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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on August 17, 2019, 01:08:14 pm
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August 17, 2019
Ocasio-Cortez adrift without Chakrabarti
By Bobby Harr
Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a name that's highly recognizable to the general public. She's plastered on nearly every network and newspaper and serves as the Bolshevik-in-chief of the far-left “Squad.†You've unfortunately heard of her.
One name you're likely not familiar with is Saikat Chakrabarti. Chakrabarti is an elite Harvard grad that spent more than eight years working both on Wall Street and at multiple startup companies in Silicon Valley. He served as the chief of staff to Ocasio-Cortez up until August 2nd, 2019 and penned the Marxist daydream known as the Green New Deal.
Initially, the Green New Deal was pitched as an environmental utopia where fossil fuels, common transportation, and even beef was eradicated. Never mind countless issues with the bill, the $92 trillion price tag over ten years, or the fact that it did not receive a single vote in the Senate. Chakrabarti confirmed to the Washington Post that the GND initially wasn't penned with a shred of environmental concern after all.
Chakrabarti stated that "it wasn't originally a climate thing at all... we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing."
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/08/ocasiocortez_adrift_without_chakrabarti.html (https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/08/ocasiocortez_adrift_without_chakrabarti.html)