BRETT: And how did you like the $2 trillion package that just came out for the bailouts of unions and cities and communities in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic? If you liked the $1.9 trillion package coming out, then you\u2019re going to positively love what\u2019s coming next.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve got a $3 trillion spending bill coming out, and it is the dream of one Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat from New York, “who gave a tacit endorsement Tuesday to President Joe Biden\u2019s $3 trillion infrastructure” (in big quotes, “infrastructure”) “plan because of its adherence to the principles of her proposed Green New Deal.<\/p>\n
“‘One of the big goals we had when we introduced the Green New Deal was to show how people thought about climate change from being a billion-dollar problem to a $3 trillion opportunity,\u2019 Representative Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview with the New York Times.” Well, Bloomberg News is reporting, “Biden\u2019s team is planning a $3 trillion infrastructure plan that will include $400 billion in green spending.<\/p>\n
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“It will also include big shifts in spending on carbon emission reductions, charging stations, electric cars, spending on wind and solar power, ” ask the people Texas about that, “and the development of one million affordable and energy efficient housing units.” Affordable and efficient. Yeah, likely not.<\/p>\n
“Republicans routinely mocked AOC\u2019s 2019 Green New Deal proposal after American Action Forum estimated it would actually end up costing probably closer to $93 trillion.” Holy cow. Well, Rush had AOC exactly right. He understood what was being laid out there. He understood the load of nonsense that they\u2019re going to try to sell and get you to cosign off of.<\/p>\n
Now, look, this isn\u2019t about saving the climate. This isn\u2019t about protecting the environment. This is about something else, and Rush noted… Remember, once upon a time way, way back in 2019, all those years ago –wait, that was just 2019 — and AOC admitted the Green New Deal isn\u2019t even about climate?<\/a><\/p>\n RUSH: From TheDailyCaller.com today: “Democrat New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s ‘Green New Deal\u2019 is more about drastically overhauling the American economy than it is about combatting climate change,” according to her top aide.<\/p>\n “Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, made the revealing admission in a meeting with Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee\u2019s climate director in May.” Inslee is running for president, running for the nomination. He\u2019s a nut. He\u2019s a leftist wacko. He\u2019s the governor of Washington, former governor of Washington, and his whole campaign is climate change.<\/p>\n Bingo! They were overheard by a reporter who has made the mistake of repeating it. They were having a private conversation so that Inslee understood. They didn\u2019t want Inslee incorporating this thing and running off and promoting it, not understanding what their objectives were. It\u2019s nothing more than a way to transform the U.S. economy, which means to transform the country. And they\u2019re using climate change as a phony, seductive technique using everything else they\u2019ve already used about it.<\/p>\n “You can save the planet. You can give your life meaning. You can help ward off the destruction of our climate by signing onto our issue.” And all it is, as they have now admitted, is a plan to transfer the vast majority of control over the U.S. economy to the U.S. government. That\u2019s all it is. Now, I don\u2019t expect anywhere in the mainstream media this to be ballyhooed or reported or even talked about. But I wanted to pass it on to you because it is proof positive these people are just using all these issues for one thing.<\/p>\n BRETT: Economists are pushing for degrowth. That\u2019s an actual term, degrowth. Stabilizing or even shrinking the economy. That\u2019s done to avert environmental catastrophe. It\u2019s a terrible idea. Even Axios, the progressive outlet Axios opposes that. Rush was way ahead of this concept just a couple of years ago.<\/a><\/p>\n RUSH: Leftist intellectuals have a new economic model they\u2019re promoting. It\u2019s called the “Degrowth Movement.” The people behind this are on a mission. They want to change the belief that economic growth is a good thing.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-071219-Climate-Signature-Issue.jpg\")
<\/a>A Washington Post reporter accompanied Ocasio-Cortez chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, to the meeting for a magazine profile. And this guy, her campaign coordinator, was quoted as saying: “The interesting thing about the Green New Deal, is it wasn\u2019t originally a climate thing at all. Do you guys think of it as a climate thing? Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing,”<\/p>\n <\/div>\n