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Line 290: − − ===Green New Deal=== − [[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}} − 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. − − 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'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."}} − − The Green New Deal was introduced as H.Res.109 on February 7, 2019, by Ocasio-Cortez,<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190208215631/https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5729035/Green-New-Deal-FAQ.pdf</ref> leading many to believe she is really a Republican plant seeking to discredit the [[progressive movement]]. The bill says nothing about wildfire management and National Parks maintenance. − − Separately, Ocasio-Cortez has claimed that an effective climate plan would have to cost at least $10 trillion.<ref>Elis, Niv (June 5, 2019). [https://thehill.com/policy/finance/447077-ocasio-cortez-10-trillion-needed-for-effective-climate-plan Ocasio-Cortez: $10 trillion needed for effective climate plan]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved June 5, 2019.</ref> − − ====If you like lockdown, you'll love the Green New Deal==== − :{{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: − {{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. − − Now, however, thanks to the [[pandemic]] lockdown of society, the public is in a position to judge what the “Green New Deal” revolution would look like. It's like redoing this global pandemic and economic slump every year. − − Environmental activists say the silver lining of the lockdown is that carbon emissions will drop by nearly 6% globally this year because of reduced travel and industrial emissions. Climate hawks such as Ocasio-Cortez call for this level of reduction every year. The United Nations Environment Programme goes even further, demanding 7.6% each year to stave off climate change. − − “This is what ‘rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society’ looks like,” prominent climate activist Eric Holthaus wrote on Twitter. “We're doing it. It's possible!” − − “That's the whole point of a Green New Deal,” he continued. “We can build a better world for everyone out of the ashes of the old one.” − − Ocasio-Cortez, incorrectly pointing to falling oil prices as a boon to green energy, agrees that the coronavirus shutdown reflects her vision of a climate change solution. − − This is intellectually unimpressive, but at least it's honest. The socialist greens acknowledge that the meltdown and shutdown we're enduring (with gritted teeth) is what their climate agenda entails. They're right. − − 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. − − 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>}} − − ====De-industrialization==== − − Ocasio-Cortez's plan calls for, within 10 years a − {{Quotebox| − *national, energy-efficient, smart grid; − *Upgrading every residential and industrial building for state-of-the-art energy efficiency, comfort and safety; − *Eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from the manufacturing, agricultural and other industries as well as from America’s transportation and infrastructure network, the sort of legislation that provoked the [[Yellow Vest movement]]; − *Funding "massive investment" in reducing existing greenhouse gasses.}} − − The new committee will have total oversight of American industry, with a mandate for pushing union membership. Under “Scope of the Plan,” a section on labor states the committee's final plan shall: {{quotebox|"Require strong enforcement of labor, workplace safety, and wage standards that recognize the rights of workers to organize and unionize free of coercion, intimidation, and harassment, and creation of meaningful, quality, career employment."}} − − ====Free money==== − :{{See also|Nanny state|Welfare state}} − The plan calls for "economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work." [[Abraham Lincoln]] defined [[slavery]] in this way: “You work; I’ll eat.” In his Chicago speech of July 10, 1858, Lincoln put it slightly differently, “You toil and I will enjoy the fruits of it.” − − The plan calls for creating a national jobs force to help people participate in this "transition." The Green New Deal shall {{quotebox|"provide all members of our society, across all regions and all communities, the opportunity, training and education to be a full and equal participant in the transition, including through a job guarantee program to assure a living wage job to every person who wants one."}} − − ====War on Cow Flatulence==== − :{{Main article|Peoples Temple Agricultural Project}} − The Green New Deal seeks to turn all Americans in [[vegan]]s.<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/should-plant-based-meat-replace-beef-completely Should plant-based meat replace beef completely?], Paul Solman, [[PBS]] News Hour, Dec 21, 2017.</ref> {{quotebox|"We set a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years because we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of f*rting cows and airplanes that fast,<ref>[http://jonathanturley.org/2008/05/14/epa-issues-fart-chart-bovine-flatulence-measured-state-by-state/ EPA Issues “Fart Chart”: Bovine Flatulence Measured State-by-State], 1 May 2014, by jonathanturley</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpa8Oz9DRbY Cow farts blow up barn].