Posted on 01/04/2019 6:52:19 PM PST by Rummyfan
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., hasn’t officially started her first term in office, but she’s already pushing a massive, far-left proposal that would fundamentally transform much of the economy and push the country closer than ever to socialism.
For several weeks, you might have heard Ocasio-Cortez reference the creation of a “Green New Deal,” but until recently, few people knew what would be included in the plan. In a draft resolution to form a select committee in the House that would help develop legislation to put her plan in action, Ocasio-Cortez finally outlined numerous proposals that she says should be part of future Green New Deal legislation. Taken together, the many ideas included in Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal would be the most radical policy shift in modern U.S. history, dramatically increasing the size and power of government and running up the national debt by trillions of dollars.
According to Ocasio-Cortez, the Green New Deal, which has been endorsed by Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Cory Booker, D-N.J., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and at least 40 House Democrats, would eliminate nearly all fossil fuels from the electric grid and force everyone in the country to buy from power companies selling only renewable energy.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Insane kommie slut. Good for nothing but hanging.
It’s always fun to be lectured by idiots that are clueless about how things work. And they say we aren’t into “science”?
She talks about electricity like it just magically pops out of the air. Huge majority of fuel used to generate electricity is, OMG, oil and coal and natural gas.
Solar is a blimp on the radar and way behind hydro, nuclear, and even wind I’d think.
I think that someone in the party will have a sit down with her after she gets sworn in.
Its because commies are not interested in lifting peoples standards of living up.
Commies require everyones standards of living to go down, save for the inner party members who are the special, royalty/oligarchs.
When everyone has very little, revolt/overthrow is far tougher, and control over everyone is stronger, and getting people to snoop for the govt for ‘rewards’ works.
This, this is why.
You would expect that someone with an economics degree from an ivy league school could do simple math. Take the average earnings of the top 1%, figure 1% of the population, now take 70% of that. That she claims would fund her program. Yes, it’s about 2.6 trillion dollars. However, a conservative estimate of the cost in the first year is roughly double that. The 2.6 assumes the top 1% are stupid and passive and don’t find a way to hide/save income from the taxation. In other words, her plan or “analysis” is either laughably incorrect, or she is lying. Probably both. Additionally, this doesn’t even begin to account for the negative impact of pulling that 2.6 out of the economy. It isn’t just stuffed under mattresses. Sure, it would go back into the economy in her program too - but in very different segments, with a healthy cut off the top for government inefficiencies, graft, and dumb handouts and other pork.
Pretty much. She certainly isn't drafting this alone - which means there's a whole bunch of unhinged hive-mind commies behind her.
Bkmk
The article presents a reasoned, rational evaluation of AOC’s proposal. It will not persuade any adherent of the idea because the idea is not about reducing the need for “fossil” fuel. It is about control of every aspect of American lives. It is a tenant of the Left’s religion. Religion is not about logic or reason. It is about belief.
Up until now the Left has taken an incremental approach to implementing its regime of total control. But having elected Obama and seen Newsweek declare, “We are all socialists now,” the Left has decided that all the changes need to be implemented right this instant! After all, why wait for utopia? Part of the Left’s violent response is because Trump’s election represents a clear step back. We are only taking that step back because Obama was a departure from incrementalism and his election was supposed to signal the start of utopia. The Left is in panic mode trying to stop the sudden theological reversal.
Agree. Look at what we thought of Obama in the early days. Never underestimate those who will "help" with a clear conscience as they kill or enslave us.
There is only one way to derail this type of thinking and that is with public debate. The debate event would require a structure impossible for the left to agree on. REAL rules of debate disallowing straying off subject, no personal attacks, no statements that are not backed up with facts AGREED UPON AS TRUTH BY BOTH SIDES PRIOR TO THE DEBATE. Actual rules of debate not a media circus demo. The colorization by the ultra-left media makes it not possible to provide unfiltered debate presentation for the public to digest.
Back to square one. Back to name-calling and slander by both sides
Don’t believe the “reparations” discussion isn’t achieving something; it is designed not to actually give every black person 40 acres and a mule, but to protect the blatantly illegal system of affirmative action in place. There is not a single legal argument that could justify reverse discrimination, yet it is still the law of the land - and adding “preferred victim” classes regularly. It is economic warfare with visible, verifiable demographic results.
They already sat her down; she is doing their bidding (just as Otoken did in 2008). She proposes something absurd to move the goalposts, and we’ll end up with a compromise that still moved us farther left than anyone imagined (while other Dems are called “moderate” for compromising).
Thanks, FrankR!
Sounds like Stalin’s collective farming plan or Mao’s great leap forward where millions died of famine.
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Yes indeed!! The names of many of her proposals sound just like the ones in Atlas Shrugged.
My first offering of 2019. ;)
Oh, it's worse than that. She's jonesing to go full Pol Pot against all the people who complained about her lousy service and didn't tip her well, and everybody she perceives/projects as being like those people.
Killing Fields is her wet bar-rag dream.
I accept your offer!
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