Princess Ivanka says let them drink lemonade (at a steep markup)
Ah yes, Ivanka Trump, the expert on what working people want and need.
Most Americans don’t want a “guaranteed minimum” as outlined in the Green New Deal Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is spearheading, Ivanka Trump told Fox News in an interview released Monday night.
Why it matters: President Trump’s elder daughter and White House senior adviser discussed in the interview, to be broadcast on Sunday, whether the 2020 presidential election would be centered around her father’s capitalism versus the Democratic party’s perceived pivot toward socialism. She said the U.S. economy was “doing very well” under her father’s presidency. When asked what she would say to people to whom Ocasio-Cortez’s new deal policy appealed, Trump said: “I don’t think most Americans, in their heart, want to be given something. … People want to work for what they get. So, I think that this idea of a guaranteed minimum is not something most people want.”
People want to work for what they get…and yet, what work has she ever done? She’s the child of a guy who got rich by thieving from working and poor people, and she’s never done any real work in her life. Her “work” is looking as much like a dress dummy as she can; it’s not what you’d call strenuous.
Also, her “fashion business” relies on underpaid factory workers in China to make her schmattas.
Ivanka Trump gets lucrative annual streams of income, rents and capital gains — $1 million here, $5 million there — from her biz, her husband's biz, and her father's biz that she largely gets for just sitting there. Her public disclosure form: https://t.co/9V53mqN6eS https://t.co/toTByQ3udc
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) February 26, 2019
Workers at an Indonesian factory making Ivanka Trump clothing told us they were paid $68 for 24 days of work, far below the local minimum wage: https://t.co/bX47XoI22H.
Chinese workers in Ivanka-producing factories were paid as little as $1 an hour: https://t.co/JYA5ipCWoA https://t.co/y6SBf86L2w
— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) February 26, 2019
Working for what you get like forcing the staff to give you all their change for your lemonade stand pic.twitter.com/vQIpBMVwnX
— cheerfulexgirlfriend (@cheerful_ExGF) February 26, 2019
Poor little rich girl makes the servants spend some of their crap wages to buy her lemonade. And is so stupid and entitled that she tells us so as an adult.
People want to get paid for work – yes. Most of them would like to get paid decently for their work. Barring that, and acknowledging the reality that many cannot find work even though they want it, the guaranteed minimum could keep people from starving, and keep their kids from starving, which most people would prefer – not starving, I mean.
What Ivanka means is that most of her Dad’s friends and her friends, none of whom have to worry about starving, don’t want a guaranteed minimum. She has no idea what the rest of Americans want, because she doesn’t know any of us. Personally, I don’t need a guaranteed minimum right now, because I have a decent job. But that doesn’t prevent me from understanding, and caring, what it can do for other people, many of whom I do not know and will never know because they live in different cities and in different states around the country. I still think they matter.