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Democrats Aim to Create a New Army of Taxpayer-Funded Climate Activists With $3.5 Trillion Spending Plan

Posted on Friday, October 8, 2021
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Speaker of the House Leader Nancy Pelosi has missed yet another self-imposed deadline. This time her goal of advancing both a bipartisan $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill as well as the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation plan (known formally as the Build Back Better Act) is failing in the face of opposition from moderates within her own party. Pelosi is now attempting to salvage Biden’s legislative agenda before her new Halloween deadline. But, as efforts to bring down the overall price tag of Biden’s plan in order to appease moderates have ramped up, opponents of the bill have had more time to review its actual contents, revealing just how radical this legislation truly is.

One of the most scrutinized provisions of the bill is the proposed $10 billion allocation for a “Civilian Climate Corps” (CCC), also sometimes referred to as the “Climate Conservation Corps,” which is billed as a 21st century version of the New-Deal era Civilian Conservation Corps.

The original CCC was launched in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt. The program put young, unemployed men across the country on the government payroll, giving them the opportunity to learn skills while improving the nation’s public lands. Members of the original CCC were all males aged 18-25, and they are largely responsible for much of the infrastructure in America’s national parks. The program had an explicit focus on intense physical labor and instilling “manliness” in young Americans. While vocational training and infrastructure projects were later incorporated into the program, there was always an aggressive focus on masculinity, self-reliance, patriotism, and independence.

The new CCC program Biden is proposing would emphasize recruiting young men and women not to act as stewards of public lands in order to preserve them for the enjoyment of future generations, but to “fight climate change.” According to President Biden’s original executive order, the Civilian Climate Corps would:

“…Conserve and restore public lands and waters, bolster community resilience, increase reforestation, increase carbon sequestration in the agricultural sector, protect biodiversity, improve access to recreation, and address the changing climate.”

The Brookings Institute, a D.C. based think tank, has noted that to be effective, compensation for members of the new CCC would start at $15 dollars an hour and increase to match the cost of living in each region. This would be in addition to room, board, and an educational grant of as much as $50,000. The compensation plan would give average members a larger salary, more benefits, and more freedom than the average junior enlistee in the United States Military.

In terms of the actual work, most proposals are noticeably vague. The new CCC could not engage in large scale public works without undercutting union labor. Their mandate for other activities would bring them into direct conflict with local projects as well as national programs. There are already numerous service organizations emphasizing conservation, including the Corps Network, AmeriCorps, and the Conservation Network, to name a few.

Additionally, there is little clear guidance as to how this large national program would substantively reduce carbon emissions. Even an advocate for the new CCC, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), has stated that “emissions reduction, obviously, is the goal we need to achieve for the sake of safety…I support a Civilian Climate Corps. It just doesn’t measurably reduce emissions.” In short, there is little a Civilian Climate Corps can do to measurably “save” the climate.

Republicans fear the real effect of the new CCC would be to create an army of state-sponsored environmental activists bent on promoting progressive ideology and initiatives. As noted by the Washington Post, Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) questioned what new CCC would mean in practice: “Does it mean a taxpayer-funded community organizing effort? Young climate pioneers in every neighborhood to report on who is watering their lawn, whose fireplace is smoking, who is spreading forbidden climate disinformation?”

As dystopian as that may sound, this wouldn’t be the first such program in the United States. Under a recently enacted New York City provision, citizens are encouraged to report idling cars to the police, and will be compensated twenty-five percent of any fine that the motorist incurs. It’s not far-fetched to imagine congressional Democrats attempting to roll out a similar program nationwide with their brand new army of climate activists to enforce new onerous environmental regulations – especially if other parts of the “Green New Deal” become law.

Regardless, much like H.R. 1, restrictions on gun ownership, defunding the police, and a host of other radical policy priorities, it’s unlikely that the progressive dream for the new CCC is going anywhere, even if it doesn’t make it into the final spending plan. Democrats have labeled climate change a top national security issue. Accordingly, they’re going to need an army to combat the threat – even if that threat is ordinary Americans in communities large and small throughout the country who just want the opportunity to make a living free from government interference.

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Jeff
Jeff
2 years ago

Global-ony is second only to Covid as the biggest scandal and scam of the century.

