Jackson Heights Life

Go to India and China and tell them to stop burning coal and oil. They are causing most of the CO2 and air pollution both now and in the next 30+ years. The world may indeed see increasing sea levels (whatever the cause) but that does not mean the world will end. I guess we will have to build a sea wall between Staten Island and Brooklyn.

"Carbon" is the reefer madness of the 21st century.  Eventually you'll be taxed for breathing.

This is just a power grab by a bunch of green zealots. I plan to keep warm as long as I live in NYC. This will involve burning gas or oil for heat. There is no other way to keep warm. Also Con Ed will burn fossil fuels to produce electricity. The solar and wind option is not realistic. If you want to influence global pollution, you have to control the population of China and India because together they have billions of people and burn tons of coal. This is like the new tax scheme that we will now tax total wealth and not income. We will never be Denmark as others want us to become.

You need to removed from this forum for engaging in personal attacks.

the real answer is more coal. coal powered IPhones built in right to work states should be the core of the New Black Lung Deal.

as someone who's studied and written about American history, I'll remind you that the original New Deal had Republicans talking about how it would undoubtedly destroy America. the country would be in ruins if the radical FDR had his way.

i look forward to the continued impotent whining of the right. and their relegation to the margins.

Well it seems the Republicans were right that the social security Ponzi scheme would end. The population demographics as mentioned above will take care of that. Unless you think today’s twentysomethings will pay 70% of their middle class paycheck to pay for all the elderly and disabled. The only out of this mess would involve immigration of highly educated people who earn high incomes.

As for this “green deal” and Jackson Heights. Most of JH is made up of big buildings that burn gas or oil for heat and hot water. Electric heat would be prohibitively expensive and would burden the electrical grid. The power plants burn oil or gas depending on what is cheaper. Now they burn gas because of the low price of natural gas. If the rest of the nation prohibited fracking like NYS we would be burning oil. Most buildings in JH have boilers that can burn both depending on price. The whole solar and wind option is perfectly acceptable if you live in Southern California. So this whole “green new deal” is pie in the sky nonsense that will never actually solve our energy needs.

Well it seems the Republicans were right that the social security Ponzi scheme would end. The population demographics as mentioned above will take care of that. Unless you think today’s twentysomethings will pay 70% of their middle class paycheck to pay for all the elderly and disabled. The only out of this mess would involve immigration of highly educated people who earn high incomes.

BULLSHIT. Social Security would continued to be funded WELL into the foreseeable future if:
1. Incomes would rise along with the rate of inflation, instead of being stagnant for 99% of wage-earners
2. The salary cap would be eliminated.

End of story. I'm not a socialist but I think people who work 40-50 years deserve to be secure in their senior years and have healthcare.