I just did a Zilow search for $500 and got zilch.
Agreed and Agreed. Go to any person in this country making $25k per year and tell them that in two months they will be making $174k per year, but that they will have no pay for those two months.
What percentage of those people would reject that offer?
I did the same, and then looked on craigslist and found a bunch of scams. There’s no newly renovated 3 BR houses for $450 a month! Maybe that’s what he was looking at?
I wasn’t aware that she was rejecting the offer of becoming a member of Congress! Wow! Where did you find this stop-the-presses news?
Again, where in her words does she complain? She’s talking about taking a job in a new city, she mentions in a couple of sentences in a much longer interview the thoughts anyone would face when moving to a new city to take a new job.
Damn, you and Shodan have absolutely OBLITERATED that straw man. Good on you! Woo, conservatism is in capable hands now, I can assure everyone.
She’s whining about it. She mentions it in an interview as some sort of statement on why poor people cannot run for Congress. Posters in this thread have said the same thing and some have proposed that the taxpayers should pay for her relocation expenses.
My point was that it is not a hardship at all. She will be making a very nice salary, one that almost anyone making $25k per year would kill for. Nobody would be dissuaded from running for Congress because of this.
Other posters have said that most people have little savings. Fine. Take out a personal loan, put it on a credit card, call up mom or dad to float you some cash. Have Maxine Waters loan you the money. Do whatever everyone else in the country does when you are short on cash. The only difference is that in two months you can pay everything back with interest.
To a guy making $25k per year, her statement is absurd and he would trade places with her in a heartbeat.
She wasn’t dissuaded from running for Congress, nor is she quitting. Where did you get that idea that she’s turning the job down, as compared to others who would not? Especially when that is not happening?
Do you consider it a financially smart move to pay interest costs for a loan on an apartment that will barely be used for six weeks?
ETA: in a related question to your perception of finances, did you support the Trump tax cuts?
Where in that paragraph does she say that this is why poor people cannot run for congress?
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In this very thread, posters are saying how this hampers poor people from running for Congress.
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Of course it is a smart financial move. You are going from $25k/yr to $174k/yr. If in order to do that, you must borrow money for two months, then that is absolutely the right financial move to make. Should you give up $149k next year because you might have to pay a few hundred dollars in interest?
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I have no idea why the Trump tax cuts are relevant to this discussion.
It is a humorous jibe, suggesting that your devotion to fiscal prudence may not be all it seems to be. You’re welcome, glad to help.
Move over George Soros, there’s a new leftie boogeyman terrifying God-fearing republicans everywhere. Watching them sputter in incoherent rage while an imaginary version of Ocasio-Cortez nests in their brains is both fascinating and repulsive.
But where does she say any of that?
And that wild eyed Marxist from Utah, Jason Chaffetz had proposed that members of Congress receive a $2,500 a month stipend.
Ocasio-Cortez seems to be able to clap back pretty hard. The more I hear from her the more I like her.
I’ve also noticed that the people in this thread who object most to her comments are the people who have most blatantly and obviously not read them. I find that amusing.
It is obvious she was concerned with cost constraints. I’m sorry if you guys cannot parse dialogue.
$500 room I said.
You may have to go underground to get a room for that low. Check bulletin boards etc. I’m not going to cruise the internet for a citation to something I know exists firsthand in very similar neighborhoods.
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Yes I believe right wingers had the same opinion of Sarah Palin.
It’s obvious to me that she is concerned with finding an apartment. I’m sorry that you cannot parse dialogue.
Yes I understand some people have difficulty communicating with fellow humans.
What a joke. You expect a congresswoman to take a room in a boarding house or else she’s a hypocrite.
As far as whether her current residence is embedded with what Common would call “real people”, idk. But I am not the one she is running game on.