Posted on 02/11/2019 1:16:16 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Last week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unveiled her long-awaited “Green New Deal," a plan aimed at drastically reducing carbon emissions in the next ten years.
The plan has already received the endorsements of Democrat presidential candidates, like Senators Cory Booker and Kamala Harris but, for others, it has turned heads for its drastic approach to fighting climate change. Among the proposals initially listed in the plan were moving away completely from oil, coal, and natural gas within ten years, creating a high-speed rail system to help eliminate air travel, and renovating every home in America.
Ocasio-Cortez has since removed the document from her website that included such language as eliminating air travel or providing help to those "unwilling to work," but archived data shows the initial post did, in fact, make such a statement. Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff said this was merely a draft and that it was published by accident.
Since its unveiling, the plan has garnered noticeable support from young Americans on social media.
Wanting to know if the same people who support the New Green Deal would still support it after hearing what was actually in it, Campus Reform's Cabot Phillips headed to the University of Miami to find out.
First, asking their original perception of the plan, students made clear that they were on board.
“I like that it’s progressive, that it’s gonna push the world forward,” one student said, while another added, “just from knowing who’s endorsed it and some other little things, it sounds great.”
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“I think that’s drastic...” the next student conceded.
Want to see what else they had to say? Watch the full video:
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Shhhh...
THEY AREN’T SUPPOSED TO FIND OUT!
Trial balloon that sunk like lead....
This thing is chock-full of straw men intended to be traded away for Socialist goodies.
We’ll get to keep steak and airplanes, and feel like we escaped a close one. Meanwhile they’ll get pretty much everything else.
Do the young white people know what’s in it?
“The outline states up front that a Green New Deal must not only “promote justice and equity” but also seek to repair harm and prevent future injury to those most vulnerable to climate change and the fossil fuel economy — namely communities of color, indigenous peoples, migrants, rural communities, the poor, people with disabilities, the elderly, and young people.”
For them, nothing but bills to pay for more non-white people who hate them.
Utopian socialism ALWAYS sounds good UNTIL you find out what it is going to cost you - esp in terms of loss of freedoms, loss of choices, loss of salary via taxes, etc.
Ya know, the more I see these videos of these academics, the more ignorant these people at these universities seem.
It’s down right scary.
Also watch “Louder with Crowder” where he goes to these campuses and literally rips them to shreds when they dare sit down to debate him.
Yes, the Change My Mind segments are fun to watch.
Well, I’m all for it. I have filled a milk jug with pee and now looking for AOC’s address to send it to her. She did not instruct us faithful followers of what to do with the jugs so the only logical step is to send them to her to figure out what to do with them.
I advise everyone to do the same and send her a jug full.
“I advise everyone to do the same and send her a jug full.”
Sorry, I’m saving mine for a visit to the McCain burial site and shrine.
These students remind me of 12 year olds. Are they really that childish? Look at how they couch their sentences, thoughts. “You know,” “like,” and other hesitation markers. Theses are college students?
That’s exactly what I was thinking. You would think in the age of internet and all this knowledge available that people would research what they are agreeing to. But then they have ABC, CNN, CBS, etc., to tell them what’s going on. That’s why we have idiots everywhere we look. These people are too lazy to look things up to verify if something is true or false, or if they have not been told the entire story. The Covenant HS story comes to mind.
Found two people on Instagram swearing the plan pays for itself.
Such comedians out there...
Yep the media, and don’t forget, these people were brain washed in these public schools for all their young lives and then sent to some leftist university to undergo indoctrination 101.
Exactly!! Schools don’t teach anymore. Kids are indoctrinated. My kids have been out of school for a while but I remember helping them with their homework and teaching to make sure the “facts” are correct and never ever listen to the mainstream news.
“I advise everyone to do the same and send her a jug full.”
Sorry, I’m saving mine for a visit to the McCain burial site and shrine.
I’m saving mine for Hanoi Jane! Hopefully soon.
Here’s the actual HR Bill, which has been “sanitized” around the Net. Scroll down.
Bkmk
Long awaited? She's barely been in Congress a solid month.
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