From The Babylon Bee
Ocasio-Cortez Disappointed To Learn The 'Free Market' Isn't A
Grocery Store Where You Don't Have To Pay For Anything
WASHINGTON,
D.C.—Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has struggled to get by on her new
six-figure salary, given the high cost of living in her luxurious Washington,
D.C. crib.
So when she
heard in passing that the United States has a "free market" economy,
she was ecstatic. She immediately set out in an Uber to try to find one of the
free markets, assuming they were grocery stores where you don't have to pay for
anything.
"I'm really, like really
excited," she said on a live Instagram video. "I thought the U.S. was
all about oppressive capitalistic systems of inequality, but when I heard about
these free markets, I realized we were in better shape than I had
thought."
However, after her Uber had
driven her all over the city for several hours, she hadn't found a single free
market anywhere and had to settle for going to some stores where people are
free to buy, sell, and exchange goods and services with one another.
"This is basically Nazi
Germany," she said. "All these people spending money they earned
doing work to buy things of their own free will? Without the government
allocating resources as they see fit?"
"Fascism."
(Yeah,
it’s old, but I hadn’t read it.)
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