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Open Thread | President Biden Is Getting Stuff Done!

September 27, 2023, 10:33 pm
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This announcement happened last week:

Now, at another blog, someone asked why this new program was being created? Why wasn’t it just run out of something like the AmeriCorps program?

This was a fabulous response:

Tim Ellis
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023 AT 10:21 AM

@NotMax: The core value proposition of the new program is two-fold imo:

1) A dedicated vehicle for large-scale climate mobilization lays important groundwork for us. The crisis is going to get substantially worse before it gets better; we need something we can scale up that is focused on addressing it and all the negative effects of it. AmeriCorps offers “stipended volunteer work”, which is nice but not appropriate to either the scope of the crisis nor to modern sensibilities among young people. They need an FDR style jobs program that can offer real careers doing meaningful work directly, not just passing them along to non-profits for volunteer. (I’m admittedly not well acquainted with AmeriCorps so this assessment relies on reading their wikipedia entry; any misunderstandings of AmeriCorps are my fault).

2) Like so much of what Biden has done, it’s not just smart policy but also smart politics. This sends a big message to young people that climate concerns are being heard and addressed, AND avenues of opportunity are being made for them. This program was one of the specific asks of the US climate movement’s youth wing so by delivering for them, Biden gives them more reasons to turn out for Dems next year and also shows that he listens to what they’re asking for and delivers – something we are frankly not used to from any president before now. It is this penchant of his for listening to us and delivering on our priorities that has converted me to a big-time Biden booster.

I thought that this was absolutely on point. This very concept harkens back to the New Deal. Harkens back to the CCC and WPA:

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28.[1] The CCC was a major part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal that supplied manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state, and local governments. The CCC was designed to supply jobs for young men and to relieve families who had difficulty finding jobs during the Great Depression in the United States.

It joins together an idea from the past that worked, with the needs of today. I have to think that this is a benefit of having an older President. Having a President who spent 35 years in government before he was even Vice President. He is a student of history who understands that the challenges of today are new, but that there are possibly old solutions that just need tweaking; need modernization.

Remember, we have one party that believes Climate Change is real, and wants to find solutions and ways to attack the issue.
The other party won’t commit to Climate Change being real.
The more stark and obviousness in the difference in the parties with regards to this issue – can only be a positive. We can appeal to Gen Z and Younger Millennials with an actual Climate Change agenda.

And, our President stands with workers. Stands with the common man. He knows Unions built the middle class of this country.

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