Posted on 07/28/2021 8:12:46 AM PDT by karpov
As the U.S. recovers from a pandemic, with workers in services and manufacturing in short supply across the economy, here’s what no one sensible thinks America urgently needs: a huge new federal Civilian Climate Corps.
Yet that’s exactly what Democrats want to create as part of their plan to expand government into every corner of American life. It isn’t enough to lecture Americans about the supposed perils of climate change. Now they also want to tax you and other Americans to pay your children to spend years lecturing you.
President Joe Biden has requested $10 billion for the climate shock troops in his American Jobs Plan. Like so many other ideas in this Administration, the idea comes from the Democratic left, specifically the Sunrise Movement and Evergreen Action. Their idea was adopted by New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, who have proposed a Climate Corps that employs 1.5 million Americans over five years.
The precedent is FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps, which paid Americans to work when the jobless rate was more than 20% in the Depression. But Sunrise says that program had “deep flaws, including exclusionary racist and sexist practices of hiring almost solely white men and its nonconsensual development on stolen Native American land.” Evergreen Action says the Climate Corps would “confront the interlocking crises of climate change, environmental and racial injustice, and economic inequality.”
If that mission sounds grandiose, you’re understating things. “The climate crisis is impacting every aspect of our lives,” so “the only way we are going to fully combat it is if we fully transform every aspect of our society and economy as we know it,” says Ellen Sciales, a Sunrise spokesperson.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
I wonder how many of these “young Americans” will still want the job aftter a day ot two of having doors slammed in their pimply faces.
Sounds like the Hitler Youth.
Are these the same young Americans who are so "educated" that they can't earn enough money to pay off the student loans of their "education"?
Are these the same young Americans who spent years thinking they were talented musicians just because they got high scores in Guitar Hero? LOL
Extra credit bonus given for turning in their own parents.
I posted before this true story. In the 1970s I worked with a woman who was born in Nazi Germany and grew up there until it was overcome and she moved to the US.
She praised the overlooked “good side” of the regime for the “healthy exercise” and “fresh air” of the youth programs. She said one problem of America is too much freedom (not kidding). Too much freedom causes uncertainty and stress to people who don’t realize that they want to be told what to do by the government over them.
CHILD: You should drive an electric car.
GEEZER: I already do. It’s called a golf cart.
When it comes to climate change, the indoctrination is complete. The younger people I come in contact with believe it like a religion, and there is no dissuading them.
“Ever wondered what it’s like to attend a Climate Reality Leadership Corps training? Here’s what the experience is like, straight from Climate Reality Leaders.”
https://www.climaterealityproject.org/
“AL GORE
Founder & Chairman, The Climate Reality Project”
The title alone tells you all you need to know about our would-be savior:
“Al Gore...a Baptist preacher...His favorite sermon is about the judgment day that will come upon us if we do not mend our ways and stop contributing to global warming.”
https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/mayweb-only/algore.html
In this brave new world, the old sin is the new normal and the old normal is the new sin.
Will they get snappy Hugo Boss designed uniforms?
Does no work for you?
Because if not, too bad.
Or having dogs set upon them — like 2-3 large bad tempered male pitties who don’t like strangers and who like to bite — like my sister’s dog, Boots (a pittie-lab mix weighing about 65-70 lbs who doesn’t like strangers and is quite capable of inflicting a very painful bite.)
It is my understanding that these “young Ameircans” may not be dispatched to the best of neighborhoods. If true, they will be lucky if all that happens is doors being slammed in their do-gooder meddling/busybody pimply faces.
Obama’s brown shirts
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