This morning, First Daughter Ivanka Trump made the poor decision to criticize Democratic rising star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s call for a federal jobs guarantee as part of the Green New Deal, slamming it by spewing some nonsense about how people don’t want to be given a job, they want to earn it by working for it.
“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” said Ivanka in an interview with FOX News.
Ivanka Trump is a woman who has never had to “work” for anything in her entire life and instead has had everything handed to her on a silver platter, and is the last person in the world who should be telling anyone what the working class needs or want.
Ocasio-Cortez took a moment from her busy Congressional schedule to school Ivanka with her own experiences and some of those pesky “facts” that make her father’s life so difficult.
As a person who actually worked for tips & hourly wages in my life, instead of having to learn about it 2nd-hand, I can tell you that most people want to be paid enough to live.
A living wage isn’t a gift, it’s a right. Workers are often paid far less than the value they create. https://t.co/P5FsQuhCTW
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 26, 2019
In fact, wages are so low today compared to actual worker productivity that they are no longer the reflections of worker value as they used to be.
Productivity has grown 6.2x more than pay:https://t.co/Zh5n46EfPQ pic.twitter.com/J7ctQ8TXPO
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 26, 2019
Ivanka’s attack doesn’t even make sense, considering that giving people a job would then allow… people to work to earn the money that receive, just like Republicans want them to?
Imagine attacking a Jobs Guarantee by saying ‘people prefer to earn money.’
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 26, 2019
For a sweatshop blood profiteer to sniff haughtily at the idea of a guaranteed job and some kind of financial security is the ultimate in hypocrisy. Ivanka Trump’s factory workers in China were paid just $62 for a grueling 60 hour work week. She’s never cared about workers, whether American or abroad, and would probably be better off spending her time consulting with lawyers instead of exposing her own ignorance.