Posted on 12/16/2018 1:49:07 PM PST by Libloather
In a little over a month, the so-called Green New Deal has won endorsements from more than three dozen sitting or incoming federal lawmakers as Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) makes a high-profile bid to shift debate over climate change toward policy on the scale of the crisis.
On Friday, the effort got a boost from 311 state and local officials.
Forty-four mayors, 63 county and state legislators and 116 city council members were among the officials from 40 states ― including some top oil and gas producers ― who signed an open letter issuing a sweeping, full-throated call for the phaseout of fossil fuels and adoption of Green New Deal-style climate policies.
(Excerpt) Read more at m.huffpost.com ...
“Forty-four mayors, 63 county and state legislators and 116 city council members” means doodly-squat, to use a technical term.
What we have here is 223 state and local officials who have been brainwashed into the Cult of Anthropogenic Climate Change. That anyone thinks we should make policy on what they think is foolish.
Perhaps we could have a state volunteer to show us how? A 100% ban on oil, gas, coal in all it’s forms. Ban everything that uses oil, gas or coal in any way.
I’m sure when we see utopia demonstrated for, say 5 years, the number of people moving into this state would make 100% adaption in the rest of the US unstoppable.
Cause in most states they hold no other offices than local...
Useful idiots, tools and fools each and everyone.
Or anything derived from the process as well.
More than 4 per state. Most impressive
We live in an era where telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Goebbels would have agreed.
Cut off their power.
They should put their beliefs into action.
Eliminate fossil fuels for their jurisdictions.
Let their towns, cities, counties and states do without fossil fuels and show the future to the rest of us.
Let their citizens be the first to benefit from their grand ideas.
Lead the way - show us how it is done.
It is a tactic of the left to create supposed “grass root”
support for their policies.
Cadre sewn into communities call for action and call
the loudest and most often. It worked with the kulaks
and collectivism,it’s just been up dated.
If a person has paid attention to socialism through out
it’s history, it becomes quite recognizable when put into
practice. It has been called the Delphi principle and is
used to direct a mass of people to some desired end.
Yeah, I was thinking, this group is what % of the total? There are surely more felons as a % of the general population.
The “green” agenda is a goldmine for corruption and graft for petty officials.
The AGW climate change agenda is to undermine capitalism, nationalism and centralize economic power in world government. The elite prosper. Workers suffer. Not complicate.
Xcel Energy just announced that they will be 100% renewable by 2050. This could lead to quite a disparity between blue/red state electricity rates.
The states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the unconstitutionally big federal government the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for environmental protections purposes.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Also, since Democrats are predictably going to face as much resistance with unconstitutional Green New Deal because of gridlocked Congress as Pres. Trump has had with his supporters’ border wall, the Green New Deal amounts to Democrats politicking for 2020 imo.
Insights welcome.
2030? Most of the politicians involved will have moved on and intend to be 'SHOCKED' and 'DISMAYED' at the failure and voter distress. Las Vegas, that demure and laid-back town, will be unaffected because it brings big revenue and heavy union voting! Results, the citizens will bear the burden, just like always. Those voting 'D'umb never seem to connect the dots!
At least they are admitting, albeit obliquely, that the original “New Deal” wasn’t anything other than a naked grab of unconstitutional power by the Federal government.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.