George
George
2 years ago

I wonder if Biden’s stewards of public lands will be dressed in brown shirts and use the goose-step in parades?

Paul
Paul
2 years ago

Yes, Another Stupid Move by our Socialist President!God Help us!

PFArizona
PFArizona
2 years ago

“it’s unlikely that the progressive dream for the new CCC is going anywhere”. How can we be sure that this does not happen? Who is watching this? This is Government openly spying on Americans and cannot happen. It’s bad enough that this is what the FISA courts are doing, and now this?

Rich
Rich
2 years ago

Ha ha ha, this is funny. We worry about “climate change” and don’t care about our leadership or strength in the world. One nuclear weapon tossed our way and the last thing you will think about is “climate change”. Priorities, priorities.

james Carlyle
james Carlyle
2 years ago

It is apparent that this CCC is designed to create a “Climate Crisis” to provide justification for the GND which does not presently have one to address.

Boz
Boz
2 years ago

l wiII NOT compIy.

J
J
2 years ago

The CCC reminded of the Brown Shirts in NAZI Germany that were form to counter dissent and round up Jews . They were allowed any means , including violence.
The CCC would eventually be given the same power to stop any opposition to the climate cause.

Dede
Dede
2 years ago

I wouldn’t bet on Republicans to stop it ! They give in yo everything the communist want !

Andy Henderson
Andy Henderson
2 years ago

Climate change is the new word for Socialism. It will only foster government control of everything and create an army of spies and snitches. This humongous waste of taxpayers’ money will only succeed in crushing debt and more misery for regular citizens. I hope it fails miserably.

Stephen Russell
Stephen Russell
2 years ago

& do what? drive around in EVs ??
What explain

Bob
Bob
2 years ago

As long as China and the rest of the industrial nations around the world don’t cut back their carbon omissions United States cannot do it alone but even though we have reduce our carbon emission and probably got the best of anywhere in the world there’s no pressure coming from the government of the United States on China to reduce their carbon this is a big scam to steal more money from the American people people has to wake up all this is is a scam let’s do our business here in our country make America first we need to stop spending money all over the world and take care of our business here at home we know when they send money out to the other side of the world all over most of the money is not going to wear it supposed to be going it’s another scam that the government has pulled over on the American people for many of years it’s all coming to light now Donald Trump has open the door job for the fraud that’s going on in our country and he’s even shocked how bad it is and how corrupt our government is from top to bottom and all the three letter alphabets are corrupt time to clean out all the three letter alphabet start over too many people has become comfortable in this position and they become so corrupt that it’s pathetic let me know more foreign aid to any country 

J K
J K
2 years ago

Makes me wonder what other subversive seeds are imbedded in the Biden’s BBB bill.

Dee
Dee
2 years ago

This is the beginning of the “BROWN SHIRTS” in Germany

Paul
Paul
2 years ago

This is 2021 not 1933.No one has experienced a Depression since then.My point is this is a far fetched idea

Felix
Felix
2 years ago

I think they caught the STUPID VIRUS, we need Trump to Warp Speed a vacinne to stop the spread!

Mary
Mary
2 years ago

This just gets more and more strange by the minute..ha!

Herb
Herb
2 years ago

Creepy Joe and company are dangerous. He is intent on fostering the kind of inflation that was the death of the Weimer Republic in Germany and led to the Nazi takeover.

Rik
Rik
2 years ago

Ouch! . . . Just listening to LYING JOE spewing His Climate Change Garbage as how we NEED TO DEVELOP SOLAR AND WIND POWER! . . . The ONLY WIND POWER IS COMING FROM HIS MOUTH!

Rik
Rik
2 years ago

Heil Comrade America! . . . Get ready to TOTALLY OBEY YOUR GOVERNMENT COMPLETELY IN ALL THINGS ORDERED!
There WILL be NO OBJECTIONS ALLOWED! . . . GET VACCINATED OR PREPARE TO DIE, because any opposition will be NOT BE TOLERATED!

anna hubert
anna hubert
2 years ago

This administration is a nightmare total descent into madness like some mythical wounded beast fighting for life senselessly blindly thrashing around Kafka and Orwell are feel good reads in comparison

Eddie VanHalen
Eddie VanHalen
2 years ago

Our “bottom line ?” It must NOT pass. Tell your ‘elected’ officials that ASAP.
They will be scared for the political careers. Dump ’em anyway. ( D ) communism.

