Crazy Ivan
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Whoa McGill, you're getting way over the top when you start calling people traitors because of their party affiliation and because they have policies different than yours. Tammy Duckworth lost her legs flying a helicopter in combat, is she a traitor? No responsible politician of either party is purposely trying to destroy the economy. Besides, the stimulus plans so far have passed a Republican controlled Senate and a Republican President. So it's not a case of one party doing what it wants.
Responsible being the key term here. There are definitely a few irresponsible politicians wanting to see the economy wrecked if it means destroying capitalism. And that is their own words.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti admitted recently that the true motivation behind introducing the Green New Deal is to overhaul the “entire economy.”
Chakrabarti said that addressing climate change was not Ocasio-Cortez’s top priority in proposing the Green New Deal during a meeting with Washington governor Jay Inslee.
“The interesting thing about the Green New Deal, is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all,” Chakrabarti said to Inslee’s climate director, Sam Ricketts, according to a Washington Post reporter who attended the meeting for a profile published Wednesday.
“Do you guys think of it as a climate thing?” Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing,” he added.
The Green New Deal, proposed earlier this year by Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey (D., Mass.), would transition the U.S. economy entirely away from fossil fuels within ten years while simultaneously providing a federal jobs and healthcare guarantee. It would also, according to its proponents, advance “social, economic, racial, regional and gender-based justice and equality and cooperative and public ownership.”
All told, the proposal will cost up to $93 trillion in new government spending over ten years, according to a recent report by the conservative American Action Forum.
Green New Deal is not really about climate change
And let's not forget Pelosi tried to sneak some elements of the GND into the first relief package. I haven't seen any signs of a responsible politician among the current Democrat leadership. If that had been the case we would have seen the House focused on getting things done for the country rather than pushing an impeachment witchhunt, especially after their big spiel when trying to take back the House during the 2018 midterms was 'bipartisanship'.