The green New Deal: No plan like this has been seen since “The John Galt Plan”

Posted by Solver 6 years, 2 months ago to Politics
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“The Green New Deal resolution 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 and create economic prosperity for all. It will:

 Move America to 100% clean and renewable energy
 Create millions of family supporting-wage, union jobs
 Ensure a just transition for all communities and workers to ensure economic security for people and communities that have historically relied on fossil fuel industries
 Ensure justice and equity for frontline communities by prioritizing investment, training, climate and community resiliency, economic and environmental benefits in these communities.
 Build on FDR’s second bill of rights by guaranteeing:
A job with a family-sustaining wage, family and medical leave, vacations, and retirement security
High-quality education, including higher education and trade schools
Clean air and water and access to nature
Healthy food
High-quality health care
Safe, affordable, adequate housing
Economic environment free of monopolies
Economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work

National mobilization our economy through 14 infrastructure and industrial projects. Every project strives to remove greenhouse gas emissions and pollution from every sector of our economy:
o Build infrastructure to create resiliency against climate change-related disasters
o Repair and upgrade U.S. infrastructure. ASCE estimates this is $4.6 trillion at minimum.
o Meet 100% of power demand through clean and renewable energy sources
o Build energy-efficient, distributed smart grids and ensure affordable access to electricity
o Upgrade or replace every building in US for state-of-the-art energy efficiency
o Massively expand clean manufacturing (like solar panel factories, wind turbine factories, battery and storage manufacturing, energy efficient manufacturing components) and remove pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing
o Work with farmers and ranchers to create a sustainable, pollution and greenhouse gas free, food system that ensures universal access to healthy food and expands independent family farming
o Totally overhaul transportation by massively expanding electric vehicle manufacturing, build charging stations everywhere, build out high- speed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary, create affordable public transit available to all, with goal to replace every combustion-engine vehicle
o Mitigate long-term health effects of climate change and pollution
o Remove greenhouse gases from our atmosphere and pollution through afforestation, preservation, and other methods of restoring our natural
ecosystems
o Restore all our damaged and threatened ecosystems
o Clean up all the existing hazardous waste sites and abandoned sites o Identify new emission sources and create solutions to eliminate those
emissions
o Make the US the leader in addressing climate change and share our
technology, expertise and products with the rest of the world to bring
about a global Green New Deal.”
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  • Posted by BrettScott 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The 'communist' shoe may drop soon. Dems went from liberals, to progressives, to socialists because people found out their true intent and each label was spoiled. IMHO, they were communists all along, but they're afraid to say the 'C-word' out loud.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    LOL! I could never get a good grip on this since "mother earth" had dealt with this problem in the past without so much as a blink. That is, there used to be millions of buffalo (American bison to the purists), elk, and other animals pooping and farting all over North America. Oh wait... along came the white man, slaughtered the great herds, and SAVED THE PLANET!
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 6 years, 2 months ago
    When even Nancy Pelosi labels this as a "green dream" you know this is going nowhere. I suspect that the party establishment is willing to tolerate the children in their sandbox, but not to the point that they jeopardize the hard-won seats in districts where Trump won the 2016 election.

    Joe Biden has been playing it smart, and may be the likely winner of the Democrat primaries for the 2020 election. He's embraced none of the socialist ideas that are in vogue with every Democrat presidential wannabe so far. If he chooses not to run, the party should panic, because either Howard Schultz or Michael Bloomberg will run as an independent, with classic liberal policies, and will drain the votes of traditional liberal Democrat voters, to the benefit of a second Trump term.
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  • Posted by 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That was my thought when I created this topic.

    The looter named their plan, “The John Galt Plan.“ There were a number of promises, such as,
    “It will give more freedom to the individual and strengthen the bonds of collective obligations.”
    -from Atlas Shrugged
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  • Posted by hattrup 6 years, 2 months ago
    They could get all this done much, much faster if they change it from a 10-year plan to just 6 months. And it would be no less realistic either...
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  • Posted by TheOldMan 6 years, 2 months ago
    "...air travel stops becoming necessary..."

    Wait until the "oh-so-concerned" crowd realizes that this eliminates Amazon Prime two-day shipping!
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  • Posted by GaryL 6 years, 2 months ago
    She neglected to mention the confiscation of all retirement and 401K accounts to fund her grade school plan.
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  • Posted by $ rainman0720 6 years, 2 months ago
    When I read her plan, I immediately thought about what Mr. Thompson said just before he introduced John Galt to the world. He said (paraphrased, of course) that the John Galt plan would lower taxes and provide more governmental services, it would increase wages while lowering prices, etc.

    It was funny to hear AOC backtrack a comment 12 hours after she made it regarding governmental role in her plan.

    Thursday morning, she told NPR that it does involve "massive government intervention". But later in the day, on MSNBC, she called the rumor that it would involve a massive government intervention a "mischaracterization".

    And Kimberly Strassel slams the plan beautifully, saying

    “By the end of the Green New Deal resolution (and accompanying fact sheet) I was laughing so hard I nearly cried...if a bunch of GOPers plotted to forge a fake Democratic bill showing how bonkers the party is, they could not have done a better job. It is beautiful.”
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 6 years, 2 months ago
    Go to Mark Dice's Twitter and scroll down a bit and read their idea of men recycling urine, it is so insane as to be hilarious. I hve to see if this document is online......

    https://twitter.com/MarkDice
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 6 years, 2 months ago
    Total and complete insanity. Now, read it carefully and compare it to most communist manifestos, they all promise the same things, the same way, in the same generalities. Propaganda designed to entice that 50.1% of the mob to rule the other 49.9%, so that the rulers can then shift gears and rule over the 99.9% with their iron fist. Ayn Rand tried to warn us....
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  • Posted by 6 years, 2 months ago
    The socialists are itching to take over the country by force.

    "Today is the day that we truly embark on a comprehensive agenda of economic, social and racial justice in the United States of America," AOC said alongside Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and other lawmakers outside the Capitol. "That's what this agenda is all about."

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocas...
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 6 years, 2 months ago
    Is the Democrat Party imploding? I don't think so. I think that they think that there will be no consequences for their use of force, and are going right for our jugular.
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    Posted by diessos 6 years, 2 months ago
    Ok, so now that the children have had their play time, are there any adults that can take over the Democrat party.? I had to explain to a millennial today why Karl Marx's ideas won't work. There is hope he's willing to read Atlas Shrugged.
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