Meet Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

[danielpalos]

Capitalism causes inequity because those who perform better get more money. That is not a failure it is in line with human development. Humans will not work collectively because there is no monetary incentive. After all, money is the reward society bestows on those who contribute. I ask socialists to PERSONALLY give half their money to those who have less or don't work and guess what? 0 takers so far. BUT they have no trouble trying to make ME feel guilty for KEEPING my money!!

Capitalism has a natural rate of unemployment not a natural rate of not wanting to make money under Any form of Capitalism.

And, it is not Your money if we have Any problems in our Republic. That is why Congress has the Power to Tax.

Any problems, right wingers?

Socialists create 'problems' then take other people's money to 'solve' the problems they created. The government 'administrators' take the largest part of the money collected to 'solve' the created problem which, magically, never seems to go away. Socialist Democrats are among the richest on Capitol Hill.

/----/ danielpalos thought your post was funny but she can't explain away the massive war on poverty that started in 1965 and transferred $16 trillion from the producers to the enon producers. The libs so called solutions never solve anything and just keep going.
War on Poverty -- despite $16 trillions spent, poverty won
Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson delivered his first State of the Union address, promising an “unconditional war on poverty in America.” Looking at the wreckage since, it’s not hard to conclude that poverty won.

If we are losing the War on Poverty, it certainly isn’t for lack of effort.

In 2012, the federal government spent $668 billion to fund 126 separate anti-poverty programs. State and local governments kicked in another $284 billion, bringing total anti-poverty spending to nearly $1 trillion. That amounts to $20,610 for every poor person in America, or $61,830 per poor family of three.

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Spending on the major anti-poverty programs increased in 2013, pushing the total even higher.

Over, the last 50 years, the government spent more than $16 trillion to fight poverty.

you think that is Bad, we have a Second Amendment and are wasting money on alleged wars on crime, drugs, and terror. The right wing Only likes to complain when the poor may benefit.

/—-/ We want to lift the poor out of poverty. democRATs need a permanent underclass to maintain their power.

the right wing doesn't care. remember.

 

[danielpalos]

The embarrassment the American moderate Left should be expressing over the new socialist bloom is instead philosophized away in dirty semantics or context arguments or outright denial in the glaring face of the truth that American socialism is on the rise. It's largely a product of hatred for our President and his removal at any cost, even seemingly if it costs us everything. Many of us have called the Left out on it around the Web, and so far the responses are largely the same, " . . . but, but, socialism is . . . ?"

I think you are mixing two different issues here.

One of them is the justified hate of the racist Russian Agent who stole our presidency when the majority clearly said "No".

The other is the appeal of socialism to younger people who look at having less than their parents had and are looking on to their own children having less still. That's why socialism is on the rise... and it's kind of the fault of capitalists for letting it get this far.

/——/ Obozo said no reasonable person believes our elections could be tampered with. And remember, disagreeing with Obozo makes you a racist.

how do you think, Your guy got elected.

 

[danielpalos]

/----/ "Hey, maybe if we stopped putting the screws to Venezuela economically, "
I know this is a crazy question but WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

Can't be responsible for your ignorance.

U.S. imposes first economic sanctions against Venezuela

Venezuela: Target of Economic Warfare

Kind of like we are still punishing Cuba 60 years after Castro threw us out.

why are capitalists acting worse than socialists?

/——/ We’re not, you’re just a jealous loser.

Jealous of what? Not solving any problems but those of the rich.

 

[basquebromance]

if Ocasio is elected president, we wont have to worry about putting gas in the car, we wont have to worry about paying our mortgages. if we help her, she'll help us!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

"....pretty Hispanic girl advocated socialism and won"...in the Bronx

There, fixed it for ya

So? Hey, guy, here's the thing, the Bronx isn't that different than the rest of the country.

and when the next recession comes, a lot of people are going to wonder if socialism is all that bad.

Only an idiot would come to your conclusion.

Which would explain it

 

[JoeB131]

/——/ My family has run businesses like a printing company, a jeweler, a pager company, flipping houses and others and not one set out to screw anyone you little twat.

So if I talk to eveyrone who has ever worked for you, they'll all say nice things, right?

 

[JoeB131]

/——/ Obozo said no reasonable person believes our elections could be tampered with. And remember, disagreeing with Obozo makes you a racist.

