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I’ve had an epiphany my fellow Unstucker’s. I realized, if you can’t beat em, you might as well join 'em, so now… Thank God I’m a Liberal !!!1!
So, as a newly minted liberal, just like a newly minted sportsball fan… my first job is to pick a team. A team to live and die for, a team to fantasize about, a team to love… and a team that has the style, and the looks, and the moxie, and the fortitude to win on game day.
Ask me anything.
Seriously, can you imagine criticizing a President for golfing?
Editor’s Note: the IWW has not taken a position on the Green New Deal; the author is a cofounder of the IWW EUC; the image is from the Intercept .
The Green New Deal Isn’t Just Affordable, It’s Necessary Now
https://ecology.iww.org/node/3217
The Green New Deal resolution Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) have proposed has captured the attention of the American public like nothing else. The deal presents a sweeping vision for meeting the challenge of climate change by creating a more just, equitable and equal society — in the weeks since its introduction, the Green New Deal has stirred up enormous controversy. It’s been co-sponsored by five Democratic presidential candidates and panned by others like Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and former Rep. John Delaney (D-MD) as unrealistic with Delaney going so far as to say:
Even stronger than the original New Deal in the ’30s, her version of a Green New Deal would include a federal guarantee of living-wage employment—that is, anyone who wanted a job could get one at a salary that could support a family, with an emphasis on union jobs and protecting the right to organize.