Posted on 01/01/2019 6:39:19 AM PST by Libloather
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is ripping her fellow Democrats for failing to take up her proposed special climate change committee called the Green New Deal because it was deemed "too controversial."
Ocasio-Cortez in a Twitter thread Monday blamed House leadership for rejecting the idea behind the Green New Deal, which aimed to create a plan to get the country on a 100 percent renewable energy electric grid.
"A few weeks ago, I joined youth activists in a specific demand for a Green New Deal Committee. It had 3 simple elements: 1. No fossil fuel money on climate cmte 2. Offer solutions for impacted communities 3. Draft sample #GreenNewDeal All 3 were rejected as too controversial," she tweeted.
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Can you imagine the effect of Ocasio-Cortez’s elimination of fossil fuels in 12 years. No airplanes, no trucks, no coal-fired, or natural gas-fired power plants. No restaurants. No hospitals. No military. The result will be, of course, devastation a million times any worse case scenario of the climate change fear mongers.
And top it with a 70% tax and you have the destruction of the country with starvation and death. And why? Why do we have to have people in government who are dumb as a rock.
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