Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to E&E News, Democrats are arguing over whether to use their new congressional majority to resurrect the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, or to push forward Ocasio-Cortez’s plan to take Federal control of the economy, to save the world from global warming.
Divides harden in clash over global warming committee
Nick Sobczyk, George Cahlink and Kellie Lunney, E&E News reporters
E&E Daily: Friday, November 16, 2018Many House Democrats remain skeptical of a push by leadership and progressives to revive the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, underscoring divisions about how to address climate change in the new Congress.
The caucus clashed in closed-door meetings this week about whether the select panel is even necessary and how much power it should have, with incoming committee chairmen looking to stake out territory on the issue.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has proposed bringing back the select panel to spotlight the issue with Democrats in control of the House, but progressives — led by Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) — are aggressively pushing for a stronger version of the climate committee that would craft a “Green New Deal” to combat climate change.
Ocasio-Cortez has a resolution in-hand that would establish a Select Committee for a Green New Deal, with the goal of crafting a comprehensive policy by 2020.
But the incoming leaders of the committees of jurisdiction on climate — namely, the Energy and Commerce; Natural Resources; and Science, Space and Technology panels — are not pleased with potentially creating a committee that could leach away their power.
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Read more: https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060106429
In my opinion it is no exaggeration to call Ocasio-Cortez’s plan a blueprint for a “Climate Change Command Economy”. From Alexandria’s website;
6. SCOPE OF THE PLAN FOR A GREEN NEW DEAL AND THE DRAFT LEGISLATION.
- The Plan for a Green New Deal (and the draft legislation) shall be developed in order to achieve the following goals, in each case in no longer than 10 years from the start of execution of the Plan:
- 100% of national power generation from renewable sources;
- building a national, energy-efficient, “smart” grid;
- upgrading every residential and industrial building for state-of-the-art energy efficiency, comfort and safety;
- decarbonizing the manufacturing, agricultural and other industries;
- decarbonizing, repairing and improving transportation and other infrastructure;
- funding massive investment in the drawdown and capture of greenhouse gases;
- making “green” technology, industry, expertise, products and services a major export of the United States, with the aim of becoming the undisputed international leader in helping other countries transition to completely carbon neutral economies and bringing about a global Green New Deal.
- The Plan for a Green New Deal (and the draft legislation) shall recognize that a national, industrial, economic mobilization of this scope and scale is a historic opportunity to virtually eliminate poverty in the United States and to make prosperity, wealth and economic security available to everyone participating in the transformation. In furtherance of the foregoing, the Plan (and the draft legislation) shall:
- provide all members of our society, across all regions and all communities, the opportunity, training and education to be a full and equal participant in the transition, including through a job guarantee program to assure a living wage job to every person who wants one;
- take into account and be responsive to the historical and present-day experiences of low-income communities, communities of color, indigenous communities, rural and urban communities and the front-line communities most affected by climate change, pollution and other environmental harm;
- mitigate deeply entrenched racial, regional and gender-based inequalities in income and wealth (including, without limitation, ensuring that federal and other investment will be equitably distributed to historically impoverished, low income, deindustrialized or other marginalized communities);
- include additional measures such as basic income programs, universal health care programs and any others as the select committee may deem appropriate to promote economic security, labor market flexibility and entrepreneurism; and>
- deeply involve national and local labor unions to take a leadership role in the process of job training and worker deployment.
- The Plan for a Green New Deal (and the draft legislation) shall recognize that innovative public and other financing structures are a crucial component in achieving and furthering the goals and guidelines relating to social, economic, racial, regional and gender-based justice and equality and cooperative and public ownership set forth in paragraphs (2)(A)(i) and (6)(B). The Plan (and the draft legislation) shall, accordingly, ensure that the majority of financing of the Plan shall be accomplished by the federal government, using a combination of the Federal Reserve, a new public bank or system of regional and specialized public banks, public venture funds and such other vehicles or structures that the select committee deems appropriate, in order to ensure that interest and other investment returns generated from public investments made in connection with the Plan will be returned to the treasury, reduce taxpayer burden and allow for more investment.
Read more: https://ocasio2018.com/green-new-deal
To her credit Ocasio-Cortez is not trying to hide what she is attempting to do – she is very open about her intentions. However I do find it rather disturbing that there seems to be serious support for her ideas in the newly elected house.
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Nothing wrong with command economy as long as I am in command of it.
As dictator Lord Vetinari was wont to say, “I believe in democracy; one man, one vote. I’m the man, and it’s my vote!”
Cortez obviously plans on being the dictator.
Venezuela, here we come.
