"Never experienced American prosperity."

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Just had to post this as an example of the insanity of the left.

The writer behind the new Time Magazine cover story of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, is getting plenty of backlash for a claim she made about herself and fellow millennials.

“AOC and I were born the same year. She was a Dunkaroos kid—I liked fruit roll-ups. People our age have never experienced American prosperity in our adult lives— which is why so many millennials are embracing Democratic socialism,” Alter tweeted.

While promoting her article on Twitter, Alter noted how she and Ocasio-Cortez were born in the same year and claimed that the growing appeal of Democratic socialism among millennials is because they’ve “never experienced American prosperity.”

Many critics have pointed out that Alter is a Harvard graduate and the daughter of former longtime Newsweek editor and New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Alter and former executive producer of "The Colbert Report," Emily Lazar.

:rolleyes: SMH

You're living in prosperity, dumbass. And those other millennials that have the time and leisure to complain on their smartphones, while living in their parents basements, instead of slaving at digging ditches just to eat are living in prosperity too.
 
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Tell her to take her high and mighty ass to Kenya and live for a year and she'll see her prosperity. She'll beg to come back to what she had.




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I was going to say drop her off in Mogadishu and see what she thinks about American prosperity then.
 
I would encourage AOC and others like her to travel to some of these "Socialist Utopias" and spend some time outside of the tourist hotels. Even in the tourist spots the shortcomings are glowing. Fiver star Hotels in China that never really look completed because the hotel company only owns the building. The land is an 89 year lease. So if I own a building and it is 20 years old, how much will I invest in improvement? Not much since I don't really own it.

Same for ordinary people and their houses.

As Catfish says, "first world problems". ONLY in a country like the U.S. would this kind of stupidity be entertained. Everywhere else people are too busy scratching out a living to listen to a 29 year old tell them what is wrong with the world. Let's see she hasn't lived a third of life expectancy yet, and she already knows all. Damn, life will be all down hill now I guess.

Dummies.
 
They graduated college and tried to find jobs while the US had Obama at the helm. So yes, she is correct they have never seen a good economy in the US. Now if they would stop whining and look around they would see that our economy is doing great.
 
This is why rich people shouldn't bribe their kids' way into Harvard... You wind up with clueless idiots like this...
 
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I was going to say drop her off in Mogadishu and see what she thinks about American prosperity then.
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Reason I said Kenya is my local church supported a couple of missionaries there. We have heard firsthand the struggles to live there.

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An old co-worker of mine from India once said to me that Americans think they understand poverty because some may wonder when they will eat again, if they miss a lunch or even dinner. In India the poor wonder if they will eat again.
 
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I’d say that most of the people who embrace it were taught that there is no such thing as American prosperity. The same way they were taught that there was never such a thing as American exceptionalism.
 
The American prosperity that they claim to now want has been muted by the globalism that they used to want. We have had a "downward salary reset" in the last decade that is likely permanent (to help us compete globally) that truly does impact young adults...but socialism has no part in improving that situation.

Too many people fail to realize that a very modest household income of around $30k puts you in the top 67% of earners. I suspect that there is nothing missing from their lives that they could not have if they hadn't willfully gone into debt.
 
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First world problems...

You never experienced anything *but* prosperity.
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Agreed. Through a weird set of circumstances I used to make really good money back home, but even though I earn half what I used to I still live well, considering. The poor and even those on government assistance live like Kings compared to the majority of the world's people.
 
just wait til they go a week without a meal. We need another Superstorm Sandy because obviously the first one missed it's mark.
 
If you could afford dunkaroos and fruit roll ups you had prosperity as a kid.

I liked spending the night at one friends house because his dad was a CAT exec and they had all sorts of food in their kitchen. My friend was oddly enough the pickiest eater on the planet.
 
Students rack up over $100k in student debt. Entry level jobs just don't support that debt when you add in car, house and all the 'melenial must have's.

It's like hitting your finger with a hammer. There's no one to blame but yourself.
 
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