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The Green New Deal: Stocks That Stand to Benefit

Thanks for your commentary - I couldn't agree more.
The "Green New Deal" is the real deal:
- It weans us from fossil fuels
- It curbs greenhouse gases and other pollutants
- It creates an economically and ecologically sustainable industry
- It will facilitate the next industrial revolution - the green energy revolution
- It creates well-payed domestic jobs
- It helps dig us out of the recession

Expensive in the beginning? Yes, but the moon program of the sixties was expensive, too and yielded many unforeseen technological benefits.

How to pay for it now? (Isn't is interesting, how the same people who threw money out of the window in the past 8 years (piling up as much new debt as _all previous presidents combined_) for their pals in the military industrial complex and for Big Oil, now suddenly ask this question?)
Tax the super-rich. Big Oil. The corrupt CEOs. The filthy bonus-collectors of Wall Street. Plenty of money to be had there. They robbed us blind - time to salvage some of their loot.

Critical Memo to Obama: Do Something

You write
"The fractured Republican Party has distanced itself from the unpopular George Bush, while your Administration has proven reluctant to fully engage with the remnants of this tattered group."

Seriously, how can someone pile so much crap into one single sentence?

A) In which way has "the Republican Party" "distanced itself from [...] George Bush"? To be sure: Some Republicans might have distanced themselves from the _person_ George Failure Bush, but how many Republicans have distanced themselves from the root of evil - their failed, rotten ideology? Not one to my knowledge. They still stick to their guns, their beliefs, their lies, their hate, their wars.

B) What do you mean by "your Administration"?
Obama isn't even sworn in yet, therefore no Obama-administration! They are _appointees_ - that's all. As you should know, appointees do not have the power that you seem to dream of.

C) What do you mean by "has proven reluctant to fully engage with the remnants of this tattered group [the fractured Republican Party]"?
In which way should they "fully engage" with these failed fools? If they are "tattered" (as you state) what relevance do they have? Obama, the appointees and the transition team is in fact engaging with the Republicans of the Bush administration that either need to be talked to for all pratical purposes or are worth talking to.

Critical Memo to Obama: Do Something

Ok, again a totally useless comment without any merit whatsoever.
Obama hasn't even taken office yet - and although you seem to not know it, it's not his fault that inauguration is on Jan 20. He does not have the power yet to "do something", as you should know.

He has in fact done more in preparing to hit the ground running than any President-elect in recent history at this time during the transition period. People like you demand that he walk on water after giving the Bush-criminals a pass on every failure.

And your absolutely pathetic demand for shelving the $150 billion alternative energy program doesn't become smarter the more you repeat it. In fact, deficit spending for alternative energy is one of the powerful means to finally dig the US out of the mess created by its oil addiction. As fast as the price for oil has plunged it will soar again (in two or three years) - and then people like you will scratch their bald, hollow heads again. Action is needed now.

The oil industry is still vastly higher subsidized than alternative energy - much to the detriment of the planet; it harms my children, and I am pissed.

As to subsidies for new technologies: As you should know, every new major technological shift has been subsidized by the governments: Railroad, cars (through building of roads and highways), nuclear power (oh my), space technology, computer technology (through the military industrial complex), and so forth.
No industry has ever been more deserving and urgently needed than alternative energy, so investing heavily is the right thing to do and long overdue, thanks to the dumbass of a jerk of a president that people like you voted for.

Not one mention in your "memo" of the urgency of curbing greenhouse gases in your commentary! I wonder: Is this thanks to your ignorance or to your affiliation to the carbon industry?

When will people like you learn your lesson? Probably never.
Get. Out. Of. The. Way.