Ocasio-Cortez's green new deal is a union busting, contracts for kickbacks, socialize the risk privatize the profits scam.
On her website she states the plan must “include additional measures such as universal health care programs and any others as the select committee may deem appropriate to promote economic security, labor market flexibility and entrepreneurism …”.
Out the gate universal health care, not single payer, now we move on to one of the most disgusting phrases in the Beltway and on Wall Street. Union busting "labor market flexibility". As Investopedia notes, “A flexible labor market is one where firms are under fewer regulations regarding the labor force and can, therefore, set wages, fire employees at will and change their work hours.” privatization and labor market flexibility are the two primary deities of the neoliberal religion. As far as statement "must promote economic security" goes, that clearly doesn't apply to the workers, but to the CEOs, board members and the stock holders, seeing as of course a "flexible labor market" is the antithesis of economic security to your average employee. A "flexible labor market" does not exist if workers have the option to collectively bargain.
Next we move on to some a more fun Third Way New Democrat buzzword bullshit ie Entrepreneurism which in this case is synonymous with a phrase repeated numerous times in the proposal "private public partnerships" a phrase that is tied with "flexible labor market " for being one of the most disgusting phrases in DC and on Wall Street. Private public partnerships are anything but, they are simply a way for businesses to loot the public coffers, be it though contracts for kickbacks, or taking sole ownership of the results of any work done in the corse of said laughably labeled "partnership" ie should a gov lab in conjunction with with a private for profit lab, invent anything cool, proprietary ownership will go to the for profit lab.
Now we move on to the next part of the plan The majority of financing of the Plan shall be accomplished by the federal government, using a combination of the Federal Reserve, a new public bank or system of regional and specialized public banks, public venture funds and such other vehicles or structures that the select committee deems appropriate.” Lovely new public banks , ment to offer cheap loans to the struggling single mother? No fuck no, off course not, that's what predatory pay day lenders are for, wealthy people don't get richer by offering workers cheap money, they do however get richer if they own stocks in a for profit business that has access to cheap loans. This ain't a fucking New Deal, it the fucking Pendergast machine.
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IWW and UE
IWW: https://www.iww.org
and
UE: https://www.ueunion.org
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Terms do need to be defined.
Given the way her plan is written, AOC is using the term "labor market flexibility" to mean something different than what it has become known as. These two points in her plan would indicate that the intent is coal, oil and other workers will need to be retrained for other industries. One would think that would be desirable.
From DRAFT TEXT FOR PROPOSED ADDENDUM TO HOUSE RULES FOR 116TH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
Another one of the plan's points reinforces the idea that the term does not mean what naysayers are indicating:
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
Ah!
missed that.
It seems a lot of people have missed that
and so much more.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
Excellent points
The bias of the article becomes more apparent when some context is added.
I, at first, missed that this article
(the one from MintPress upon which this essay was lifted) is an opinion piece. Once I noticed that, it made more sense why the article was bereft of facts. The comment section of that opinion piece is very interesting. There are those who seek to correct its many errors by supplying the missing facts and those who seek to destroy rational thought (which has become a norm...even here).
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
We can do without the
subtle and not so subtle insults out here. The idea that people out here have lost "rational thought" because you do not agree with them being a big one.
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
Read closer.
I did not say that people here have lost rational thought.
Perhaps I should parse that sentence:
1. Some people are supplying facts.
2. Some people are working to destroy rational thought (in other words, they resort to emotionalism rather than facts)
3. This mix is becoming a norm, including here.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
As k9 disc stated
The union leaders have sold out the workers. Big time. This website has great coverage most of the strikes that happen here. Great one to bookmark.
Teamsters sold out the UPS workers
Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?
Labor protections
ended with the Taft-Hartley Act. At that point the gov't stepped in and said that it would provide for labor protections.
Then Reagan fixed that.
Unions are pretty much a thing of the past. You'll still find them in some circles but nowhere near the strength they once were. Eg, the teamster union was gutted when the trucking industry changed the driver into an independent contractor.
