On Thursday socialist congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her cohort, co-author Sen. Ed Markey, released her highly anticipated “Green New Deal,” and as expected, it was a hot mess.
Not only does the radical and inordinately expensive proposal call for eliminating air travel, combustion-engine vehicles, nuclear energy, fossil fuel energy and meat, but it reads like the whimsical, utopian daydreams of a young, naive 12-year-old teenager who lives in his or her head.
Suffice it to say, the plan has no chance of being implemented because it’s patently insane, but it certainly provides juicy red-meat for her radical base.
You may read the official plan here or peruse its FAQ here. Both were supplied to NPR by AOC.
Free Beacon’s Natalie Johnson provided some of the highlights below:
One – the plan contains no specifics:
The Green New Deal is really heavy on the specifics. https://t.co/HWybqIz9D9 pic.twitter.com/0jozsYJdjO
— Natalie Johnson (@nataliejohnsonn) February 7, 2019
Two – the plan sets unrealistic goals:
Seems doable. https://t.co/HWybqIz9D9 pic.twitter.com/M39GYu7z6V
— Natalie Johnson (@nataliejohnsonn) February 7, 2019
Three – the plan speaks of getting rid of farting cows and airplanes:
HOW IS THIS DOCUMENT REAL. pic.twitter.com/ZUYu3cVQVB
— Natalie Johnson (@nataliejohnsonn) February 7, 2019
Four – the plan says that “how will we pay for it” is irrelevant:
LMAO pic.twitter.com/nyDYCPGwLb
— Natalie Johnson (@nataliejohnsonn) February 7, 2019
Five – the plan calls for empowering America’s laziest residents with the right to spend all day eating honey buns and watching TV at the taxpayers’ expense:
I also like the part about the deal guaranteeing “economic security” for people “unwilling to work” pic.twitter.com/VHjSgLPrpI
— David Rutz (@DavidRutz) February 7, 2019
Six – the plan makes it clear AOC is either completely insane or an idiot:
I found @AOC‘s proposal pretty modest. I mean, she just wants to tear down every building in the country, confiscate everyone’s wealth, kill all the cows, build a railroad across the Pacific, and provide jobs, vacations, and benefits to 325 million people. What’s the problem?
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) February 7, 2019
Whoever wrote AOC’s Green New Deal document is a full-scale idiot. There is no way to read that document as a rational person and think otherwise.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 7, 2019
How absurd is the plan? So much so that even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a hardcore, radical left-wing politician who believes that border walls are “immoral,” has already dismissed it.
“It will be one of several or maybe many suggestions that we receive,” she said Wednesday. “The green dream or whatever they call it, nobody knows what it is, but they’re for it right?”
She got the “dream” part right to a T.
The following morning — i.e., the same morning that AOC released her GND — Pelosi released the names of House members who she’s assigned to serve on Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. Guess whose name was missing from the list. That of Miss Green New Deal.
Ouch …
Pelosi names members to new select climate change committee; notably @AOC not on there. Members: Castor, Luján, Suzanne Bonamici, Julia Brownley, Sean Casten, Jared Huffman, Mike Levin of California, Donald McEachin, Joe Neguse
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) February 7, 2019
Ocasio-Cortez’s radical plan also calls for the government providing free housing, free money, free education and a guaranteed job to all Americans. Except of course for the ones who’d rather spend all day eating honey buns and watching TV at the taxpayers’ expense
And as noted earlier, the plan offers no specifics on how to pay for these freebies, saying only that “how will we pay for it” is irrelevant but hinting at potentially “massive” increases in taxes.
“The plan itself seems to insinuate that billionaires can pay for the whole thing,” political columnist David Harsanyi notes. “Of course, best case scenario, it is estimated that instituting a top marginal tax rate of 70 percent would raise a little more than $700 billion over that decade. She does not explain how we’re going to raise the other 20 bazillion dollars it will cost to deconstruct modernity.”
It’s as if AOC (and other Democrats who buy into such plans) failed 2nd-grade math:
It’s like they failed 2nd grade math.
OVER ONE DECADE
— Bernie's estate tax revenue: $2.2T
— AOC's income tax revenue: $700B
— Warren's wealth tax revenue: $2.75T— Medicare For All cost: $32.6T
— Free College cost: $470B
— Green New Deal cost: $49.1TSocialists, you have a math problem.https://t.co/O3B9BVFnAO
— Tiana Lowe (@TianaTheFirst) January 31, 2019
H/T The_Donald
Posted by Conservative News Feed on Friday, February 1, 2019
See more Twitter reactions to this woman’s pure insanity below:
The brilliant @AOC wants us to:
– Ban affordable energy
– Ban nuclear energy
– Ban cars
– Gut & rebuild EVERY BUILDING in America
– Eliminate air travel
– Provide economic security for those unable & UNWILLING to workBut wait there’s more… https://t.co/GI3ZM4CZLj
— Morgan Murtaugh (@morganmurtaugh) February 7, 2019
You all realize this is one of the most insane proposals ever, don’t you? It’s actually scary that this is what they came up with.
— Lilly (@lillysmithstee1) February 7, 2019
To anyone that has read #GreenNewDeal and actually think it’s realistic proved that their IQ is far below the average. It’s insane, unrealistic and should serve as a future reminder that @AOC is flat-out stupid.
— Felix Gustafsson (@UpcomingFront) February 7, 2019
This #GreenNewDeal is literally insane. Not sure how, but @AOC turned a bill supposedly aimed at tackling climate change, into a reparations package for social justice. Honestly I would bet she is better at bar tending then writing legislation https://t.co/lzGLRqyl2r
— Michael angelo (@Michaelparat) February 7, 2019
Critics of @AOC have labored for too long under the delusion that she is just dumb.
She proved today that she is clearly insane… and a 10 year old child… and dumb.#GreenNewDeal— JaySnoogins (@JaySnoogins) February 7, 2019
bloody hell. how is she taken seriously??
— rryan13 ⛄️ (@rryanx13) February 7, 2019
She’s taken seriously because the modern left has no standards, except of course for double standards.
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