Hearing the Falconer #31 ~ 8-April-2019 ~ The Green New Deal: Part 6

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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8-April-2019: The Green New Deal, Part 6
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 sixth and seventh "whereas's." Now let's look at the first "Resolved."

The first "Resolved" calls for the United States to achieve a variety of goals including: to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, to invest in industry and infrastructure, and to stop, prevent, and repair the oppression of "frontline and vulnerable communities."

Other goals include a sustainable environment, and access for all Americans to clean air and water, healthy food, and nature,

Yet another goal is "to create millions of good, high-wage jobs and ensure prosperity and economic security for all people of the United States."

This "Green New Deal" resolution is very high level and does not go into details. I have to admit, so far I like the ideas I am seeing. To make sure this project does not become too extreme I think we will have to see and analyze the details. It could BECOME too extreme or it could become the greatest government drive since The New Deal and the greatest accomplishment since putting human beings on the moon.

Anyway, that's it for the first "Resolved." Next time we will look at the second "Resolved."

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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

Truman