I keep promising myself that I will do like the rest of my friends and just ignore politics, but that is not what I was taught by my father. I was taught that if you don't keep an active interest then the special interests will control everything. Well, I think they already do. I just read an article about Amazon building their new headquarters in Lower Manhattan and Northern Virginia and that Ocasio-Cortez is very upset about it and saying that the people of these districts do not want Amazon there. Amazon will bring in 25,000 jobs. Granted that a lot of those jobs will required educated and skilled workers and maybe that is where the rub for Ocasio-Cortez comes from. Her base is unskilled workers mainly of Puerto Rican descent. If that base is swollen by educated, skilled voters, she probably won't be re-elected. She has her own little feiftdom there and does not want the balance upset. And yet she is supposed to be a progressive and a socialist. Those 25,000 jobs would bolster the mean income of the area greatly. And the taxes it would bring in would far outweigh the tax breaks it would get. But somehow she can't see that.
I am using Ocasio-Cortez as an example of why I am very leary of the new crop of millineal elected politicians. They have no real clue how government works. She is supposed to have a degree in economics but everything out of her mouth denies that. There is no grasp of the economy. Also true of the 27 year old grad student that won the seat for County Judge in Houston for Harris county. She unseated the judge that guided Houston through 3 consecutive years of flooding culminating with Hurricane Harvey. She has never even attended a Council meeting. And now Houston and Harris county is in the hands of someone who is only there because she put her name on the ballot as a democrat. And the democrats were determined to throw out all the republicans they could regardless of competence. This is dangerous. And Houston had better hope they don't have another Harvey soon.
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