</ref> but we think we can ramp up renewable manufacturing and power production, retrofit every building in America, build the smart grid, overhaul transportation and agriculture, plant lots of trees and restore our ecosystem to get to net-zero.}} − The dirty little secret about the [[global warming hoax]] is that it's not [[Dick Cheney]], [[Halliburton]] and [[capitalism]] destroying the planet with carbon emissions, but rather American's beef-eating habits and reliance on dairy products. As population grows, dairy cow and slaughter beef herds get bigger. One cow gives off more methane gas daily than an automobile at a [[McDonald's]] drive thru.<ref>https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/should-plant-based-meat-replace-beef-completely</ref> Ocasio-Cortez wants to do away with factory farms in favor of a [[collective]]. − − A [[vegan]] couple from [[Florida]] who were weaning their four young children off of [[beef]] on a strict diet of raw [[vegetable]]s and [[fruit]] were charged with [[manslaughter]] and child neglect charges for allegedly starving their 18-month-old son to death. At 18-months-old their son was the weight of an average 7-month-old.<ref>https://www.news-press.com/story/news/crime/2019/11/12/malnourished-toddler-weighed-17-lbs-time-death-family-vegan-sheila-oleary-ryan-oleary-cape-coral/2577087001/</ref> − − ====Reparations==== − [[File:Medicare for All.png|right|250px|thumb|The chart brings into perspective the comparative cost of Medicare for All.]] − :{{See also|Nanny state|Welfare state}} − Ocasio-Cortez sees this plan as being a vehicle through which social equality might finally be realized through the use of [[reparations]] to right historical injustices. The final Green New Deal will {{quotebox|"mitigate deeply entrenched racial, regional and gender-based inequalities in income and wealth (including, without limitation, ensuring that federal and other investment will be equitably distributed to historically impoverished, low income, deindustrialized or other marginalized communities in such a way that builds wealth and ownership at the community level)."}} − − The plan includes universal income and Medicare for All: The plan, it says, shall {{quotebox|"include additional measures such as [[basic income]] programs, universal health care programs and any others as the select committee may deem appropriate to promote economic security, labor market flexibility and entrepreneurism."}} − − The plan also imagines creating governmental support for "transitioning" minority communities. The deal shall: {{quotebox|"ensure a 'just transition' for all workers, low-income communities, communities of color, indigenous communities, rural and urban communities and the front-line communities most affected by climate change, pollution and other environmental harm including by ensuring that local implementation of the transition is led from the community level."}} − − ====Eliminate cars==== − The plan calls for : − {{quotebox|"Totally overhaul transportation by massively expanding electric vehicle manufacturing, build charging stations everywhere, build out high-speed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary, create affordable public transit available to all, with goal to replace every combustion-engine vehicle}} while at the same time : {{quotebox|"A Green New Deal ... would not include creating new nuclear plants. It’s unclear if we will be able to decommission every nuclear plant within 10 years, but the plan is to transition off of nuclear and all fossil fuels as soon as possible,"}} essentially "build charging stations everywhere" without a power source while looking to decommission existing power sources. − The Congressional Research Service says automobile electrification will disrupt the automotive parts supply chain,.<ref>https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/IF11101.pdf</ref> − The proposal doesn't spell out if "massively expanding electric vehicle manufacturing" supports President Trump's trade war with oversees automobile manufacturers, or if the jobs will go to [[China]] to achieve the Democrats' plan to create "a job for anyone who wants one." − Her campaign spent nearly $4,000 on [[Uber]] after she blamed the company for taxi driver suicides.<ref>Cawthorne, Cameron (August 24, 2018). [https://freebeacon.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-campaign-spends-nearly-4000-uber-blaming-companys-success-taxi-driver-suicides/ Ocasio-Cortez Campaign Spends Nearly $4,000 on Uber After Blaming Company’s Success for Taxi Driver Suicides]. ''The Washington Free Beacon''. Retrieved August 24, 2018.</ref> She has engaged in other examples of [[liberal hypocrisy]].<ref>Kirkwood, R. Cort (August 25, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/29875-hypocrisy-economic-illiteracy-alexandria-ocasio-cortez Hypocrisy + Economic Illiteracy = Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]. ''The New American''. Retrieved August 25, 2018.</ref> The subway stop was one block from her campaign office. Ocasio-Cortez regularly fly's between New York and Washington rather than take the readily available Amtrak she intends to force the rest of us [[peon]]s to use by legislation.<ref>https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/03/ocasiocortez_proud_to_be_a_hypocrite.html</ref> − − ====Corporate greed==== − Green New Deal advocates claimed their first victory by killing [[Amazon.com|Amazon]]'s plan to bring its main headquarters to New York and create 25,000 jobs with wages averaging $150,000. Elizabeth Warren and Ocasio-Cortez took credit for killing the deal. Rep. [[Carolyn Maloney]] of New York, who supports the Green New Deal, was livid with her fellow [[communist]]s.