OPINION:
At the recent SXSW fete, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has a narcissistic love affair with her own rhetoric, criticized capitalism (“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accuses America of leaving jobless ’to die’,” Web, March 11). She should look to her own mother, who is a victim of socialism. The elder Ocasio-Cortez mentioned that the reason she moved to Florida was not capitalism. Her house mortgage was paid in full. BOC, as the senior Ocasio-Cortez prefers to be called, moved due to New York’s obscene taxation of $10,000 versus $600 in Florida.
Miss Ocasio-Cortez’s own flesh and blood, the woman whose womb gave her life, was a victim of socialism. The late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said that the problem with socialism is that sooner or later one runs out of other people’s money to spend. This is something Miss Ocasio-Cortez’s mother knows well and should pass onto her daughter.
MIKE McADOO
San Francisco
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