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Ocasio-Cortez advisor lied -- money for the unwilling to work
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<blockquote data-quote="Speedwell" data-source="post: 73666185" data-attributes="member: 387171"><p>I have spent extended periods of time working on aid projects in what is known as the "third world." I have been to the slums of cities like Kampala, Dar es Salaam and Nairobi. What I have observed is that they are teeming with small scale economic activity as the desperately poor inhabitants struggle, sometimes with reasonable success, to make a living without any government assistance.</p><p></p><p>I have also been to places like the south side of Chicago--I taught at Richard Daley College for a while. What I noticed there was the absence of that kind of economic activity. The streets are empty and dead except for occasional national chain convenience stores or fast-food outlets, not so much as a taco cart or an old man on the street corner selling the melons he grew in his yard. Such entrepreneurial ventures are ruthlessly suppressed. The only business with enough cash flow to make it worthwhile to confront the cops about it is illegal drug sales.</p><p></p><p>The only way up is to "get a job," which means a clean shirt, a socko resume, a call back number and the willingness to suck up to some prissy twit in the HR department of a national corporation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Speedwell, post: 73666185, member: 387171"] I have spent extended periods of time working on aid projects in what is known as the "third world." I have been to the slums of cities like Kampala, Dar es Salaam and Nairobi. What I have observed is that they are teeming with small scale economic activity as the desperately poor inhabitants struggle, sometimes with reasonable success, to make a living without any government assistance. I have also been to places like the south side of Chicago--I taught at Richard Daley College for a while. What I noticed there was the absence of that kind of economic activity. The streets are empty and dead except for occasional national chain convenience stores or fast-food outlets, not so much as a taco cart or an old man on the street corner selling the melons he grew in his yard. Such entrepreneurial ventures are ruthlessly suppressed. The only business with enough cash flow to make it worthwhile to confront the cops about it is illegal drug sales. The only way up is to "get a job," which means a clean shirt, a socko resume, a call back number and the willingness to suck up to some prissy twit in the HR department of a national corporation. [/QUOTE]
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