With the election of a card-carrying socialist, Alexandria Cortez, (D) New
York, it’s time to take these liberal lunatics a little more seriously. We
have been watching and following the violent uprising by Black Lives Matter
and AntiFa, both screaming for socialist agendas and rioting, burning down
neighborhoods and looting to show how well informed and serious they are
about these issues.
Now we have a 28 year-old Bernie Sanders disciple actually in office.
Unfortunately for her the image she painted to her constituency is not
entirely accurate. To set the record straight she is not who she claim to be
at all.
According to an article published at ZeroHedge Ms. Cortez was raised as a
1%’er with all the “white privilege” that goes along with being a 1%’er. You
know, planned community, families annual income well above national averages
and local averages and the ability to be, just like Barrack Obama, a
“community organizer” and seemingly not have to be concerned with such
mundane, everyday situations like a having a real job.
“Well, you know, the president is from Queens, and with all due respect —
half of my district is from Queens — I don’t think he knows how to
deal with a girl from the Bronx,” Ocasio-Cortez told Stephen Colbert
during an appearance on The Late Show.
The socialist phenom also told the Washington
Post “I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family
— mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx. I was born in a
place where your Zip code determines your destiny.”
Except Ocasio-Cortez isn’t quite the blue-collar champion she’s branding
herself as. Breitbart‘s
Josh Caplan is out with a “fact check” on the Democratic Socialist’s
background – only to find she grew up in one of the richest
counties in the United States.
Around the age of five, Alexandria’s architect father Sergio
Ocasio moved the family from the “planned community” of Parkchester in the
Bronx to a home in Yorktown Heights, a wealthy suburb in Westchester County.
The New York Times describesher
childhood home as “a modest two-bedroom house on a quiet street.” In a 1999 profile
of the area, when Ocasio-Cortez would have been ten years old, the Times
lauded Yorktown Heights’ “diversity of housing in a scenic setting” –
complete with two golf courses.
The paper quoted Linda Cooper, the town supervisor, describing Yorktown as
”a folksy area where people can come, kick off their shoes, wander
around, sit in a cafe, listen to a concert in the park, or go to the theater.”
…
Westchester County – which the Washington Post, in a
glowing profile on Ocasio-Cortez, describes as only “middle class” – ranks
#8 in the nation for the counties with the “highest average incomes among the
wealthiest one percent of residents.” According to the Economic
Policy Institute, the county’s average annual income of the top one
percent is a staggering $4,326,049.
Yorktown Heights, specifically, offers a sharp contrast from Bronx living.
According to USA.com, the town’s population
is 81 percent white, and median
household income is $96,413 – nearly double the average
for both New York state and the nation, according to data from
2010-2014. Source
While this woman is spreading her variety of socialism – you know,
socialism for you and uber wealth for her – the people of Venezuela have
already reached the first major pitfall of socialism – hyperinflation and
economic collapse.
We have been reporting on the situation in Venezuela for going on 6 years
and how hyperinflation in Venezuela has unfolded is a case study in
preparedness, economic collapse and what happens along the way. People like
Ms. Cortez are always at the root of hyperinflation – free stuff and poverty
for you and uber wealth for the few, like Venezuelan President, Maduro.
Neither Maduro or Cortez are suffering from want, but the people around them
suffer everyday.
The latest in the collapse of Venezuela is the unbelievable inflation rate
of 43,000% as reported by The Week.
Five million Venezuelan bolivars is the equivalent of $1.45. It’s also
roughly a minimum-wage worker’s entire monthly salary in the South American
country.
Thanks to stunning inflation, it now takes 1 million bolivars to buy a cup
of coffee in a Venezuelan cafe, Bloomberg reports. That’s one-fifth of
Venezuela’s monthly minimum wage, and a 10,000-bill stack of Venezuela’s most
common bank note, the 100-bolivar bill.
To illustrate Venezuela’s rampant inflation, Bloomberg has
tracked the price of a cup of coffee since December 2016 on its Cafe Con Leche index. One dose of caffeine cost 450
bolivars when the index launched two years ago, but 43,378 percent inflation
in the last year has led to today’s astronomical price.
Incredibly bleak moment milestone for Venezuela. The cost of
one cup of coffee just hit 1 million Bolivars. https://t.co/Fbv2NqnAFl pic.twitter.com/LvziiWUynI
— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) June
28, 2018
Source
As stated at the beginning, it’s time to truly pay attention to these
socialist agendas and the people espousing “free this, free that” for the
masses, especially if they tag it with an anti-American agenda like open
borders or eliminating the rule of the law (through the elimination of law
enforcement). Ms. Cortez used these tactics to her advantage and while I’m
grateful she eliminated a “career politician” I’m very concerned at the
platform on which stands. Other “career politicians” can see and read what
happened the same as you and I and they too will now be using these same
Marxist, communist planks for their agenda come November.
