Yep.
It’s far easier to ‘destroy’ than to ‘create’, but that’s not a sustainable mentality.
Yoink, in return; so fair trade.
Fancy that idea!
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Logic? Reason? What?
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I could go for a good Manhattan and steak dinner followed by a nice cigar and some rye (neat).
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I’m pretty confident that, if AOC’s office had decided to go with a more traditional salary structure, AOC herself would now be getting criticized as a not-really-a-socialist-hypocrite for that, by about the same people who are now twisting themselves in knots to try to paint this plan as somehow hypocritical or dishonorable.
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This kills the “but she’s a hypocrite because she wears nice clothes” argument conservatives love. I’m sure they’ll come up with some reason for this being a horrible thing to do. Probably “she’s robbing the rich (senior staff) to pay the poor!! Never forget, Robin Hood was a criminal.”
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maybe somebody can remind me how turnip-pickers are compensated in OUR system 
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demonization and family separations mostly
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but at least the superior pickers get their merit pay before they’re deported
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Not speculation. In fact, that exact silly gambit was tried, earlier in this thread ^^'.
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It seems like conservatives are more concerned with how others are spending money than how money is being made. They love to trot out the mythical Cadillac driving welfare queen or people buying lobster and steak with food stamps. (The latter of which does happen, but hey let’s set aside someone saving up for months to do this and wanting to treat themselves or their family to a nice meal - beans and gruel is all the poor deserve, right?)
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Maybe I’m spoiled by living in New England. But for what it’s worth Lobster isn’t all that pricey. It’s geberaly cheaper than good cuts of steak or pricier seafood like king salmon, sea scallops, or sea bass.
I didn’t bother responding to the obvious trolling. But it’s astounding that the idea of capping the aides salaries with a max and then raising the minimum baseline up is some how a bad thing. That’s how it should work.
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I’d add that while abuse of food stamps or similar programs isn’t good, the amount of money we’re talking about is relatively small. Much larger sums of money are involved in corporate welfare and corporate abuses of government and military procurement.
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Like teachers? Frankly, I’d rather have congressional staffers have to work a second job than have my daughter’s calculus teacher have to drive for Uber to live.
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It’s a common refrain from the right that the problem with the poor is that they’re not just poor enough.
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I would rather no one HAVE to work two jobs.
I do know someone who does it by choice, and good for him. But it should be a choice, not a requirement for survival.
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It started pretty much immediately.
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Can’t they just live on the invisible hand-outs of the market? /s
If her staff did have to take second jobs, you can bet conservatives would be watching carefully for any conflicts of interest, or perhaps creating them with trap jobs.
I hope they shake their shoes out every morning in case dirty tricksters have crawled in.
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Yep. Just brand every good new idea from the left socialism, or better yet communism!, and Fox viewers and Trumpkins will eat it right up.
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hey! the former does happen too. ummm… once.
of course, linda taylor also had 30+ identities, and there was probably some murder and kidnapping along the way – so i guess she might not be the typical white woman.
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3X productivity is silly in ditch-digging, but it’s not remotely silly in “having good ideas”.
It’s not even remotely silly in computer programming, where 10x productivity ratios have been noted. And that isn’t often some mystically deep ability to think in computer code so much as “spotting the best of several procedures to get to an end result the first time”.
Some organizations put out vast amounts of “grunt work”, I saw it in legal teams - going through a big pile of documents highlighting every reference to something, say. But if you know which things to look for, you can skip over vast amounts of grunt work.
Not saying this particular case will turn out great; I’m just saying such decisions can.
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