Are you really using your ability to buy a house on a $75,000 salary in DC 20 years ago to justify anything? DC housing prices have nearly tripled since 20 years ago. You’d have to have a 225k salary now to match the house buying power of your 75k then:
Regardless of one’s savings account balance, adults are expected to cover their own housing costs.
So the troops in Iraq aren’t adults? Not cool. :mad:
Would you consider Paul Ryan or Kevin McCarthy to be adults, per your meaning of the word?
…or the President? Or the Vice President?
Gotcha fail #116
Note that the article is about when she argued against Amazon getting tax breaks while infrastructure was crumbling.
Still, it is an oddly liberal thing for him to agree with, since Republicans tend to be all for tax cuts for rich people. I guess Trump hating Amazon does have some advantages.
Republicans hate Bezos. He agreed that Bezos shouldn’t have got a tax break. This highlights a rift in the Dems. It’s not an oddly liberal thing to agree on at all.
Cite for whining, entitled or otherwise?
Ok, you got me. The vast majority of adults are expected to cover their own housing costs.
Out of the 435 Representatives that were elected last week, why is she the only one I’ve heard even talking about this subject?
She said one thing about it.
Ryan, McCarthy, and a handful of other members of Congress have been living in their offices for years or decades, rent-free, precisely because of the cost of living in DC. But you see a “democratic socialist” (or whatever she calls herself) make a comment that she’s going to delay moving to DC for a month and a half, and the Fox News crowd and their viewer lose their freakin’ mind? What’s up with that?
Here is one of many articles about it: ‘I can’t afford an apartment’: Congressmen sleeping in offices cry poverty
That link seems like it requires reading. I’m only aware of things that vacuous blond women have read to me thru my TV.
You’re not very well informed? As I mentionedd, Chaffetz mentioned the cost and about 50 members of Congress live in their offices.
That’s too much work. I’m just going to read half the headline and form my own version of what the rest of the article says. Now, why does Paul Ryan sleep on a bag of money? Doesn’t he know he can use that to buy a bed?
Male and Republican, so doesn’t count. In order for me to get outraged about perfectly normal behavior I’m gonna have to see evidence of a female, minority, or Democrat doing it.
Alternatively, one could read about this on the Straight Dope. I can read the thread to anyone in the style of a vacuous blond woman on TV, but that will take a long time and have the disadvantage of me presenting multiple sides of an issue.
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=850612
It’s even mentioned earlier in this very thread.
I’m baffled by AOC or the reasoning attributed to her. This is like someone who just won a lottery jackpot griping over how to make ends meet and pay the bills between now and the time the check actually is cashed. It’s an utterly tiny problem in the matter of things.
Granted, $174k isn’t a hundred million bucks, but it makes the financial cost of the interim almost inconsequential. Just get a loan and pay it all off in a short time. Or, if the credit card limit is high enough, put all expenses on the credit card, then pay it all off in a few months, too.
…I’m baffled that you are baffled. AOC has made no secret that she is dealing with this. She even told us how she is dealing with it in the original quote. She doesn’t need to get a loan, she doesn’t need to put it on her credit card, she has been saving money and will handle it.
Did you not read what she originally said? Have you not read the thread?