Who didn't see this coming?
It won't be long before AOC is sucking the same dicks for donor dollars as the rest of them. At this point, "I told you so" just doesn't cut it.
Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.
just to toss this into the mix:
Sorry Democrats, the Green Party Came Up With the Green New Deal!
by Andrew Stewart, November 29, 2018, counterpunch; a few snippets:
me, i think both are pie in the sky, as these plans are boh amerikan centric, and there's an entire planet to consider as far as carbon footprints. yes, the climate chaos emergency came long ago, and 'hoping' OCS's deal won't alter the facts that it's by way of burnishing not only her Big (reform capitalist) Brand, but as an election issue for Dems.
my two favorite tankies on twitter have called out her Brand since she was elected, as she's their congresswoman, and they're pissed as hell that she'd wrecking the Socialist Brand, for one, and that her big con is backtracking on her campaign 'promises', as whitney webb had noted.
meanwhile, the main wikileaks accounts on twitter have been shadowbanned, and that's a terrifying state of affairs that some of us had long predicted as possible/probable.
on edit: and bravo to you, Akze, for writing this diary, as i'm sure you'd known ahead of time how much push-back you'd get.
Looks like it's a moot point
Democrats Just Killed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Push For A Green New Deal Committee
Instead, Democrats are sticking to their original plan, and channeled Exxon Mobil in an announcement refusing to bar members who take fossil fuel money.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kathy-castor-climate_us_5c1c0843e4b...
Democratic leaders on Thursday tapped Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) to head a revived U.S. House panel on climate change, ending a dramatic monthlong effort to establish a select committee on a Green New Deal.
Castor’s appointment came as a surprise to proponents of a Green New Deal. The move also kicked off a controversy as the six-term congresswoman dismissed calls to bar members who accept money from fossil fuel companies from serving on the committee, arguing it would violate free speech rights.
...
The movement gained stunning support in just a few weeks. A poll released Monday found 81 percent of registered voters supported the policies outlined under the Green New Deal resolution ― including 64 percent of Republicans and 57 percent of self-described conservative Republicans. Last Friday, more than 300 state and local officials voiced support for a Green New Deal in an open letter.
“We don’t have time to sit on our hands as our planet burns,” Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday in a tweet. “For young people, climate change is bigger than election or re-election. It’s life or death.”
It’s unclear whether Ocasio-Cortez will even get a seat on the select committee.
"No one could have predicted"
The Democratic party is where good ideas go to die.
That's assuming that AOC is virtuous and her proposal was wonderful. The point for me is--I don't care if something is wonderful if it's walking into a room where a hundred guns are pointed at its head. If you know that that's what awaits your proposal, how on earth can you just keep playing it out as if you're dealing with the political system of 1983?
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
AOC, Sanders, Our Revolution,
Double post
AOC, Sanders, Our Revolution,
AOC, Sanders, Our Revolution, the DSA, and other similar organizations are nothing more than the velvet glove for the iron fist of capitalism.
Some of these individuals have the gall to call themselves socialists; they are nothing more than mendacious capitalists who continue to oppress the working class by preventing the working class from seeing who the real enemies are.
These folks aren't socialists, hell the DSA aren't socialists. They are smiley-faced capitalists, welfare capitalists, regulatory capitalists, whatever name you want to give them. They are just too fucking cowardly to call themselves capitalists. Not only that, but their duplicitous behavior continues to con people who are seeking help from the brutality of capitalism, all by corralling the sheep back into their veal pens to be slaughtered.
The greatest threat to the survival of the human race is due to people like AOC and Sanders, people who prevent real change from occurring by diluting and tranquilizing the wrath of the working class who could actually rebel and have a chance to stop the cancer that will kill us all.
End rant
Not a hundred percent sure that Sanders basic idea
was to dilute people's wrath, but even if he's as good a guy as I think he is, it doesn't matter. And that is, I think, where you and I agree. How the hell are you supposed to get juice out of this rock?
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
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