🐱 New York millennial can’t afford to move to D.C. before her job in Congress starts

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article...-move-to-dc-before-her-job-in-congress-starts

Millennial congresswomen, they’re just like us. No, really, this one is.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the democratic socialist and youngest woman ever elected to Congress, can’t afford to rent an apartment in Washington, D.C. before her job starts in January.

“I have three months without a salary before I’m a member of Congress. So, how do I get an apartment?” Ocasio-Cortez, 29, told the New York Times. “We’re kind of just dealing with the logistics of it day by day, but I’ve really been just kind of squirreling away and then hoping that gets me to January.”


Ocasio-Cortez shocked the country when she secured a primary victory over New York Rep. Joe Crowley, the 10-term incumbent who was widely believed to be the most powerful Democrat in the House after Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Before she turned to politics, Ocasio-Cortez worked as a bartender.

Now she’s telling voters not to worry about her housing situation.



“There are many little ways in which our electoral system isn’t even designed (nor prepared) for working-class people to lead,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “This is one of them (don’t worry btw - we’re working it out!)”

Ocasio-Cortez is widely viewed as an up-and-coming star in the Democratic Party in the wake of her surprise win, fueled in part by her leftist policy ideas, which more closely align with millennial voters than her future congressional colleagues. She believes, for example, in single-payer healthcare and has suggested taxing Wall Street to fully fund public universities. She also supports “clean campaign finance,” and has said she will not accept corporate donations.

 

[Cubanodun]

She should set up a patreon then.

And offer nudes like the rest

 

[RG 448]

Her complaints aren't invalid,

Agreed. That’s why something needs to be done about the system that’s causing this problem.

 

[ES 148]

The best and brightest shouldn't represent the people. Everyone should, and last I checked she falls under the banner of 'everyone'.
People here are getting mad because someone who studied large-scale economics isn't some sort of rich banker and is just someone whose degree failed them.

 

[RG 448]

The best and brightest shouldn't represent the people. Everyone should, and last I checked she falls under the banner of 'everyone'.
People here are getting mad because someone who studied large-scale economics isn't some sort of rich banker and is just someone whose degree failed them.

In all fairness, anyone who went to school for econimics is, at the very least, a masochist.

 

[Malodorous Merkin]

Agreed. That’s why something needs to be done about the system that’s causing this problem.

Agreed. Look at the places where the problems of affordability are the most extreme, look at the politics of the people in those areas, and do something about that problem.

 

[RG 448]

look at the politics of the people in those areas, and do something about that problem.

I assumed that’s what the MAGA bomber was working on.

 

[Malodorous Merkin]

I assumed that’s what the MAGA bomber was working on.

Technically, you'd have to build a bomb that had some small chance of actually exploding in order to be a bomber. So that kook was more of a MAGA guy with stupid stickers plasterd all over his FREE CANDY van than any sort of bomber.

 

[Malodorous Merkin]

The best and brightest shouldn't represent the people. Everyone should, and last I checked she falls under the banner of 'everyone'.
People here are getting mad because someone who studied large-scale economics isn't some sort of rich banker and is just someone whose degree failed them.

Her degree failed her.

Yeah, that's what happened.

 

[rocknrollmartian]

The best and brightest shouldn't represent the people. Everyone should, and last I checked she falls under the banner of 'everyone'.

People here are getting mad because someone who studied large-scale economics isn't some sort of rich banker and is just someone whose degree failed them.

No one here is mad, lol. And I definitely don't expect solely the "best and brightest" senator son types to run for office. However, I would like someone who isn't a retard and thinks it's OK to spew inaccurate and uneducated nonsense like "unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs" and "if only Warren Buffett paid a 15% tax rate." That's a pretty low bar.

There's no expectation that someone who studied econ has failed if she isn't a "rich banker." (Not even sure where you got that from?) But there is an expectation that someone who studied econ at an accredited institution should understand basic economic and social principles. "Give everyone free everything" is not impressive to me. Quite frankly it's an embarrassingly childlike and hypersimplistic view of reality. Ocasio-Cortez is a total joke.

 

[AnOminous]

Anyone here ever tried to rent an apartment in D.C. with easy access to the House building? Probably not.

She could just sleep in her offices like something like 50+ other House members do. They're degenerates who live like animals. Some Republicans even live in a literal group home because they're that autistic.

