Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Green New Deal’ strives for a ‘free stuff’ utopia without cars, airplanes and farting cows

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., released her much-touted “Green New Deal”on Thursday, a package of socialist, big government packages: free health care, free college, guaranteed federal jobs and a push to eliminate U.S. carbon emissions.

This is a ten year plan: “Americans love a challenge. This is our moonshot,” she writes. “When JFK said we’d go to the by the end of the decade, people said impossible. If Eisenhower wanted to build the interstate highway system today, people would ask how we’d pay for it.”

There is a shocking goal of expanding rail to end AIR TRAVEL: “Totally overhaul transportation by massively expanding electric vehicle manufacturing, build charging stations everywhere, build out highspeed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary, create affordable public transit available to all, with goal to replace every combustion-engine vehicle.”

She takes on the cows: “We set a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years because we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast, but we think we can ramp up renewable manufacturing and power production, retrofit every building in America, build the smart grid, overhaul transportation and agriculture, plant lots of trees and restore our ecosystem to get to net-zero.”

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You can read the Green New Deal here:

Some highlights:

• “Upgrading all existing buildings in the United States.”
• “Guaranteeing a job with a family-sustaining wage … to all people of the United States.”
• “Providing all members of society with high-quality health care, affordable, safe and adequate housing, economic security, and access to clean water, air, healthy and affordable food, and nature.”