Bernie's Green New Deal

Bernie’s Green New Sham
The View from the Middle

Have you read Bernie Sanders’ “Green New Deal” proposal? It’s only 48 pages long and is, if nothing else, entertaining. My first impression was that it is the most blatant and massive vote-buying scheme ever perpetrated on the American public. Imagine the number of votes you could buy with $16.3 Trillion. That’s over $50,000 per person in the United States. Oh, but his real price tag is much higher than that. In his opening paragraph he states that, “we must guarantee health care, housing and a good paying job to every American.” We know that “Medicare for all” will cost the country (us, because the government has no money) $32 Trillion over 10 years. Consequently, we also know that it can’t be included in his $16 Trillion price tag. I tried to add up all the spending in Bernie’s scheme, and after my calculator stopped smoking, I estimated that Bernie’s plan will exceed the $93 Trillion cost of AOC’s fantasyland plan which didn’t receive a single vote in the Senate. Even the Democrat co-sponsor of this bill, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, only voted “present”.

The good news for Bernie is that he will have no problem getting his agenda enacted, because it appears that he is not actually running for President, but King. The words “Bernie will” do this or that appears over 25 times in this document. Congress is only mentioned a few times and only to criticize them, never to suggest that they would actually “do” anything. But being King of The United States is apparently too small of a job for Bernie. His proposal states that, “Bernie will convene global leaders to redirect our priorities to confront our shared enemy: climate change.” The only way that Bernie will “convene” world leaders is to pay them off, which he is totally willing to do.

He will, of course, recommit The United States to the Paris Agreement and a $200 billion contribution to the Green Climate Fund. So far, all other counties combined have only committed to seven billion dollars. Obviously, Bernie has no problem committing and spending our money. If this $200 billion was going to be the total amount given to this fund, America would be providing over 95% of the fund’s resources. However, the Director of that fund has already stated that the fund would quickly require over $450 billion “a year”. That would cost us over $4 Trillion over ten years if America continues to provide over 95% of that fund and I’m betting the Bernie has conveniently left that out of his $16 Trillion tab for you and me (because the government has NO money).

Besides the spending, which should scare us all to death, there are other HUGE problems with Bernie’s delusion. Parts of it are actually unconstitutional. Let’s put the idea that Bernie wants to be king aside. Throughout his “Deal” Bernie says he is going to prioritize all of this spending to “people of color” and native Americans. He doesn’t say that he is going to insure equal access or equal opportunity. This should buy some African American and Native American votes, but when whites and Asians realize that they are being disadvantaged (discriminated against) just because of the color of their skin or national heritage, I envision millions of lawsuits - because that is illegal!

Another major problem with this nightmare New Deal is the amount of control that Bernie wants to give to our already inept, corrupt and convoluted government. A quick perusal reveals that Bernie wants complete government control of our healthcare, energy, agriculture, auto and construction industries. That’s about 50% of our entire economy. And once it controls 50% of our economy it will be a $15 Trillion per year monster, which no one will dare challenge or even question. Do we really want Bernie to tell us what kind of healthcare we can have, or what kind of car we can buy or even what kind of food we can eat? At a time when trust in government is at an all-time low, according to Gallup, do we really want to it this kind of unbridled power?

But there is some good news for Bernie in his New Green Deal. It is so outrageous, so farcical and so impossible to implement, he knows that he will never be held accountable for any of these political promises. Remember, not a single Senator, Republican or Democrat, voted for the AOC Green Deal, and Bernie’s is even more fantastical. Not only will Bernie never get this bill through Congress, I can’t think of a single major plank of his plan that would even be proposed.

I will make a daring prediction right now and suggest that Bernie, with this kind of bizarre thinking, will never become President. He can make all the promises he wants to buy as many votes as he can, but he knows he will never have to fulfill those promises. And even if he were to become President, if all the other candidates and Trump were to pass away between now and November of 2020, he will just blame his broken promises on Congress.

Finally, if you are careful and thoughtful as you read this New Deal sham, you will realize there are no promises of how this will affect the world’s climate. This is because Bernie either doesn’t know or projections are so infinitesimal that even he would be embarrassed to state them.