But no offense to blondes. I like blondes.
This GND would be laughable if AO-C and the democRATS weren't so serious.
Let's just say she's jumped the shark on this one.
Posted on 02/07/2019 7:02:36 PM PST by vannrox
This morning, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez released an overview of her “Green New Deal” which threatens "a massive transformation of our society."
Below are the details of the proposal:
“Upgrade or replace every building in US for state-of-the-art energy efficiency.”
The Green New Deal is “a 10-year plan to mobilize every aspect of American society at a scale not seen since World War 2 to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.”
“It’s unclear if we will be able to decommission every nuclear plant within 10 years, but the plan is to transition off of nuclear and all fossil fuels as soon as possible.”
“Build out highspeed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary”.
“We believe the right way to capture carbon is to plant trees and restore our natural ecosystems. CCUS technology to date has not proven effective.”
“Ensure that all GND jobs are union jobs that pay prevailing wages and hire local.”
“We’re not ruling a carbon tax out, but a carbon tax would be a tiny part of a Green New Deal.”
“…Cap and trade may be a tiny part of the larger Green New Deal plan.”
No estimate of the total cost of implementing the Green New deal is offered by Ocasio-Cortez.
However, as Ocasio-Cortez admits, “even if every billionaire and company came together and were willing to pour all the resources at their disposal into this investment, the aggregate value of the investments they could make would not be sufficient.”
She does provide one estimate that the cost to “repair and upgrade infrastructure U.S. infrastructure” alone will cost “$4.6 trillion at minimum.”
Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t provide any insight into how the trillions of dollars in spending will be paid for other than claiming, “The Federal Reserve can extend credit to power these projects and investments and new public banks can be created to extend credit”. But as Ocasio-Cortez says, “the question isn’t how will we pay for it, but what will we do with our new shared prosperity”.
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The left are becoming victims of their own propaganda. If Climate Change really was “The most important moral challenge of our times” then you would expect that belief would create an Occasional Cortex - in fact it would d create many of them
That is all I had to read to know that this is real. It's just too stupid to be an Onion satire.
But no offense to blondes. I like blondes.
This GND would be laughable if AO-C and the democRATS weren't so serious.
Let's just say she's jumped the shark on this one.
My fave is the trains across the seas.
I’d like to get the concessions at the desert island stops along the way...
From the mouth of an ASSWIPE!!
She did. Got a lot of her ideas from the hero of the story, Ivy Starnes.
Agreed.
She actually believes the Feds can print the money to pay for this.
She actually believes that the planet will be less polluted if we do this. She has no clue how much China and India alone pollute the planet.
She actually believes wind and solar can totally do the job of fossil fuels.
She is a believer and that’s why she’s being used.
The Commies who prop her up are using her because she is a true believer. They however are not.
They are looking for control.
The average condo high rise in Seattle costs about $200 million to engineer and build (not including the property).
I just found an article that stated that the U.S. housing market was valued at $33 trillion. So maybe $22 trillion for the actual building? (Not including property).
Factories and business buildings maybe worth $80 trillion? Airports, stadiums, etc another $20 trillion??
Agreed.
I read an article that said to accomplish part of her stated goals would require “rare earth”, which is currently mined largely in, you guessed it, China.
We have it here in the States but it is found in areas of the country that is protected by national parks and wildlife preserves. And her green friends ain’t exactly warm to the idea of opening mines on a vastly industrial scale that China currently has no qualms in doing.
Were I a conspiracy minded, I’d think AOC was a Chinese stooge. However, following “Occam’s Razor” she’s just a product of today’s collegiate Leftist dogma.
she was born in 1990 for cryin out loud...got the brain of a 13 year old. Republicans gotta wrap this imbecile around the necks of all the Dem candidates....Trump will waltz to re-election.
they have a propaganda short now. Unicorns and lollipops await!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11&v=k7p27E6hzvk
Any time a guy talks to a pretty/cute face on camera, he has a different look/attitude. Than if she’s a plain jane. It’s a given.
From your list: “4) force trees and growing vegetables not to exhale carbon dioxide”
How’s that again?
Funny since rebuilding every building will take 100 years of heavy industrial strength fossil fuel equipment - and it it's any thing like road work, will extend for 1000 years....Cincinnati has been working on the same stretch of roads for 25 years with no end in sight...
Did Missing Cortex write that sentence? That must be the case. Only a complete idiot could write such a poorly worded sentence.
I understand what they are saying, but it's clear that they have absolutely no understanding of what it takes to create railroad infrastructure where none currently exists. They need to take a good, hard look at the Kalifornia high speed rail debacle/money pit.
But as is always the case with socialists, they ignore the many socialist failures of the past because they are certain that the next time it's tried, it will be done right.
Hmmm. 1000 years.
That means it will take 200 5-year plans to get the job done.
At least - and she will insist on using all union labor which really complicates things - might take a billion years.
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