.
3. um, we can like, you know, like, set up a task force, and stuff, searching for Genie's bottles
4. ♫ When you wish upon a star ♫
5. um uh Scandivania! So clearly, these things can be paid for if we just, uh, prioritize, and stuff.
uh,Ask Bernie!