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 Climate Change Is Redistribution Of Wealth (7)

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Climate Change Is Redistribution Of Wealth

The United States last year pledged $3 billion for the Green Climate Fund, to be used by poor and climate-vulnerable countries to adopt cleaner energy technologies and build their resistance against the impact of climate change. One Democratic congressional aide said that since the spending bill was silent on the Green Climate Fund, the State Department should be able to make its first $500 million payment in 2016.

"This is a rebuke to those congressional extremists who tried to play politics with desperately needed money to help the world’s poor take climate action," said Karen Orenstein of Friends of the Earth.

Under the Paris Climate Agreement, rich nations committed to deliver $100 billion a year in climate aid beyond 2020, and use that figure as a "floor" for further support agreed by 2025.

More American tax dollars going to waste !

Will these poor countries ever have to show any accountability to where American tax dollars are going that the Progressive Government is giving away ?  

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-congress-idUSKBN0TZ2ED20151216

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This is just another liberal ideological boondoggle that will be used and abused by all participants who will use it to enrich themselves, period.

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Many, many people have already gotten rich off of this hoax. It will only get worse.

This climate change hoax is going to be like Solyndra on steroids.

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There are three parts to this climate deal. One is the redistribution of wealth from the US to poor countries. Two, forcing global warming down our throats is simply a power grab from the federal government to control individual and states rights. The government will try to tell its citizens what it can and can't do to reduce CO2. Three, the inevitable carbon tax will be coming to pay for this all.

So, for liberals, this is a Utopia.

1 Redistribution of wealth

2 More power in the hands of the central government

3 A massive tax that will crush its citizens and make them more dependent on the government

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The US should allocate such funds towards reconfiguring its own energy grid. The environment entirely aside, our infrastructure is unnecessarily dependent upon the resources of other nations. I prefer a largely decentralized government, but energy infrastructure is one area where I think the federal intervention is a legitimate interest both from a national security vantage as well as from an interstate coordination perspective.

outlaw60(15368) Disputed
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Nice Response LMMFAO ! Do you support the redistribution of your tax dollars to poor nations under the false premise of climate change ? That is the question !

Cartman(18192) Disputed
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You only think climate change is a false premise because of the redistribution.

Jace(5211) Clarified
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Duplicate post

Jace(5211) Clarified
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I said I would prefer allocating the money domestically, so no.