Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world....
from The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats, 1919
The middle of the road is all of the usable surface.
The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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2-April-2019: The Green New Deal, Part 3
House Resolution 109: The Green New Deal
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From news reports I have gotten the impression the Green New Deal is too extreme. Let's take a look at it and find out for ourselves.
House Resolution 109 has the title “Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal.”
This resolution starts with 7 “Whereas's” and then moves into 4 “Resolved's.” Two days ago we looked at the second "whereas," now today let's look at the third “whereas.”
The third "whereas" lists a number of crises the United States is currently facing. The advocates of the Green New Deal believe that it will help us to address these crises.
The first crisis is declining life expectancy in the United States combined, with a lack of clean air, clean water, and healthy food, and inadequate healthcare, housing, transportation, and education.
Other crises include wage stagnation, lack of social mobility relative to other advanced nations, and income disparities between men and women and between white Americans and black Americans.
Maybe some people would argue these issues are not "crises" but I would certainly agree they are problems. Can the Green New Deal really help us solve these problems? Let's keep looking and find out!
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The "Hearing the Falconer" Library
Books for Independent Thinkers
Moderates: The Vital Center of American Politics, from the Founding to Today
The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It
Unapologetically Moderate: My Search for the Rational Center in American Politics
The Deliberate Moderate: Influencing From the Middle
Eisenhower: The White House Years
The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison
Lincoln
Reflections of a Radical Moderate
Washington: A Life
The Reluctant Republican: My Fight for the Moderate Majority
Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
Theodore Roosevelt: A Life
The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides
Beyond Red and Blue: How Twelve Political Philosophies Shape American Debates
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