Robin Walter Boyd
Robin Walter Boyd
2 years ago

Climate Control is a Socialist scam to divert trillions of tax payers dollars to hateful Socialist organizations that fund Socialist politicians worldwide. YES! We need to work with nature to prevent doing harm regionally. But so called environMENTALists of today are more likely to be anti-nature, Godless people who believe themselves to be god-like as to be able to control nature. Nature, which the human race (the only race) is a small part of, will take care of itself. Even when mankind becomes obnoxious with dumping pollutants into the air, water and ground, nature takes care of the nature of all life on planet Earth.
In the meantime, the naturally occurring warming of the Earth is going to be way more beneficial to most all flora and fauna, including mankind. Fresh water that is still locked up in polar ice is being evaporated and sublimated into the atmosphere, providing more fresh water worldwide via rain. Yes, weather patterns are changing. That too is part of nature. More rain means more fresh water to fill lakes, streams, rivers and underground aquafers. Underground aquafers rise to provide more fresh water in arid lands such as deserts that once were lush with vegetation.
Those who have built in coastal areas can either adapt to living with higher sea levels, as is done in Amsterdam and Venice, or they can move further inland. It’s not like we didn’t know that sea levels have been higher in the past.

Margaret Bojduj
Margaret Bojduj
2 years ago

…and these sham representatives in congress!! Salud Carbahol has one letter he sends out in reply to letters no matter what u say in your email, he sends the same letter. so full of baloney..Lois Capps -I’m sorry she was just a placeholder for her husband as is Salud. They are in the old boys network of Newsom and his Auntie Pelosi and her buddy Soros..And with the fraudulent voting machines and now all mail in all the time free for all who enter calif and maybe have left or died, we are hamstrung out here to have any impact to stop this horrendous wave.. However Never say Never.. Fight the Good Fight and Never Ever give up for the grandkids! and our Future!! BUT GOD!

PaulE
PaulE
2 years ago

I think you’re kind of looking at these proposed Civilian Climate Corps all wrong. These are not likely to be “workers” in the sense of actually building things or competing for existing jobs. Spending an initial $10 billion dollars for what would be a glorified jobs program doesn’t make much sense given the amounts of money politicians normally throw at such programs. Most heavily committed eco and climate activists are not accustomed to working 40 hour a week jobs or have any substantial skills in trades associated with building, general construction or areas like forest management. They’re primary skillset is that of political activism.

So I think this corps will likely function more like eco and climate policy enforcers for the federal government. A new layer of government bureaucracy. Something along the lines of the political officers in the old Soviet Union. If you remember how political officers functioned in the old Soviet Union, they essentially were given the power to oversee any company, military command or other entity to ensure that the will and policies of Moscow were rigidly enforced at all times. They were the tip of the spear in the micro-management of all aspects of life in the communist regime. That is what I think the Democrats are seeking to create with this so-called Civilian Climate Corps. A means to oversee and control all economic activity in the United States to ensure it conforms to whatever eco and climate rules the Dems choose to enact.

Margaret Bojduj
Margaret Bojduj
2 years ago

This is totally about the AOC Sanders Green New (Deal) to start the global govt..” Build Back Better” are the code words around the world. Good bye to travel– that ought to be HIGHLIGHTED as all my liberal/progressive friends love to travel. Can someone please get that message highlighted to them. Other progressives I know love their new Teslas’s well hello – no electricity to power them and Newsom has outlawed generators run on gas.. Guess we will have to rely on those windmills and solar panels.. I wish You Tube would unblock Planet of the Humans by Michael Moore that exposes their green energy fraudulent earth draining practices. I find it soooo difficult to be a conservative in CCPA communist california party of America..You call or write your representatives and they don’t hear, don’t care and want to punish us for the RECALL. Can you believe some repubs actually voted against the recall. Did they NOT KNOW after all the emergency power he has bestowed on himself that he would be more vindictive than ever because we know he is a sham and can’t govern

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