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They may share the same initials, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Civilian Climate Corps” is no Great Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps. The Bronx representative and her Green New Deal pal, Massachusetts Democrat Senator Ed Markey, are pushing for $70 billion to create their version of the CCC via a reconciliation package. “The last time the US did this, we employed 2M people and had record success in wildfire suppression,” AOC asserted. “One [of] the most rapid peacetime mobilizations in US history. We can revive it to fight climate change.”

What AOC and Markey envision with their CCC is the hiring of 1.5 million young people to “complete federally-funded projects that help communities respond to climate change and transition to a clean economy.” Completely re-engineer the economy is more like it. Their program would include…