Socialists want to exorcise the O&G demon by 2030

[Kit Moore + 50]

I would say that it's irrelevant, as all other property would have also increased in proportion, so although you'll get more money if you sell your house, you'll pay more to buy another one.

[Tom Kirkman + 8,860]

Top headline story on today's Drudge report. 

Reminds me of Al Gore about a dozen years ago.  Al Gore got fatter and richer preaching the doom and gloom of ZOMG GLOBAL WARMING WILL KILL US ALL ELEVENTY PANIC ! ! !

Pretty sure a similar fate of getting fat and richer will befall this new politician, preaching the same doom story:

OCASIO-CORTEZ ON MILLENNIALS: ‘WE’RE LIKE THE WORLD IS GOING TO END IN 12 YEARS IF WE DON’T ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE’

OCASIO-CORTEZ: “And I think the part of it that is generational is that millennials and people, in gen z, and all these folks that come after us are looking up and we’re like, the world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change. You’re biggest issue, your biggest issue is how are going to pay for it? — and like this is the war, this is our world war II. And I think for younger people looking at this are more like, how are we saying let’s take it easy when 3000 Americans died last year, how are we saying let’s take it easy when the end person died from our cruel and unjust criminal justice system? How are we saying take it easy, the America that we’re living in today is dystopian with people sleeping in their cars so they can work a second job without healthcare and we’re told to settle down. It’s a fundamental separation between that fierce urgency of now, the why we can’t wait that King spoke of. That at some point this chronic reality do reach a breaking point and I think for our generation it reached that, I wished I didn’t have to be doing every post, but sometimes I just feel like people aren’t being held accountable. Until, we start pitching in and holding people accountable, I’m just gonna let them have it.”

[Jan van Eck + 7,558]

58 minutes ago, Tom Kirkman said:

the world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change. 

This morning the regional Superintendent of School sent an automated message out that, yet again, there would be a two-hour delay so that the little kids would not be standing out in the minus-21 degree weather.  I look out and down my driveway at the cars that are buried under two feet of fresh snow from the weekend's snowfall, and out over the local river that is covered over with a layer of ice and then several feet of fresh snow, and then over at the mounds that the snowplow guy has shovelled up, now over eight feet tall, and reflect that I am living in a new phenomenon - the Earth version of Ice Planet Hoth. 

This morning will warm up to a toasty minus-2.  OK,  I consider that to be a heat wave.  Be happy for the warmth being generated, this planet's destiny is to get quite a bit colder.   The planet may end, but when it does, it will be a frozen ball of ice. The idea that it is going to turn into a steaming jungle of hot gases collapsing civilization is preposterous. 

[John Foote + 1,135]

The planet will end, scored beyond belief, not an ice ball. In terms of the lifespan of the sun, our star will expanded to where the planet is too close to the sun, and everything scorched, no atmosphere. Add another billion years and the sun will have expanded past the earth's orbit. 

We are but tiny zits in time. It will be impressive if humanoids last as long as the dinosaurs (discounting birds, which are still around). 

[JoMack + 549]

I believe during the  last eclipse of the sun many astronomers mentioned that the sun was getting older and it was shrinking.  I hear they are sending or sent a probe last summer that will orbit the Sun two dozen times.  Should be interesting.  I wonder if they find the Sun is really shrinking what about all those solar panels?  

[ronwagn + 6,290]

I already paid for everything society has done. Especially as a home and landowner in Illinois where property and other taxes are high. So, of course, I deserve the profits. Much of the increase would also be due to how I improved or neglected my properties.

Additionally, I don't think I should be paying tax on social security income. 

[ronwagn + 6,290]

On 1/17/2019 at 1:51 AM, Rasmus Jorgensen said:

Sorry. A bit stressed at the moment. 

In short I think the overlooked factors in the discussion of universal healthcare and free education, subsidized child care, welfare etc is the longterm economic benefit as evidenced by Scandinavia and maybe more importantly the social stabillity. A balance needs to be found - it is easy to take it too far, but there are no denying the "results" in scandinavia. 

America has become more socialistic every decade since the industrial age brought on a lot of social issues that needed to be addressed. We have made great progress in creating a social cushion to protect and feed the homeless, helpless, and mentally ill. We would do more IF we could afford to. The rich and upper middle class pay most of the taxes. Any increased taxation needs to go for paying off our huge annual deficits of around a trillion dollars per year. Fortunately, private charities are also very effective at feeding those who fall in between the cracks and providing medical and other services. The American people vote every two years and they are the ultimate arbiter of who runs our government and makes the decisions on finances and welfare. 