I too admire this lunatic’s upfront statement of what she wants to do. However, she is being coy about one thing – putting a ballpark figure on the cost. It will be staggering.
My dog understands the world better than this child
Maybe it is a blueprint for a “Climate Change Command Economy”, but, if implemented, they would then find they no longer had an economy left to command. It’s the stuff of comics. Complete fantasy.
Ocasio is a front for a sophisticated group whose goal is gaining power by devouring the Democratic party from the inside, and installing a marxist regime. They arent interested in democracy, justice, individual freedom, or obeying the law or the US constitution. I would not underestimate them.
In other words, destroying the economy is a feature, not a bug.
whether it’s a feature or a bug, it’s the inevitable results of such policies. Just ask Venezuela.
It’s not a feature or a bug, it’s a side effect.
As long as they get power, they don’t care what happens to you.
They’ll pretend to care until you vote them into a position where they no longer have to.
Absolutely Fernando,
I don’t believe for one moment that Ocasio wrote that document.
Based on this section referenced, the “sheep’s clothing” is climate change and the “wolf” is far left authoritarian socialism.
I’ve come to suspect that the main focus today of the intellectual Progressives is not to put forward serious proposals but rather their agenda is a form of nihilism designed to crash the system (Clowen and Piven strategy), counting on the useful idiots like Cortez to march in front carrying their flag.
Saul Alinsky also warned against bomb throwing; he advised revolutionaries to bring the system down with the system’s own rules and values. Once the current system is in chaos, the theory is that the population would welcome an authoritarian regime.
Other current examples include overloading the immigration system, and in the last election, making a mockery of what were sane and rational early voting and provisional ballot systems.
You are right … she didn’t have anything to do with compiling the wish list.
It is a little scary that most people don’t see the possibility that she is but a cog; they just critique her as an air head.
(Once the current system is in chaos, the the population may welcome back a previous leader as an authoritarian regime.)
Mr Worrall: I have been researching Alexandria Ocasio and I’ve concluded she lacks the education and drive to write the material presented in her webpages. She seems to have been picked by others to be the front for a marxist network which functions with several layers, like an onion.
This outfit is very professional, works social media with bots, and combines a command structure with ad-hoc add ons (meaning there are people backing and helping her who aren’t aware there’s an underlying marxist organization).
My interest in Ocasio originated when I was studying the German communist party “Die Linke”, and it’s subsidiary institute, “Rosa Luxemburg”, to see how they cooperated with Spain’s rebranded communists (Podemos), which in turn are closely tied to the Maduro regime, and of course the Castro dictatorship. Rosa Luxemburg has an office in New York, and they have met with the “Democratic Socialists of America” (DSA) to craft joint strategies.
As you probably know the DSA includes people from the Bernie Sanders campaign, and Ocasio has declared she is a DSA member. I suspect the proposals she’s making are written by DSA, possibly with mentoring or input from the Rosa Luxemburg New York office, or even from the Die Linke leadership in Berlin.
Anybody who’s interested in this subject should read both the webpages and literature published by Die Linke, Rosa Luxemburg, and the DSA. A thorough search will take you to the principals in these organizations, some of which appear to be Stasi agents or informants (Stasi was East Germany’s KGB, they went into Cuba in the early 60’s to train Castro’s DSE in modern torture methods). You will also see Ocasio is linked to a group called “Justice Democrats” and other groups, some of which appear to be picking up young volunteers who are unaware they are being used by a sophisticated organization whose ultimate goal isn’t publicized.
“She seems to have been picked by others to be the front for a marxist network which functions with several layers, like an onion.”
Yes, just like O’bummer….
Thanks for that. Interesting indeed. I think it is time for everyone to reread The Gulag Archipelago too.
Sorry Fernando; I didn’t read this 2nd post before posting my own @ur momisugly 10:04.
Great minds….and all that.
The green movement frequently includes recycled apparatchiks from nasty defunct regimes. The last leader of the Soviet Union got into green politics in a big way.
I often wonder if the influx of ex Soviets into the green movement is why we are having so many problems today. Those guys were (and in some cases are) master manipulators, they learned their skill in a place where the penalty for failure was considerably worse than simply receiving a pink slip.
Usual loony left fantasy:
If you are stupid enough to believe that man made CO2 is causing CAGW and that nuclear power is unworkable, then the first part could be seen as an unfortunate necessity; however, nobody could be stupid enough to think it will make everybody rich.
