Capitalism has eliminated more poverty than any economic system on the planet.
Period.
Is it a perfect system? Not by a long shot. But Ocasio’s dream would unquestionably put at risk millions of people who have climbed out of poverty.
Just ask anyone who lives in Venezuela.
Meanwhile, Ocasio‘s promise of free govt services is a joke.
1) Free healthcare for all? She has no plan to pay for it. 2) Free housing? No money left after free healthcare. 3) Free college? But seriously, we’d be out of money.
These aren’t bold ideas. They’re bald-faced lies.
Ocasio & DSA want to #AbolishICE because they want to end deportation. Of anyone. For any reason.
So if you can get here - overstay a visa, hop the border - you stay.
The Times wants us to believe our Russian intel sources have dried up.
Reporters @julianbarnes & @AllMattNYT shared classified details that speak of our struggling clandestine efforts against Putin & his regime.
Never mind that highlighting our weakness atrenghrens his hand.
To wit, this para:
“Informants close to Putin are very rare... The United States, in recent years, has had only a few, and at times been reliant on only one or two for the most important insights on Mr. Putin, according to former officials.”
Most of us would agree that a single death of an innocent person by a police officer is one too many.
Black or white.
Police departments agree. They have training & oversight to ensure shootings don't happen or officers are punished when an unjustifiable killing occurs.
#BLM argues that, regardless, the system isn't working; cops are still targeting black people w/ violence or avoiding punishment when caught.
It's a belief founded in America's very real & ugly history.
A brief review of that shameful past is here: wapo.st/2NqtYLD
While we debate whether #Trump’s strategy is right (or humane), the facts are being distorted.
Case in point: the holding facilities for kids (both accompanied by adults and those running on their own).
The left paints them as Nazi camps. They’re not. wapo.st/2t3sE8G
Critics also claim that #Trump’s policies are resulting in kids being lost or abandoned. You see it in the frothy #WhereAreTheChildren cries for justice.