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| | ====If you like lockdown, you'll love the Green New Deal==== | | ====If you like lockdown, you'll love the Green New Deal==== |
| − | :[[See also|CCP global pandemic}} | + | :{{See also|CCP global pandemic}} |
| | In an editorial published by the ''Washington Examiner'' entitled ''If you like the pandemic lockdown, you're going to love the 'Green New Deal' '', the editors wrote: | | In an editorial published by the ''Washington Examiner'' entitled ''If you like the pandemic lockdown, you're going to love the 'Green New Deal' '', the editors wrote: |
| | {{quotebox|When socialist darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez first floated her “Green New Deal,” it was an intangible vision for [[society]] rather than a concrete policy proposal. Even after the New York Democrat and her acolytes added details (including a ban on airplanes and flatulent cows) in a voluminous range of policies costing an astounding $93 trillion, the idea of running the economy without fossil fuels seemed unthinkable. | | {{quotebox|When socialist darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez first floated her “Green New Deal,” it was an intangible vision for [[society]] rather than a concrete policy proposal. Even after the New York Democrat and her acolytes added details (including a ban on airplanes and flatulent cows) in a voluminous range of policies costing an astounding $93 trillion, the idea of running the economy without fossil fuels seemed unthinkable. |
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| | A whopping 26 million people have filed for unemployment benefits in the past five weeks. The economy is in free fall. People are miserable. Domestic abuse and [[mental health]] indicators are getting worse. But hey, at least we're almost getting the carbon reductions the green extremists say we need. | | A whopping 26 million people have filed for unemployment benefits in the past five weeks. The economy is in free fall. People are miserable. Domestic abuse and [[mental health]] indicators are getting worse. But hey, at least we're almost getting the carbon reductions the green extremists say we need. |
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| − | Obviously, Ocasio-Cortez and other green dreamers don't want people dead or depressed, but these are the implications of their carbon-free agenda. It entails suffering that gets worse as time goes by. Voters who weren't instantly repelled by the plan's [[fiscal]] obscenity and rejection of [[freedom]] are now getting a taste of what the militant socialist agenda would actually mean.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/if-you-like-the-pandemic-lockdown-youre-going-to-love-the-green-new-deal</ref>}} | + | Obviously, Ocasio-Cortez and other green dreamers don't want people dead or depressed, but these are the implications of their carbon-free agenda. It entails suffering that gets worse as time goes by. Voters who weren't instantly repelled by the plan's fiscal obscenity and rejection of [[freedom]] are now getting a taste of what the militant socialist agenda would actually mean.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/if-you-like-the-pandemic-lockdown-youre-going-to-love-the-green-new-deal</ref>}} |
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| | ====De-industrialization==== | | ====De-industrialization==== |