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Dear AOC, Please Honor Your Threat and Cancel the Whole Damn Thing

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19 comments on Dear AOC, Please Honor Your Threat and Cancel the Whole Damn Thing

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Good News, AOC is Unhappy

That means anyone with a bit of common sense has something to be happy about.

AOC is unhappy with Senator Joe Manchin who wrote a WSJ Op-Ed seeking a “Strategic Pause on Reconciliation” 

In response, I asked “Did Biden’s Budget Just Die?“

Manchin’s Seven Key Takeaways

  1. Inflation tax on every middle- and working-class American.
  2. Congress should hit a strategic pause on the budget-reconciliation legislation.
  3. Making budgetary decisions under artificial political deadlines never leads to good policy or sound decisions
  4. If I can’t explain it, I can’t vote for it, and I can’t explain why my Democratic colleagues are rushing to spend $3.5 trillion.
  5. This is even more important now as the Social Security and Medicare Trustees have sounded the alarm that these life-saving programs will be insolvent.
  6. It was wrong when the Republicans did it, and it is wrong now.
  7. It would serve us well to remember that members of Congress swear allegiance to this nation and fidelity to its Constitution, not to a political party.

As expected it did not take long for AOC and others to respond.

Clear Eyed Moderation

Hey Joe

https://twitter.com/JamaalBowmanNY/status/1433516432017563651

Let’s Throw Affordable Housing Into the Mix

Hit the Cancel Button

No Middle Road

Recall AOC’s concern the world would end in 12 years.

“We Need to Change All of Society to Save Our Planet”

Damn. I guess the planet is doomed. 

Unfortunately, we do not have a new timeline for this revelation, so all in all, AOC’s reaction just gets a B-. I expected an even more colorful response complete with a new date to make fun of. 

Meanwhile, let’s hope AOC and the progressives do kill the whole damn thing. 

Doing nothing avoids wasting $4.5 trillion, most of it on nonsense. 

Mass Hysteria

On September 5 I took a look at the Mass Hysteria Over 1 Degree in Climate Change Since 1850

Check it out. The actual science makes a solid case we are already on the right path so there’s no need to waste trillions of dollars. 

