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

Posted by Solver 5 years, 3 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 $ nickursis 5 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yea, talk about sexist, discriminatory, women don't pee? Only men have to drink pee? Really? Arrogant morons...
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 5 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If they think Trump isn't qualified to be President, wait until they get a belly-full of Beto! Conjugate the verb (?) Dumb, dumber and dumbest! lol
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  • Posted by term2 5 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hillary wont run again I predict. She wont get contributions from the dem supporters. They want a fresh face. She lost too many times to unknown people who sprang in at the last minute. Thats my take anyway.

    I think the dems are priming O'Rourke. Texas Senate race was a trial baloon with 86 million invested to see how he did. He got a lot of millenians and he talks like a white version of a black preacher. I think they are keeping him with a low profile until 2020 when he will spring out and take over. I could see him with Harris as the VP pick to cover the black woman vote.
    I havent listened to any real policies he is advocating. I would imagine its un-thought-out garbage at this point (not as bad as AOC who wants to end air travel- amazing how accurate AR was in Atlas Shrugged to predict whats going to happen with socialism
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  • Posted by $ Suzanne43 5 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Wow, that's wonderful! You need to go into every high school in the country and give your talk. Of course, you would have to get past the liberal teachers and administrators first.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 5 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Have you listened to any of his interviews? He's incomprehensible, rambling, and makes no sense. Maybe he's another Obama, who reads teleprompter speeches well. He's a tyro, and Hillary will eat him alive. I still think she'll run again, waiting as the idiot wannabe socialists flame out early.
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  • Posted by 5 years, 3 months ago
    AOC Should write a science fiction book promoting her ideas. It should be a story about the people who try to live in her world. It should examine the positive and the negatives of her plans. Then we will see if people will really buy it.

    She has less than 12 years to write it.
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  • Posted by exceller 5 years, 3 months ago
    Even the "economic planning" - they had 3 year and 5 year plans - in communist societies could not fantasize that much nonsense.

    No wonder Cortez took it down.
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 5 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yep, Bad Ideas MUST BE RENAMED to be accepted.

    - Communism
    - Whole Life/Permanent Life Insurance (ie, non-term)
    - Global Warming (Now Climate Change)
    - Comprehensive Immigration Reform (as if creating MORE LAWS that are not enforced will somehow help, it just gives them the INCH they need to get AMNESTY for the ones who came here... REGARDLESS of the fault of their own!)
    - Common Core (being renamed by individual states to hide it)
    - Green/Environmentalism (When people realized Environmentalists were ANTI-HUMANIST, the gig was up, they renamed it)

    The left gets 3 Benefits:
    - NEVER having to admit they were wrong (via controlling the media)
    - Continuous Attacks against anyone challenging them (Deniers, I tell you. Climate Deniers, Truthers, Birthers)
    - The appearance of being in alignment with the majority.. (again, because of the media)
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  • Posted by mccannon01 5 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "I'm surprised she even got elected." Why? Isn't it obvious that the electorate of her district has been brainwashed for decades to vote "D" or PC identity politic? Compared to "cute Hispanic female" any rational thought shrinks to complete insignificance. She doesn't even need to know how to spell "socialism" no less know what it is.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 5 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Agreed, BrettScott. IMHO, the Democrat party began morphing into a full fledged Communist party decades ago. It's now entering the advanced stages of the disease. Pox are popping up all over now.
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  • Posted by term2 5 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    O'Rourke is going to be the candidate in 2020. Biden is just a remake of Carter and wont be very interesting as a candidate. Who is Schultz anyway. Bloomberg is just an idiot from new york. O'Rourke is being kept in a closet while the first contenders battle it out in 2019, and he comes in on a white horse in 2020 and takes the democratic nomination with his charm and youth.
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  • Posted by term2 5 years, 3 months ago
    I think the dems are letting AOC float the worst of socialism so that they can parade O'Rourke out next year as a "moderate" with only some of this socialist nonsense.
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  • Posted by 5 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    People like her refuse to debate. They demand a safe space where they can talk about their morally superior plans for domination, and how bad everything is.
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  • Posted by Owlsrayne 5 years, 3 months ago
    AOC isn't a very intelligent person. I'm surprised she even got elected. I would love to debate her even though I'm just a private citizen. She would probably decline in fear the someone would wish to destroy her GND. Why hasn't anyone has called her out on GND. There is a lot of media attention but no one has challenged her. This is very disappointing, way back in college I debated other students and found it very rewarding. I guess the AOC would stick her fingers in her ears saying; La,La,La!
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  • Posted by stevieg88 5 years, 3 months ago
    Well, we could always launch planes by using VERY large catapults. The longer the flight, the larger the catapult. And then hope there is no congestion at the terminal airport since the aircraft will run out of lateral energy...
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  • Posted by $ pixelate 5 years, 3 months ago
    AOC is a dangerously vapid dunce completely lacking in self-awareness. Of course this is not her plan; it was a script handed to her ... "just read this kid." These progressive / socialist nit-wits are a gaggle of insolent toddlers with guns. I truly believe that their front line consists of people that literally lack the wet-ware capable of thinking. They are a sad collection of sock puppets puffed up on the hot air provided by their handlers. That such people exist is not surprising. It is sad, however, to see how so many lemmings just follow along in tow in support of the party line, no matter its level of absurdity.
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  • Posted by $ prof611 5 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I love #3 - use the recycled urine in place of water when brewing coffee...the leftover "pee" taste will be covered up by other natural flavors.
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  • Posted by jhpalmer1957ar 5 years, 3 months ago
    We are already in the third American civil war. People who love their freedom and liberty should embrace it and prepare.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 5 years, 3 months ago
    I hope they have a call in for Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, The Good Witch of the North, Santa Clause, and the tooth fairy to help them pull this off.

    Oh, I left out the Easter Bunny, Bambi, and a few others. My bad.
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  • Posted by $ rainman0720 5 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Sorry...didn't mean to inadvertently step on your topic. I should have started with "I also thought of the John Galt plan...". It's what I meant but didn't state.
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