The latest iteration of Biden’s Build Back Better bill contains one of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez most dangerous ideas.
“Happy to announce creation of a US Civilian Climate Corps is now in the Build Back Better Act.Estimated to create 300k+ public jobs w/ Dept of Labor + Americorps to combat the climate crisis & enviro injustices,” the far-left congresswoman wrote.
Happy to announce creation of a US Civilian Climate Corps is now in the Build Back Better Act.🌎
Estimated to create 300k+ public jobs w/ Dept of Labor + Americorps to combat the climate crisis & enviro injustices.
We 1st outlined the vision for it here: pic.twitter.com/i1K2E1TIHg
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 3, 2021
“The Build Back Better Framework will create a Civilian Climate Corps with over 300K members that look like America,” the official White House Twitter account wrote. “This workforce will conserve public lands, bolster community resilience, address the changing climate, and put good-paying union jobs within reach for more people.”
They are building an army.
“Climate change has become a climate crisis,” Vice President Kamala Harris similarly said in a speech promoting the plan. “But today we know that this moment of crisis is also a moment of opportunity… an opportunity to create good, union jobs.”
“Once these bills are passed… young people will join our new Civilian Climate Corps,” she continued. “These are the opportunities we have within our grasp right now.”
.@VP Kamala Harris: “Once these bills are passed, plumbers will fill the jobs we need to replace all those lead pipes. Young people will join our new Civilian Climate Corps. These are the opportunities we have within our grasp right now.” pic.twitter.com/qwAOYTQXHD
— The Hill (@thehill) November 6, 2021
The idea was first floated by then-Democrat candidate for president Obama.
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded,” Obama said in July 2, 2008.
The United States Army is roughly 500,000 this new corps would consist of 300,000 people.