As I read Richard Lindzen quote recently,
“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”
― George Orwell
Nobody SHOULD be stupid enough to buy in to this nonsense, but far too many do, not because they are necessarily stupid, just gullible.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, misleading the public about partisan issues is a consequence of the MSM choosing sides of the politics. Unfortunately, science was excised from climate science with the formation of the IPCC and replaced with conformance to a far left political narrative.
The danger comes from the mindset of those on the left who resolve conflict between logic and emotion by ignoring the logic. While the right is often accused of ignoring emotional arguments, science is the practice of logic which must not be biased by emotion.
We should all wear uniforms, live in barracks and dormitories, and do what we are told.
Those are crazy eyes. Seriously dangerous to your wealth. I wouldn’t want my wallet to meet her in a dark alley.
A first reaction is that stupidicy has reached new levels, with the low-IQ junior college dropouts arising to high levels in government. But a more sober reading tells me that this is inevitable.
Liberals largely control education from K-12, through college and university, and conservatives aren’t even really fighting all that hard on that front. It’s really the only battlefront that matters, because whoever controls education controls the future of the country.
You don’t have to worry where the money is coming from or if the banks, insurance companies, finance outfits will give it to you.
All you have to do is print what you want, and you could easily create several quadrillions, or even a quintillion of dollars if you need to. Then the money the banks, etc, have will be worthless and you can do what you wish with the ‘economy’.
Standard procedure as followed by Germany (Weimar Gov’t), Hungary, France and Italy (several times) and at a rather lesser rate by the USA, UK, Australia, and pretty well every other country.
Hmm, the DK effect runs deep with this one.
At what point does this become a First Amendment Issue?
[i]Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion[/i]
This is a religion, and they are establishing it as a national religion.
I am going to disparage this women…she is dumb. I have listened to unedited clips of her speaking. Yikes.
She did not write this on her website.
HA, it would take the US Treasury longer than 30 years to print enough money to fund those “blue sky” dreams, but the lefty liberal socialist daydreaming “troughfeeders” will avidly support anyone who promises him/her everything they want.
“4. decarbonizing the … agricultural and other industries;”
Carbon free food??
No food
There will be food, you’ll just have to wait in long, long lines in order to have a slim chance at getting some of it.
Soylent green is people…………
Hmmm, grandpa tastes good tonight.
I think that means that we will only be allowed to drink sugar free water.
Once she puts this plan into effect, the ensuing mass extinction of the human race will allow for the implementation of all the other crazy plans she has in store for us. Of course no one will be left to enjoy her utopia.
Agriculture will go back to what was used before petroleum burning tractors.
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Naggers.
Sure, you also use horses. But horses need a lot of food and care.
need people to take of the horses … green jobs galore
The government will provide jobs to anyone who wants one. Even if it is pulling a plough.
I noticed that too JohnB:
“The government will provide jobs to anyone who wants one”
… and if no-one wants to work? …
then welcome to yet another failed socialist economy, same as all the rest.
She believes that the entire power grid can be rebuilt in just 10 years?
Rebuild most of the buildings in this country to include state-of-the-art anything in just 10 years?
Just how many unicorns will all this require?
By the way, wouldn’t rebuilding everything to state of the art require that state of the art be frozen.
After all, by the time you get the last house rebuilt, the first house you worked on would already be 10 years out of date.
After all, by the time you get the last house rebuilt, the first house you worked on would already be 10 years out of date.
And there’s were all the jobs come in, perpetually rebuilding house to be “state of the art” every 10 years /sarc
One group digs holes, a second fills them up again. Socialist economics 101.
or One group breaks the glass another group replaces it.
“One group breaks the glass”
That would be Antifa?
Yep
Well, bless her heart!!! She Has Arrived!!! No, She is Not The One who will save us from whatever imaginary doom awaits around the corner.
Ocasio-Cortez is, first and foremost, a juggernaut engaging in a roller coaster ride to have Her Way and lord it over everyone . I’ll be she has just LOADS of plans and thinks she can do whatever she wants to because CONGRESS CRITTER!
You guys are all missing the point. Go back and read the headline of that story:
“Divides harden in clash over global warming committee”
Then reread the first two paragraphs of the story. While you’re all going off half-cocked in agony over this, she’s running herself right off the rails. She’s going to seize the American economy? And how, pray tell, would she do that?
This hyperactive junior Congress Critter has already begun to run roughshod over the very people – senior Congress Critters – who might assist her rise to fame. If you think they’ll take that lightly, you’re not paying attention. You’re also forgetting that if there are cracks in a political party, it is weakening. This helium-buoyant Bronx bird is doing exactly that. Let us hope that her arc when she flies off the rails is long and the impact painful. She’s already halfway there.