<ref>https://youtu.be/nnVS-Zah54k</ref> − − [[CNN]] reported the fight over Amazon is the fight for the future of the [[Democratic Party]].<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/14/politics/amazon-aoc-democrats-future/index.html</ref> Ocasio-Cortez tweeted: {{quotebox|"Anything is possible: today was the day a group of dedicated, everyday New Yorkers & their neighbors defeated Amazon's corporate [[greed]], its worker exploitation, and the power of the richest man in the world."}} − Amazon was promised up to $1.5 billion in tax abatements in exchange for the promise of creating 25,000 jobs averaging $150,000 per year. Ocasio-Cortez believes a tax abatement is a bucket of cash the government can spend on subways or teachers. − − ====Ignores Paygo provision==== − [[File:010318venezuela.jpg|right|300px|thumb|'''Venezualans eating garbage.''' Venezuela, a once prosperous country with oil surpluses, adopted free healthcare as a "right" in 1999.]] − The Green New Deal would be paid for by the [[Federal Reserve]] printing more money which Ocasio-Cortez claims is "[[morality|morally right]]". {{Quotebox|"The Federal Reserve can extend credit to power these projects and investments, new public banks can be created (as in [[WWII]]) to extend credit and a combination of various taxation tools (including taxes on carbon and other emissions and progressive wealth taxes) can be employed."}} − This proposal violates the House [[Paygo]] provision, which mandates all new spending proposals must carry with them cuts in programs for existing constituencies, or proposals for tax increases to offset added spending. Ocasio-Cortez's Medicare for All proposal, which Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi both claim to support, adds spending more than two times America's Gross Domestic Product,<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-30/study-medicare-for-all-bill-estimated-at-32-6-trillion</ref> making the Medicare for All provision a fantasy, Ocasio-Cortez a simpleton, and Pelosi and Sanders bald face liars to stupid people. Paygo is Pelosi's own rule that she herself formulated as [[Speaker of the House]]. Pelosi later tried to back away from the lip service she paid to portions of the Green New Deal to get elected Speaker, "The green dream or whatever they call it, nobody knows what it is, but they’re for it, right?’" − − Former Federal Reserve chairman [[Alan Greenspan]], who nurtured two of the longest economic recoveries in American history, thinks Ocasio-Cortez's plan for a 70% tax rate is a "terrible idea."<ref>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/07/alan-greenspan-thinks-the-ocasio-cortez-70percent-tax-plan-is-a-terrible-idea.html</ref> − − ====Committee subpoena power==== − Select committees typically have [[subpoena]] power. Members could presumably wield subpoenas to investigate oil and gas companies. No sooner than the vote for Speaker was taken, Pelosi's flunky [[Steny Hoyer]] moved to strip the new select committee's subpoena power. Hoyer has accepted more than a quarter of a million dollars from the fossil fuel industry. − − ====Environmentalist reaction==== − − [[Patrick Moore]], co-founder of [[Greenpeace]], said of Ocasio-Cortez and the plan: − {{Quotebox-float|Pompous little twit. You don’t have a plan to grow food for 8 billion people without fossil fuels, or get the [[food]] into the cities. Horses? If fossil fuels were banned every [[tree]] in the world would be cut down for fuel for cooking and heating. You would bring about mass [[death]].<ref>https://www.inquisitr.com/5322741/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-called-pompous-little-twit-by-greenpeace-co-founder-trump-mocks-green-new-deal/</ref>}}
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The DSA itself as of 2020 has 66,000 members nationwide and locals in almost every state. Other communist groups such as Communist Party USA, Liberation Road, [[Socialist Alternative]], Workers World Party, Party for Socialism and Liberation, [[Socialist Unity Party]], and Revolutionary Communist Party and their allies in Black Lives Matter and [[Antifa]] can mobilize tens of thousands of militants and organizing cadre at short notice. The American [[Left]] has the power to start race riots in nearly every major U.S. city. DSA branches in [[Memphis]], [[Los Angeles]], [[Brooklyn]], [[Louisville]], [[Philadelphia]], and [[Richmond]] are raising funds for “George Floyd Uprisings Nationwide.”<ref>https://www.dsa-la.org/support_floyd_protests_nationwide</ref>
The DSA itself as of 2020 has 66,000 members nationwide and locals in almost every state. Other communist groups such as Communist Party USA, Liberation Road, [[Socialist Alternative]], Workers World Party, Party for Socialism and Liberation, [[Socialist Unity Party]], and Revolutionary Communist Party and their allies in Black Lives Matter and [[Antifa]] can mobilize tens of thousands of militants and organizing cadre at short notice. The American [[Left]] has the power to start race riots in nearly every major U.S. city. DSA branches in [[Memphis]], [[Los Angeles]], [[Brooklyn]], [[Louisville]], [[Philadelphia]], and [[Richmond]] are raising funds for “George Floyd Uprisings Nationwide.”<ref>https://www.dsa-la.org/support_floyd_protests_nationwide</ref>
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