WRONG: Socialist Ocasio-Cortez Claims '200 Million Americans Make Less Than $20K a Year'

Ah that gift that keeps giving ... to the Republican party!

WRONG: Socialist Ocasio-Cortez Claims '200 Million Americans Make Less Than $20K a Year'

https://www.mrctv.org/blog/wrong-soc...ontent=2271472


Who needs math, economics, or basic facts when you can just make things up, instead? Or at least, that seems to be the ongoing mantra of one particular woman, whose tendency to just make crap up is starting to concern even some in her own party.

Socialist Democratic candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who's running for a New York congressional seat, claimed during a Thursday night interview with the Daily Show’s Trevor Noah that about 200 million Americans – or roughly “40 percent of this country” – make less than $20,000 a year.

“One of the biggest problems that we have is 200 million Americans make less than $20,000 a year. That’s 40 percent of this country," Cortez claimed.

"How can we have an economy that grows, how can we build wealth as an economy, if a large plurality of Americans are too poor to participate in it?” she demanded - just before pushing for the socialist's dream of mass wealth redistribution and higher minimum wages.

While poverty may be a problem, one of Cortez's biggest problems is that she consistently proves herself unable to do basic math. Let's break this down.

Firstly, if 200 million Americans equates to 40 percent of the country, that’d mean there are a whopping 500 million Americans in total. Except that there aren’t – there are about 328 million, meaning that 200 million would make up about 61 percent of the total national population, not 40.

Secondly, as of July 6, there were a record high 155 million Americans employed in the United States, meaning Cortez’s fictitious “200 million Americans” who make less than $20k outnumbers the total U.S. workforce by about 45 million.

Thirdly, Ms. Cortez’s claimed total of 200 million Americans making less than $20,000 is off…by about 170 million.

According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, roughly 28 million American households live on total incomes of $25,000 or less – households that include working adults (those who “make” the money) along with children, the disabled, the elderly and the retired (those who “live” on that income).

Even if you assume each household includes roughly 2.5 persons (based on U.S. household data averages in 2017) and you agree to include non-working dependents in your grand total, that’s still only about 70 million people – a far cry from Cortez’s claim of 200 million, even by generous standards.

But to be fair, this is also the same woman who claimed less than two weeks ago that unemployment is low because "everyone has two jobs" and admitted she really doesn't know her head from a hole in the ground when it comes to Israeli-Palestinian relations.

Of course, Noah couldn't be bothered to challenge Cortez's erroneous claims about income -- which, sadly, many uninformed listeners are likely to believe.

The polite thing to say would be this woman is ignorant.

But fuck being polite. She's just plain ass stupid.

The polite thing to say would be this woman is ignorant.

But fuck being polite. She's just plain ass stupid. Originally Posted by Jackie S

lol. what was her degree in?

"She graduated fourth in her class[16] from Boston University's College of Arts and Sciences in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in economics and international relations.[18]"


Forth and she's this fucking dumb? was that in a class of four??? bahahahaaaaa

Yeah, she sounds like a Fox News addict.

Yeah, she sounds like a Fox News addict. Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

no one made her drink the socialist kool-aide, pig. unless you spiked her punch at the spring pig dance?





hahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaa

Ah that gift that keeps giving ... to the Republican party!

WRONG: Socialist Ocasio-Cortez Claims '200 Million Americans Make Less Than $20K a Year'

https://www.mrctv.org/blog/wrong-soc...ontent=2271472


Who needs math, economics, or basic facts when you can just make things up, instead? Or at least, that seems to be the ongoing mantra of one particular woman, whose tendency to just make crap up is starting to concern even some in her own party.

Socialist Democratic candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who's running for a New York congressional seat, claimed during a Thursday night interview with the Daily Show’s Trevor Noah that about 200 million Americans – or roughly “40 percent of this country” – make less than $20,000 a year.

“One of the biggest problems that we have is 200 million Americans make less than $20,000 a year. That’s 40 percent of this country," Cortez claimed.

"How can we have an economy that grows, how can we build wealth as an economy, if a large plurality of Americans are too poor to participate in it?” she demanded - just before pushing for the socialist's dream of mass wealth redistribution and higher minimum wages.

While poverty may be a problem, one of Cortez's biggest problems is that she consistently proves herself unable to do basic math. Let's break this down.

Firstly, if 200 million Americans equates to 40 percent of the country, that’d mean there are a whopping 500 million Americans in total. Except that there aren’t – there are about 328 million, meaning that 200 million would make up about 61 percent of the total national population, not 40.

Secondly, as of July 6, there were a record high 155 million Americans employed in the United States, meaning Cortez’s fictitious “200 million Americans” who make less than $20k outnumbers the total U.S. workforce by about 45 million.

Thirdly, Ms. Cortez’s claimed total of 200 million Americans making less than $20,000 is off…by about 170 million.

According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, roughly 28 million American households live on total incomes of $25,000 or less – households that include working adults (those who “make” the money) along with children, the disabled, the elderly and the retired (those who “live” on that income).

Even if you assume each household includes roughly 2.5 persons (based on U.S. household data averages in 2017) and you agree to include non-working dependents in your grand total, that’s still only about 70 million people – a far cry from Cortez’s claim of 200 million, even by generous standards.

But to be fair, this is also the same woman who claimed less than two weeks ago that unemployment is low because "everyone has two jobs" and admitted she really doesn't know her head from a hole in the ground when it comes to Israeli-Palestinian relations.

Of course, Noah couldn't be bothered to challenge Cortez's erroneous claims about income -- which, sadly, many uninformed listeners are likely to believe. Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

Then you add in, that on average, many of those on WELFARE (ie don't work), between welfare, EBT, Section 8 housing and free medical, can make upwards of EQUIVALENT TO 20 bucks an hr wage.. So 20$/hr x 40hr a week working, x48 weeks gives just over 38k a year.
AND THAT's not even taking into account all the OTHER stuff they can get..

I wonder how all you guys overpay for hookers. Seriously. 300 an hour? These women are too dumb or lazy to do anything else. 20 bucks for bbbj. 30 for bbfs with creampie. 50 or 60 an hour is generous. What are they gonna do, work at Whataburger?

You don't overpay for car insurance. Why spend more than you have to on hookers?

I wonder how all you guys overpay for hookers. Seriously. 300 an hour? These women are too dumb or lazy to do anything else. 20 bucks for bbbj. 30 for bbfs with creampie. 50 or 60 an hour is generous. What are they gonna do, work at Whataburger?

You don't overpay for car insurance. Why spend more than you have to on hookers? Originally Posted by Bill Duwall

i fuck nubile "young" .. well 30 years younger than me .. asians for $200 an hour. and as we all know .. all of them are sex slaves because Assup the pig thinks they are.

when i see them at the Galleria buying $400 Gucci purses it is clear to me they are "sex slaves!"

NOT!

hahahahahahahahahaha

She’s wrong about everything.

I was watching an interview with her where she kept looking down about every third word to read the notes someone had written.