If there was any pretense that the environmental movement
was only a disguise for communism, then the “Green New Deal” has exposed their true
intentions. Although the Green New Deal
is a program proposed by the Green Party in previous election cycles, we have
now reached a point where it will be considered as new legislation in the US
House of Representatives in the next session.
The Green New Deal is being advanced as the last best hope
to save the planet from catastrophic climate change. This is a classic example of the statement by
then Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel: "You never let a serious crisis go to
waste. And what I mean by that it's an
opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."
If there is any doubt that the Green New Deal is not about
climate change a brief review of its proposals are in order. The full text of the proposed legislation can
be found at this link:
These are some of the highlights:
(B) COMPOSITION. —The select
committee shall be composed of 15 members appointed by the Speaker, of whom 6
may be appointed on the recommendation of the Minority Leader. The Speaker
shall designate one member of the select committee as its chair. A vacancy in
the membership of the select committee shall be filled in the same manner as
the original appointment.
Note that the speaker in the next congress will likely be Nancy
Pelosi and she would appoint 9 of 15 the members.
(i) The select committee shall have
authority to develop a detailed national, industrial, economic mobilization
plan (hereinafter in this section referred to as the “Plan for a Green New
Deal” or the “Plan”) for the transition of the United States economy to become
greenhouse gas emissions neutral and to significantly draw down greenhouse
gases from the atmosphere and oceans and to promote economic and environmental
justice and equality.
The last sentence tells all: “promote economic and
environmental justice and equality”. Economic
equality, the concept used for over a century to pave the road to serfdom.
(B) INVESTIGATIVE JURISDICTION. —In
furtherance of the mandate set forth in paragraph (2)(A), the select committee
shall have the authority to investigate, study, make findings, convene experts
and leaders from industry, academia, local communities, labor, finance,
technology and any other industry or group that the select committee deems to
be a relevant resource. The select committee may, at its discretion and as its
members may deem appropriate, hold public hearings in connection with any
aspect of its investigative functions.
In this section the select committee gives itself the
authority to investigate any individual, business, organization, or government agency. This is the same process used during the
French revolution known as the Revolutionary Tribunal. The Revolutionary Tribunal instituted the “Reign
of Terror” using execution by guillotine to enforce its rulings.
(6) SCOPE OF THE PLAN FOR A GREEN
NEW DEAL AND THE DRAFT LEGISLATION. —
(A) The Plan for a Green New Deal (and the
draft legislation) shall be developed with the objective of reaching the
following outcomes within the target window of 10 years from the start of
execution of the Plan:
(iii) upgrading every residential
and industrial building for state-of-the-art energy efficiency, comfort and
safety;
(iv) eliminating greenhouse gas
emissions from the manufacturing, agricultural and other industries, including
by investing in local-scale agriculture in communities across the country;
(v) eliminating greenhouse gas
emissions from, repairing and improving transportation and other
infrastructure, and upgrading water infrastructure to ensure universal access
to clean water;
In subsection (A) (iii) the select committee grants itself
the power to “upgrading every residential and industrial building”. This is incredible. Imagine thinking that the Federal Government
will somehow remodel every structure in the USA. Even worse, combine the new power to remodel
your home with the previous power of investigation. This would give the special committee (the SC)
the right to investigate and prosecute you for not using a high efficiency washing
machine. Also, once inside your home
would the SC investigate to discover unauthorized weapons? What about unauthorized literature?
In subsections (A) (iv) and (v) the SC gives itself the
authority to “eliminate” greenhouse gas emissions from “the manufacturing,
agricultural and other industries”. Note
that eliminate means zero use of fossil fuels.
So, natural gas, diesel, gasoline, or coal will not be used in manufacturing,
agricultural and other industries. This
same principle of elimination is applied to transportation. How many solar/electric powered airliners will
be available for this phase of the program?
Finally, in subsection (A) (v) there will be an assurance of
access to clean water. Clean water will
become scarcer without access to inexpensive energy and chemicals.
(B) 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:
(i) 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;
Subsection (B) (i) codifies a national minimum wage that
would be called a living wage. This language
currently refers to a wage of $15.00 per hour.
(iii) require strong enforcement of
labor, workplace safety, and wage standards that recognize the rights of
workers to organize and unionize free of coercion,
Subsection (B) (iii) recognizes “the rights of workers to organize
and unionize free of coercion”. This is hilarious,
as the vast majority of the coercion against workers now is applied by the unions.
(v) protect and enforce sovereign
rights and land rights of tribal nations;
Subsection (B) (v) will cause some difficulties for the SC
if the tribal nations decide that they want to continue drilling for oil and
gas and mining for coal.
(vi) 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 in such a way that builds
wealth and ownership at the community level);
Subsection (B) (vi) intends to mitigate regional inequalities
in income. Does the SC intend to bring
the income levels of the lower regions up to the level of Washington DC? Or would it be more equitable for the Washington
DC region income level decline to the level of the lower income regions.?
(vii) 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;
Subsection (B) (vii) will bestow upon us the blessings of
basic income programs and universal health care. But those are not the only programs, we would
also receive “any others as the select committee may deem appropriate to
promote economic security, labor market flexibility and entrepreneurism”. This of course is the language used to
describe public ownership of the means of production.
In Section C we find this: “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,”. This means that not only will the SC seize
the means of production they will also have their own banking system.
Is this a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, or is it
a plan for the Federal Government to completely and finally take over all
aspects of the economy?
A very useful source of information on this subject can be
found at this link:
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