Fact Check: AOC’s Baseless
Accusation That the U.S. Is a
‘Brutal, Barbarian Society’
Issues & Insights,
by
James D. Agresti
Original Article
Posted By: PageTurner,
4/27/2020 9:51:55 AM
According to democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the COVID-19 pandemic is proving that the United States “is a brutal, barbarian society for the vast majority of working-class Americans.” As evidence of this, she claims that “40% of us couldn’t even afford a $400 emergency” before this crisis, and COVID-19 “is more than a $400 emergency.”
However, her “40%–$400” statistic is false, and the facts that broadly inform this issue reveal that:
government social programs, which AOC seeks to enlarge, depress workers’ savings, causing the very outcomes that she decries.
the people of the U.S. lead the world in charity.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
MaMe2 4/27/2020 9:55:00 AM (No. 393064)
Past her ' best if used by' date. She is one tedious gal.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Ming 4/27/2020 9:56:07 AM (No. 393069)
Oh come on. Who are you going to believe about America, AOC or your lying eyes?
9 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Kate318 4/27/2020 10:06:55 AM (No. 393080)
If we were a “brutal, barbarian society,” she’d be back behind the bar, shilling for tips and displaying her crotch. That, or wearing a burka and walking behind her husband with her 6 children, none if which would be wearing burkas.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LadyHen 4/27/2020 10:38:31 AM (No. 393118)
Were we "brutal and barbaric" she would be cowering behind a strong man, pregnant with his child, and protected by his high walls or else be in the gutter. Women have benefited most from civilization. The fact women can walk along most streets in this country alone and unmolested is proof enough we are not brutal nor barbaric and that, you foolish little twit, is due solely to good men!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Troutgreen 4/27/2020 10:39:24 AM (No. 393119)
So are $400.00 sneakers, cell phones, hair extensions, grills, fancy wheels on cars, tv's, sport team official jerseys, free school lunches, get outta jail free DA' s releasing thousands with no bail, abortion on demand, tatoos, free day care, paid leave, unisex bathrooms, $1,200 with so questions asked or strings attatched, no ID required voting, multi- lingual state services, automatic citizenship upon birth, and on and on brutal and barbaric?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
padiva 4/27/2020 10:47:23 AM (No. 393129)
Barbaric is a congress critter who does NOT want to increase employment opportunities in her district.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 4/27/2020 11:00:49 AM (No. 393157)
Her economics degree is worthless. Boston U took her money, printed her a degree but only taught her how to bartend and steal tips. Her pontifications routinely display her ignorance. It really is a shame what she will receive from the taxpayer after she loses her congressional seat.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Clinger 4/27/2020 11:04:27 AM (No. 393161)
So darling why the hell do poor people from all over the globe flood our borders, risk their lives accept the inevitable rape of their women and girls to get here?
Pour me a tall drink before you explain, I'm sure I'll need it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Bazi 4/27/2020 11:08:27 AM (No. 393170)
Good job of raising a hate filled commie daughter, Blanca. Why did they leave the paradise of Puerto Rico for the brutal barbarian society of the USA?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Chicagoan 4/27/2020 11:09:44 AM (No. 393172)
Remember the days when people with mental illness were treated for it?
Now, they just run for office and continue blathering about a Socialist utopia.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/27/2020 11:46:37 AM (No. 393209)
The most brutal and barbaric action in this country is abortion and AOC supports it with every cell in her body.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/27/2020 12:04:19 PM (No. 393225)
If it were, she wouldn’t have been able to come here in the first place. Thankless so-called “refugees” like her and her family (political personas non grata in their own country) who come here and stir up trouble are despicable...
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
chase9365 4/27/2020 12:04:27 PM (No. 393226)
Shes longing for the days when she was a bartender..bartenders and such are now thought of as heros. Members of Congress are no ones heros.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Calico Al 4/27/2020 12:19:13 PM (No. 393246)
Brain on vacation and mouth workin overtime.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Justcurious 4/27/2020 12:25:20 PM (No. 393255)
Compared to what?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 4/27/2020 12:26:10 PM (No. 393256)
Taco Barbie is a product of a political system that spits out made-to-order liberals. She is little more than a sock puppet-you can be sure her "green agenda" is not hers at all. She is a pretty face with a Hispanic name who BARELY won her election. If her district isn't completely as brain dead as she is, they'll surely remember Amazon's 25,000 jobs riding off into the sunset because of her.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
anniebc 4/27/2020 1:07:06 PM (No. 393312)
Is she referring to the leftist's brutal, barbarian practice of abortion? Or, leftist indoctrination of children in the education system? Or, leftist's obsession with getting rid of male and female? Or, leftist's advancement of homosexuality and lesbianism? Or, leftist's hatred of God, family, and country? Or, the leftist lying and downgrade of social morality in media and entertainment? I think we can make the case that as barbarianism exists in America, it comes from this dumb girl's side of the aisle.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Foghorn 4/27/2020 1:23:24 PM (No. 393333)
She is a socialist democrat that will concoct stories for attention, and she does get the attention. I don't understand why anything she says is published. We don't need her socialist comments as this is a capitalist's nation.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 4/27/2020 1:31:13 PM (No. 393343)
Well, parts of NYC certainly qualify....but not so much out here in Free America.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
hershey 4/27/2020 2:49:53 PM (No. 393441)
Too bad she is so stupid...she has the United States mixed up with the barbarian sect of Islam...
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 4/27/2020 2:55:52 PM (No. 393450)
Well, we did allow her to be elected to congress, so I would say we might meet her definition. Her and her fellow squadies are nothing short of brutal and barbaric, especially Omar.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Catherine 4/27/2020 4:40:00 PM (No. 393557)
She, and most of her generation, need to read up on history, from hundreds of years ago. If you want brutal, read how people were treated in Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia back then. They did things to people you can't even dream up today. And they aren't much better today. Read about Cuba under Fidel Castro or Haiti under Baby Doc Devillier. Lenin comes to mind, he murdered a million of his own countrymen. Such ignorance in this young woman.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 4/27/2020 11:33:49 PM (No. 393862)
Pack your bags, tootsie! vamoose! oh, and surrender your citizenship papers and passport.
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Thanks to We the People, this harpy is earning more and dressing better than ever before. I resent giving an ungrateful person a paycheck.
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