Another Scheme To Enlarge An Already Bloated Federal Government

Last week, House and Senate Democrats celebrated "The newfound momentum behind establishing a formal successor to the Civilian Conservation Corps, a New Deal-era initiative that put people to work building parks, paving roads and planting trees," E&E News reported.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, promised to use the "Power" of his position "To ensure that the Civilian Climate Corps will be included in the reconciliation package, and I will fight to get the biggest boldest CCC possible."

Simply put, the Democrats are looking to equip 1.5 million shock troops to enforce the Green New Deal.

The New Deal was not a savior from the Great Depression but instead a constant piling up of government programs and private-sector interventions that extended the misery.

As our colleague Stephen Moore has written, "After seven years of New Deal-era explosions in federal debt and spending, the U.S. economy was still flat on its back by 1940, unemployment still averaged 14.6%," lower than the rate when Roosevelt was elected, but higher than it was three years earlier when it was 14.3%. But the Democrats love the New Deal because it permanently expanded the size of government.

Think again of the New Deal, described in 1933 in the New York Times Magazine as an era in which not only did the president "Possess more authority than any of his predecessors," but also presided "Over a government that has more control over more private activities than any other that has ever existed in the United States."

The same can be said for the new CCC. It will be anything but a guardian of the climate - just another scheme to enlarge a government that the Democrats hope to control in perpetuity.

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