{"id":176682,"date":"2020-04-15T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/04\/15\/they-really-are-contemptible\/"},"modified":"2020-04-15T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T00:41:00","slug":"they-really-are-contemptible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/04\/15\/they-really-are-contemptible\/","title":{"rendered":"They Really Are Contemptible"},"content":{"rendered":"
I can get why some people would want to primary Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.<\/div>\n

I disagree, but I understand why.<\/p>\n

Still selecting a recently Republican wing nut who called Social Security a Ponzi scheme<\/a> is an indication of just how detached from reality they are.<\/p>\n

My guess is that they decided that no one would notice if one Hispanic woman was replaced with another when they chose Michelle Caruso-Cabrera as their “Great White Hope.”<\/p>\n

Some advice for AOC:  Unless you become Joseph Crowley and sell out completely, they are going to continue coming after you, so go ahead and endorse primary challengers to corporatist DINOs:<\/p>\n

Wall Street titans are financing a direct challenge to firebrand progressive lawmaker Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the New York primary on June 23. <\/p>\n

Disclosures show that at least two dozen finance industry professionals, including several prominent private equity executives and investment bankers, made early donations to Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, a former CNBC contributor who is challenging Ocasio-Cortez. Caruso-Cabrera was a registered Republican until a few years ago and authored a 2010 book advocating for several conservative positions, including an end to Medicare and Social Security, which she called \u201cpyramid schemes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The donors include Glenn Hutchins, the billionaire co-founder of Silver Lake Partners; James Passin of Firebird Capital; Bruce Schnitzer of Wand Partners; Jeffrey Rosen of Lazard; and Bradley Seaman, managing partner of Parallel49 Equity.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

But the candidate\u2019s beliefs are explained in detail in a book she authored in 2010 titled, \u201cYou Know I\u2019m Right: More Prosperity, Less Government,\u201d which included a forward by Larry Kudlow, who now serves as President Donald Trump\u2019s director of the National Economic Council.<\/p>\n

In the book, Caruso-Cabrera calls Medicare and Social Security \u201cthe country\u2019s biggest pyramid schemes,\u201d and wrote that she would end both programs in favor of a privatized voucher system. Medicare, Caruso-Cabrera wrote, \u201cis another pay-as-you-go Ponzi scheme\u201d that should be replaced with a health savings account that gives \u201cseniors $1,000 or $2,000 a year to start.\u201d Social Security, she notes, should be replaced with a private account system, in which Americans are incentivized to invest in the stock market.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In her book, she stated that tax evasion as essential to freedom, “Freedom and democracy are best secured when banking secrecy and tax havens exist.”<\/p>\n

Making nice to these people will not get you more power in Congress, nor will it do anything to secure your position as the representative in New York’s 14th<\/sup> district.<\/p>\n

In fact, given that Andrew Cuomo is governor and he hates progressives, you should be prepared for your district to be sliced and diced like Masaharu Morimoto making sushi by 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can get why some people would want to primary Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. I disagree, but I understand why. Still selecting a recently Republican wing nut who called Social Security a Ponzi scheme is an indication of just how detached from reality they are. My guess is that they decided that no one would notice if …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[513,447,375,374],"class_list":["post-176682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-campaign-finance","tag-congress","tag-elections","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}