Comments by "Jeremy Barlow" (@jeremybarlow2291) on "EXPOSED: Why Most of the Economic Proposals from 2020 Dem Candidates are Nonsense" video.

  1. DarkSideSixOfficial I am not talking about the watered down OFF Act or the fake Green New Deal proposed by Bernie or AOC, but the Green New Deal of Howie Hawkins the original Green New Dealer who first proposed the plan in his 2010 NY Gubernatorial run. Hawkins plan will transform the economy to a system of worker owned cooperatives. Retrofit ever US home for energy efficiency, do the same for ever government and commercial building. Rebuild the grid with smart grid technology. Provide a federal jobs guarantee that establishes a true wage floor. Move the entire economy to wind, solar, hydro, and tidal power while funding fusion research to the point it should be commercially viable within 5 years. Invests in battery and fuel cell technology to provide both grid level storage and a transportation infrastructure that eliminates oil usage within a decade. His original goal date was next year. The Hawkins plan also addresses monocrop agriculture and livestock agriculture’s negative impact on the environment and creates a path to sustainable local farms without corporate subsidies of the present system. Hawkins plan makes both the OFF Act and Sander’s faux Green New Deal look like a minor tweak to the system. The Hawkins plan completely transforms the US economy to address systemic changes needed beyond the environment to protect the environment. The most likely nominee of the Green Party for the Presidency in 2020 who is a co-founder of the Green Party USA and who was endorsed and encouraged to run by a plethora of Green Party stalwarts makes both plans look very weak by comparison. The Hawkins plan will put a Green technology factory with thousands of jobs in every single Congressional district in the USA. The Hawkins plan at a minimum will create 20 million new jobs to accomplish the task of getting us to zero carbon emissions in a decade.
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  2. As long as petroleum is traded in US dollars and let’s face it 3% of world GDP is oil which makes it bigger than agriculture which employs 60% of the global workforce, oil is the peg commodity of modern economics for not just the US dollar, but all currencies that routinely trade in international commerce for dollars be that the Yen, the Euro, the Pound, the Peso, other dollars, or the Yuan. Because of the commodity linking to the dollar as a peg with intrinsic value -oil $1.47 per gallon, crude, the dollar is not a fiat currency and neither are those currency which routinely trade against it. Which is precisely why MMT is bunk.
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  3. DarkSideSixOfficial they are both weak sauce compared to the original Green New Deal that Howie Hawkins proposed and which they have co-opted and watered down.
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  4. robin tyner the actual Green New Deal as proposed by Howie Hawkins goes much further than either the OFF Act of the watered down Green New Deal proposed by Democrats. Imagine that, a leader of an environmentalist party going further than Democrats on the environment.
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  5. robin tyner that is less likely to happen and matter than Howie winning the Presidency next year. The republicans are wholly owned subsidiaries of the oil and gas industry and the Democrats are rented by them.
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