As a result, most of our recent political class insanity posts have almost always had an Ocasio-Cortez piece of insanity. Thus, we have decided to separately track her craziness and idiotic takes on economics, business, government, and whatever else on a regular basis under its own set of posts. She deserves to have a separate effort that captures all of the ridiculousness she espouses.
The original format we were going to use was to start with a set of her original inane ideas and just continue to build on that initial list as time goes by. But after just three summaries of her idiocy and stupid ideas it has become obvious that we cannot continually add to the existing set of ineptness, that list would get too large too quickly.
Thus, each new Ocasio-Cortez post will have only the latest gaffes out of her mouth. To review her previous idiocies just enter her last name in the search box above.
Let’s get started:
1) There is no topic that Ocasio-Cortez does not consider herself an expert on which is why she comes off so harebrained so many times. Consider one of her latest inane quotes: “Reproductive health care for incarcerated women should be guaranteed as it is with all women in the United States, so I think it really depends. I think that’s what the Hyde Amendment is really about. The Hyde Amendment isn’t about abortion, per se. The Hyde Amendment is truly about equality of health care and health care access for low-income women and women of color and women that get caught in our incarceration — mass incarceration — system.”
She went on to say that the Hyde Amendment was about income inequality and it was no longer just a female issue.
So what is the Hyde Amendment. It is was a piece of legislation that was made into law a while ago that said that Federal taxpayer money could not be used to fund abortions. It has simple as that. It has nothing to do with “income inequality.” It has nothing to do with women of color, poor women, mass incarceration of women, it is a simple concept of making it illegal to use Federal taxpayer money to fund abortions.
Don’t believe me? Read the straightforward actual wording of the legislation below:
Prohibiting Federally funded abortions
301. Prohibition on funding for abortions(a) In general
No funds authorized or appropriated by Federal law, and none of the funds in any trust fund to which funds are authorized or appropriated by Federal law, shall be expended for any abortion.
(b) Health benefits coverage
No funds authorized or appropriated by Federal law, and none of the funds in any trust fund to which funds are authorized or appropriated by Federal law, shall be expended for health benefits coverage that includes coverage of abortion.
302. Treatment of abortions related to rape, incest, or preserving the life of the mother
The limitations established in sections 301 shall not apply to an abortion—
(1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest; or(2) in the case where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed.
A simple, easy to understand piece of legislation and yet, she still cannot comprehend another concept.
2) Ocasio-Cortez is one of the leading advocates for giving members of Congress a pay raise that ignores the reality that most members of Congress are useless. They lack either the will, the ability, or the energy to come up with solutions to the pressing problems of the times, a lack of progress that spans decades.
A few additional pieces of reality for the good Congresswoman:
- Members of Congress currently earn $174,000 a year in salary which is three times more than what the average American household makes.
- This does not include the robust health insurance and medical access, retirement perks, and other benefits that do not show up in the base $174,000.
- Dozens if not hundreds, of members of Congress are millionaires many times over so many do not need the money they get now, never mind giving them a raise.
- As a sub-segment of the population, they are probably one of the richest sub-segments in the whole country.
- They work far fewer days in the course of a year than most full time American workers.
- And Congresswoman, you should have known what the financial situation for a member of Congress was before entering politics and winning a seat in Congress; if you were ignorant of that reality then shame on you, do not ask the taxpayers to bail you out of your fiscal problem.
- In fact, according to Step 37 in our book,”Love My Country, Loathe My Government,” we would make Congressional pay a merit based system where Congressional pay would go up or down based on how successful Congress was in addressing the problems of the country. Which for this set of politicians it would likely mean a pay base decrease, not a raise.
Is she actually saying that if members of Congress do not get pay raises they will start doing shady stuff just to survive because $174,000 is so hard to live on? Again, totally ignorant of reality. Many years ago we pointed out how Washington politicians were leveraging their positions not to make America better but to make themselves richer to a far greater degree than a measly pay raise in their salaries:
https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2011/11/final-proof-of-undeniable-corruption.html
A few more thousands of dollars a year from an increased salary is peanuts compared to what self enrichment scams many of these politicians have pulled off over the years.
3) One last piece of idiocy and quote from her to wrap up today’s Ocasio-Cortez insanity. John Philip Sousa IV, writing for the Townhall website on June 13, 2019, reviewed this inane quote from the Congresswoman: “Our guarantee to having a home comes before someone else’s privilege to earn a profit.”
So:
- Does this mean that I have to pay for someone else to have a home before I can enjoy the results of my working hard?
- Why doesn’t that person work hard and pay for their own home?
- Does that mean that a company cannot earn a profit until everyone has their own home, even if they did not work to earn enough money to have their own home?
- Why would anyone work hard to earn enough money to have a home if not working would still get me a home under her concept?
- And once this person got a free home who would pay for the property taxes, the utilities, the maintenance, etc.? Would hard working people also have to pay for the expense of keeping the house and home viable over time?
- And if these questions are not hard enough to wrap your head around, how would this program be administered: the Federal government, an entity that cannot do anything efficient, effective, or to completion?
Unfortunately, we have a few more days of more insanity from her, the gift of insanity and idiocy that never stops giving.
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