 

[Tom Kirkman + 8,860]

8 hours ago, Tom Kirkman said:

OCASIO-CORTEZ: “And I think the part of it that is generational is that millennials and people, in gen z, and all these folks that come after us are looking up and we’re like, the world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change. You’re biggest issue, your biggest issue is how are going to pay for it? — and like this is the war, this is our world war II. And I think for younger people looking at this are more like, how are we saying let’s take it easy when 3000 Americans died last year, how are we saying let’s take it easy when the end person died from our cruel and unjust criminal justice system? How are we saying take it easy, the America that we’re living in today is dystopian with people sleeping in their cars so they can work a second job without healthcare and we’re told to settle down. It’s a fundamental separation between that fierce urgency of now, the why we can’t wait that King spoke of. That at some point this chronic reality do reach a breaking point and I think for our generation it reached that, I wished I didn’t have to be doing every post, but sometimes I just feel like people aren’t being held accountable. Until, we start pitching in and holding people accountable, I’m just gonna let them have it.”

Video of Ocasio-Cortez saying these words, to a cheering audience.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:6493523513301962752

[A&W + 1]

On 1/14/2019 at 10:12 AM, Erik Halvorseth said:

I can only back Red up. I come from Norway and the situation is pretty much the same here. We are the country in the west producing most oil/capita-way more than Canada, USA and Australia.
We are pretty much the arcetype of socialism here in Scandinavia.Compared to us AOC is equivalent with a Trump-supporter
That said, college education have never been completely for free, although it has never been close to enter Harward, Stanford & such.
Things happen fast over here now- every 3. car purchased is a Tesla or smth else with el-engine.
By 2022 our government's ambition is that every new car will be el or hydrogen-driven etc. Petrol will soon be extinct

Frankly, both of you live in very small countries with large amounts  of natural resources which serve to subsidize such spending.  That isn’t possible in the US.  For example the state of California conducted a study on providing universal healthcare to residents and found the initiative would double the budget.  That’s just healthcare, to say nothing of the rest of the “free stuff” ideas.  Also last I checked housing was extremely expensive in both countries.

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12 hours ago, ronwagn said:

America has become more socialistic every decade since the industrial age brought on a lot of social issues that needed to be addressed. We have made great progress in creating a social cushion to protect and feed the homeless, helpless, and mentally ill. We would do more IF we could afford to. The rich and upper middle class pay most of the taxes. Any increased taxation needs to go for paying off our huge annual deficits of around a trillion dollars per year. Fortunately, private charities are also very effective at feeding those who fall in between the cracks and providing medical and other services. The American people vote every two years and they are the ultimate arbiter of who runs our government and makes the decisions on finances and welfare. 

 

what I am talking about is that society wide investment in education and healthcare benefits the whole of society longterm. You are talking about short-term effects. 

[Erik Halvorseth + 6]

18 hours ago, A&W said:

Frankly, both of you live in very small countries with large amounts  of natural resources which serve to subsidize such spending.  That isn’t possible in the US.  For example the state of California conducted a study on providing universal healthcare to residents and found the initiative would double the budget.  That’s just healthcare, to say nothing of the rest of the “free stuff” ideas.  Also last I checked housing was extremely expensive in both countries.

Norway as a whole has been extremely fortunate regarding natural resources no doubt about that. Not only do we have huge oil and gas resources, but also a lot of waterfalls generating electic energy, large natural fish resources etc.
I agree with you that our politicians have money to spend that very few other countries have. If one cuts away oil and fish-related income our deficit gap would resemble that of the US

[Rasmus Jorgensen + 1,169]

On 1/23/2019 at 12:31 AM, A&W said:

Frankly, both of you live in very small countries with large amounts  of natural resources which serve to subsidize such spending.  That isn’t possible in the US.  For example the state of California conducted a study on providing universal healthcare to residents and found the initiative would double the budget.  That’s just healthcare, to say nothing of the rest of the “free stuff” ideas.  Also last I checked housing was extremely expensive in both countries.

Denmark is very small country too. We have no natural resources to speak of. Yet, we have universal healthcare and education. 

I cannot follow the logic in your argument.