CONNECTING THE DOTS

One of my favorite radio talk shows comes out of St. Paul, MN. It is called Garage Logic and is hosted by master cynic, Joe Soucheray. Joe has many items of interest on his daily agenda but one of his best observations is this, “The trouble with liberals is that they cannot connect the dots.”

We just witnessed a classic example of this last week starring the Democrats’ favorite little socialist, newly elected Congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Amazon had been looking for a location for a new headquarters. Many states and cities were competing for the chance to get this headquarters and the 25,000 jobs that would come with it. Incidentally these are jobs which pay on average $125,000 a year. The Governor of New York and the Mayor of New York City offered Amazon tax breaks and incentives totaling about 3 billion dollars over a ten-year period. Now this would be subtracted from the estimated 30 billion dollars of tax revenue such a move would create.

Well, when Ocasio-Cortez and some of her lefty liberal allies heard of this, they screamed. They wouldn’t hear of a multi-million dollar corporation like Amazon getting these tax breaks. In fact they were so adamant about the whole deal they created a hostile environment opposing the deal. It got so ugly that Amazon decided they would go somewhere else, taking their 25,000 jobs and the billions of dollars in tax revenue with them.

Ocasio-Cortez was so excited that she had to run a victory lap and hold a press conference bragging about the fact that she had stopped Amazon. She told the interviewer that the 3 billion dollars promised to Amazon should and would be spent on more important things like roads and teachers, etc.

Now, mind you this young lady is a graduate of Boston College with a degree in economics. Alexandria, hello, there is no 3 billion dollars you moron unless Amazon builds their headquarters and generates the income that would produce the tax revenue in the first place. I guess Alexandria must have missed a few classes.

Not to be outdone by New York’s newest socialist, the great state of Minnesota has once again gifted the country with one of their finest. Somali born Muslim, Ilhan Omar was elected to the Congress. Among her first official acts was to embarrass her entire state as well as her supporters by overtly announcing her blatant, anti-Semitism.

Omar needs to understand that Israel is one of our best allies in the entire Middle East and we are their biggest supporter. We will continue to be Israel’s friend and supporter whether this idiot likes it or not. In fact she was even required to apologize by Her Highness, Nancy Pelosi for her idiotic remarks. The absolute last thing the Dems want the country to know is how anti-Semitic many of them are becoming. When Pelosi forces you to apologize, you know you have messed up big time. How any American Jew could still be a Democrat is a mystery to me.

Connecting dots doesn’t require a lot of intelligence. It does require common sense however. A radical Muslim like Omar is lucky to be able to live in a free country like America. She has been here long enough to understand where this country stands on issues like our support for Israel. I would suggest if she wants to keep her job in the Congress, she had better learn to think before she speaks.  

Ron Scarbro