Justin Smith examines the disaster that Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez and the Dems would foist on America through the Communistic Green
New Deal (GND).
JRH 2/16/19
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AOC's Marshall Plan
for America
America's Wild-Eyed Communists
By Justin O. Smith
Sent Originally
2/13/19 8:39 PM
Update sent: 2/15/2019
6:44 PM
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's radical "Green New Deal" legislation
proposal [Blog Editor: Farting
cows in original version mysteriously disappears in final version],
presented to America on February 7th, is an outright Marxist socialist and a
virtual communist attempt to supplant our Republic system and our capitalist
economy, in a manner that can only result in the destruction of both. Offering
an extraordinary, unprecedented level of government intrusion, a "massive
government intervention" in her words, AOC's plan isn't simply going to
transform our lives, rather it will smash our way of life, through a mass
de-population scheme, that Americans ignore at our own peril.
Ocasio-Cortez's proposal sensationalizes and magnifies the
imagined impending doom from climate change, and yet, the plan actually
addresses very few solutions for anything climate related. Instead, the plan
has latched on to climate change, in utopian fashion, and a ruse that offers
everything under the sun as a new right, from ice-cream for everyone to a right
to get a government purchased pony, or so it does seem. She and her ilk
have opportunistically seized upon the issue to justify seizing the United States economy
and implementing full-blown socialism and the most Left-wing agenda
in American history.
Branding the plan as a kind of "Marshall Plan" and
lifting a page from Bill McKibben's 2016 article in 'The New Republic', one
finds free Medicare -- may as well call it "Medicaid" for all -- free
education, high-speed rails to replace air travel, a federal jobs guarantee,
codified family leave, a national union, income paid to those unwilling to work
and rebuilding every structure in the nation to meet new environmental
regulations. The plan closely follows the failed socialist "Leap Manifesto" advocated
by Canada's Leftists, anti-capitalists, and eco-socialists, such as Naomi Klein, who once wrote "shredding the free-market ideology that has
dominated the global economy for more than three decades" was the only way
to combat climate change.
At the heart of the New Communists' plan is a focus on
renewable energy and the notion that they can move the nation completely away
from the use of fossil fuel over the next decade. Electricity would triple
in cost, and gasoline could easily rise to $6 per gallon, or more, just to
reach fifty percent renewable energy, according to many independent studies
including the Heritage Foundation. If
actually implemented, their plan will economically cripple the United
States, even if it was gradually implemented over the next thirty years.
What happens to the former workers in the fossil fuel
industry? Will wind-farming be able to absorb their numbers in a cost efficient
manner? AOC's plan does call for a "fair and just transition for all communities
and workers." Ha! I can barely contain my excitement, as I hear this
coming from the same party that gave us the failed Obamacare.
As noted by Robert Bryce, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute: "FDR, Sam Rayburn and others who
pushed for rural electrification back in the 1930s did so because they wanted
lower-cost electricity for rural customers. The (Green New Deal) will result in
massive increases in energy costs for consumers across the country. It will
require covering vast swaths of rural America with wind turbines and
transmission lines at the very time that states from Maine to California are
rejecting those same projects."
It is not hard to imagine that many households will be
hard-pressed to choose between freezing in the winter, buying groceries or
paying their mortgages. America will see a sharp rise in homelessness, if such
a plan is ever passed, especially considering homelessness has risen steadily,
since 1980, and its numbers are now higher than during the Great Depression.
Will government be able to prevent them from starving to
death by opening "soup kitchens"?
Thank God there isn't enough support in the Senate to pass
this fantasy legislation, mimicking Mao's catastrophic Great Leap Forward,
that is advocated by the nation's red, radical Democrats, at the moment. Such
will not always be the case unless we can stop the trend that exhibits 51
percent of Americans age 18 to 29 now view socialism and even communism
favorably, with 60 percent of Democrats holding these radical beliefs.
Once thought to be a fringe policy idea, AOC's plan has
given climate change legislation significant momentum in recent months. At
least 40 members of the House have
stated they support the Green New Deal, and every Democratic presidential candidate
supports most or all of the plan, from Senators Cory Booker (NJ) to Kamala
Harris (CA) and Elizabeth Warren (Mass) to Representative Tulsi Gabbard [Daily Caller
& The
Hill] (HA). And potential Democratic candidate, Bernie
Sanders (VT) has also thrown his support behind it.
I wonder how much Tulsi is going to love her train ride to
Hawaii?
This sort of transition would essentially nationalize the
economy and force the abandonment of huge swaths of capital, which could not be
redirected anywhere else; however, every resource, nearly all labor and all
production would be diverted from its current use to an agenda determined by
government planners and overlords. Much of America would be impoverished
overnight, if any such plan ever becomes "law", and that's no exaggeration.
These wild-eyed communists suggest that throwing money at
these projects will ensure their success, but most of America will not easily
fall in line to pay the $6.6 trillion annual price-tag,
that is three times the amount the federal government collects in tax revenues
and thirty-four percent of the U.S.'s entire Gross Domestic Product. It will
more than likely require deadly force to redirect such a massive amount of the
nation's wealth, if, Heaven forbid, the Democrat's ever gain so much power.
The New Green Communists' are unwilling to be truthful about
their resolution. Current technologies and opportunity costs would be
overwhelmed by this proposal, resulting in a systemic collapse and mass
shortages and a scarcity of food. It may read like it offers a wonderful world
for all, by emulating Venezuela's Constitution and enshrining all sorts of
"rights", but it essentially shreds the U.S. Constitution and impedes
and suppresses individual liberty, and it reduces each American to
"equality" in the lowest common denominator in extreme poverty. It is
a miserable proposal that will result in millions of Americans being murdered
or starved to death, in order to ensure its success and perpetual power for its
Democratic Party creators, under a totalitarian socialist state.
And any American Patriot should be prepared to fight any
such plan from ever becoming "law" to his death -- for any way one
chooses to view it, death goes hand in hand with the New Greed Deal.
By Justin O. Smith
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Edited by John R. Houk
Source links and text embraced by brackets are by the
Editor.
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