Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The ever so eloquent Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been putting her foot in her mouth about once a week since she was elected 2018 for the State of New York for the 14th Congressional District.

Over the weekend, AOC; as she is most commonly referred to; started a feud with Amazon and Jeff Bezos.  AOC stated that Amazon pays their workers a "starvation wage" and came short of demanding that Amazon begin to pay their workers a "living wage".  Now, AOC obviously did not do her own checking before making these remarks.  AOC was one of the main reasons that Amazon decided to not build their second headquarters in New York City.  This second headquarters would have brought 25,000 jobs to NYC. 

Appearing on ABC's This Week, AOC stated that the only way Jeff Bezos was able to become the richest man in the world, was by treating his employees like slave laborers.  AOC continued on saying " if Bezos were paying his employees a 'living wage' and Bezos was still a billionaire then that's one thing, but if his wealth is predicated on paying his employees a 'starvation wage' with no access to health care, that's a major problem."

Well Amazon did not take kindly to these words from the Congresswoman from NYC.  Amazon released a statement that says the starting pay at Amazon is $15/hour and that is starting out at their fulfillment centers.  Amazon backed up their statement with facts (a little thing that AOC cannot quite figure out) saying that more than 42% of working Americans make less than Amazon's starting pay and all of our employees get top-tier benefits.

And another great gaff by AOC happened yesterday.  Through her Instagram page she told her followers that the U.S. is running "concentration camps at the Southern Border."

Since when does a sitting Congresswoman in the United States get to compare WWII concentration camps to our detention facilities?  We do not have gas chambers, we are not killing hundreds of thousands of people at these facilities.  This is way over the top and should not be permitted.  Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats need to come out and condemn her for even thinking about comparing those two things.