AOC on Being Called Radical: I Believe It’s ‘Common Sense’
‘When a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world’
Mar 21, 2025 5:00 AM
By Grabien Staff
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OCASIO-CORTEZ: “So, let me share with you exactly what I mean, because when they like to call us radical, and what they like to call me is radical, I believe is common sense. I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense. I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense. And, by the way, we should see that not paying a living wage is also a form of corporate welfare and looting because big companies like Walmart and Amazon often rely on the food stamp program and public coffers to cover the wages that they won’t pay. I believe that homes are not slot machines for investors and Wall Street to extort working families out of every last dollar that they have.”
