Those two epic failures promoted even grander visions of the Utopian world liberal always promise but never deliver.
Here it is in its entirety:
This resolution calls for the creation of a Green New Deal with the goals of
- achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions;
- establishing millions of high-wage jobs and ensuring economic security for all;
- investing in infrastructure and industry;
- securing clean air and water, climate and community resiliency, healthy food, access to nature, and a sustainable environment for all; and
- promoting justice and equality.
The resolution calls for accomplishment of these goals through a 10-year national mobilization effort. The resolution also enumerates the goals and projects of the mobilization effort, including
- building smart power grids (i.e., power grids that enable customers to reduce their power use during peak demand periods);
- upgrading all existing buildings and constructing new buildings to achieve maximum energy and water efficiency;
- removing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation and agricultural sectors;
- cleaning up existing hazardous waste and abandoned sites;
- ensuring businesspersons are free from unfair competition; and
- providing higher education, high-quality health care, and affordable, safe, and adequate housing to all
Here's what it promises:
Everyone will have everything he needs and wants.
There will be no crime because there will be no need for crime. We will have justice and equality instead.
Millions of high wage jobs will be created magically by the government, for those who want to work.
Blight, pollution and ugliness will be eliminated (as it has in Detroit).
Taxes to pay for all this will be astronomical, probably even unachievable. Yet, somehow only "the rich" will pay taxes. How anyone would become rich or why they would want to is not detailed.
It is all mind-boggling, but perhaps none more than the assertion that "businesspersons are free from unfair competition." What on Earth could that possibly mean? The government will choose winners and shoot their competitors?
The New Deal prolonged the depression, which in itself was created by government. The Great Society consigned generations of people to perpetual poverty and set the stage for today's immigration crisis.
Any more help from the government and we are doomed.
