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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal Is ‘Pretty Much All Fantasy-land’
Washington Free Beacon ^ | December 8, 2018 | Charles Fain Lehman

Posted on 12/08/2018 6:28:29 AM PST by Cheerio

Experts decry 'pie in the sky' environmental plan

Since sweeping into Congress atop a wave of far-left support, Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) has been very clear what her number one goal is: a Green New Deal for America.

The freshman congresswoman first attracted attention to the proposal when she joined more than 200 protesters staging a sit-in in support of a GND in Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's (D., Calif.) office. Since then and with Ocasio-Cortez's backing, the idea has swept through left-leaning media, attracting fawning reviews. It also has the support of a number of prominent left-wing environmental activists: deindustrialization advocate Bill McKibben has come out in favor, as has former Vice President Al Gore.

"This is going to be the Great Society, the moonshot, the civil rights movement of our generation. That is the scale of the ambition that this movement is going to require," Ocasio-Cortez said during a Monday town hall with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.).

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1 posted on 12/08/2018 6:28:29 AM PST by Cheerio
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2 posted on 12/08/2018 6:34:31 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perhaps we should be less concerned about who we might offend and more concerned with who we inspire)
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It's about raw power and un-checked government. That's how the pinkos roll.


3 posted on 12/08/2018 6:34:42 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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The Left does not believe in reality. They believe wishing makes things so.


4 posted on 12/08/2018 6:37:51 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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And the Competency Gap rises.

Not only does she lack the skills & knowledge to understand that this will not work, she lacks the knowledge to recognize the need to possess such (skills & knowledge) or that they even exist.

5 posted on 12/08/2018 6:38:19 AM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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6 posted on 12/08/2018 6:39:05 AM PST by Bon mots
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Gee she’s nice looking. Boy, she’s in the news a lot. She’s a victim too. I think I’ll vote for her for president. /sarc


7 posted on 12/08/2018 6:39:49 AM PST by Scooter100
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I live in WNYS and I would just like to take a moment to thank the morons in NYC for voting Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez into office

It’s just not everyday you get a gift this good, get out there and set them straight Alexandria!


8 posted on 12/08/2018 6:40:36 AM PST by heshtesh (Brtan)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

9 posted on 12/08/2018 6:41:32 AM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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Hey Alexis! Where’s my order of chicken wings?


10 posted on 12/08/2018 6:44:55 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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Fantasy to us, but reality to the totalitarian Bronx


11 posted on 12/08/2018 6:45:56 AM PST by Theodore R.
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The crazy eyes kind of mess up all that “hot young thang”.

Nancy Pelosi fifty years younger. And you know, AO-C switched around and now has given tacit support to Nancy for Speaker.


12 posted on 12/08/2018 6:52:24 AM PST by alloysteel (Man does not live by bread alone. He needs chocolate cake too.)
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If they would just stick with green solutions to energy, waste, manufacturing, etc that might have some credibility. People like solutions. Unfortunately “the green new deal” is loaded up with every lefty wish-list item ever. Its kind of like the most heinous earmark bill that has ever been, and probably that is so for much the same reason, to gain the support of interest groups. Some of the stuff looks promising, but it is so full of things that look like critical errors of the type that will bring a system to a screeching halt that it is just like, no, I don’t want to destroy my homeland and everything I am working toward.

It’s just like the EU. A few good ideas mixed with a ton of over-reach and bad ideas.

Saying this is a “Green Martial Plan” sounds like the Lefties plan to bomb and destroy all of our institutions and infrastructure and then rebuild us. The problem is that they have effed up our institutions by trying to run them according to the principles that they plan to implement, which caused the destruction to begin with. They aren’t going to “rebuild” us using their money and know-how, as was done in the original Martial Plan. This is nothing more than “we want to run everything even though much of what we want to do is based on our theories that are more than a little precious and disconnected from how people actually behave.”


13 posted on 12/08/2018 7:02:27 AM PST by BlackAdderess (Grateful for a POTUS who doesn't treat us like cattle.)
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I am sure they had a nice “talk”.


14 posted on 12/08/2018 7:06:01 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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Pelosi was a doe-eyed lovely little thing. She aged into crazy eyes but this one has started out that way.


15 posted on 12/08/2018 7:08:40 AM PST by BlackAdderess (Grateful for a POTUS who doesn't treat us like cattle.)
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The woman is not just crazy but dangerous crazy.

People actually voted for her. We all know she used to steal other people´s tips when she was a bartender. So she already has practice in spending other people´s money. They need to isolate and put her on a toilet cleaning and sanitation committee where she can do no harm. She is outspoken and simply will not shut up. Now that she is in the house she will cause some major problems for everybody. It´s only a matter of time. They let her in, now they have to deal with her.


16 posted on 12/08/2018 7:33:58 AM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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that’s how she rolls...


17 posted on 12/08/2018 8:18:53 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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18 posted on 12/08/2018 8:44:31 AM PST by Cheerio ( #44, the UNKNOWN Manchurian Candidate)
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We are here folks!!!



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19 posted on 12/08/2018 8:56:57 AM PST by Cheerio ( #44, the UNKNOWN Manchurian Candidate)
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;^)


20 posted on 12/08/2018 9:04:07 AM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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