Posted on 02/10/2019 4:14:08 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A top adviser to New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has admitted that an official "Green New Deal" document posted by Ocasio-Cortez's office contained a guarantee of economic security even for those "unwilling to work" -- but not before he went viral in progressive circles for claiming the exact opposite, repeatedly, in an interview with Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight."
Cornell University Law School Professor Robert Hockett, who counsels Ocasio-Cortez on environmental initiatives, challenged host Tucker Carlson when he quoted from an outline and list of "frequently asked questions" (FAQ) that had been posted on Ocasio-Cortez's official website. A similar version of the FAQ was also shared with NPR.
The FAQ and background materials from Ocasio-Cortez's website stated that the Green New Deal will provide "Economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work," and the FAQ sent to NPR also noted, "We set a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years because we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast."
Ocasio-Cortez's office removed the documents from her website amid an online backlash. A version of the FAQ that referred to "farting cows" is still available on NPR's website, and a similar version that was posted to Ocasio-Cortez's website is currently viewable on an Internet archiving service. Both versions of the documents describe providing economic security for those "unwilling to work," and state, "This is a massive transformation of our society with clear goals and a timeline" at a "scale not seen since World War 2."
Carlson asked Hockett at the outset of the interview: "Why would we ever pay people who are 'unwilling to work'?"
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Imbeciles.......green dreamers.
More like her handler.
Carlson asked Hockett at the outset of the interview: “Why would we ever pay people who are ‘unwilling to work’?”
What is it about a legal education that makes one “world’s foremost authority” on everything?
AOC says the document was “accidentally” uploaded to her website. I accidentally think She, Pelosi, Schumer and Watters...just to start with, should be hanged for treason. Accidentally, of course, which is excusable per the precedent set by Ocasio-Cortez.
..while wearing a fake hairpiece?
1. If all air travel and transport has to be ended, will you promise today to immediately stop flying and having things shipped by air? If not, why not?
2. If carbon-based energy is so bad, will you promise to stop, today, using gas for heat, gasoline for cars, and convert your buildings to all-solar energy this year, at your own expense? If not, why not?
3. Since rockets cannot leave earth without fossil fuels, all satellites will become useless. Will you stop, today, using all technology that includes space-based satellites, including GPS and international communication? If not, why not?
“...but not before he went viral in progressive circles for claiming the exact opposite, repeatedly, in an interview with Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
It is the continuous Leftist tactic: Blatantly lie to snag voters because they know not everyone will hear the correction.
Every vote adds to the total and they are counting on their daily lies incrementally accruing to change election outcome.
The MO ...... to sow confusion among the electorate.
Watched the Tucker clip. AOC’s handler is an effing goon.
Parents of children who still need to be educated, please do not send them to American universities. They will be miseducated and you will be hundreds of thousands of dollars poorer.
Laura Ingram announced breaking news with a look of urgency as she told her viewers to take little children out of the room and proceeded to run the video, “flint stones meet the Flintstones a modern stone age family, from the town of bedrock a place right out of history................. she got it right and I chuckled. These idiots are mentally ill
Leftists gotta lie.
JoMa
It’s Agenda 21 / Sustainable Development repackaged.
It would be useful to know who introduced it to her.
Lying scumbag! He looked right into the camera and lied when millions are watching, then walks it back when no one hears it.
That was the ass-end of some small animal sitting on his head.
Hockett is as nutty as AOC:
3 Feb: Financial Times: Pay for Green New Deal now or spend even more later
by Robert Hockett, law and finance professor at Cornell Law School and advises Ms Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s plan to halt climate change will be cheaper in the long run.
The new Democrats in the US Congress already have done something no American politician has managed for decades: to get people talking about massive — and massively transformative — public investment as a real prospect.
Ambition on such a scale always draws naysaying from the timid, the cynical and the economically uninformed, and this time has been no exception. Predictable expressions of scepticism have been accompanied by jibes of “how will you pay for it?”...
A bigger Green New Deal would also will be more affordable in the long run because of what is known as the snowball effect. The pace of climate change will accelerate as early harms damage the environment’s capacity to compensate for later ones. This leads to accelerating costs and negative feedback. As a consequence, it is clear that acting faster will yield greater impact than acting sluggishly. And acting faster here means spending more now rather than later...
Supporters of Ms Ocasio-Cortez’s plans understand that spending will be absorbed without causing inflation if we ramp up production and installation of everything from solar panels and batteries to new plants and “smart” power grids...
When you are fighting for your very survival, you do not pinch pennies. That would be false economy. In this case it would also be suicide.
https://www.ft.com/content/046e7c30-23c8-11e9-b20d-5376ca5216e
8 Feb: Bloomberg: How the Green New Deal Almost Went Nuclear on Its First Day
By Ari Natter and Jennifer A Dlouhy
A fact sheet distributed by the office of progressive newcomer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic representative from New York, said there was no room in the nation’s all renewable-energy future for nuclear plants.
But the reference caught many off guard and back-peddling ensued.
Giselle Barry, a spokeswoman for Senator Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat who is the Green New Deal’s lead Senate backer, disowned the fact sheet and said Markey’s office wasn’t consulted before it was sent out. “We did not draft that fact sheet,” she said.
The stumble irked potential supporters...
Markey sought to do damage control at a midday press conference, emphasizing the proposed resolution doesn’t address specific energy technologies...
But nuclear power provides more than 50 percent of the country’s carbon-free electricity, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute, a trade group that represents companies such as Westinghouse Electric Co. and Exelon Corp...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-08/how-the-green-new-deal-almost-went-nuclear-on-its-first-day
A MAN is giving her advice? Gotta get rid of him.
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