He said no such thing, but never mind.

 

[Cellblock2429]

/——/ Obozo said no reasonable person believes our elections could be tampered with. And remember, disagreeing with Obozo makes you a racist.

He said no such thing, but never mind.

/——/ I’ve posted it a dozen times. Obama to Trump: "Stop Whining" About Rigged Election

 

[Cellblock2429]

/——/ My family has run businesses like a printing company, a jeweler, a pager company, flipping houses and others and not one set out to screw anyone you little twat.

So if I talk to eveyrone who has ever worked for you, they'll all say nice things, right?

/——/ No because some were fired for being unreliable or dishonest.

 

[Cellblock2429]

/----/ "Hey, maybe if we stopped putting the screws to Venezuela economically, "
I know this is a crazy question but WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

Can't be responsible for your ignorance.

U.S. imposes first economic sanctions against Venezuela

Venezuela: Target of Economic Warfare

Kind of like we are still punishing Cuba 60 years after Castro threw us out.

why are capitalists acting worse than socialists?

/——/ We’re not, you’re just a jealous loser.

Jealous of what? Not solving any problems but those of the rich.

/——/ Lowest UE rate for Blacks and Hispanics isn’t solving a problem for the poor? Lowering the poverty rate hurts democRATs.

 

[Cellblock2429]

if Ocasio is elected president, we wont have to worry about putting gas in the car, we wont have to worry about paying our mortgages. if we help her, she'll help us!

/——/ because no one will have cars and we’ll all live in public housing slums. I don’t need or want Ocasio’s help.

 

[pinqy]

As it happens, there is, and it’s right there near the top of the monthly jobless report. Only 59.6 percent of the United States population was employed in January. On the other side of that, a whopping 40.4 percent of the population is not employed.
The Real Jobless Rate Is 42 Percent? Donald Trump Has a Point, Sort Of

Keep in mind that the population number BLS uses is the adult civilian non-institutional population: those are 16 an older not in the military or in prison or other institutions (nursing home, or other long term mental or physical health care). So the actual number employed is a little higher if you add the military but the number not employed is a lot higher adding in children, prisoners, mental patients, and those too old or disabled to look after themselves.

How many people above 18 in the USA in 2016?

why 18??

So was Trump wrong? NOPE! Was 100 million a fake number? NOPE!

Yes he was wrong: "not employed" is different from "unemployed.".
not employed means not working .
unemployed means willing and able to work but cannot find a job.

So the 100 million is mostly people who do not want to work, or cannot work, and so not unemployed, and it doesn't include millions more who cannot work so far short of the total number not employed. However you look at it be was just wrong.


As for the OP, since the unemployment rate counts individuals regardless of number of jobs, the number of people working multiple jobs would never have any effect on the unemployment rate.

You may want to see the correct definitions of "not employed" and "unemployed" from the people that actually do the work of keeping track of the unemployed/not employed.


nd as the How the Government Measures Unemployment defines..
There are about 60,000 eligible households in the sample for this survey. This translates into approximately 110,000 individuals each month, a large sample compared to public opinion surveys, which usually cover fewer than 2,000 people. The CPS sample is selected so as to be representative of the entire population of the United States. In order to select the sample, all of the counties and independent cities in the country first are grouped into approximately 2,000 geographic areas (sampling units). The Census Bureau then designs and selects a sample of about 800 of these geographic areas to represent each state and the District of Columbia. The sample is a state-based design and reflects urban and rural areas, different types of industrial and farming areas, and the major geographic divisions of each state.
Who is counted as unemployed?
People are classified as unemployed if they do not have a job, have actively looked for work in the prior 4 weeks, and are currently available for work. Actively looking for work may consist of any of the following activities:

To summarize, the employed are:

• All those who did any work for pay or profit during the survey reference week.
• All those who did at least 15 hours of unpaid work in a business or farm operated by a family member with whom they live.
• All those who were temporarily absent from their regular jobs because of illness, vacation, bad weather, labor dispute, or various personal reasons, whether or not they were paid for the time off.

The unemployed are:

• All those who did not have a job at all during the survey reference week, made at least one specific active effort to find a job during the prior 4 weeks, and were available for work (unless temporarily ill).
• All those who were not working and were waiting to be called back to a job from which they had been laid off. (They need not be looking for work to be classified as unemployed.)

