Socialist hard-left Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York (AOC) is simply giddy with happiness over the crash of the economy due to the coronavirus. She especially likes the oil crash. Any sympathy for those thrown out of work? Naahhhh…
Fox News reports, “Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., tweeted – then quickly deleted – a celebration of the news that U.S. equity markets crashed on Monday, with oil prices turning negative for the first time in history.
“‘You absolutely love to see it,’ Ocasio-Cortez, a self-described ‘democratic socialist,’ wrote on Twitter.
She deleted it, but here it is. pic.twitter.com/smePUtFFrK
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) April 20, 2020
She was responding to a post which stated: ‘Oil prices now at ‘negative values,’ meaning oil producers have to pay people to take it off their hands and store it because when demand plunges (like now), that is less expensive for them than building more storage and/or shutting wells down.
“This along with record low interest rates means it’s the right time for a worker-led, mass investment in green infrastructure to save our planet, Ocasio-Cortez also said.”
The GOP shot back. “Openly celebrating the economic destruction of families and communities because it fits a political narrative is unacceptable and unbecoming of a member of Congress,” said GOP Rep. Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota, adding, “People’s jobs are evaporating. Lives are being ruined in real-time. North Dakota companies that have taken decades to build have been destroyed in hours. Any public official that loves to see this does not deserve to hold office.”
GOP Rep. Jodey Arrington of Texas said, “I don’t ‘love to see’ oil & gas workers & their rural communities suffering as a result of this devastating price collapse, @AOC. Places like West Texas & hard-working men & women in the oil patch power the bright lights of NYC…including the hospitals!”
AOC and her cohorts know the only way they can gain power is if America fails. So they openly root for it. Until they have to delete their words and go back to pretending they care about America, that is.
This piece was written by PoliZette Staff on April 21, 2020. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.
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