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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These folks will be telling you what you can set your thermostat at before it is over, if they’re not stopped.
Democrats creating their own Army , not illegal ?
President Retard is building a welfare state. 🤪
So, it's going to be racially discriminatory as well.
Evidently.
Will they wear nice little arm bands?
$132 billion , FLUSH
Once again, it’s about $5 billion for an aircraft carrier. We are creating billionaire politicians.
Another Democrat party money laundering op. $132 billion is chump change for these grifters.
They will be called the Super Savers and wear SS on their shirts.
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.
What color shirts? Red? Brown? Black?
They’ll be overpaid government jobs with ridiculous benefits.
Alligators don’t distinguish between golfers and climate corps Nazis. Dinner is dinner.
AOC will be the 86 Star General
Bow down to your affirmative-action overlords.
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)
Are the Republicans willing to fight to STOP THIS CRAP ?
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