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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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To: rigelkentaurus

Yellow.


21 posted on 07/23/2021 4:28:51 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Libloather

Antifa and BLM will get Uniforms


22 posted on 07/23/2021 4:31:17 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Libloather

FDR was a socialist bastard. It’s not surprising Xiden is following in his foot steps


23 posted on 07/23/2021 4:38:58 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: butlerweave
Are the Republicans willing to fight to STOP THIS CRAP ?

I assume that is a rhetorical question.

24 posted on 07/23/2021 4:40:46 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Libloather

The money will go straight into the pockets of Dem operatives.


25 posted on 07/23/2021 4:44:42 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Libloather
Go back to EXACTLY what we know worked...The CCC camps, their philosophy and the work that they did. My dad and his bro loved it.

This Climate Corps is a fluffer nutter and will do zip for the climate.

Reforestation, clean out the damn underbrush and put in breaks. We know it all works.

26 posted on 07/23/2021 4:44:50 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Libloather

I followed your link. I assume you know who funds the SEI, which funds the Climate Corps. Now they want taxpayers to foot the bill. Eventually George Soros can stop paying for everything progressive and short the US Dollar when all the money printing devalues the dollar.


27 posted on 07/23/2021 4:46:07 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Libloather
(only $132 billion)

For now at any rate. 😋

28 posted on 07/23/2021 4:51:32 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Libloather
it would employ Americans on climate-focused public-works projects like reforestation.

We’ll send you all some kudzu up north there - very cheap

29 posted on 07/23/2021 4:52:42 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Joe Manchin is the defacto President )
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To: Libloather

Some National Guard groups are cancelling their training because Congress has not appropriated the money to pay them for coming to DC for the totally unnecessary.lockdown of the Capital after the day that they were needed. Congress has money for make work climate change “jobs”. However. Sickening.


30 posted on 07/23/2021 5:02:29 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: Libloather

Has any gov program ever came on budget or needed 10x cash later?
Nope, gov programs are only there for one reason.
To keep politicians employed


31 posted on 07/23/2021 5:18:54 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Libloather

They’ll need weapons training and the power of arrest to deal with Climate Skeptics. Also some camps to keep us in. It won’t be cheap.


32 posted on 07/23/2021 5:22:07 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Libloather

The best thing they could do for the planet is for them all to personally quit emitting CO2.


33 posted on 07/23/2021 5:47:42 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Libloather
 
 
Trying to set up another unaccountable slush fund.
 
 

34 posted on 07/23/2021 5:50:45 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Libloather

Democrat Gestapo


35 posted on 07/23/2021 7:12:17 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: beethovenfan

“Will they wear nice little arm bands’’

Yeah. And will they wearing snappy Hugo Boss uniforms?


36 posted on 07/24/2021 2:39:54 PM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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To: 11th_VA
Right neighborly of you. Have you got ragweed in your neck of the woods? It's the state flower here in New Jersey.
37 posted on 07/24/2021 2:44:01 PM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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