Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Yeah.

And they did.

They did.

Like my parents, I think about this now.

My parents, they bought, they bought an apartment in the Bronx in their twenties and it was like $40,000.

Wow.

You know, like what?

Yeah.

I mean, well, this is, you know, and there's history with that.

You have FDR had released an economic bill of rights and he had released this framework that included things like the right to retire with dignity.

healthcare, which became then the foundations for social security, Medicare, and so on.

And it's true because what had become the turning point for me was that, you know, my parents had been doing it.

They came from nothing and they scrapped and they built their way and they worked so hard to the bone, but like they were able to do it.

And

Then when my dad got sick, my dad was diagnosed with lung cancer when I was about 16.

And so we had really struggled our whole life.

But like things were just starting.

It's like to pay off in a way.

It's like starting to feel a little stable and things like that.

And my dad got lung cancer.