Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is smoking-hot and I want to put her on her tummy and crush that puss until she's in a sex coma. But never mind all that. She has some... interesting viewpoints that need to be addressed.
At first glance, on her Wikipedia page, it states that she is both pro-job-guarantee and also anti-privatization of prisons. She and I firmly agree on the latter. Privatization of prisons incentivizes courts and legislative bodies to make dumber and dumber shit illegal and to punish more frequently and severely. It invites a particularly disturbing, Kafkaesque brand of corrupting influence by private prison companies and their lobbyists over lawmakers and the judiciary. Private prisons should be abolished. It’s a disgusting practice. Prisons – like transportation and national defense – are things that should be controlled directly by state and federal governments. Prison sucks. It’s necessary for prisons to suck. The genuinely guilty must not be rewarded for deviant behavior. Prisons are supposed to be about punishment and rehabilitation, not torture. Torture is for the torturer. It doesn’t take much searching at all to find details on the horrific abuses inmates suffer in private prisons.
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and I are in firm agreement about the industrial prison complex, but what she doesn’t seem to understand is that a job guarantee – with the government being the employer of last resort – is effectively a soft form of enslavement, which is exactly what is happening at private prisons. Most if not all private prisons are operated by a little Warden Norton undercutting the labor costs of other companies by a significant margin and with the prison administration benefiting directly from multiple streams of income from other private companies who hire them and from government subsidies.
Parenthetically, I don’t see why jobs are even an issue when the federal numbers state unemployment is below 5%. Does she endorse those figures, or is she familiar with the difference between unemployment and labor participation? It’s unclear on her site.
On Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’ official website, under the “Issues” tab, she goes into detail about her job guarantee. The body of the convoluted info bite is as follows:
“Alexandria endorses a Federal Jobs Guarantee, because anyone who is willing and able to work shouldn’t struggle to find employment.
A Federal Jobs Guarantee would create a baseline standard for employment that includes a $15 minimum wage (pegged to inflation), full healthcare, and child and sick leave for all. This proposal would dramatically upgrade the quality of employment in the United States, by providing training and experience to workers while bringing much-needed public services to our communities in areas such as parks service, childcare and environmental conservation.
Furthermore, a federal jobs guarantee program would establish a floor for wages and benefits for the nation’s workforce. This program would provide a baseline minimum wage of $15 an hour and guarantee for public workers a basic benefits package, including healthcare and childcare. By investing in our own workforce, we can lift thousands of American families out of poverty.”
This is where Alexandria’s socialism really pops. In the long and sordid history of socialism, there has never been a “voluntary” work program. While it may be sold that way, it invariably is discovered to be compulsory. Also, what happens when millions of unskilled laborers are thrown into official positions? The quality of work suffers tremendously, people become overwhelmed by an overburdened bureaucracy that is unable to perform its essential functions, and it all leads to increases in national desperation, diminishing quality of life. This policy will not uplift anyone; it will only accelerate administrative entropy. What happens when the problems are too numerous to solve? Problematic elements – individual people – are simply executed when they are unable to work because the system simply no longer has the productive excesses to care for people who cost the system more than they contribute to it.
What does “pegged to inflation” mean and how does she propose to qualify it? Inflation is just the addition of currency into the monetary supply. Inflation can be hidden in many ways, most surreptitiously by backdoor bailouts to banks who lend the money to private corporations to finance stock buybacks. The money never enters circulation and so does not directly affect inflation statistics, but still makes products and services way more expensive by forcing the consumer to pay higher prices to compensate for interest on the stock-buyback loans or the artificial scarcity of corporate securities and assets.
The use of the word “furthermore” is extraneous, though that's just me being pedantic. The second and third paragraphs are basically reiterated versions of each other. They come across as feel-good trite that do nothing to explain how the proposal will produce the desired results. As a student of economics, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has no excuse for not going into considerably-greater detail. She also needs to go over case studies of socialist economic policies and the consequences they have. Venezuela anyone? North Korea?
Concerning her abolition of private prisons, I couldn’t agree more, but her reasons for doing so are childishly misrepresentative of the actual problems with private prisons. She is under the assumption that private prisons are an example of racism. They are not. Statistically, blacks are more likely to commit crimes, but not because of their race. It is because of their culture and the recent history of changes in their family dynamic. To a ridiculous degree, fatherless households are more likely to produce criminal males. Statistically-speaking, black fathers are more likely to abandon their children.
There is no school-to-prison pipeline. Why would any government punish itself by spending money on failed education only to later spend even more money on incarceration? If there was an honestly-racist motivation to destroy blacks, the apparently 100% snow-white government would save itself the hundreds-of-billions in precious white dollars of doing it slowly over time and just line black people up and develop industrial hanging apparatus. Her reasons for prison reform, while openly stating the for-profit aspect as being her motivation, have nothing to do with privatization; they have to do with her mistaken assumptions of “institutionalized racism” which is a demonstrably false claim. If she is not concerned with the moral objections inherent to prison privatization, then she is only interested in treating a symptom instead of the disease, or of virtue-signaling. The actual disease is the breakdown of the family in black communities. That breakdown is what’s causing the levels of incarceration of black youth, not systemic racism. Her website pays lip service to community outreach but goes into zero detail about the form of that outreach.
You can’t just say shit and have it be true, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. Otherwise you’re just as bad as all the other politicians who’ve made the government into the very thing you claim to want to combat, but whose machinery you secretly want to employ for your own enrichment.
I do, however, fully support Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’ desire for solidarity with Puerto-Rico. They are a territory of the U.S. and every man, woman, and child there is a citizen of the United States and they have the right to representation, not to be forgotten or abused by government ignorance or inefficiency. Additionally, I love the Puerto-Rican people. They are phylogenetically unique and are among the most beautiful people in the world. If I had the resources to move there and help them rebuild, I would. I’m also hopelessly attracted to their women, and I’d be lying to say I hadn’t rubbed one out, fantasizing about fucking Ms. Ocasio-Cortez while… “erotically-asphyxiating” her for her ridiculous and dangerously-destructive policies. Okay, who am I kidding? I want to put her on her tummy, put her neck in the crook of my arm, hold both her hands behind her back, and jackhammer that sweet and spicy little ass.