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Democrats Unify Behind Climate Corps, Vague on Details (only $132 billion)
Wall Street Journal ^ | 7/23/21 | Gabriel T. Rubin

Posted on 07/23/2021 4:01:40 PM PDT by Libloather

A NEW CIVILIAN CLIMATE CORPS has become a central progressive demand for the Democrats’ budget reconciliation package, and party leaders seem poised to go along. Climate groups and elected officials alike see it as a combination of several top priorities: a tangible response to climate change, a broad-based jobs program aimed especially at young people and people of color, and a test case for Franklin Delano Roosevelt-style populism that President Biden is so eagerly trying to emulate. Like the Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps, it would employ Americans on climate-focused public-works projects like reforestation.

But not all CCCs are created equal. Republicans oppose the proposal, and some progressives worry that while the program seems to have broad-based support among Democrats, there’s a multibillion-dollar chasm between their desired scale for the program and the amount of money suggested by other Democrats. Biden pitched $10 billion for the program, $1 billion below a proposal from Colorado Rep. Joe Neguse and Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, and far less than a proposal from 11 House progressives urging $132 billion. New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of those signatories, warned this week that the proposal must be funded at scale, noting that “FDR employed 2 million in the first CCC” (Roosevelt’s stood for “Civilian Conservation Corps”).

Despite those differences, the party is trying to show unity: A Tuesday press conference featured business-friendly moderates like Sen. Chris Coons along with progressives, all singing the same tune about the importance of the program. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he’d “fight to get the biggest, boldest CCC possible” in reconciliation.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Gardening; Local News
KEYWORDS: bondoggle; climatechange; corps; crimecorruption; democrats; governmentwaste; hoax; patronage
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These are the folks who will tell you when climate change is finally over. Just listen for the knock on the door...
1 posted on 07/23/2021 4:01:40 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

These folks will be telling you what you can set your thermostat at before it is over, if they’re not stopped.


2 posted on 07/23/2021 4:05:55 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Libloather

Democrats creating their own Army , not illegal ?


3 posted on 07/23/2021 4:06:08 PM PDT by butlerweave
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https://www.climatecorps.org/


4 posted on 07/23/2021 4:09:02 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

President Retard is building a welfare state. 🤪


5 posted on 07/23/2021 4:09:02 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: Libloather
Climate groups and elected officials alike see it as a combination of several top priorities: a tangible response to climate change, a broad-based jobs program aimed especially at young people and people of color

So, it's going to be racially discriminatory as well.

6 posted on 07/23/2021 4:09:59 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem by far is that most of the news media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: butlerweave

Evidently.


7 posted on 07/23/2021 4:10:44 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Libloather

Will they wear nice little arm bands?


8 posted on 07/23/2021 4:10:53 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Libloather

$132 billion , FLUSH


9 posted on 07/23/2021 4:11:06 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Libloather

Once again, it’s about $5 billion for an aircraft carrier. We are creating billionaire politicians.


10 posted on 07/23/2021 4:12:33 PM PDT by Dogbert41 ("Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled" (Matthew 5:6).)
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To: Libloather

Another Democrat party money laundering op. $132 billion is chump change for these grifters.


11 posted on 07/23/2021 4:12:56 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Libloather

They will be called the Super Savers and wear SS on their shirts.


12 posted on 07/23/2021 4:13:28 PM PDT by pas
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To: Libloather

Everyone who wants a job has one. So how are they going to get people to join the CCC workforce?

I can think of several answers to this question, all of them diabolical.


13 posted on 07/23/2021 4:13:47 PM PDT by cockroach_magoo
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To: Libloather

What color shirts? Red? Brown? Black?


14 posted on 07/23/2021 4:17:12 PM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: cockroach_magoo

They’ll be overpaid government jobs with ridiculous benefits.


15 posted on 07/23/2021 4:17:41 PM PDT by Husker24 (Pp)
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To: Libloather

Alligators don’t distinguish between golfers and climate corps Nazis. Dinner is dinner.


16 posted on 07/23/2021 4:19:11 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Federal courts no longer have any standing in America. )
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To: Libloather

AOC will be the 86 Star General


17 posted on 07/23/2021 4:20:21 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: libertylover

Bow down to your affirmative-action overlords.


18 posted on 07/23/2021 4:24:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: FreedomPoster

It won’t be “your” thermostat, anymore.

And a/c will be deemed white privilege and ridiculed,then banned. (Except for Elite”s coctail parties)


19 posted on 07/23/2021 4:26:33 PM PDT by epluribus_2 (He, had the best mom - ever.)
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To: Libloather

Are the Republicans willing to fight to STOP THIS CRAP ?


20 posted on 07/23/2021 4:27:12 PM PDT by butlerweave
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