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For Climate Progressives, Biden’s
$2.25 Trillion Isn’t Enough

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Posted By: NorthernDog, 3/31/2021 8:32:09 PM

As a candidate, Joe Biden garnered nearly unanimous support from environmentalists, progressives, and clean energy advocates for his promise to reconfigure the U.S. economy for the fight against climate change. But as president, his $2.25 trillion jobs-and-infrastructure blueprint—released Wednesday and meant to fulfill much of that campaign pledge—received a much less harmonious welcome. “Today I find myself caught between two truths,” said Varshini Prakash, executive director of the youth climate activist group the Sunrise Movement. “This infrastructure plan is a historic step forward that would not have been possible without us,” she said, referring to fellow young protesters and advocates

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What is enough for these people? Complete control over everything you say and do. Even then, they will still be miserable.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: jalo1951 3/31/2021 8:39:26 PM (No. 741221)
Once the biden depression hits it won't make a difference. None of us will be able to afford any kind of energy use. We will be saved? s/o So very tired of this f -ing BS. If Trump was still in office none of this would be happening.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: justavoter 3/31/2021 8:40:08 PM (No. 741224)
If it is like the “COVID relief ‘ plan it will be 9 % infrastructure and 91% been energy nonsense.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: justavoter 3/31/2021 8:40:33 PM (No. 741225)
Green
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Reply 4 - Posted by: panther361 3/31/2021 9:01:46 PM (No. 741242)
We'd be better off if they kept this insane drek in India instead of eating up our tax dollars and time.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Vesicant 3/31/2021 9:16:48 PM (No. 741254)
Instead of making DC a state, why not sell it to the Chinese? They mostly own it all anyway. Then the government can move to Puerto Rico. Problem solved!
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Heraclitus 3/31/2021 9:30:21 PM (No. 741265)
These are the demands of spoiled children. And i mean spoiled in both senses of the word: pampered, accustomed to having whatever they want with no effort, demanding, self-indulgent, greedy, pompous and conceited; and spoiled as in rotten, sour, needing to be set aside as unpalatable, even nauseous. Either way, they expect to have their demands met. O-Cortez is a good representation of these imperious brats. Grampa Biden, slightly daft at times, at others mentally feeble, they'll turn his pockets inside out. But it's the treasury of the citizenry they are looting.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Bur Oak 4/1/2021 5:29:38 PM (No. 741984)
Why are these people called progressives? They are nothing but dictatorial tyrants and should be called such.
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