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Democrats unveil Green New Deal with support from at least 5 presidential hopefuls
Chicago Tribune ^ | 2/07/19 | Matthew Daly

Posted on 02/08/2019 2:24:37 AM PST by Libloather

Democrats launched a sweeping plan Thursday to transform the U.S. economy to combat climate change and create thousands of jobs in renewable energy, signaling its likely elevation as a central campaign issue in 2020 despite President Donald Trump's failure to mention climate change in his State of the Union address.

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With a whiff of presidential politics and a rock-star freshman in attendance, Democrats drew an unusually large crowd for the Green New Deal unveiling. The outdoor event was attended by more journalists and activists than lawmakers. It was a notable gathering for a proposal that is not a bill, but only guidance for any legislation on climate change Congress develops.

The measure is supported by at least six senators with their eyes on the White House: Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Kamala Harris of California, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climate; corruption; democrats; green; harris; hoax
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Will they be flying during their campaigns? Or to get home? Or while on vacation?
1 posted on 02/08/2019 2:24:37 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Hopefully they’ll be on a train. That is about to go into a dark tunnel. And the last thing they see is a burning oil well off in night.


2 posted on 02/08/2019 2:26:45 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain (FreeRepublic.com is the most-used app on my iPhone.)
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3 posted on 02/08/2019 2:43:36 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Libloather

The media has gone full on socialist propaganda. It’s all positive spin and refuses to even discuss the contents which are vapid and nonsensical.

Seriously - It’s time for tar and feathering.


4 posted on 02/08/2019 2:44:21 AM PST by Skywise
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To: Libloather

This is the result of a 50+ year effort to take over our schools and make our children into idiots. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the poster child for Orwell’s “Ignorance is strenth”. The details of the Green New Deal show our children have learned their lesson to be dumb all too well.

JoMa


5 posted on 02/08/2019 2:56:25 AM PST by joma89
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To: Skywise

Where to start in such a target-rich environment...the propagandists or the crazies in D.C.


6 posted on 02/08/2019 2:57:48 AM PST by jimbug
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To: Libloather

according to AOC last week, we’ll be dead in 12 years, so why worry?

but since the earth will be uninhabitable in 12 years, shouldn’t we spend all that green money on getting colonies of world minorities on the Moon and Mars?

but how will we get them off the planet without fossil fuels? conundrums, conundrums.


7 posted on 02/08/2019 3:01:21 AM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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but how will we get them off the planet without fossil fuels?

We load 'em into a cannon and shoor them into space:


8 posted on 02/08/2019 3:17:27 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain (FreeRepublic.com is the most-used app on my iPhone.)
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To: Libloather

Those hopefuls are so fake... so full of nothing... they will say and do anything to get the vote to get the power! They see this little socialist getting all the air time, so they will be just like her.. join her.. in stupidity!

President Trump... the real deal... he is what you see and he says what he says... and he keeps his word. Not a one of those running dems are worth a dime.


9 posted on 02/08/2019 3:40:12 AM PST by frnewsjunkie
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It took about 20 graphs before the 5 headlined presidential supporters were named. I kept digging, deeper and deeper to see if they had the nerve to name them at all to spare their reputations.


10 posted on 02/08/2019 3:50:38 AM PST by chiller (Dem's ideals are beautiful...they just never work in a real world. Feel good, OR do the right thing.)
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To: Libloather

The smell of Enron hasn’t yet faded and they are lining up to do it again.


11 posted on 02/08/2019 3:51:05 AM PST by blackdog
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To: Libloather

The rock-star freshman is a stone-cold moron.


12 posted on 02/08/2019 3:51:41 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.r)
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To: Libloather

All of these enemies of humanity need to spend the rest of their days in padded cells. They will happily kill us (for our own good, of course).


13 posted on 02/08/2019 3:57:19 AM PST by Truth29
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To: chiller

Yep, that’s pretty much the 5 leaders of the “new” generation of Dem hopefuls.

They will be eviscerated because of this.

That leaves Gropin Joe Hairplugs the Plagiarist, and Hillary!


14 posted on 02/08/2019 4:01:46 AM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: chiller

If they think she is getting the publicity, they have no better sense than to join with her... they all are flakes and have nothing to offer but power for themselves. They misread the public... the media and the dems believe THEY are the pulse of what runs this nation.

After all the Presidents we’ve had... Trump puts a new light on being real and presenting one’s self just like he is... transparency.. and it burns so many on the left! How dare he! But their fakery is so evident when seeing the real thing.


15 posted on 02/08/2019 4:10:49 AM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: Libloather

It isn’t about the environment, really:

“Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal calls for a job-guarantee program to be included in any Green New Deal legislation. It also calls for universal health care and basic income programs, as well as labor union involvement. Her draft also acknowledges that climate change disproportionately harms low-income people and communities of color, and says any Green New Deal legislation must account for the disparities.”


16 posted on 02/08/2019 4:15:13 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: frnewsjunkie

This is about race-based wealth redistribution (see # 16), nothing less. Whites are being punished as though they are 20% of the population and just lost a war.

Keep your knowledge to yourself; it is the only means to a paycheck. Otherwise, “Whites need not apply”. I see on professional forums countless otherized tokens reaching out to qualified strangers asking them how to do the jobs they’ve been placed in based on race/gender - DON’T RESPOND.


17 posted on 02/08/2019 4:19:04 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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I have sons and this is not a man’s world any more. Reach middle age and you are not wanted. Degrees and experience... neither mean anything in this environment. If you turn transgender, you can find a job... women are the ones getting theirs... and what used to be minorities.

Talk about division... it sure ain’t Trump... it’s their own stupidity and power ... and I cannot understand why anyone would give in to name calling or whatever they use to get what they want.

(Notice the men standing behind the little socialist when she was expounding on camera... they are smiling and nodding... man, it’s sick!)


18 posted on 02/08/2019 4:31:15 AM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: Doogle
On the inaugural voyage of the first transatlantic train, the passenger seated in seat 2d was heard to remark, "Why didn't someone think of doing this before?"

"Oh, that's why."

19 posted on 02/08/2019 4:31:26 AM PST by scottiemom (As a retired Texas public school teacher, I highly recommend private school.)
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To: Libloather

Read the plan.

Then ask how many would have to die to implement it.

Then ask how they plan to do it.


20 posted on 02/08/2019 4:42:11 AM PST by redgolum
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