Leah Stokes 'stoked' about Dem's $369 billion reconciliation bill. Carbon emissions. (Page 1/1)
rinselberg JUL 29, 01:32 AM


Leah C. Stokes, the author of Short Circuiting Policy, is the Anton Vonk Associate Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara or UCSB. Dr. and Associate Professor Stokes is also affiliated with the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and the Environmental Studies Department at UCSB.
rinselberg JUL 29, 12:37 PM
Guess who's also "stoked" about this $369 billion budget reconciliation package that the Democrats look like they are about to get done, if Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema gets onboard with it?

Larry Summers.

Lawrence H. "Larry" Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University. He served as the 71st Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton and the Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama.

I might post the video later. If it becomes available online.
rinselberg JUL 29, 01:11 PM
Guess who just "checked in"..?

Austan Goolsbee.

He's OK with the budget reconciliation package. Not as "stoked" about it as Leah Stokes or even the more mildly "stoked" Larry Summers. Maybe I'll post that video if (fat chance) the forum seems to want it.

I've called it the "$369 billion" package, but that amount ($369 billion) is just the energy transition and carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions part of it. The "climate" part of it.

Austan D. Goolsbee is the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the Booth School of Economics at the University of Chicago. He served as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers for President Obama and as the chief economist and chief of staff for Paul Volcker, who chaired President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board.
rinselberg JUL 29, 01:44 PM
Michael "Don't call me 'Manfred'" Mann.

He likes the energy transition and climate science-related part of the Dem's proposed budget reconciliation package.

Michael E. Mann is Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State, with joint appointments in the Department of Geosciences and the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI).

Dr. Mann is also director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC). In Fall 2022, he will become Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania, with a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication. He will also be the inaugural director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media (PCSSM),

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cliffw JUL 31, 11:44 AM
Dem's $369 billion reconciliation bill.

Why lie ? Call it by it's real name, which is what it isn't.

The Deficit Reduction Act.

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rinselberg JUL 31, 01:15 PM
Not the Deficit Reduction Act... it's the Inflation Reduction Act. That's the titularization of this as yet only proposed and still awaiting passage budget reconciliation bill legislation. The moniker, as it were. What the Democratic Party envisions as potential voters hanging their hats on, so to speak, when they go to the polls, or think about whether they want to go to the polls, in terms of how it all comes out (or does not come out) in the wash.

Here's what the Center for American Progress has to say about the Inflation Reduction Act:
https://www.americanprogres...istoric-investments/

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cliffw AUG 02, 08:21 AM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:

Not the Deficit Reduction Act... it's the Inflation Reduction Act.



Oh, you are right. It will not reduce the deficit, although they say it will. It will also not reduce inflation.


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Originally posted by rinselberg:
Here's what the Center for American Progress has to say about the Inflation Reduction Act:



, you actually believe that crap ? Boost energy production ? Yeah, , Green Energy. Al Gore twittered that this was the best thing since "The Inconvenient Truth".

What costs does it bring down ? It is touted as bringing down the cost of prescription drugs. Not for you or me or hardly anyone else. Is your government too stupid to have to put into law their right to bargain on medicine costs for people on Medicare ? How successful do think they will be, ?