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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Beto O’Rourke, Kamala Harris, and Eric Swalwell are rising in prominence in the Democratic Party.
Those of us on the right must stop brushing these politicians on the left off as if they and their ideology are not a threat. They are.



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5 Things Ocasio-Cortez Doesn't Want You To Know About Her "Green New Deal"



"The radical plan would force families to pay more to heat, cool and provide electricity to their homes... raise the same costs for businesses, farmers, government and organizations... and raise prices for just about all the good and services Americans buy."

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Authored by Justin Hawkins, op-ed via Fox News,

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y, the self-described democratic socialist who has become a media sensation, is pushing for enactment of a radical plan called the Green New Deal that would ban the use of all fossil fuels from U.S. electricity generation, agriculture and manufacturing by 2030.
The Green New Deal would dramatically reshape the U.S. economy and add tens of trillions of dollars to the national debt.



The radical plan would force families to pay more to heat, cool and provide electricity to their homes. It would raise the same costs for businesses, farmers, government and organizations, driving up their operating costs – and raising the prices for just about all the good and services Americans buy.
Under the Green New Deal, Americans would have to power their homes with renewable energy, such as wind and solar power. Every home and business in the United States would have to be “upgraded” for “state-of-the-art energy efficiency, comfort and safety.” And a slew of massive government social programs and mandates would be created.
Yet despite all these negatives, the Green New Deal has garnered significant attention and support from some members of the media, Congress, and even prominent senators considering 2020 presidential runs: Cory Booker, D-N.J.; Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.; and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
In addition to the energy provisions of the Green New Deal that have received the most attention from left-wing pundits and radical environmentalists, there is a lot of important information related to this proposal that proponents have deliberately kept out of the spotlight.
Here are five of the most important things you need to know about the Green New Deal.
1. It includes many radical programs that have nothing to do with so so-called “green” energy.

Supporters of the Green New Deal spend most of their time talking to the public about the proposal’s energy-related mandates, but some of the costliest parts of the plan are completely unrelated to the energy industry.
For example, Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal calls for the creation of “basic income programs” and single-payer health care.
The Green New Deal would also establish a federal jobs guarantee – one of the few non-energy-related parts of the plan Ocasio-Cortez has spent significant time advertising. And it would include provisions to “mitigate deeply entrenched racial, regional and gender-based inequalities in income and wealth.”
2. It would do nothing to curb global warming.

The primary justification given by Green New Deal proponents for the radical nature of the plan is that it is necessary to slow the rise of human-caused climate change, which Ocasio-Cortez and other liberals say will cause significant damage to the economy and human health over the next century.
Many scientists say there is no good evidence global warming will be catastrophic or that there’s anything humans can do to stop it. But even if we were to assume that global warming must be slowed down, the Green New Deal would do nothing to achieve this goal.
Even if the United States were to eliminate all of its carbon dioxide emissions by the start of 2030 – something that is likely impossible – the increased carbon dioxide emissions of the rest of world would more than offset the reductions in America.
Whether the Green New Deal is imposed or not, global carbon dioxide emissions are going to rise.
3. Renewable energy costs significantly more than fossil fuels.

The Green New Deal would eliminate fossil fuels from all electricity generation and transportation, forcing Americans to rely largely on expensive and unreliable renewable technologies like wind and solar power.
The Institute for Energy Research estimates that new solar power generation is nearly five times more expensive than using existing fossil fuel-powered electricity. Wind power is 3.5 times costlier.
These higher costs would drive up the price of all goods and services, not just electricity bills. And because all manufacturing would also be required to rely on “green” power, industries in the United States would struggle to match the prices of their foreign competitors, forcing some businesses to either close or move overseas.
4. The Green New Deal would empower and give handout to left-wing special interest groups and industries.

Some of the most vaguely worded parts of Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal plan are those that promise to increase the power of labor unions and give favors to left-wing industries.
According to the proposal, the Green New Deal would “deeply involve national and local labor unions to take a leadership role in the process of job training and worker deployment,” and it promises the “funding (of) massive investment in the drawdown of greenhouse gases.” That’s a code phrase for giving billions of taxpayer dollars to renewable-energy companies.
5. It would run up the national debt by tens of trillions of dollars.

