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Is Ocasio-Cortez pretending to be working class when she’s really not?
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Anonymous
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Or D.C. for that mattter. |
Anonymous
So in 1995 dollars that’s $250,000? That’s comfortably middle class. Not poor. Not working class. |
Anonymous
6 pages in I'm officially declaring this thread
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Anonymous
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She seems working class to lower middle class to me. When they moved out of the Bronx, her family moved to Yorktown Heights, which is certainly not a poor town (avg HHI was $110K last year), but it's not the wealthy area of Westchester County (Scarsdale, Chappaqua, Bedford, etc.). If her family were really that comfortable, her mom wouldn't have been cleaning houses.
That said, she seems exceptionally smart. She won second prize in the Intel competition, which is obviously insanely difficult to do. So while it doesn't seem her family struggled in some sort of existential way financially, she also seemed to have worked really hard. |
Anonymous
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What proof is there her mom cleaned toilets? Sound bite repeated over and over doesn’t make it true. Nor tell the whole story.
She was initially caught lying about commuting the hour to suburban school. She then admitted they owned a house in that suburb since she was age five. Her bio was already cool and unique! Yet she still felt she needed to lie and stretch the truth. It’s just lame, on any isle, for any office. |
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Anonymous
+1 People are debating exactly HOW poor she was growing up -- for pages & pages? As if there is nothing better to worry about... |
Anonymous
It’s a great way to not talk shutdown, Mueller, Flynn, DJT Jr, a DJIA plummet of 500 points.... |
Anonymous
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I was so poor in college that I qualified for more financial aid then the bill - I would have a refund on my account, cash it in, then use it to pay rent and food for semester. I lived with 6 other folks in a 2 BR, 1 BA house. And I had folks argue with me that I was not working class b/c I did not fit their idea - translation: I should not be in college. Also remember a college friend - his dad was a prof and his mom was a nurse. He would argue with me that blue collar folks had it the best - as if all of us had parents that worked on a UAW assembly line. He could not grasp that these folks' economic well being would go poof - as it did - if the plant shut down as these jobs don't translate. still so annoying.
so AOC grew up in a nicer house than me, but sounds like the family well-being unraveled when the dad died. i just don't understand why folks care. when I listen to her, I hear me in her words. she grasps economic insecurity, etc. |
Anonymous
| If she's one of the unusual people who grew up privileged and wealthy and yet still cares about the healthcare and education of other people's families, not just her own, I say, more power to her. |
Anonymous
| she is a bum |
Anonymous
No she's a member of the 116th Congress. 
What are you? |
Anonymous
And Trump is president. your point? |
Anonymous
OMG, how did she afford that phone??? The horrors. |
Anonymous
LOL, I was thinking the same thing! That was a pretty funny statement. |