{"id":3915,"date":"2019-02-16T16:32:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T22:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3915"},"modified":"2019-04-06T14:21:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:21:33","slug":"green-deal-or-real-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3915","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;GREEN DEAL&#8221; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; OR &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; REAL DEAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do people who handle money learn to identify counterfeit money?<\/p>\n<p>By studying real money.<\/p>\n<p>Just because it&#8217;s green paper, doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s real money.<\/p>\n<p>Just because it&#8217;s green energy, doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s real energy replacement.<\/p>\n<p>Just because it&#8217;s a &#8220;deal,&#8221; doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s a good deal.<\/p>\n<p>Just because it&#8217;s a &#8220;deal,&#8221; doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s a safe deal.<\/p>\n<p>Just because it&#8217;s a &#8220;deal,&#8221; doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s a real deal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To identify and understand counterfeit, utopian, energy deals, study carefully the real energy with a track record that is working now.<\/p>\n<p>Real energy, that we have now, in abundance, and more discovered, has brought more prosperity to America, and brought (and will bring) more people out of poverty around the world, than all the green energy in the world combined can produce or even promise.<\/p>\n<p>And, assuming &#8220;green&#8221; means protecting the environment, if the United States implemented all the proposals presented by the &#8220;deal,&#8221; it would have no effect as reasoned, on the earth&#8217;s climate, because the rest of the world will never participate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, the bottom line of &#8220;The Green New Deal&#8221;&#8212;economically, environmentally, politically&#8212;bankrupt our country, do nothing for the earth, turn over all our rich natural resources to those who take over a weakened America.<\/p>\n<p>And they will certainly use those resources without any restraints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do people who handle money learn to identify counterfeit money? By studying real money. Just because it&#8217;s green paper, doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s real money. Just because it&#8217;s green energy, doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s real energy replacement. Just because it&#8217;s a &#8220;deal,&#8221; doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s a good deal. Just because it&#8217;s a &#8220;deal,&#8221; doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-financial","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3965,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions\/3965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}