Friday, March 01, 2019

The Green New Gulag

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"When Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey rolled out their Green New Deal (GND) in February, they put flesh on the bones of a policy that formerly was only a pie-in-the-sky proposal promoted by the Green Party. 
This Green Party proposal was a wish list from an expansionist government agenda floated by Democrat Socialists and the far-left wing of the Democrat Party over the last 20-or-so years.
The Green Party proposal went beyond replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy (no nukes) to include supplanting “non-essential means of transportation” with modern mass transit (no more trips to Home Depot for you!), 50% reduction in military spending (no more wars for oil), no home foreclosures, forgiveness of all college loans and a public jobs program.
...Big-ticket items related to energy and environment include:

  • · Complete transformation to renewable energy for the power demand sector; that means no electricity from natural gas, coal or oil
  • · Building of a new electric “smart grid” to provide “affordable” energy
  • · Upgrading of every existing building in the United States while dictating strict new efficiency codes for new construction
  • · Expanding high speed rail to a scale that obviates air travel..."


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