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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Yellow.
Antifa and BLM will get Uniforms
FDR was a socialist bastard. It’s not surprising Xiden is following in his foot steps
I assume that is a rhetorical question.
The money will go straight into the pockets of Dem operatives.
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.
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.
For now at any rate. 😋
We’ll send you all some kudzu up north there - very cheap
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.
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
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.
The best thing they could do for the planet is for them all to personally quit emitting CO2.
Democrat Gestapo
“Will they wear nice little arm bands’’
Yeah. And will they wearing snappy Hugo Boss uniforms?
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