Although no one knows exactly how much the Green New Deal would cost, a very conservative estimate is $40 trillion in its first 10 to 15 years. The Mercatus Center estimates the single-payer health-care proposal supported by Ocasio-Cortez would, on its own, cost more than $32 trillion.
Ocasio-Cortez has suggested one way to pay for these gigantic government programs would be to increase the income tax rate for America’s wealthiest earners as high as 70 percent, but even that radical move would fail to fund the Green New Deal.
In Ocasio-Cortez’s draft resolution, she suggests funding her proposal using “the same ways that we paid for the 2008 bank bailout and extended quantitative easing programs, the same ways we paid for World War II and many other wars. The Federal Reserve can extend credit to power these projects and investments.”
In other words, Ocasio-Cortez says we should pay for these left-wing proposals by running up the national debt by trillions of dollars, putting the nation’s economy at risk of collapsing.

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Whoopi Slams Ocasio-Cortez: Don’t Go ‘Pooping on People’ Until You’ve Accomplished Something

She does not approve of lawmaker's latest decision

By Kathryn Blackhurst | Monday, January 7, 2019

ABC News’ “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg lectured newly minted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Monday for “pooping on people and what they’ve done” after less than a week on the job with few, if any, congressional accomplishments under her own belt.
Ocasio-Cortez (pictured above right) became a progressive star last summer after she pulled off a stunning upset primary victory against 10-term former Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.), the former chair of the House Democratic Caucus.
She easily won the general election in the November midterms.
Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, was sworn into office last Thursday along with the new Democratic majority. She has promised to bring radical change to Congress and fight for progressive policies and working-class Americans.
She spoke with CNN anchor and CBS correspondent Anderson Cooper for an interview that aired on Sunday night on CBS News’ “60 Minutes.”
Cooper asked Ocasio-Cortez about her efforts to eliminate “the influence of corporate money in politics,” noting she has “angered some of her colleagues in the House by encouraging primary challenges of Democrats who accept corporate money or oppose progressive policies.”
“These are politically dangerous tactics that you’re using,” Cooper warned.
Ocasio-Cortez replied, “It’s absolutely risky. it requires risk to try something new, but also we — we know so much of — of what we’ve tried in the past hasn’t worked, either.”
These comments did not sit well with Goldberg (above left).
“Listen, let me just say this about Ocasio-Cortez. She just got in on Thursday. She was sworn in,” Goldberg said. “And she’s very opinionated, which we like. We like opinionated women.”
“But it is very, very difficult when people make accusations where you say, you know, the Democrats have — have done nothing … the establishment of the Democrats have done nothing,” Goldberg added.

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Goldberg noted that Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a civil rights leader, “wasn’t sitting still.”
She said that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who was elected alongside former Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) as California’s first female U.S. senators, also “wasn’t sitting still.”
“There are a whole bunch of people in the Democratic Party who have been busting their a***s to make sure that women get what they need, people get what they need, children get what they need,” Goldberg argued. “So you just got in there and I know you got lots of good ideas, but I would encourage you to sit still for a minute and learn the job.”
“The View” audience greeted Goldberg’s criticism of Ocasio-Cortez with a round of applause.
“And you know … because there are people in that party who have been working their tails off for this country,” Goldberg continued. “And they know a lot … And you could learn some stuff from them.”
“And I just feel like, you know, you don’t have to be born into it. You don’t have to know it when you step out,” Goldberg concluded. “But before you start pooping on people and what they’ve done, you’ve got to do something, too.”
Separately, new Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) also recently criticized Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter after some conservatives made a huge fuss over a college video of a dancing Ocasio-Cortez.
Crenshaw personally took no issue with the light-hearted dancing.
After that, Ocasio-Cortez cheekily posted a video of herself dancing outside her new congressional office, writing, “I hear the GOP thinks women dancing are scandalous. Wait ’til they find out congresswomen dance too! Have a great weekend everyone .”

I hear the GOP thinks women dancing are scandalous.
Wait till they find out Congresswomen dance too! 💃🏽
Have a great weekend everyone pic.twitter.com/9y6ALOw4F6
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 4, 2019

Crenshaw roasted Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter, writing, “No one thinks this is scandalous. Dance away (was actually pretty good). What is scandalous is increasing income taxes to 70 percent. It’s wholly unethical for anyone to work a majority of the year just to give their money to the government. Dancing’s great, but ideas matter more.”

No one thinks this is scandalous. Dance away (was actually pretty good).
What is scandalous is increasing income taxes to 70%. It’s wholly unethical for anyone to work a majority of the year just to give their money to the government.
Dancing’s great, but ideas matter more. https://t.co/8RIShEJjAL
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) January 4, 2019

In her same interview with Cooper, Ocasio-Cortez said she planned on funding her radical Green New Deal plan with a “progressive tax rate system” that could result in a tax as high as 70 percent.
Check out Goldberg’s remarks in the video below:

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