Ivanka Criticizes Green New Deal: "People Want to Work for What they Get"

[iluvatar5150]

Ivanka Trump reacts to Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal, says most Americans "want to work for what they get"

“You’ve got people who will see that offer from the Democrats, from the progressive Democrats, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: ‘Here’s the Green New Deal, here’s the guarantee of a job,’ and think, ‘Yeah, that’s what I want, it’s that simple.’ What do you say to those people?” Hilton asked the first daughter.

“I don’t think most Americans, in their heart, want to be given something. I’ve spent a lot of time traveling around this country over the last four years. People want to work for what they get,” Trump said.

“So, I think that this idea of a guaranteed minimum is not something most people want. They want the ability to be able to secure a job. They want the ability to live in a country where there’s the potential for upward mobility,” she added.

This is funny coming from someone who's third-generation wealth and whose entire family (including her husband) only has their jobs because they were handed them by their parents.

I suppose the Trump family isn't "most Americans".

 

[cow451]

Ivanka Trump reacts to Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal, says most Americans "want to work for what they get"
This is funny coming from someone who's third-generation wealth and whose entire family (including her husband) only has their jobs because they were handed them by their parents.

I suppose the Trump family isn't "most Americans".

Hey! The Trumps lied, cheated and stole their fortune fair and square!

 

[SeventyOne]

I agree with her quote.

 

[bekkilyn]

I'm sure slaveowners used similar arguments back in the day.

 

[Hammster]

Ivanka Trump reacts to Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal, says most Americans "want to work for what they get"



This is funny coming from someone who's third-generation wealth and whose entire family (including her husband) only has their jobs because they were handed them by their parents.

I suppose the Trump family isn't "most Americans".

Is there anything wrong with what she said, though?

 

[Speedwell]

Is there anything wrong with what she said, though?

She is correct. Most people want to work for a living. However, if there are no jobs for them to do they would just as soon not starve because of it.

 

[LivingWordUnity]

She is correct. Most people want to work for a living. However, if there are no jobs for them to do they would just as soon not starve because of it.

We are at a time when the unemployment rate is at its lowest in decades.

 

[New Birth]

I'm sure slaveowners used similar arguments back in the day.

Its more like democrats offer the same as slave owners did. Low flat wage, limited resources, terrible housing, broken families, permanent lower class etc. you see the similarities.

 

[Speedwell]

We are at a time when the unemployment rate is at its lowest in decades.

Now we are. So your point is that we need not concern ourselves with the future?

 

[Speedwell]

Its more like democrats offer the same as slave owners did. Low flat wage, limited resources, terrible housing, broken families, permanent lower class etc. you see the similarities.

All I see in your post is a similarity to what the Right wants for the working class.

 

[New Birth]

All I see in your post is a similarity to what the Right wants for the working class.

Your glasses are broken if thats what you see from the right.

 

[Speedwell]

Your glasses are broken if thats what you see from the right.

All I know about the Right is what they tell me. But I never hear things like that from the Left.

 

[SummerMadness]

Your glasses are broken if thats what you see from the right.

You're correct, @Speedwell forgot to add the Right doesn't want them to have healthcare either. Healthcare is something only the rich should have.

 

[SeventyOne]

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[Shiloh Raven]

You're correct, @Speedwell forgot to add the Right doesn't want them to have healthcare either. Healthcare is something only the rich should have.

Adequate healthcare and getting a college education to increase your chances of getting a better job is a privilege, you know? But owning a gun in America is our God-given right as Americans! Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition! Let's not mix up the moral priorities of being proud Americans now.

 

[Shiloh Raven]

Its more like democrats offer the same as slave owners did. Low flat wage, limited resources, terrible housing, broken families, permanent lower class etc. you see the similarities.

I've been a liberal for almost 30 years and I've been involved in political and social justice activism for just as long and I've never encountered any liberals like that, but I have encountered more than a fair share of conservatives with that kind of attitude toward poor minorities and the poor in general.

 

[LivingWordUnity]

Now we are. So your point is that we need not concern ourselves with the future?

Why fix something that isn't broken?

 

[Shiloh Raven]

Ivanka Trump reacts to Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal, says most Americans "want to work for what they get"

This is funny coming from someone who's third-generation wealth and whose entire family (including her husband) only has their jobs because they were handed them by their parents.

I suppose the Trump family isn't "most Americans".

She must have it so tough in her life. I hope she didn't break a nail.

 

[Hammster]

She is correct. Most people want to work for a living. However, if there are no jobs for them to do they would just as soon not starve because of it.

Fortunately, that’s not an issue.

 

[iluvatar5150]

Is there anything wrong with what she said, though?

Yes, there is.

If you take only that one sentence, absent any other context, then there's not much wrong with it. But life is rarely so simple.

For one thing, she's overlooking how the nature of work is changing and how technological advancements reduce the need for labor. Growing productivity means shrinking demand for labor. It doesn't matter how much people want to work if nobody needs them to work. UBI at least gives folks a way to survive without having to work.

Secondly, she's overlooking the degree to which poverty/low wages can trap a person in the situation they're currently in. In many aspects of professional life, you have to spend money to make money - and if you don't have the resources needed to take advantage of the opportunities that exist, then as far you're concerned, those opportunities may as well not exist at all. UBI takes some of that edge off.