Socialism has never been more insanely expensive.
American Spectator: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the charming, effervescent, social-media-savvy freshman Democratic congresswoman from New York, has set the progressive punditry world aflame with her audacious plan for a “Green New Deal” (GND). “Why the Best New Deal Is a Green New Deal,” trumpets the Nation. “The Democratic Party Wants to Make Climate Policy Exciting,” proclaims the Atlantic. “The Game-Changing Promise of a Green New Deal,” touts the Intercept. “How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Green New Deal’ Might Help Save the Planet,” professes the putative men’s magazine GQ.
I have to give Ocasio-Cortez credit, she knows how to play this class like a Stradivarius, but what exactly is the Green New Deal?
“Many people ask what a Green New Deal entails,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter. “We are calling for a wartime-level, just economic mobilization plan to get to 100% renewable energy ASAP.”
“This is going to be the New Deal, the Great Society, the moon shot, the civil-rights movement of our generation,” she doubled down at a town hall event.
Ocasio-Cortez’s draft proposal, as no actual legislation has been introduced yet, includes the aforementioned goal of 100 percent renewable-generated electricity nationwide by 2030, “eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from the manufacturing, agricultural and other industries,” as well as “transportation and other infrastructure,” and “upgrading every residential and industrial building for state-of-the-art energy efficiency.” But wait! There’s more!
The draft GND also includes universal job training, universal “living wage” job guarantees, and a universal basic income. It will also “mitigate deeply entrenched racial, regional and gender-based inequalities in income and wealth” and set up whatever “universal health care programs” the regulatory and congressional neo-braintrust think are necessary.
Simply put, the Green New Deal will be every economic policy progressive Democrats have been salivating for, wrapped into one package. It’s the Shimmer Non-Dairy Floor Wax of big government progressivism — it’s a floor wax and a dessert topping! (If you don’t know the reference, you really should be spending more of your time watching old Saturday Night Live reruns, back when the show had a sense of humor.)
The GND would be “paid for” through “the same ways that we paid for the 2008 bank bailout and extended quantitative easing programs, the same ways we paid for World War II and many other wars.” In laymen’s terms: borrowing a ton of money, printing a ton of money, and taxing the hell out of the wealthy (say, a 70 percent top rate, according to Ocasio-Cortez). Oh, and probably an inherently regressive carbon-dioxide tax too, just to make sure the bougies and the proles get nudged in the “green” direction.
Although Green New Deal salespeople love to tout how its brand-new product will fight “catastrophic” climate change, supposedly preventing it from becoming an extinction-level event, that messaging is just designed to get you in the showroom. The real purpose of the GND is to fundamentally warp and transform American society to fit progressives’ grandiose vision of what it should look like. Progressives would want to do all these things even if no one had ever heard of climate change. more here
What a Green New Deal entails. . .
They get the Green
You get Blue.
We get Red
Why not 100% tax rate?
This bitch is thinking too small.
Somehow it made me think of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJrcE8HwwuY
Jeremiah Peabody’s Poly Unsaturated Quick Dissolving Fast Acting Pleasant Tasting Green And Purple Pills
The rich should just give ALL of their money to the poor, making the poor the rich and the rich the poor. And then, next year, you just repeat the process. That way every gets to be rich every other year, and they’ll appreciate it more because they just spent a year being poor.
Oh, and no one has to work ever.
She’s truly insane
Elly Maye
https://twitter.com/Ellysa_Maye/status/1087603043745648641
has AOC pegged!
“I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.”
When will this Ditz ever ask the Marxist, Muzlim Mallard where that point is?
Whut about Hiller E. Coyote and her Bicycle seat-sniffing criminal business partner?
And what about Bella Pelosi in her walled-in compound?
Then there’s Hairy Reed in his exclusive, walled-in, gated community?
An Al Gore with his multiple mansions?
And every big city, wealthy, cigar-smoking democRAT who’s been rewarding cronies with public funds, establishing hostile business environments, heavily taxing the most productive citizens, setting up fat pensions for their union friends running a miserable, run-down, shot-up, burned-out, phucked-up, poverty-stricken, crime-ridden, rat-infested, urine-soaked, feces-friendly, certified “Shit-Hole” filled with worthless, federal tit-sucking parasites, supported by food stamps and endless hand-out programs just for votes!
And on it goes, but never addressed, by this bar-tender who graduated cum loudly…
If’n ewe go to the “more here” linkie, then ewe will find the that author buys into the anthropogenic global warming models. Remember, all of that CO2 sequestered naturally in limestone and other calcium carbonate minerals was once in the atmosphere. If said CO2 were released back into said atmosphere, CO2 levels would rise from about 400 ppm to about 3,000,000 ppm. That much CO2 simulated by said models would likely give an atmosphere hotter than the sun. Water would not exist and limestone would not form. The models do not work.
Venezuelan TP at $10.00 a roll – and that ain’t Charmin or Angel Soft, baby – more like the lined paper you learned how to write cursive on!
You know, the stuff that had the little chunks of wood in it?
“(If you don’t know the reference, you really should be spending more of your time watching old Saturday Night Live reruns, back when the show had a sense of humor.)”
…I saw it when it was first broadcast, @MJA, so no need for reruns.
…thanks for reminding me how old I am.
…that reminds me of that time back in 19dickety2, when we had to walk uphill to school both ways, and always in a thunder snowstorm because no one could afford good weather. Wanna hear about it? Good, settle in comfortable-like, this’ll take awhile just to get to the part where I lost all my guns in a tragic boating accident because no one could afford actual boats…
Never put yer guns in a Milk Carton boat…
She ain’t no Harlow Wilcox who used to befuddle Fibber McGee and Molly peddling Johnson Wax products like Johnson’s Glow Coat which made your linoleum shine. Yeah, I know I’m dating myself but this dim bulb broad scares the hell out of me with all her idiotic far left schemes to turn America into a turd world shit hole with her and her ilk in charge of course.
A “Green new deal,” is when I ate all those little crab apples off the tree at the elementary school across the street when I was 8. That night – much to my dad’s annoyance – I clogged the john with my, “GREEN new deal!” 😳
She sounds like she got into the puppy-uppers.
Someone give her some doggie-downers, quick.
You all know how much I love this adorable ditz. So I can’t blame her.
I can, however, call for an investigation to determine which of her stuffed animals is giving her such bad advice.
Is it Pink Bear? Cuddlebug? Big Turtle?
We need to have a tea party with them all to find out.
She’s making the cost of my New Deal look like walkin’ around money. She’s got Eleanor’s giant choppers… plus she can dance!