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Felix_Mish
Felix_Mish
4 years ago
Looking at some of the twits @Mish has quoted: Yet again, public talkers have newly discovered that it’s better to be rich than poor. Notice the hand-wringing about the poor getting hit worse by rain than the rich? Golly, gosh, and gee-whiz!
This is the sort of thing you can skip over and miss nothing.
And rain redefined as “climate change”? How is that different from our great, great, great, great grandparents redefining rain as “God’s will”? The words change, but the meaning stays the same.
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Christoball
Christoball
4 years ago
Forests and other plants clean up more pollution than green energy eliminates. Here is a link to a video that shows the Caldor fire in California. It shows how much forest was saved and how much is gone according to fire severity. The video also suggests directions for future forest management that is different that what is currently practiced. A good watch.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzXXc4uqsuM
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Casual_Observer2020
Casual_Observer2020
4 years ago
With EFT, I don’t see why the IRS and Treasury can’t come up with $7T very quickly.
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StukiMoi
StukiMoi
4 years ago
If “The Planet” was so fragile it depended on mindless babble by clueless bimbos to be “saved”, it would have gone up in smoke a long time ago…
Talk about having an inflated opinion of the importance of ones own pathetic little self…..
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anoop
anoop
4 years ago
i was once a wide-eyed lad full of hope.
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MasOro
MasOro
4 years ago
The root cause of the problems with climate change have not been addressed. The media does not want to go there. All of the advances by “modern man” have come about precisely because of climate change. A mear 15,000 years ago the climate “changed” sufficiently warm enough to get out of caves and to begin to till the soil. Since then human population has been on an exponential growth trajectory. 
The root problem is population, and it will get worse until there is a few billion-persons decrease in population. Issues connected to this problem are too vast for most people to grasp. 
For me, I will continue to drive my gas guzzler car until I see my legislators walking or riding their horse to work. They may want to carbon-tax me into submission, but I will resist. 
One can learn a lot about where population is going if you study the history of the trilobite. It was the most advanced creature in the sea 100 million years ago. They consumed everything around them until they were left to consume themselves, because that was all that was left. 
$4.3 trillion is kind`a like a lot of trilobites.
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Yooper
Yooper
4 years ago
Reply to  MasOro
This too will resolve itself. Those places that are growing out of control will have that de-population event through disease, pollution, war, or the lack of food. No one is running from the rising seas.
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TechLover1
TechLover1
4 years ago
Reply to  Yooper
You forgot migration/immigration in your list which is happening already.
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RonJ
RonJ
4 years ago
“We Need to Change All of Society to Save Our Planet”
AOC has no intention of doing that. She is now one of the elitists and the elitists are not going to submit to coming down to where they plan for the rest of us to live.
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Yooper
Yooper
4 years ago
Reply to  RonJ
Precisely. Justify their control and power in pursuit of an unachievable goal of “saving” the planet when it’s now the rest of the world that’s the real source of the problem in every measure – even more so in the next 50 yrs.
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numike
numike
4 years ago
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Casual_Observer2020
Casual_Observer2020
4 years ago
Reply to  numike
I predict we start seeing the effects of that quicker than most expect. 
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kiers
kiers
4 years ago
It took “contractors” 5 years to pave a traffic free walkway in my neighborhood.  During the whole time, there were trucks and backhoes and whatnot parked there….”active scene”. 5 years.  paving job.  Client was the city.  5 years. paving job.  I understand “the types” who run contractor companies.  I really do.
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TexasTim65
TexasTim65
4 years ago
Reply to  kiers
Similar thing here in Florida. They started modifying a small section of road (maybe quarter mile in length) to widen it from 2 to 4 lanes that I used to go to work. Took 3 years time during which they built a 2nd road for traffic while they worked on the first one. More than 1 time they removed sidewalks and painted lines etc on areas that looked already complete!
No way it should have taken that long or been that complex as when the signs first went up I thought it was going to take a month tops.
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Yooper
Yooper
4 years ago
Reply to  kiers
Same in NW Ohio (Toledo). For all the republicans spewing about EU benefits and welfare in the state, they are more than happy to offer cost-plus road resurfacing contracts with prevailing wages to private companies. Surprise, surprise, simple 5 mile stretches of roads are taking 10 yrs plus to complete.
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Eddie_T
Eddie_T
4 years ago
Never let a crisis go to waste. Blame each and every storm on climate change, regardless of evidence. Blame every fire on climate change. 
Rinse, repeat.
Never fear, something will be hammered out here, somewhere between the pie-in-the-sky 3.5T and Manchin’s stated willingness to go as high as a trillion. It’s inevitable. Might as well figure out how to profit with all the other pigs at the trough.
AOC is unfortunately, the voice of the future in American politics. She could get elected President of the Idiocracy that we now are…in time.
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TexasTim65
TexasTim65
4 years ago
Reply to  Eddie_T
I think we will get the originally agreed upon 1 trillion. There’s no way Democrats are going to pass up that spending especially since it has wide support both publicly and across party lines.
What’s being argued about is how much MORE spending we are getting before the midterms when there is a real possibility for Democrats to lose the house and/or senate and the last 2 years of Bidens term will be lame duck. If we are very lucky like Mish says, we won’t get any more spending beyond the 1 trillion and in reality the economy doesn’t need any more.
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kiers
kiers
4 years ago
Reply to  TexasTim65
“The rednecks” want the pork too! Just not blue pork.  Red pork.
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TechLover1
TechLover1
4 years ago
Reply to  Eddie_T
Manchin has said 1.5 to 2 Trillion. No more than that!
This is posturing by all sides. All expected.
There will be a final deal soon. I expect somewhere between 2.0 and 3.0 Trillion. The compromises will be in where that money is allocated. 
I expect West Virginia (Manchin’s state) and Arizona (Sinema’s) to get a lot of the allocation after all is said and done. Again, this is all posturing and active negotiations must be going on as to the allocations etc.
Those who have the most power to scuttle the deal will be able to get the most of their demands accepted.
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