While this debate has provided fodder for policy wonks, it has not had much influence on Capitol Hill which seems poised to allow federal unemployment benefits to lapse without
much of an alternative strategy for getting the long term jobless working again.
Here's what is required (leaving aside Theresa May's electorally hamstrung inability to deliver
much of it): The entire cabinet and every business leader the government's black book can muster, on stage for the launch
of the new
strategy; an explicit declaration that this, full decarbonization
of the economy, is the post-Brexit economic
strategy; clear and attractive retail policies, such as a diesel scrappage scheme, tax breaks for green investment, new apprenticeships, a green home building program; an open invitation to all opposition party leaders to share a platform to support the plan with a declaration that while they may not agree on every component they fully endorse the over-arching goal; a willingness to shame those party leaders who play party politics and refuse to turn up; a fortnight - long program where each day sees a new cabinet member explain how the plan will transform parts
of the economy; a Royal Commission on the flaws
of GDP as an economic measure and the viability
of alternative quality
of life metrics; and, yes, a brave assertion that carbon intensive industries will have to transform or be scaled back, backed by a decarbonization adaptation fund to help affected communities respond to this global trend.
The reason why the notion
of «
alternative facts» has gotten so
much attention lately is because
of the explicit adoption
of the following... as an electoral
strategy:
Sceptics need to find as
much common ground as possible pokerguy, they need to stop quarrelling with each other and do a proper, co-ordinated rebuttal
of the IPCC and its accolytes and to provide policy makers with credible
alternative strategies for dealing with climate change at the regional level.
In
much of the writing on this subject, the focus has been on so - called
alternative fee arrangements or «AFAs», pricing
strategies that are based on fixed - price or cost - plus models that make no reference to billable hours in the calculation
of fees.