Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez releases her Green New Deal legislation to repeal and replace America's affordable energy industry

Greg P. | 8:56 AM on February 07, 2019

Is anyone ready for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal legislation? Because here it is:

The resolution for the Green New Deal is here. ?https://t.co/Vwost1OSNM pic.twitter.com/eBxrzXkKkR

— Waleed Shahid (@_waleedshahid) February 7, 2019

From the NPR write-up… It’s going to “create jobs and boost the economy”:

In very broad strokes, the Green New Deal legislation laid out by Ocasio-Cortez and Markey sets goals for some drastic measures to cut carbon emissions across the economy, from electricity generation to transportation to agriculture. In the process, it aims to create jobs and boost the economy.

Except… The legislation also admits that it’s going to absolutely crush those groups that cannot afford it:

In that vein, the proposal stresses that it aims to meet its ambitious goals while paying special attention to groups like the poor, disabled and minority communities that might be disproportionately affected by massive economic transitions like those the Green New Deal calls for.

In other words, America needs a ginormous new program to help people pay for the other ginormous new program that is supposed to boost our economy but for some reason doesn’t help those at the bottom of the ladder:

This is an admission that the Green new deal will harm poor people the most. I've said before, abolishing fossil fuels is a call for genocide against the poorest people. They try to gloss over it by coming up with another massive government program to try to mitigate the death(2)

— Lee Doren (@LDoren) February 7, 2019