AOC pays her staff a minimum salary of $52k.
Fox News says this is communism.
Yeah, clearly the rallying cry for anything that the Democrats propose or do will be SOCIALISM! GOP aides themselves will be screaming that they make too much money and their pay should be reduced. The savings could be put towards a new aircraft carrier project or five.
Healthcare for all - SOCIALISM!
Pot should be legal - SOCIALISM!
We shouldn’t collude with Russia - SOCIALISM!
The White House shouldn’t constantly lie - SOCIALISM!
The reality is people at the top think they’re wages will be threatened if people at th emitting and middle get paid fairly. It’s greed and selfishness through and through. It’s the Republican way.
Same. Thanks rr.
I wonder what kind of salary the Fox and Friends guy who doesn’t wash his hands because germs aren’t real since you can’t see them gets.
And according to that clip, he also apparently thinks $52K = $15/hr.
Man, AOC really triggers these Fox troglodytes.
There was a guy at poker on Friday who just out of the blue asks a couple of us about AOC and what we thought of her. He started going on about how she thinks people shouldn’t fly or something? Something about Hawaii? I just assumed this was some Fox talking point I hadn’t heard about yet?
It is so funny, because, what she is doing, is essentially the entire point of capitalism. She is someone who altruistically wants to offer her employees a living wage, but also, strategically wants the best candidates she can find for the job. I am sure a starting salary of 15-20k more than the typical staffer gets is going to pull in a lot of top notch talent.
I would imagine $52k in Washington D.C. makes for fairly lean living.
I am not 100% sure but I think it’s tied to Trump’s talking points about the Green New Deal.
stuff like this:
“I really don’t like their policy of taking away your car, of taking away your airplane rights, of ‘let’s hop a train to California,’ of you’re not allowed to own cows anymore!” Trump told a large rally in El Paso, Texas.
For every 52k staffer hired on, they close a coal mine in Pennsylvania.
The Seattle dude who cut his pay to give everyone in his company a $70,000/year salary took A LOT of shit from conservatives. It’s bizarre.
If you don’t give your employees the absolutely bare minimum that you can get away with, then the Invisible Hand is being second-guessed!
That would fit the bill. Thanks. I tried looking it up on my phone when he blathered, but I couldn’t find anything.
This guy is pretty ignorant but likes to think he’s super smart about everything. Tried to run for local office. He’s completely clueless though and has no idea that he is.
I should also note, he’s the type that’s always looking for an angle and gambles a lot. Always lives along the edge of legality. He works a foundry-type job, so he works hard I guess, but man, he’s so gullible with this Trump stuff. Wants to fight people if they get in his way. That kind of thing. Cowboys fan… lol!
It’s an easy sell. The Green New Deal has already become the Democrat’s new star child wants to take away everything you own, will give it to someone else, and also make sure you’re unemployed if you are in any dozen industries so… no car, no travel, no jobs, no house and shame for using airplanes or… vote for us. I hope they have a plan to combat that. Fox doesn’t even have to try to sell this stuff.
I mean, considering they were saying starting salary for some aides was in the 32-35k range, 52k is a heck of a lot better.
No doubt.
I used to live in L.A. on $25-$30k per year. Don’t know how I managed it, but I should probably remember it in case I have to go that frugal again.
I think it really is a fear on Fox that if the workers get paid more the rich will have to do with less. And it will be inflationary at first, too, which affects the value of the holdings of the rich.
Or if workers get a living wage, have a relatively comfortable life and don’t live in fear all the time, their habit and pointing at any Other might be a little less effective as a solution to the complaints they don’t have.
Yes. This is a conservative talking point. I heard it today on Cavuto. The Green Deal takes away airplanes, or so they want everyone to believe.