Finally, there is someone who can and is creating a split on the Democrats’ side of the fence! I wondered when it would happen. I hoped it would happen. And it is happening right before my very eyes. Let us hope that this wedge moves further in and creates a schism that will take decades – nay, maybe a century and a half – to repair.
The quarreling and egocentric fights should be awesome.
You’re of course correct, Sara. I suspect she’s genuinely mentally ill, delusions of grandeur, disproportionately high on life, overactive, intense, radical, unbalanced, all classic symptoms of club fruitcake. It’s likely to involve anger, tears and gnashing of teeth. The media will milk it for all the ad-space air-time they can sell. Capitalism at its finest. 😉
You got the “mentally ill” part wrong. 😊 😊
The literal fact is that she is “product” (graduate) of our present day public school curriculum.
Yes, you are correct. The Romper Room is in for some tough times and it will probably take a while before the kids stop throwing their toys.
Well, who would of thought that an almost equally radical leftist by the name of Obama could have been elected president? True BO and his handlers were more deceptive and cunning.
I weep for the United States. Here in the United Kingdom we have had to put up with this degenerate command and control ideology for 100 years. Until recently it was a breath of fresh air to travel to the US where individualism thrived and almost everyone in society accepted that there was no freedom without economic freedom. Over the years in Europe, various left wingers, euro-communists and greens have been elected in considerable numbers and helped turn the continent into a pacifist, low growth, welfare-addled basket-case.
European Army, anyone – hahaha. A de-industrialised green Europe defending porous borders with electric tanks (only when the wind blows of course), unable to define an outside “enemy” and marching in step to a selection of John Lennon songs.
Most Americans might be laughing at the antics of activists like Ocasio-Cortez. But the experience in Europe is that they often end up in Government. Here in the UK the seeming inability to leave the European Union trade protection cartel could have an unintended consequence of allowing our Marxist Prime Minister- in-waiting Jeremy Corbyn to seize control. To a committed communist like Corbyn, green politics offers a useful way to seize the commanding heights of the economy.
He is currently three points ahead of the Conservative Government in the latest opinion polls.
Viva la 2nd Amendment!
“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Complains About Fox News Mocking Her Finances”
https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/cortez-complains-mocking-money-woes/
Would be funny if it weren’t so scary, to think people actually voted for this demented child…
Another leftist who feels free to insult anyone who disagrees with her, but cries whenever someone dares to mock her.
No-one voted for her, they voted for the D after her name. That stupidity is the source of America’s problems.
she won the prelim … beat the other D.
A good portion of New York likes her … D or no D.
There are different levels of stupid.
Beware of simple ideas and simple solutions. History is full of visionaries who used simple utopian visions to justify terrible actions.
-from the book “Factfulness”
She has become the useful idiots’ useful idiot.
She won the primary in June with just approx 12,000 votes , because only 16% of registered Dems bothered voting. So in November the Dems had to vote for her, she got 100,000 votes out of just under 250,000 registered Dems voters.
Now those 12,000 voters are able to promote such ‘policies’ in the House.
This is how a ‘progressive’ agenda is formed and enacted in power. Its clever and with enough backing can and is being repeated in many locations throughout the world.
What AOC has listed in her Green New Deal is nothing more that the basic tenets of the “Sustainability” movement that has been kicking around college campuses for the last decade. The Eco warriors on campus decided to expand the notion of “sustainability” about 10 years ago to include “social justice” components. In other words, the Eco warriors joined forces with the SJWs.
As others have asserted, she didin’t write that. She didn’t need to. Just pick out a random college website, do a search for “sustainability” and I guarantee that you will find basically that same proposal as she published.
What really scares me is “…The Plan…” will do all these great and wonderful miraculous things, apparently with no further Voter input? I suppose in her scary mind, that’s a feature, not a bug.
Indeed it is. Voters have a bad habit of not voting the way authoritarian socialists want them to.
I’ve been told by quite a few leftists that it’s only democracy, when they win.
Classic redistribution of wealth. She’s a true Marxist.
Redistribution of other people’s wealth. The leaders never give up their wealth.
Indeed, they often get quite a bit richer in the process.
MarkW
It is – I am assured – absolutely untrue that Putin the Poisoner is the richest human being (sensu latu) on the planet.
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Two things need to happen:
IQ test for congressmen along with a problem solving test
Drug testing, randomly, once a month
IQ testing congressmen just means that the crooks get smarter.
And term limits just mean they groom their successors sooner.
I am opposed to term limits for politicians unless there are term limits for bureaucrats as well.