Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, self-described champion of the working person, fudged her workman’s comp for her own campaign employees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
That’s OK, there really are two different sets of rules out there, and nobody is going to make modern Progressivism’s “It Girl” accountable for anything of the sort. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the rest of the world? That’s another story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The restaurant at which the Congresswoman tended bar closed last August. And there, the story deepens – if you work for a living in the Bronx:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Interestingly, the progressive congresswoman bemoaned in August the closing of a restaurant where she was previously employed \u2014 however, the restaurant cited an Ocasio Cortez-endorsed policy as a partial reason for its closure.
\u201cThe times have changed in our industry. The rents are very high and now the minimum wage is going up and we have a huge number of employees,\u201d one of restaurant\u2019s co-founders said at the time.
\u201cOcasio-Cortez\u2019s desired \u2018living wage\u2019 of $15 an hour has been a living hell for many small business owners in New York, who\u2019ve been unable to offset the cost through higher prices,\u201d Employment Policies Institute Managing Director Michael Saltsman said in response to the closure. \u201cIt\u2019s fine to mourn the impending closure of your former employer \u2014 it\u2019s better to understand the misguided minimum-wage mandates that contributed to that closure.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nThat would require actual critical analysis on Ocasio Cortez’ part…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
…heh. I slay me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, self-described champion of the working person, fudged her workman’s comp for her own campaign employees. That’s OK, there really are two different sets of rules out there, and nobody is going to make modern Progressivism’s “It Girl” accountable for anything of the sort. But the rest of the world? That’s another story. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[406],"class_list":["post-69696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tide-pod-evita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69710,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69696\/revisions\/69710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}