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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For those taking part – especially the ones at the top of the tree, like Gore. They shall indeed enjoy wealth and prosperity. You just have to feel sorry for those that won’t take part in the ‘transformation’. And there’s me thinking that socialism was all about equality and everybody being treated as equal.
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);
If there was ever a need to prove that Global Warming is nothing but a political tool for the left, one need not go any further than the quote above.
Just what the heck does race, religion and gender have to do with atmospheric processes?
God … this nation is toast if the likes of this leech get the power they desire.
One other point I meant to make.
If someone is proposing the virtual bankrupting of the USA and the impoverishment of its citizens then one would expect that they would have absolute, solid, unimpeachable, dyed in the wool, indisputable proof that the reason for it (CO2) is well made and accepted. Even science – or the effects of it – should be accountable to the people in a democratic world.
This would be great timing ahead of the next election to show as much anarchy as possible. Bravo!
Overconfidence and over the top is great for push back when it counts.
I love the photo of Cortez in the head post. She looks like a kid looking through the shop window of a candy store waiting for someone to give her money so she can buy some.
Yes. Other people’s money.
Perhaps now you can start to understand why I keep saying it is useless to argue the facts with these types of people. It is all about emotions with them. Sales 101. To win a way must be found to hit them in their emotional weak spot. Suggestions?
Whose supplying the money? That’s one way of cutting communists off. Comparing communists to thunderstorms: Communists are big and scary, can do a lot of damage. Eventually they run out of Other Peoples Money and then die. Thunderstorms are big and scary, can do a lot of damage. Eventually they run out of water vapor and then die.
Putin and Xi are going to need new 5-year plans just for their next phase of expansionism to take advantage of Obama Part 2 weakness. Their country neighbors should be worried about now. That means you Australia, Japan, Taiwan, Ukraine, Baltics, and former Soviet states.
It’s the Ex-Bartender Plan for your wallet. I suggest bonds in a collapsing world of smiling delusion.
Communism has always been the goal. Climate change is just the latest excuse.
and such other vehicles or structures that the select committee deems appropriate
In other words you have to give us power in order to know what we plan to do with that power.
When they’ve been allowed to vote, the people from Mexico down to Argentina in the past century have always voted either Socialist or Marxist. It’s no surprise that someone from that cultural heritage would think this way.
Ever read a translation of one of the Soviet 5-year Plans? If you read the above, you now have.
Not only are most of the steps simply physically and socially impossible, any such attempt would require giving up our democratic government and substituting a tyrannical single federal power.
This woman must be channeling the believed-defunct COMINTERN.
She is amazingly clueless. Where does she estimate the costs and meabs to pay for thaf?
I like how health care and basic income are included in there as well. So “greeen.”
For someone with an economics degree, she is amazingly ignorant. Command economies don’t work. They never have…except for those in power. I think her idea is that she and her cronies will work to impoverish most Americans and then she’ll still be able to live in the style to which she is accustomed.
Of course, knowing just how crazy folks like Occasional-Cortex can get, maybe she’ll go beyond impoverishing Americans and move directly to eliminating them. That’ll help “Save the Earth”.
For someone with an economics degree, she is amazingly ignorant
A testament to the poor state of education at certain universities.
I think her idea is that she and her cronies will work to impoverish most Americans and then she’ll still be able to live in the style to which she is accustomed.
You give her too much credit. Having listened to her speak, I doubt there is much thinking involved on her part. Her green handlers thought up and wrote that, she’s just the front woman whose job it is to sell the ideas that others have provided for her.
Well, the plan proves that renewables are not about reducing CO2 but are for “social, economic, racial, regional and gender-based justice and equality”. Nothing wrong with those but they can’t be achieved with government spending or the leftification of education and media. As I think Jordan Peterson said in https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/11/08/jordan-peterson-lets-fix-global-warming-its-the-kind-of-low-resolution-thinking-that-gets-us-nowhere, you can have equality of opportunity or equality of outcome, you can’t have both. The best part of “the plan” is about how returns on public investments will produce more public investments and reduce tax burdens; the best fairy tale ever.
Just a couple of days ago several of our trolls were declaring that any attempt to connect the climate control movement with socialist politics was just conspiracy thinking.
it’s not conspiracy thinking when it’s true.
Be sure and wipe out the sane Dems first before the next election and policy push against the public.
You don’t need to be smart. You don’t need to make sense. You just need to look good on TV and have people like you.
We need to sharpen and simplify our arguments, and quick, or “She Guevara” is going to garner a lot of support.
Give all the people free money, oh and some green trinkets too.
“a historic opportunity to virtually eliminate poverty”
Over the last 80 years, 10’s of trillions of dollars (inflation adjusted) have been spent trying to eliminate poverty.
If you listen to these nimrods, you would get the impression that they are the first people to ever want to use government to eliminate poverty.
adverb:
1. nearly; almost.
2. by means of virtual reality techniques.
They must be hanging their hats on defn #2.
(with respect to poverty, governments grade on a curve, so it is impossible to get rid of poverty except through make believe; or by changing the definition of poverty)
The official definition of poverty is a fixed percentage of the median income.
So no matter how wealthy the poor get, the number of “poor” never drops by much.
The leftists then use this fact to claim that we aren’t doing enough to eliminate poverty.
She says so many idiotic things her handlers had to ban the Press from her Town Hall meetings.
She claimed in an interview (before the ban) that the reason the unemployment rate is down is because people are working two jobs.
I find it odd that all these command and control plans are coming from the same 29 year old who could not figure out how to rent an apartment in DC.
1. 100% of national power generation from renewable sources;
2. building a national, energy-efficient, “smart” grid;
That’s it! As you were South Australians, switch off now.
A society’s wealth is based on what it produces.
Under this ‘Green New Deal’ the U.S. will produce nothing.
A recipe for mass poverty!
Well, looks like the Dems will be just as dysfunctional (or more so) than the Republicans were. It’s probably a good thing as they seem to be wasting no time starting discussions about how to F-up the economy.