 

[AprilRains]

Well, naturally. We elect them to office because they can't be trusted to do responsible work.

 

[Malodorous Merkin]

Anyone here ever tried to rent an apartment in D.C. with easy access to the House building? Probably not.

She could just sleep in her offices like something like 50+ other House members do. They're degenerates who live like animals. Some Republicans even live in a literal group home because they're that autistic.

Yeah, but aren't a lot of them in the situation where they're also maintaining homes in their home districts? I doubt Hyphen-Cortez is going that route. She seems like more of the "Stay with mom" when she goes back home type.

 

[RG 448]

Some Republicans even live in a literal group home because they're that autistic.

I think that might be the building I’m squatting in, because there are no minorities living here.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

I've heard a lot of congresspeople basically sleep in their offices because rent in DC is so ungodly expensive and they never have free time to enjoy the town anyway.

I'm torn. On one hand, what I just said may be a clue her situation isn't that special for legislators. On the other, it's a clear sign of how unaffordable a town is made when it is populated by the people who claim to represent us, and that legitimately says something about how deeply flawed our system is when getting elected without being rich in the first place is the exception rather than a rule.

Of course, one thing for certain is that this is only a sob story because she's a young strong minority woman, the fact that the problem existed before she came along matters not to its author. But that's on the culture that wants her to be such a victim to begin with.

She honestly can just set up a patreon though. I think doing so would open a huge pandora's box of people asking why she needs charity from her constituents to go do the job of representing them, how much she'll be in the pocket of her patrons, etc. Of course the corollary to that is that it could shine light on how every other politician is beholden to their backers through more conventional means! I'd actually like to see it.

 

[wateryketchup]

thats what you get for not accepting russell greers campaign help!!!

 

[JohnDoe]

Maybe she can sell some of her $3,000 suits to make rent.

 

[Kamov Ka-52]

Slight :powerlevel: I knew people who worked as congressional staffers/in DC for shit pay and managed to afford their own apartments. She's full of shit, or is exceptional with her finances/requirements for housing, Plus, she could always suck it up and get a roommate.

 

[frozenrunner]

And offer nudes like the rest

she couldn't find her own asshole if she was squatting over a mirror

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

I don't know where you're getting this unwarranted smarminess from @Cthulu, because it sure isn't from the logic of your arguments.

We need a Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez salt thread for all the A&H cucks mad a SJW social democratic spic got elected in fucking far-left Queens of all places.

Who is getting mad over her, even in this thread? Personally, I see Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a great source of comedy.

When are righties going to make up their minds? First she's piss poor then she's rich. You can't have it both ways.

She's poor now, but she'll be rich later.

Maybe if you used a source it would help instead of "my feels".

The source is right in the OP. The salary for members of the United States Congress is $174,000.

She's a politician of course there are. How is it any different from the scores of others?

She isn't. Nobody said that, outside of socialistic leanings, she was much different from any other politician.

Please feel free. Others who don't share your opinions are also allowed to disagree.

Well, when you're disagreeing with bad arguments and pure obnoxiousness, it makes your own opinions seem less valid.

Good for her. How does that address her being piss poor. She got a scholarship?

It means she got out of college debt free, and more than likely even gained money during her stay. Don't tell me that working with Bernie Sanders gets you nothing in return.

Oh I see. So since she's a woman she must not be deserving of a scholorship on her own merit.

Blatant strawman. The poster you responded didn't say or even imply that. Don't put words into other people's mouths. In fact, considering that it was never specified what Alexandria did to actually earn the scholarship, and that she couldn't even finish her scientific studies, while there is a program in Boston University existing specifically and solely to get women in STEM...I'd say there's actually a good possibility she was a diversity quota-filler.

You're literally crying because she changed majors.

No he wasn't. This is, yet again, a clear strawman. He never even talked about her change of majors in his post.

Don't forget she's a dirty commie.

Of course.

That's ok. I just logged in to get assmad over some socialist spic in Queens. Now that I've rreeeeeed I'm off for tendies and to fap into my MAGA hat.

If I didn't know better I'd say you were projecting harder than IMAX.

@Testaclese Maximus I understand that Washington D.C. can be expensive as hell to live in, and there are legitimate problems in that that should be changed, but don't tell me that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was in the right not to save up for some rent.

 

[TaInTeDtAcO]

She can always live in Anacostia or somewhere along the green line, ya know where all the downtrodden minorities that she claims are her people live.