US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is clearly a Republican Plant. She has successfully infiltrated the far-left socialist movement, and she is slowly destroying and discrediting it from within. The GOP is using her as a covert agent to make Democrats looks uneducated - and it's working!

Every day, she comes out with something more stupid and more absurd than the day before. And she didn't certainly hasn't been taking any days off.

First, in a town hall discussion with Chris Hayes (MSNBC), Agent Cortez made some comments about the history of the Constitution, a topic that is very near and dear to her heart:

According to AOC, Congress amended the Constitution to prevent FDR from being re-elected:



"They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure Roosevelt dd not get reelected."



(Reminder, FDR died in office in 1945; the 22nd Amendment came in 1947) pic.twitter.com/DImHj0caVy — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 31, 2019

Cortez claimed that FDR was prevented from running for reelection by the 22nd Amendment, passed by those MEANIES in the prehistoric GOP. As Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) pointed out, FDR died in office in 1945, while the Amendment put in place to cap Presidents to 2 terms was not passed until 1947 or ratified until 1951.

Alexandria also made some intelligent comments about funding Medicare for All a while back, and they just resurfaced. What a noble goal! She claimed:

$21 TRILLION of Pentagon financial transactions “could not be traced, documented, or explained.”



$21T in Pentagon accounting errors. Medicare for All costs ~$32T.



That means 66% of Medicare for All could have been funded already by the Pentagon.



And that’s before our premiums. https://t.co/soT6GSmDSG — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 2, 2018

She noted that Medicare for All would only cost $32 trillion over a 10-year period (wow, what a bargain!). To boot, she claimed the Pentagon has $21 trillion in accounting errors that could be diverted to cover 2/3 of her Universal Healthcare expense.

Unfortunately, the $21T number that she cites accounts for a total of undocumented internal financial transfers in the Department of Defense over the last 2 decades. This is highly misleading. While a large sum of money is correctly cited as "unaccounted for", there has not been a nominal DoD expenditure of $21 trillion in the entire history of the United States.

So how can more money be missing from the DoD than was ever apportioned to the DoD? Well because of double, triple, and quadruple counting. Because the DoD is a mess of interconnected agencies, companies, and contractors, a single poorly documented financial approval or transfer will propagate through multiple levels of accounting. A single dollar may be counted "missing" dozens upon dozens of times.

The greatest media company of all time, Vox, agrees:

Indeed, there simply hasn’t been $21 trillion in (nominal) Defense Department spending across the entirety of American history...The $21 trillion figure represents a summation of poorly documented internal financial transfers, so that the same dollar can be transferred back and forth many times over. That’s how you end up with a total amount of mis-documented financial flows that far exceeds the amount of money that’s being actually spent.

So no, there is not a secret gold vault underneath the Pentagon with $21 trillion ripe for the picking for your incomprehensibly expensive Medicare for All program.

Good work Double-Agent Cortez! Over and out!

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