{"id":395646,"date":"2019-02-09T10:26:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T09:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/green-dream-or-whatever-they-call-it\/"},"modified":"2019-02-09T10:26:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T09:26:23","slug":"green-dream-or-whatever-they-call-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/green-dream-or-whatever-they-call-it\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Green Dream or whatever they call it\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanmirror.com\/dem-drama-pelosi-dismisses-ocasio-cortez-green-dream-nobody-knows-what-it-is\/\"><strong>American Mirror<\/strong><\/a><br \/>February 8, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has released her \u201cGreen New Deal,\u201d and it\u2019s far worse \u2014 and more hilarious \u2014 than many previously thought.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The New York lawmaker released the legislation,\u00a0co-authored by Sen. Ed Markey, D-MA, on Thursday through <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.npr.org\/documents\/document.html?id=5729033-Green-New-Deal-FINAL&amp;fbclid=IwAR3zOWJhxCDq-QhG9tdwBVEm0nM8I2sgKJRYdKF1ow-zjNB2kXXGNIArYTg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Public Radio,<\/a>\u00a0and it\u2019s\u00a0pure socialism.<\/p>\n<p>As noted by The Daily Beast\u2019s Lachlan Markay, the\u00a0legislation calls for every single building in the United States to be \u201cupgraded or replaced.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ht\" dir=\"ltr\">LMAOOOOOOO <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iRsqFYBHmS\">pic.twitter.com\/iRsqFYBHmS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lachlan\/status\/1093526380539768836?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 7, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s right, taxpayer will be stuck footing the bill for millions of buildings in the country being upgraded or completely replaced.<!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>The socialist \u201cGreen New Deal\u201d begins by claiming \u201chuman activity is the dominant cause of observed climate change over the past century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The measure then asserts that\u00a0\u201ca changing climate is causing sea levels to rise and an increase in wildfires, severe storms, droughts, and other extreme weather events that threaten human life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a highly speculative claim that several scientists who endorse anthropogenic global warming have been hesitant to support.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez and Markey go on to argue that the United States will lose\u00a0$500 billion in annual output by 2100 due to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>If true, that\u2019s a very tiny percentage compared to the estimated\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanmirror.com\/ocasio-cortez-eat-more-peanut-butter-to-save-the-planet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$7 trillion that the \u201cGreen New Deal\u201d will cost<\/a> taxpayers to implement.<\/p>\n<p>Not missing the chance to peddle liberal talking points, the bill actually argues that climate change has \u201cexacerbated systemic racial \u2026 injustices\u201d as well as other inequalities.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation goes on to argue that its goal is to\u00a0secure \u201ccommunity resiliency\u201d and \u201crepairing historic oppression\u201d of almost every class of victims the authors can imagine.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear how that has anything to do with the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/pelosi-mocks-ocasio-cortez-climate-plan-green-dream-or-whatever-they-call-it.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American MirrorFebruary 8, 2019 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has released her \u201cGreen New Deal,\u201d and it\u2019s far worse \u2014 and more hilarious \u2014 than many previously thought. The New York lawmaker released the legislation,\u00a0co-authored by Sen. Ed Markey, D-MA, on Thursday through National Public Radio,\u00a0and it\u2019s\u00a0pure socialism. As noted by The Daily Beast\u2019s Lachlan Markay, the\u00a0legislation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-395646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}