{"id":3781,"date":"2019-02-16T22:19:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T05:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3781"},"modified":"2019-02-16T22:19:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T05:19:49","slug":"how-dumb-is-ocasio-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3781","title":{"rendered":"How Dumb Is Ocasio-Cortez?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;You know, I think it\u2019s really important that we understand that we need to invest in our economy, but we need to invest in our people, and to give away $3 billion to a company that has a history of worker exploitation that\u2019s paying below what the cost of New York City is not acceptable for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, New York wasn\u2019t going to \u201cgive\u201d Amazon anything, let alone $3 billion. The $3 billion is an estimate of foregone tax revenues. In other words, money that Amazon <i>won\u2019t<\/i> pay New York, not money that New York <i>will<\/i> pay Amazon. This is childishly simple, but apparently too much for AOC:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My guess is that she is a beneficiary of &#8216;affirmative action&#8217;. That&#8217;s the only explanation why somebody this ignorant can claim a degree in ECONOMICS!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2019\/02\/how-dumb-is-ocasio-cortez.php\">How Dumb Is Ocasio-Cortez?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You know, I think it\u2019s really important that we understand that we need to invest in our economy, but we need to invest in our people, and to give away $3 billion to a company that has a history of worker exploitation that\u2019s paying below what the cost of New York City is not acceptable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3781\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Dumb Is Ocasio-Cortez?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,26,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-education-higher-ed","category-greedy-liberals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}