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liskddksil

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Fri Apr 10, 2020, 09:28 AM Apr 2020

Meet AOC's Right-Wing Primary Challenger

CNBC anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera visited the set of Morning Joe to push her new book You Know I'm Right and apparently we've got another Ayn Rand fan working for CNBC. After saying that the auto companies should have been allowed to fail, presumably to get rid of those pesky over paid union workers, Mike Barnicle asks her if she thinks we're going to have to raise taxes to pay our deficit.

Cabrera of course doesn't think we should raise taxes and says that instead we should cut spending. Leslie Stahl asks her where. She replies:

Easy stuff; you get rid of the Department of Labor, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education. You can get rid of all of those. They're not necessary. You don't need that stuff done at the federal level.

But the real issue, let's talk about it – Social Security and Medicare, right? We have over promised so much that someday if we don't do something, we're going to be Greece. We're on the path to that. So what you do right now is you tell young people instead of saving that Social Security and giving it to the government, you're going to have a personal account, and that's going to be your retirement. And in the mean time, as you get closer to retirement, you're going to have to live on that money instead, because...

https://crooksandliars.com/heather/cnbcs-caruso-cabrera-eliminate-departments

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Meet AOC's Right-Wing Primary Challenger (Original Post) liskddksil Apr 2020 OP
Laughable. AOC is a star, for better or for worse. Laelth Apr 2020 #1
13 in all are running jimfields33 Apr 2020 #4
Clearly Not A Democrat ProfessorGAC Apr 2020 #2
MCC, just a stunt? empedocles Apr 2020 #3
A Libertarian Muddying Up The Water ProfessorGAC Apr 2020 #5
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