Ever since Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, or AOC (All Out Crazy) came out with her nutty Green New Deal, the whacky pack of Democrat presidential candidates nearly all have declared their support for the plan.  To recap, the Green New Deal is a Pie in the Sky wish list of Socialist bull crap, all dressed up as a solution to the global warming, climate change hoax.  Much like all Democrat boondoggles, it has a catchy title that hides it’s true purpose.  “Green,” because who could object to anything they call Green.  And “New Deal” to appeal to imbecile Democrats who are longing for the good old days when Democrats “saved” America from the Great Depression.  Like they say, when the facts conflict with the legend, repeat the legend.  Like it or not, the Old New Deal created social welfare programs at a time when no social safety net existed.  Latter day Democrats rail on and on about social welfare spending as though we aren’t already going broke funding existing programs.  But I digress.  The Green New Deal purports to be a “fix” for climate change, which is a collosal Leftist exercise in arrogance.  It’s unclear whether man is responsible for today’s rising temperatures any more than he was responsible for the drastic temperature increases 12,000 years ago, and real scientists say that, if all man made CO2 contributions were stopped i.e.,if all people croaked, the CO2 level would go down by only 3%.  Anyhow, the Green New Deal proposes to end all fossil fuel use.  Close down the coal and oil industries, mandate “renewable” energy, wind, solar, pond scum, etc. No more internal combustion or diesel engines.  Electric cars, trucks and buses.  Mandated refits of all buildings for energy efficiency.  And let us not forget outlawing cow farts, so no more beef.  If this sounds like a radical plan to deal with a situation  that it has no chance of making any better, that’s only because it is.  AOC’s former political director let the cat out of the bag, admitting that the plan really had nothing to do with climate, but instead was a ruse to permit the government to gain control of the entire economy.  In other words, Communism/Socialism wasn’t selling on its own, so they disguised it as environmentalism.  As I’ve noted before, when the Berlin Wall came down, all the Reds turned Green.  The AOC Green New Deal would cost trillions of dollars that we don’t have.  Bernie Sanders, the redest of all the greens, has proposed his own Green New Deal, with what Bernie calls, “an historic $16.3 trillion price tag.”  Ruinous is more like it.  Bernie the Red makes no attempt to disguise his plan as anything but good old-fashioned Communism, pledging “a wholesale transformation of our society.”  Under Bernie’s Old Red Deal, fracking would be outlawed, and there would be no more oil drilling offshore or on public lands.  No more oil pipelines, and no more nuclear power.  All electricity and transportation would run on renewable energy. We will spend $1.52 trillion on renewable energy and $852 billion to build energy storage capacity.  “I’m cold, get me another $800 billion battery!”  All homes will use electric heat.  That’s the most expensive heat you say?  Not to worry, the government will winterize all homes, and the government will keep prices stable.  Uh huh (you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan).  What’s more, after 2035, with “public provision of renewable” energy, electricity will be free.  (Just like college tuition).  Bernie promises to prosecute fossil fuel companies for criminal activity.  Just like his mentor Joe Stalin, “Show me a profit, and I’ll show you a crime.”  If companies think they can do business overseas, think again.  The IRS will “monitor all investments” and will sanction any company that threatens the “global emissions goals.”  Sounds like fun.  What about all those workers Bernie is putting out of work?  Fear not.  Bernie’s giving them a 5 year “wage guarantee,” “a 4 year college education,” and early retirement.  In other words, Welfare for All.  And don’t worry, if anyone actually chooses to work, Bernie says he will be creating 20 million new jobs. (No doubt for winterizers, IRS agents and windmill repairmen).  They all will be good union jobs, comrades.  Bernie says he’ll pay for this nonsense by using the defense budget.  It’s for the best.  I don’t think solar powered airplanes and electric tanks would scare anybody.  Bernie the Red doesn’t give much detail about taxes in his plan.  He says the 20 million new workers will pay taxes.  I’ll bet. If these are the same 20 million he’s putting out of work, that might be a wash, though.  He says the rich will pay their fair share.  We might finally find out what the fair share is.  How about 90%?  Bernie says he will take on the fossil fuels billionaires.  I wonder if he includes Tom Steyer in this one?  Why are we going to destroy our economy and way of life, just when we finally have reached the energy independence that even Democrats demanded that we get to?  We have no choice.  There’s a climate emergency, and “we will end the injustice of 100,000 Americans dying every year from air pollution.”  Now the CDC does not list air pollution as a cause of death.  There are some 160,000 deaths a year from “chronic lower respiratory disease,” but these consist mostly of COPD, emphysema, and other smoking related maladies.  Interestingly, Bernie doesn’t propose outlawing smoking.  Government can’t give up all that tax revenue.  Besides, we may have to burn all the bodies just to keep warm.  One more thing, Bernie is concerned only with “winterizing” homes, not with cooling them.  The plan for Summer is sweat.  But then again, since we won’t have to work anymore, who’s going to sweat?  We might sit in the cool grass, but wait, there’ll be no grass (lawns anyway), because Bernie plans to make you transform your lawn into a family farm or forest.  I think the pixies came out of the forest and stole what was left of Bernie’s brain.  If one of these nuts gets elected, God help us.