1. I plan to propose an alternative shortly. 2. Basic income, job guarantee, universal health care, and all the other economic guarantees that are the biggest cost items in the Green New Deal are not necessary to save the planet, and climatologists know this.https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1093971772440043520 …
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But the "politically necessary" part is just your bald assertion. It's saying "We must have a package deal because we demand a package deal". Maybe that'll work, but the package deal is bad enough right now where I oppose it so far. If it improves, I'll change.
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But of course I am nobody and nothing and unimportant. So mostly I'll sit back and hope we don't do crazy things to our economy. But I will soon propose the outlines of an alternative plan.
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GND risks looking ridiculous with all of these progressive wish list add-ons. The right always said the environment is just a smoke screen for a whole other agenda. It's too easy for them to dismiss GND the same way.
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And not just the right... trying to do one very controversial and difficult thing doesn't necessarily get easier by adding ten more.
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You could literally say this about any policy. Want criminal justice reform? Well, we need to provide a job guaranty to get political buy-in. Want free college? Well, we need to have single payer to get political buy in. And so on. This is a ridiculous argument.
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Why does it require political action? I was told that the NGD investments would generate wealth. Surely there are billions in capital waiting to invest in such guaranteed wealth generating programs, right? Odd the market hasn’t seized this easy money.
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It's a plan, not a bill. It would be wonderful if the media & the candidates would have substantive debates about this & other plans but so far it looks like email redux (DNA, prosecution past, bossiness, etc.)
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