She’s Perfect

[Bro. Curtis]

Yes, Ken. You are as perfect as she is to represent the modern democrat.

 

[KenH]

Thanks!

 

[Bro. Curtis]

Yup. You can pretend those are actual compliments.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/3...eteors-fizz-out?amp&__twitter_impression=true

 

[KenH]

Sounds like she is the mirror image of a lot of posters in this forum who attack Republicans from the right flank. Personally, I am not as far to the left as she is but I like the energy and freshness she brings to the political world.

 

[Bro. Curtis]

You said you were “extremely impressed” by this deluded little twit.

 

[KenH]

You said you were “extremely impressed” by this deluded little twit.

Being extremely impressed with a person does not equal agreeing with them 100% of the time. I agree with her more than I do you and other folks on the right flank on political stuff, just not 100%.

 

[Bro. Curtis]

More KenH double speak.

 

[KenH]

More KenH double speak.

Nope.

 

[kyredneck]

The Democrat/Socialist Rising Star is Still Proving to Be an Idiot

"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Unemployment Is Low ‘Because Everyone Has Two Jobs,’ Which Is Not How Unemployment Rates Work

“Capitalism has not always existed in the world and it will not always exist in the world.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex was roundly criticized on social media yesterday for supposedly botching a question about Israeli-Palestine relations during an interview with Firing Line‘s Margaret Hoover. But Ocasio-Cortez’s admission that she was “no expert on geopolitics” was much more satisfactory than her answer to a question about the unemployment rate, which she claimed was low merely “because everyone has two jobs.”

This is wrong for two reasons. First, people working multiple jobs has no distorting effect on the unemployment rate, which is calculated by taking the number of unemployed people and dividing it by the number of people in the labor force. The raw number of jobs being worked by Americans has no bearing on these numbers.

Second, everyone does not have two jobs. As Bloomberg View‘s Noah Smith points out, only about 5 percent of workers are moonlighting. This rate has actually dropped slightly over the last three decades.

Ocasio-Cortez continued: “Unemployment is low because people are working 60, 70, 80 hours a week, and can barely feed their kids.” Again, the number of overtime hours Americans are working has no impact on the unemployment rate."

 

[Bro. Curtis]

She’s extremely impressive, though.

 

[777]

In way too many cases for an advanced economy that is true.

that is NOT how the unemployment rate is figured - if you have one job or sixteen, you are counted as ONE employed person.

seems like you're crushing on this airhead but this guy sure isn't:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/18/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-democrats/index.html

what's really weird is I thought Joe moved to Israel and died a few years back . . . WRONG:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...ves-joe-crowley-some-help-he-doesnt-want.html

well, I have no horse in this race but Crowley is going to have to clarify his future - JL never weighs in unless he's asked to.

 

[KenH]

This is wrong for two reasons. First, people working multiple jobs has no distorting effect on the unemployment rate, which is calculated by taking the number of unemployed people and dividing it by the number of people in the labor force. The raw number of jobs being worked by Americans has no bearing on these numbers.

Second, everyone does not have two jobs. As Bloomberg View‘s Noah Smith points out, only about 5 percent of workers are moonlighting. This rate has actually dropped slightly over the last three decades.

Ocasio-Cortez continued: “Unemployment is low because people are working 60, 70, 80 hours a week, and can barely feed their kids.” Again, the number of overtime hours Americans are working has no impact on the unemployment rate."

Thank you for the article on the unemployment number calculation. Very well explained.

 

[KenH]

seems like you're crushing on this airhead but this guy sure isn't:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/18/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-democrats/index.html

Thank you for the Chris Cilliza column. He makes some excellent points.