Carl Davidson – 9/14/2019

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“Who’s gonna pay for it … ?”; Carl Davidson (KD); Facebook; September 14, 2019.

KD describes himself on Facebook as a “Truthseeker, Changemaker, Student of The Way, Pilgrim on the Road.”

Please read “They know they can’t win if they don’t lie.”

You can learn more about BCR’s leftster management here. “Leftster” is the combination of leftist and gangster, inspired by the left-originated “bankster.”

Below is a review of the subject Facebook post.

KD wrote, “WHO’S GONNA PAY FOR IT? WE CAN’T AFFORD THE GREEN NEW DEAL. You hear this all the time from people who think they know what they’re talking about, while you’re just a tree-hugging spendthrift. But there’s a solid answer to the question, and a great example--the Hoover Dam, which we can chalk up to FDR as a pioneer adventure in green energy.”

[RWC] KD’s lying again. The Hoover Dam project was underway long before FDR’s election. Construction of Hoover Dam began in 1931, but FDR didn’t take office until March 4, 1933.

According to the National Park Service, “On December 21, 1928, [Republican] President Calvin Coolidge signed an act authorizing the Boulder Canyon Project, so named because a study originally had recommended the Boulder Canyon of the Colorado, not the nearby Black Canyon, as the site of the dam. On July 3, 1930, then-President Herbert Hoover signed the first appropriation bill. It was during dedication ceremonies on September 17, 1930, that Secretary of the Interior Ray L. Wilbur, while driving a silver spike for the railroad spur that would run to the construction site, announced that the name of the colossal structure was to be Hoover Dam. However, the soon-to-be-elected Democratic administration of Franklin Roosevelt continued to use the name Boulder Dam. It wasn’t until April 30, 1947, that a resolution of Congress made Hoover Dam the official name.”

In case you missed it, “[Republican] President Calvin Coolidge signed an act authorizing the Boulder Canyon Project” more than four years before FDR took office. Doesn’t that make President Coolidge “a pioneer adventure[r] in green energy,” not FDR? <g>

What was that about “people who think they know what they’re talking about?”

“The project was built buy six companies who bid some $50 million, and the government underwrote the mortgage, to be paid back from people’s payments on their electric bills over a few decades. After that, the returns continued to flow to this day. now 50 million back then might be $800 million today, but the same dynamic applies--the government can spend as much money as it takes, so long as it’s a productive investment creating new value, like a hydro dam, and not, say, a billion-dollar F-35 jet that doesn’t even work. and the Hoover dam employed ten of thousands of workers for decades.”

[RWC] As for KD’s “billion-dollar F-35 jet that doesn’t even work” comment, that too is a lie. KD made a similar comment about a month ago. The piece HD referred to was the NY Times article, “Inside America’s Dysfunctional Trillion-Dollar Fighter-Jet Program.”

My comment was, “There’s no question the F-35 deserves a lot of criticism, but I don’t know where KD gets the idea the F-35 doesn’t protect us. According to the subject NYT article, ‘The Marine Corps, which began normal flying operations with the jet in 2015, became the first military branch to fly the F-35 in combat when it used the jets for airstrikes in Afghanistan last year. Both the Air Force and Navy are also now operating their own F-35s. In 2017, during the F-35A’s first outing in Red Flag, the Air Force’s largest training exercise for aerial warfare, the jet killed 20 aircraft for each F-35 shot down in simulated combat. In April, Air Force pilots took that training and put it into practice for the first time, using the F-35 in an airstrike against ISIS in Iraq.’”

The comment “the Hoover dam employed ten of thousands of workers for decades” is ridiculous on its face. According to the History Channel, “A total of 21,000 men worked on the dam; an average of 3,500 each day, with the daily figure peaking at more than 5,200 in June 1934.” Construction was completed in 1935 and operations began in 1936. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Hoover Dam employment was about 250 as of March 22, 2014. My guess is KD will assert he meant jobs enabled by the dam, not actual dam jobs. I spent a few minutes looking for that number but came up empty. If someone has that info, please let me know.

According to the Los Angeles Times, KD’s “few decades” to pay off the dam’s mortgage was really five decades.

“The bottom line is we cannot afford NOT to launch the Green New Deal.”

[RWC] The bottom line is the original New Deal didn’t work yet KD wants to try again with a lot more of our families’ paychecks, pension checks, and so on.