Category: green new deal

Big Labor Blasts ‘Green New Deal’ in Letter to AOC


AFL-CIO says job-destroying scheme makes unachievable, unrealistic promises

O’Rourke Backs Green New Deal — ‘We Have No More Than 12 Years’ to Take Action


While speaking at a coffee shop in Keokuk, IA, 2020 presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke voiced his support for the Green New Deal, echoing socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in saying the world will end in 12 years if nothing is done. O’Rourke told the group gathered at the coffee shop that he has not “seen anything better that addresses this singular crisis” that he said “could lead to extinction” than the Green New Deal. “This is the final chance,” the failed Senate candidate from Texas advised. “The scientists are absolutely unanimous on this — that we have no more than 12 years to take incredibly bold action on this crisis. My gratitude to them for the young people who stepped up to offer such a bold proposal to meet such a grave challenge.” He concluded, ‘”Not to be melodramatic, but the future of the world depends on us right now here where we are. So, yes, let’s find a way to do this.” Follow Trent Baker on Twitter @MagnifiTrent

AFL-CIO Union Turns on AOC as Blue Collar Workers Realize She’s Targeting Them


When Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez first introduced the costly socialist power grab known as the Green New Deal — with a matching resolution in the Senate by Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey — it was widely criticized and mocked as absurd and unconstitutional by the right. Even some on the left expressed misgivings…

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Mitch McConnell Mocking AOC’s Green New Deal on the Senate Floor Is Best Thing You’ll See Today


Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gave the socialist left a reality check last week by pointing out the absurdities of the “Green New Deal” in an epic speech on the Senate floor. “Our nation has watched the Democratic Party take a sharp and abrupt left turn toward socialism, a flawed ideology that has been rejected…

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Bill Nye and AOC Teamed Up at Hipster Music Festival… The Comments Are Brutal


By age they’re more than 30 years apart. By politics, they’re allies in the cause of whipping up hysteria over the impending collapse of civilization thanks to “climate change.” And when it comes to the scorn they’re getting on social media, Bill Nye “the Science Guy” and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez might as well be joined…

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Hypocrisy: Ocasio-Cortez Calls for Tax Hikes While Her Own Company Owes Gov’t Big Chunk of Cash


For Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the bad tax news keeps coming. It only made the Democratic “It” girl look foolish when news broke that her own mother had forsaken New York state for the sunnier climes of Florida – rather than pay the Empire State’s higher taxes. Now, it looks like Ocasio-Cortez has a problem paying New…

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