Posted on 09/03/2019 6:23:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A trillion here, a trillion there.
Senator Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday night proposed spending $1 trillion for “decarbonizing our electricity, our vehicles, and our buildings.” That, she said on Twitter, was “on top of the $2 trillion I’ve already committed to green research, manufacturing, and exporting. We’ll create millions of jobs and achieve the goals of the #GreenNewDeal.”
With the top Democratic candidates about to take part in a Wednesday CNN town hall on climate change, most have put forth sweeping plans that would transform the U.S. ecomomy. Yet the proposals would be enormously expensive, and their authors have come under scathing criticism from conservatives over the costs. Mike McKenna, a GOP energy strategist and pollster, said the plans were a “tremendous gift” to Republicans.
Warren, in her climate change proposal, acknowledges that “with a commitment of this size, we must ensure that we use taxpayer dollars as efficiently as possible.”
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Why not eleventy billion?
Pure insanity!
The woman is bat-shit crazy!
She better invest in a lot of printing presses.
The Democrat Party is serious about destroying liberty once and for all.
It is doing what it can to bring about, as Churchill warned, “the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”
She could teach people to dance in drought areas.
Now that will require a HUGE tax increase.
In her mind, that translates to only 24 glass beads and a shiny bit of tin.
No price is too high for the children!
3 trillion - devastating to our economy, yet at the same time, throwing money at a problem won’t necessarily make the technology appear overnight - if ever. Sometimes things simply do not work out. That’s an awfully big gamble to take. A better strategy would be to let the technology develop at a reasonable pace *before* committing to a course of action.
More and more debt, more and more money printing for the empire in DC and all its political and social engineering schemes.
A fiscal and currency crisis seems to be unavoidable.
She’s hitched her wagon to the green new deal. It’s over for her.
“Why not eleventy billion?”
i’m thinking 2.5 gazillion ought to do the job ...
She’s gonna do just great things, with other peoples money.
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I am SO disgusted with this dumbass woman I cannot stand it!
Earlier today, Booker detailed his three trillion dollar plan to ‘fight climate change’.
Not to be ‘out-idioted’ by Svartacuss, Fauxahontas matches his profligacy.
insanity!
Pure insanity!”
According to Trump, our endless Middle East wars have cost $7 trillion since George Bush kicked them off 18 years ago.
I wish Freepers also saw the insanity in that.
Booker detailed his three trillion dollar plan to ‘fight climate change’.
A little less than the cost of the Iraq war. Booker wants to burn about the same amount of tax dollars at home as Bush burned overseas
One idiocy doesn’t justify doing another.
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