Actually, let’s stop there for now. I need some clarification.

How do you think that’s different from saying “unemployed means willing and able to work but cannot find a job? "

You have confirmed what I wrote: that those not trying to work or who do not want a job are not unemployed, even if they are not employed.

so, granted I was oversimplistic, deliberately, but I didn't differ from the BLS definition.

You did notice the definition of "not in the Labor Force, right? Those in the adult civilian constitutional population who are neither employed not unemployed?

So for the most recent data, we have a population of 257,642,000, where 155,576,000 are employed, 6,564,000 are unemployed (want a job and are looking) and 95,502,000 not in the Labor Force (neither working not trying to work) Note that while 5,258,000 of those not in the labor force say they want a job, they are not classified as unemployed because either they are not trying to work or could not have started work yet if offered.

So I'm confused as to what you think I got wrong

 

[Norman]

I have a better theory.

Unemployment is low because we have a pro-America president.

 

[BuckToothMoron]

imagine being this stupid! she's the left's Sarah Palin

Ocasio-Castro is a boorish, primitive neanderthal

All true, and she isn’t as hot as Sara either, so it’s worse.

 

[Deno]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the quintessential left-winger. Preach communism like a passionate preacher, hoards money like the ugliest and greediest of capitalists (even when someone else earns that money, she still won’t “share” it).

At the end of the night, when it came time to split the $560 in tips she had gotten at the bar, Ocasio-Cortez gave the waitress only $50. After the waitress complained to her manager, her take was doubled to $100, a source said. “It says so much about her character,”

Like all on the left - she has no character. And she has no actual belief in the bullshit she peddles about communism. She just knows that it’s easy to gain wealth and power by peddling that nonsense to the mindless minion.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Stiffs Co-Workers

Wow, this was your complaint, that when she was a waitress, she ticked off one co-worker?

Really, bud?

I find it hilarious to watch the Reich Wing go into an absolute panic because this pretty Hispanic girl advocated socialism and won.

She is pretty and I think she has a good heart.....

Problem is she is ignorant of human nature....

What she advocates is contrary to Nature and

It has never worked anywhere it’s ever been tried….

capitalism died in 1929; socialism has been bailing us out, ever since.

only the Right Wing, never gets it.

You really don't have a clue do you?

Capitalism has built the Greatest Nation on Earth...

 

[Dschrute3]

Oh boy, a Hussein-wannabe. Let's hope American Voters don't fall for this Communist/Democrat scam too. The last thing we need, is another Anti-American Communist-wannabe.

 

[Cellblock2429]

/——/ Obozo said no reasonable person believes our elections could be tampered with. And remember, disagreeing with Obozo makes you a racist.

He said no such thing, but never mind.

/---/ Now that you've watched the video you can admit your mistake. It's OK. It only hurts for a moment.

 

[danielpalos]

/——/ Obozo said no reasonable person believes our elections could be tampered with. And remember, disagreeing with Obozo makes you a racist.

He said no such thing, but never mind.

/——/ I’ve posted it a dozen times. Obama to Trump: "Stop Whining" About Rigged Election

the right wing was Complicit.

 

[danielpalos]

/----/ "Hey, maybe if we stopped putting the screws to Venezuela economically, "
I know this is a crazy question but WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

Can't be responsible for your ignorance.

U.S. imposes first economic sanctions against Venezuela

Venezuela: Target of Economic Warfare

Kind of like we are still punishing Cuba 60 years after Castro threw us out.

why are capitalists acting worse than socialists?

/——/ We’re not, you’re just a jealous loser.

Jealous of what? Not solving any problems but those of the rich.

/——/ Lowest UE rate for Blacks and Hispanics isn’t solving a problem for the poor? Lowering the poverty rate hurts democRATs.

No, it isn't. Only solving a partial problem may work for the right wing, it is a simple market based inefficiency for the left.

 

[Cellblock2429]

/——/ Obozo said no reasonable person believes our elections could be tampered with. And remember, disagreeing with Obozo makes you a racist.

He said no such thing, but never mind.

/——/ I’ve posted it a dozen times. Obama to Trump: "Stop Whining" About Rigged Election

the right wing was Complicit.

/----/ Do you just post random thoughts when you come up empty? Complicit.with what for crying out loud?