Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Unfortunately, that may not be an excuse to delay the process, to delay the recovery process.

Not a single home has been permanently fixed. Not a single road has been permanently fixed.

We have incompetent people in charge here and are getting no response to our urgent needs.

I think in that common spirit and our desire to make sure that we address the opioid epidemic, just as the epidemic is exploding, so should our commitment to address this problem. This amendment is supported by the NAACP, the ACLU, the…

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If it is predominantly white people, then it is white people who have economic power and decision-making over a company.

If it is predominantly men, then it is men who have economic power.

If it is predominantly wealthy people, then it is wealthy people who have power in our private sector governance structure.

The NFL is where white billionaires govern the majority of power, and women and people of color work for them and give them their margins.

Everybody deserves the chance for treatment and recovery.

So, my question is, how do we move from Nixon's first approach of treating this as a disease to the war on drugs that was unleashed just a few years later, in the 1980's, and waging this war on drugs in communities of color?

This is not the first time we've gone through this pendulum swing. This is how America has gone from criminalizing to treating opioids, and then going back again.

This is how America has gone from criminalizing to treating opioids, and then going back again.

I think that we really have to embrace the saying and the concept that everybody, no matter where they come from, no matter what class, race, ethnicity, address they have, that everybody deserves the chance for treatment and recovery.

So, we have it--we're at an inflection point, where we could potentially criminalize this again, or we could potentially treat the opioid crisis as a health issue.

Nixon's first instinct was actually to treat opioids as a disease.

Because I've met people from all different social backgrounds, all different education backgrounds, come from all communities, not just mine, that are suffering from addiction, because of the lack of funding and resources that is being…

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How is this not extremely similar to the 2008 financial crisis and the mortgage crisis?

Now you have fired a quarter-million people, and now it is teachers and their pension funds that are on the hook for paying for that even though they had nothing to do with it?

So teachers, police officers, firefighters, nurses, anyone who has a pension fund, they are now exposed to the risk of someone else's fat-cat gambling in the economy, correct?

Right, I just want to shoot up profit margin. I don't care how many people I fire.

So it is kind of like subprime lending but for corporations.

This capture is not saved in any way; correct?