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AOC ramps up rhetoric on wages, says we cannot continue to allow people to be paid 'less than they need'

Posted by mminnick 5 years, 11 months ago to Politics
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., indicated on Monday that she will push for workers to get paid as much as "they need," without specifying what the amount would be.
“What we are fighting against -- what we are fighting against is a logic that says it is ok to pay someone less than they need to live, and we are here to say no more," she said during an event promoting her "Green New Deal."

Produce according to ability, receive according to need.

Seems like we've heard this line before. Let me see...Perhaps Karl Marx. Wonder what Ms Rand would say to AOC.


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  • Posted by jimslag 5 years, 11 months ago
    I need a Million Dollars per hour. I think I will bill it to AOC and see what she says.
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  • Posted by $ WilliamShipley 5 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I find that none of these discussions about how much someone should be paid even mention how much their labor brings in.
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  • Posted by CrustyOldGeezer 5 years, 11 months ago
    How about WE, THE PEOPLE stop paying people more than they are worth?

    CUT the pay of politicians, judges, bureaucrats and other deadwood union holdovers that can't be fired by 97%
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  • Posted by ycandrea 5 years, 11 months ago
    I think Ms Rand said it all with Century Motor Company.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 5 years, 11 months ago
    Nobody ever talks about being paid more than the employer can afford.
    Yeah, being paid more is just swell until lay-offs begin or the company goes under, taking every last single job to be had with it.
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  • Posted by Arthgallo 5 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I remember my Dad taught me, "you should never be paid more than you're worth.............you will not have that job long if you are"
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  • Posted by 5 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Most progressives don't five a Rats Behind abut the environment. To them it is a way to gain more and more power over the lives of the people. So many people have been screwed over in the name of Protecting the Environment it is obscene
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  • Posted by 5 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm not sure she has ever had a "brilliant and original" thought. Not trying to be patronizing but she just doen't seem to have the intellectual capacity to do that. Her main political advisor (silicon valley multi-millionaire) appears to have the capcacity. Maybe that's where she's getting this crap.
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 5 years, 11 months ago
    I predict that next year at this time we won't be hearing from Ms AOC! She will run out of fuel. She hasn't been on this earth long enough to have the slightest idea about what she is attempting to say. I will repeat what was said before, 'Hey girl, shut your mouth and listen.'
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 5 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    In my entire career, I don't recall anyone considering my 'need'. I didn't expect anyone to do so and I wasn't disappointed. There was love and respect and I must admit my mother complained of my 'independence'. I never understood that.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 5 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Propaganda rubbish from the lying/looting UN choir. This is a site for rational discussion and objectivism, not politically motivated statist propaganda. Go to farcebook if you want to peddle such garbage.
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  • Posted by Solver 5 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Me too.
    (Not to be confused with the latest overly emotional accusation justice mob.)
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  • Posted by $ Suzanne43 5 years, 11 months ago
    Well, I wonder where we have heard this garbage before. Does she think that she is being brilliant and original. That being said, maybe she is on to something. A family of four in this country can be given over $40,000 a year in welfare benefits if they milk the welfare system for every penny. Now, do they "need" that amount of money, I think not. Let's cut it at least in half and save the American tax payer a ton of money. Thank you AOC.
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  • Posted by diessos 5 years, 11 months ago
    Someone send her a copy of AS....

    of course she is not smart enough to read it or comprehend it...
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    Posted by Solver 5 years, 11 months ago
    Pay based on need.
    Sounds like AOC has big plans, using the 20th Century Motor Company$ as a model.


    $ read Atlas Shrugged.
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    Posted by CircuitGuy 5 years, 11 months ago
    I am for people earning what they need too. The way to do that is to find someone else's need and provide it in a mutual deal. A price floor (min wage higher than the market wage) won't work.

    It's ironic that Rep Ocasio-Cortez condemned Former VP Biden for supposedly being tepid on the environment. By wrapping socialistic policies in a big green bow, she's undermining efforts to protect the environment.

    Biden is right seek a middle ground. It's hard to quantify the costs of human activities that contribute to global warming. We know a large portion of global warming is caused by human activities, but we don't know exactly how much. We know global warming will be costly, but we don't know the price tag. Even if we knew, it's hard to quantify the future value costs borne today to mitigate it. So it is a complex problem with a middle ground. If we pick some reasonable number that represents the average cost of activities that contribute to the greenhouse effect, the problem will likely solve itself. If we tie proposed solution to socialism, we'll pay a double cost of socialism plus the cost of reducing greenhouse emission plus possible costs of the environmental efforts not working because they were created with an intrusive-gov't mindset.
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 5 years, 11 months ago
    Uh oh. Here we go. Pay according to need, not what they are worth!
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