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> Most senators condemned her because Omarova has proposed nationalizing the American financial system, empowering the Federal Reserve to take over consumer dep
by beervirus 5y ago
> Most senators condemned her because Omarova has proposed nationalizing the American financial system, empowering the Federal Reserve to take over consumer deposits, and “effectively end[ing] banking, as we know it.” It is Omarova who proposed a “National Investment Authority,” a nomenklatura that would redistribute your money into a “big and bold” climate agenda. This, after she recommended that states bankrupt private energy companies so we can “basically get rid of these carbon financiers” by “starv[ing] them of their source of capital.” The woman wrote a paper titled “The People’s Ledger” last year. Then, there is Omarova’s pernicious defense of the USSR’s lack of “a gender pay gap.”
>Omarova is free to kick around theories with her “Marxist Analysis and Policy” Facebook group, but she’s not afforded any special dispensation allowing her to avoid answering for her positions and past comments. Senator John Kennedy brought up her memberships and academic work in the Soviet Union to argue that she hadn’t changed her position today, not that she is bonded to them forever. If you don’t want your nominees to be referred to as “comrade,” don’t nominate socialists who praise the Soviet Union.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/sorry-omarovas-soviet-birth-is-not-what-sunk-her-nomination/ https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/sorry-omarovas-soviet-...
- selimthegrim 5y agoJohn Kennedy, or as we like to call him here in New Orleans, Foghorn Leghorn, has never met a foreign origin person he doesn’t want to throw to the dogs as red meat for the cameras.
- BrazzVuvuzela 5y agoThat's not a very compelling refutation to the claims you're responding to.
- beervirus 5y agoDid you actually read what you were responding to?
- selimthegrim 5y agoI did. Kennedy doesn’t care about the timeframe of the Soviet bit. He just wants a five second soundbite for his constituents. If he was talking to Bernie he’d bring up his honeymoon too. I’m also not a National Review subscriber so I can’t read the whole thing. Also as another commenter points out the government can already control access to private banking like a spigot quite well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29559738 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29559738
- BrazzVuvuzela 5y agoSenator Kennedy and what he said is only 1/4th of that comment.
- detaro 5y agoAnd they were commenting on that 1/4 of the comment, so what?
- beervirus 5y agook.gif