AOC: Jeff Bezos Is a Billionaire for Paying Amazon Workers ‘Starvation Wages’
More idiocy from the queen of idiots. She is once again ignorant of what she speaks about. Where is she with homeless veterans? But she wants to claim these employed folks are being starved due to low wages?
And as Christie points out, she is on a celebrity tour. She's a twitter celebrity. She does all kinds of celebrity appearances, and a lot of news appearances as well. Got no issue with the news stuff.
Eventually she should be doing something for her district here in NY, and hopefully that's how she'll be reviewed by her constituents and vote in future elections accordingly.
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AOC: Jeff Bezos Is a Billionaire for Paying Amazon Workers ‘Starvation Wages’
(CNSNews.com) – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.J.) in an interview on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopolous” accused Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos of being a billionaire because he pays his employees “starvation wages” and takes government subsidies.
“First, you have suggested that an economic system that has billionaires is immoral. So let me just ask you, if you had a true progressive program put in place, would Jeff Bezos still be a billionaire five, 10 years from now?” ABC’s Jonathan Karl asked.
“I think I spend less time thinking about thinking Jeff Bezos and I think more time thinking about Amazon warehouse workers. I think about the outcomes that I want for those folks. So whether Jeff Bezos is a billionaire or not is less of my concern than if your average Amazon worker is making a living wage, if they have guaranteed health care and if they can send their kids to college tuition-free,” she said.
“And if that's the case and Jeff Bezos is still a billionaire, that's one thing. But if his being a billionaire is predicated on paying people starvation wages and stripping them of their ability to access health care, and also if his ability to be a billionaire is predicated on the fact that his workers take food stamps, so I'm paying for him to be a billionaire –“ Ocasio-Cortez said.
“And do you think that's why he's a billionaire, because he pays his workers starvation wages and --” ABC’s Jonathan Karl interjected.
“I think it's certainly a part of the equation when you have a very large work force and you underpay every single person and then you also participate in -- you know, in taking billions of dollars of government subsidies, I think that that's -- that could be part of it,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
“But, if he's willing to give up all of his government subsidies, if we're willing to charge fair taxes, if we're willing to pay people living wage, send people to college tuition-free, guarantee everyone health care and he's still a billionaire, then, well, that's a fight we can have another day,” she said.
“@AOC is just wrong. Amazon is a leader on pay at $15 min wage + full benefits from day one. We also lobby to raise federal min wage,” Amazon tweeted Monday in response to Ocasio-Cortez’s comments.
Amazon workers had been paid a starting minimum wage of $11 an hour, while its average wage for full-time workers at fulfillment centers is more than $15 an hour, The New York Times reported on Oct. 2, 2018.
The company announced at the time that it would raise the minimum wage for its part-time employees and workers hired through temporary agencies to $15 an hour. Workers who currently make $15 an hour are also expected to get an increase.
According to Amazon, the median pay for full-time employees is $34,123 – more than $10,000 below the median wage for U.S. workers. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the median pay for U.S. workers is $47,060 yearly or $905 a week.
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Christie on AOC: ‘At Some Point, She Has to Govern … She’s on a Celebrity Tour’
(CNSNews.com) – In reaction to the interview ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopolous” did with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said she should have been asked to explain how she plans to pay for a $15 minimum wage, tuition-free college, and universal health care.
As CNSNews.com reported, Ocasio-Cortez said she was less concerned about whether Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is a billionaire than she is that “your average Amazon worker is making a living wage, if they have guaranteed health care and if they can send their kids to college tuition-free.”
When asked for his reaction to the interview, Christie said, “I think she doesn't know how to do math. That's for certain.”
“What? In terms of the calculus on impeachment?” ABC’s Jonathan Karl asked Christie.
“No, no, not on the calculus on impeachment, on what she was talking about at the end regarding billionaires, and you know, she wants everybody to have all of these things, but she herself has been so off on the math of what these things cost, and what it would take to tax those things, and is it even possible to provide them,” Christie said.
“I mean, the fact of the matter is she is someone who's having a great experience at the moment, and it happens a lot in American politics,” he said.
“It’s pretty extraordinary, though, to see a freshman come on the way she's come on,” Karl said.
“Yes, absolutely. Well, and I think part of her popularity is that she's able to really talk about issues that everyday Americans face. Health care, education, equal pay,” Democratic strategist Stefanie Brown James said. “And so, she’s having a moment for sure, but she's also talking about very real issues that a lot of Democrats care about.”
Brown James said Ocasio-Cortez is “speaking for Democrats and people who actually feel very left out of the process all across the country.”CHRISTIE: But no realism attached to it.
BROWN JAMES: Not completely.
CHRISTIE: She wants tuition-free college. She wants $15 minimum wage for everybody. She wants health care for everybody. I mean, these are all things that cost trillions of dollars, and she has not once expressed a mathematically feasible way to pay for them.
Now, that's okay when you're campaigning for something, but now you have the office, and you have a responsibility to do it, and if you’re going to have her on a show like this, she should be asked about how it works. And she wasn't asked that this morning, Jon.
And as long as she's not asked those questions, we’re going to continue to have her moment, but at some point you have to govern, and she’s not governing. She’s on a celebrity tour.
KARL: Well, she’s a freshman member who is very influential in where the caucus is going. That’s why we were talking to her. She is somebody who the 2020 candidates are lining up trying to get her endorsement.
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article...celebrity-tourBROWN JAMES: “She has a voice that represents a lot of people, and so I think it's important to have her on a platform like this, even though she is a freshman member, she may not be able to give specifics, but we cannot deny–” she said.
CHRISTIE: But she’s misleading. She’s misleading those people that feel left out, Stephanie.
BROWN JAMES: I wouldn’t call it -- no, that’s not misleading. That’s not misleading at all.
CHRISTIE: She’s misleading them, because she’s telling them you can have tuition-free college, that you can have Medicare for All, and all those things –
BROWN JAMES: Which many of the Democrats candidates are also saying the same thing.
KARL: Which by the way is the platform of many of the Democratic candidates.
CHRISTIE: But Jon, by the way, none of them have said how they’re going to pay for it.
KARL: Well Elizabeth Warren’s got a wealth tax. I mean, there are -- so let’s get on to the bigger field here.
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