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Posted by
Olog-hai
on Wed Aug 29 12:21:16 2018, in response to Crowley Loses, posted by northshore on Tue Jun 26 23:22:51 2018.
Well, Uber is "unregulated" after all. Doesn't stop her and Bernie from using it though.
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Socialist 'It' Candidate Ocasio-Cortez Rips 'Unregulated' Uber, Then Spends $4,000 On … Uber8/28/2018Self-described social democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the gift that keeps on giving. The youthful socialist can hardly go a day without saying something that undescores the hypocrisy of her beliefs.
Last week, we noted the irony of the socialist movement's most visible star (besides Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, of course) lamenting the closure of the restaurant she once worked at. Turns out, the restaurant closed largely due to enormous hikes in the minimum wage — a policy Ocasio-Cortez would enthusiastically impose on the whole country.
For her latest display of socialist hypocrisy, you have to go back to March.
Then, tragically, a New York cab driver named Nicanor Ochisor took his own life. He did so apparently in response to financial struggles. As Zuri Davis of the Reason.com blog points out, New York Times reporter Noam Scheiber immediately blamed ride-sharing companies Uber and Lyft for the death and faulted local government for letting the ride-sharing companies operate.
Seeing a chance to score political points, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted: "NYC's fourth driver suicide. Yellow cab drivers are in financial ruin due to the unregulated expansion of Uber. What was a living wage now pays under minimum."
And she had a whole socialist agenda for fixing the problem, as she saw it.We need:- to call Uber drivers what they are: ᴇᴍᴘʟᴏʏᴇᴇs, not contractors
- Fed jobs guarantee
- Prep for automation
But, surprise! Fox News reports that Federal Election Commission records show that Ocasio-Cortez's campaign used Uber repeatedly, despite her sharp criticisms of the business model.
Indeed, her campaign spent around $4,000 on 160 Uber rides in California alone from April to late June. For the record, Ocasio-Cortez isn't running for office in California, but in New York. Apparently, California is where the really BIG socialist billionaires live.
By the way, her campaign also spent $2,500 on more than 90 rides on Juno, another ride-sharing option.
We wish she was the only hypocrite, but she's not.
All the way back in 2015, socialist Bernie Sanders also ripped Uber as an "unregulated" company with "serious problems." How firm was his stance? As Watchdog.org noted three years ago, Sanders "always takes Uber instead of a taxi."
Indeed, citing a National Journal analysis, Watchdog.org noted, "While most candidates use Uber more than taxis to get around, Sanders was one of only a few candidates to report using Uber 100% of the time when he or his campaign staff need a ride."
Apparently, socialist hypocrisy is a contagious disease.
But no one should be surprised. Sanders, in a CNN column in 2017, said the very rich are "never satisfied with what they have. They want more, more and more — no matter what impact their efforts have on working people, the elderly, children, the sick and the poor. Greed is their religion."
What he didn't say is that he's a member in good standing of the top 1%, having earned more than a million bucks in each of the last two years. Socialist millionaire Sanders, who has never held a regular private-sector job for any length of time, also owns three homes, one of them a $600,000, four-bedroom vacation home on Lake Champlain.Ocasio-Cortez Isn't AlonePolitics, it turns out, is a great gig for socialists.
After all, why should socialists have to live up to their own beliefs? Lots of highly restrictive laws, rules and regulations, all part of the socialist political plan, aren't really meant for the elite leaders, the socialist "vanguard." They're just too important.
No, the rules are for you, the little people. It's funny until you see this isn't an anomaly, but how socialism really works.
Just look at Venezuela, Cuba, Zimbabwe, China or the old Soviet Union. In all those places, "comrade" socialist leaders help themselves and become millionaires or even billionaires, while ordinary working people suffer. George Orwell described this phenomenon best in "Animal Farm," his scathing allegory of socialist societies: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
With socialism, hypocrisy comes with the program.
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