Hearing the Falconer #29 ~ 6-April-2019 ~ The Green New Deal: Part 5

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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6-April-2019: The Green New Deal, Part 5
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.” Recently we looked at the fourth and fifth “whereas's,” now let's look at the sixth and seventh "whereas's."

The sixth "whereas" reminds us that the US government led massive mobilizations during the New Deal and during World War II that resulted in greatly exanding the middle class although many members of "frontline and vulnerable communities" were left out.

The seventh and final "whereas" says that the House of Representatives now sees an opportunity for another great mobilization in American history. Such a mobilization now could result in "millions of good, high-wage jobs" and also "counteract systemic injustices."

That's it for the "whereas's." These are high level considerations, aspirations, a vision for a better future. I can't really see anything wrong with this Green New Deal so far. Let's dig into the "resolved's" part of the document and see what we can learn.

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The "Hearing the Falconer" Library

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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

Truman