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To: Lane3 who wrote (92456)9/3/2018 1:49:35 PM
From: neolib1 Recommendation

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Terry Maloney

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Free-lunch?

Why do you think single payer healthcare is free-lunch? Same goes for higher education.

The military is single payer, and I doubt anyone thinks its a free-lunch. Do you?



To: Lane3 who wrote (92456)9/3/2018 2:07:28 PM
From: i-node  Respond to of 362483
 
>> The whole free-lunch package. I usually use the label, "air-headed," but, given her youth, I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt in the critical thinking and honest departments. I was young once, too.

Interestingly, according to her Wikipedia entry, she was a reasonably good performer at university and should have a good understanding of economics:

"From 2003 to 2007, Ocasio-Cortez attended Yorktown High School, [12] where she won second prize in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with a research project on microbiology. As a result, the International Astronomical Union named a small asteroid after her: 23238 Ocasio-Cortez. [13] [14] In high school, she took part in the National Hispanic Institute's Lorenzo de Zalvala (LDZ) Youth Legislative Session. She later became the LDZ Secretary of State while she attended Boston University. Ocasio-Cortez had a John F. Lopez Fellowship. [15] During college, she was an intern in the immigration office of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy. [16] She graduated cum laude from Boston University's College of Arts and Sciences in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in economics and international relations." **


But there is no substitute for life experience. I want young people to be able to take over the country dig themselves out of the mess we've left them. The lack of a grasp of economics concerns me. Here is a woman who should be positioned to become part of the solution and at this point you have to question where she's headed.






**I read this allowed to my son earlier and said, "You would think this woman must be exceptionally intelligent. He said, "That's not what I heard." Me: "What did you hear?" Him: "Ted Kennedy."