When Ballaban is openly endorsing “Das Kapital” on this blog, I can feel 100% confident in calling you comrade. Because that’s what this program is. It goes orders of magnitude further than FDR’s New Deal, which, if you knew history, lost several court cases due to the government overstepping it’s Constitutional…

Too bad the US is the number one oil producer currently.

Holy shit. You actually believe that?

Care to provide where you get this “21 trillion” figure?

What have I stated that is incorrect? Your hurt fee-fees don’t matter to me.

You can’t have cap-and-trade without Capitalism, comrade.

The “Green New Deal” is orders of magnitude more expensive than those programs. Not to mention it would convert the entire economy in an unprecedented span and scale. The time period it took the world to go from horse to car compared to AOC’s extremely unrealistic outline would make it analogous to going from walking…

“Imaginary WMDs”

You realize the there is only high speed rail for less than 20% of China’s rail network? And that’s what they’re letting us know. It’s probably much lower.

We financed the bailout and the war in Iraq with less detail than this.

OK, smart guy.  How will you pay for it?

So...care to name those countries?

Now that we all have acknowledged reality (whether or not you “agree” is irrelevant), let’s dive into the Green New Deal

Like Europe?

Nope

It’s comparing and contrasting. When, at the bare minimum, an American knows a burrito is Mexican, whilst people in Japan don’t know the history/origin of a cake they buy millions of every year.

I do have some authority to state such things since not only do I hear Japanese everyday, I teach in Japanese schools. That means I have a wide range of education levels to get an idea of the state of how Japanese view the outside world, not merely a lack of etymology.

Pain, pan...same difference. The point being that most (Japanese) don’t realize their word for bread is not of Japanese origin.  Same goes for a lot in their language.

If it were truly in Japanese, it would be written as あい (or アイ), but only a child would write it that way. It’s equivalent to doing addition with your fingers. Normal for a child, not so much for an adult.

Did you think Japanese people never leave Japan?