Showing posts with label Green New Deal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Green New Deal. Show all posts

Monday, November 2, 2020

Green New Deal in the hands of Democrats is a dagger aimed at the heart of the middle class

 Joel Kotkin here in The New York Post:

If these Democrats win both houses of Congress as well as the White House, things could get far worse for the already beleaguered middle class, which has been rocked by the pandemic, with an estimated 100,000 small firms going out of business. Particularly hard-hit by the recent urban unrest are inner city and minority businesses. ...

If the Democrats win on Election Day, the future for the middle class could be bleak. As a lifelong Democrat, this is not easy to write, but most of the party’s initiatives — such as the Green New Deal — are directly harmful to those in the middle and working classes, who’d be forced to face increased housing and energy prices and fewer upwardly mobile jobs in industries like manufacturing.

Friday, March 22, 2019

Nature accomplishes in a matter of days for free what Green New Deal only dreams of doing in years costing trillion$

$1 billion in losses estimated in Nebraska alone last I checked. Your hamberder is going to cost a fortune now.

You want cheese wit dat? That'll be extra.

Sunday, February 10, 2019

Ah yes, the old Green New Deal FAQ mystery trick


AOC can't hide her laughably grandiose, pie in the sky, Green New Deal FAQ Launch from the cloud, either

AOC probably got an "A" on this paper in college, lol.

 


Move America to 100% clean and renewable energy

Repair and upgrade U.S. infrastructure. ASCE estimates this is $4.6 trillion at minimum.

Meet 100% of power demand through clean and renewable energy sources

Upgrade or replace every building in US for state-of-the-art energy efficiency

Build charging stations everywhere

Build out high-speed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary

Replace every combustion-engine vehicle

Retrofit every building in America

It’s unclear if we will be able to decommission every nuclear plant within 10 years, but the plan is to transition off of nuclear and all fossil fuels as soon as possible

Protect right of all workers to unionize and organize

Economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work

Yes, we are calling for a full transition off fossil fuels 

Simply put, we don’t need to just stop doing some things we are doing (like using fossil fuels for energy needs); we also need to start doing new things (like overhauling whole industries or retrofitting all buildings to be energy efficient).

Ensure that all GND jobs are union jobs that pay prevailing wages and hire local

Create economic prosperity for all

Create millions of high-wage jobs and ensure prosperity and economic security for all

Clean air and water, climate and community resiliency, healthy food, access to nature, and a sustainable environment for all

Create affordable public transit available to all

Provide job training and education to all 

Provide high-quality health care, housing, economic security, and clean air, clean water, healthy food, and nature to all

[Free coffee and toilets 24/7 at Starbucks]  

The communist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can run but can't hide her utopian schoolgirl fantasies from Al Gore's amazing wayback machine

Green New Deal FAQ

A 10-year plan

A World War 2 scale mobilization

Upgrading all our buildings

Economic security to all who are unable or unwilling to work

We also need to start doing new things (like overhauling whole industries or retrofitting all buildings to be energy efficient)

Upgrading virtually every home and building for energy efficiency

We will finance the investments for the Green New Deal  . . . with public money appropriated by Congress

The Green New Deal will prioritize creating high-quality, family wage-supporting union jobs

A federal jobs guarantee ensures that no worker is left behind

We aren’t sure that we will be able to fully get rid of, for example, emissions from cows or air travel before then

Retrofit every building in America

Make new fossil fuel infrastructure or industries untenable

Thursday, February 7, 2019

The Green New Deal aims to expand high speed rail "to a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary"

Air travel stopped being necessary for me in 1996.

Haven't flown since.

Just Say No To Air Travel.