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Last week @AOC made a profoundly true observation about Republican members who make fun of her for having been a waitress. I think being a waitress is a qualification for being in the Congress. We would have a much better Congress if it was comprised of more people who actually 1

Worked at some point in their lives. I know for me that working hard jobs for tree trimming and landscape companies and digging holes for a pool company shaped my work ethic and fundamental values. The point she made was that the people making fun of her couldn’t get through 2.

A shift and she is entirely correct. Many people have asked me about minimum wage increases. I support them. I think they are reasonable and the reality is that when people have to get government assistance to make it when they are working full time it means that we are 3.

Subsidizing the employer and I am against corporate welfare. 40 percent of the country doesn’t have $400 cash available. That reality is destabilizing our democracy and is fundamental to understanding how a grifter like Trump succeeded politically. I turned 50 years old this year

and as I think about the near 30 years I’ve been in Politics one of the things that stands out is the staleness of the political debate. The world has changed but the debate hasn’t. No problems are getting solved and the problems we have are getting worse. Here is a problem I 5/

think is acute and my view of these issues has changed a great deal over the last ten years. I believe we have too much wealth and too much power accumulated in to few places. We have a crisis of big in America. Big Tech, Big Banks, Big Media, Big everything. Big everything 6/

Isn’t working for the overwhelming majority of people in this country. There are tens of millions of people who can’t open bank accounts and are life time prey for predatory lenders. Some people have said I was condescending to a congresswoman 7/