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| | [[File:JD Sunrise GND Rez 84H11SCoSponsors Announce 1200x1200 021318.png|right|350px|thumb|84 House Democrats and 11 Democrat Senators sponsored the New Green Deal; the proposal killed 25,000 jobs the first week.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/14/politics/amazon-aoc-democrats-future/index.html</ref>]] | | [[File:JD Sunrise GND Rez 84H11SCoSponsors Announce 1200x1200 021318.png|right|350px|thumb|84 House Democrats and 11 Democrat Senators sponsored the New Green Deal; the proposal killed 25,000 jobs the first week.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/14/politics/amazon-aoc-democrats-future/index.html</ref>]] |
| | :{{See also|Marxism|Global warming}} | | :{{See also|Marxism|Global warming}} |
| − | The [[junk science]] behind the Green New Deal was embraced by virtually all [[2020 presidential election|2020 Democratic presidential candidates]]. For example, that Medicare for All, a guaranteed income and minimum wage increase, unionization, killing all cows and destroying the airline and automotive industries would save the planet from final destruction before the year 2030. | + | The [[junk science]] behind the [[Green New Deal]] was embraced by virtually all [[2020 presidential election|2020 Democratic presidential candidates]]. For example, that Medicare for All, a guaranteed income and minimum wage increase, unionization, killing all cows and destroying the airline and automotive industries would save the planet from final destruction before the year 2030. |
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| − | Ocasio-Cortez was not named by Speaker Pelosi to her brainchild, the [[House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis]], which was negotiated in exchange for Ocasio-Cortez not voting against Pelosi for Speaker. The new committee is responsible for creating a plan with draft legislation by January 1, 2020. Its scope and mandate makes clear its vision: {{quotebox|"The select committee shall have authority to develop a detailed national, industrial, economic mobilization plan for the transition of the United States economy to become greenhouse gas emissions neutral and to significantly draw down greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and oceans and to promote economic and [[environmental justice]] and equality."}} The [[Green New Deal]] advances non-environmental projects, such as, {{quotebox|"social, economic, [[racial]], regional and gender-based justice."<ref>https://news.grabien.com/story-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal-radical-mandate-government-con</ref>}} | + | Ocasio-Cortez was not named by Speaker Pelosi to her brainchild, the [[House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis]], which was negotiated in exchange for Ocasio-Cortez not voting against Pelosi for Speaker. The new committee is responsible for creating a plan with draft legislation by January 1, 2020. Its scope and mandate makes clear its vision: {{quotebox|"The select committee shall have authority to develop a detailed national, industrial, economic mobilization plan for the transition of the United States economy to become greenhouse gas emissions neutral and to significantly draw down greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and oceans and to promote economic and [[environmental justice]] and equality."}} The Green New Deal advances non-environmental projects, such as, {{quotebox|"social, economic, [[racial]], regional and gender-based justice."<ref>https://news.grabien.com/story-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal-radical-mandate-government-con</ref>}} |
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| | Ocasio-Cortez's claims it will eliminate [[poverty]]: {{quotebox|"The Plan for a Green New Deal (and the draft legislation) shall recognize that a national, industrial, economic mobilization of this scope and scale is a historic opportunity to virtually eliminate poverty in the [[United States]] and to make prosperity, wealth and economic security available to everyone participating in the transformation."}} | | Ocasio-Cortez's claims it will eliminate [[poverty]]: {{quotebox|"The Plan for a Green New Deal (and the draft legislation) shall recognize that a national, industrial, economic mobilization of this scope and scale is a historic opportunity to virtually eliminate poverty in the [[United States]] and to make prosperity, wealth and economic security available to everyone participating in the transformation."}} |