Van Jones Describes Utopian ‘Green’ World Where the Unemployed Plant ‘Community Gardens,‘ Put Up ’Solar Panels,’ Work Organic Fields, & are ‘Just Doing Art’
- Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:45pm by
Benny Johnson
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On a radio show last week, former Obama adviser Van Jones described his vision of a “just, green economy.” In his description, Mr. Jones envisions a future for America based on “shared, sustainable prosperity”:
“I realized that there is a future out there that is a positive future — where we can have a shared sustainable prosperity, where the people who don’t have work right now can be employed planting those community gardens, working in the organic foods field, putting up solar panels, weatherizing homes, and just doing art and taking care of kids and each other.”
This green utopia has not come to pass yet because, according to Jones:
“unfortunately, as the financial collapse occurred and brought down the U.S. economy and we were trying to rebuild that economy on a greener basis, the opponents of change really went into a different gear and stepped up their attacks on me personally, on other leaders, on the president, and made it very difficult for us to make the kind of progress.”
But Jones will not loose hope. He makes sure to note that this green utopia is still an “economy that we can work toward.”
The comments are strangely reminiscent of Speaker Pelosi’s comments in March where she declared that Obamacare will allow one to quit their job and be “whatever”:
“A bill that says to someone, if you want to be creative and be a musician or whatever, you can leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill, your passion, your aspirations because you will have health care. You won’t have to be job locked.”
Listen to Jones describe a green utopia below:
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Comments (186)
Mike Benton
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:33pmHe’ll eat the veggies, but he will NEVER plant one!
Report Post »HKS
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:37pmNor will he pick one or cook one.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:41pmHe needs to find another planet to go live on.
Report Post »000degrees
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:43pmCan’t wait to start my guided Unicorn tours of the big rock candy mountain……..all I need is free healthcare and I’m there!!!!!
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:55pmHere’s the problem Vannie….they’re not doing any of that now..why will they later? They have every opportunity to go to orchards and fields to apply for jobs..but they dont’ want them. They have every opporutnity to go to Solar Panel companies and apply for jobs…they’re not going to them. What’s the problem Jonesy?
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:57pmHe needs to take a short walk off a long pier. As we used to say in the good ole days.
Report Post »jetmech807
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 5:03pmIsn’t long walk off a short pier?
Report Post »mattmo79
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 5:37pmSounds like slavery or at best maybe indentured servitude!!
Report Post »stinkybisquit
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 5:55pm@MattMo: My thoughts exactly! Why not just put chains around their necks & auction them off?
Report Post »OlderCowGirl
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 10:30pmUgghh…liberals are much sicker than I imagined. Healthcare is NOT the only reason we keep our jobs. I submit that food, house & car payments, utilities, schooling, and…drum roll please…some of us really like our jobs (some don’t).
Has it occurred to everyone…anyone…that we don’t have to go to doctors or the emergency room? We don’t have to pay extreme monies on cut/burn/poison cancer treatments? What the heck do people think our ancestors did about medical attention? Most ancient folks died from infections and childbirth. Make your own infection medicine! Quit having so many babies! I grow and make my own medicines. I am self studied…me and my friends. We don’t go to doctors. We don’t take their recommended Rx drugs w/side effects.
Who says we have to have insurance? I agree that if you have an accident, or some serious need for surgery you need both a doctor and a hospital. Could it be that the hospitals are so expensive because of a bunch of free loaders/aliens that NEVER pay for medical care? Could it be that the price of a doctors visit (not that much really) is as high as they are because of frivolous LAWSUITS!!!
I submit that the problem is not that we need insurance. Do away with insurance. Take that money and save it for “a rainy-this-time-it’s-serious-medical-emergency”. Instead of buying a new car, or BigBig Flat Screen, or vacation, or ???. Save your money, save your selves.
Report Post »OlderCowGirl
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 10:36pmI thought black folks were very much against slavery? Who decides where you go to work, next? Who in the heck would pay for everybody doing they’re own thing? If we wanted to be a rock star…wouldn’t we already be headed that way? How is changing the whole system going to make it all better for everyone? If you aren’t doing what you really like doing…something is wrong with you. We keep our day job because it usually pays better than our fun stuff. Why would a brain surgeon keep working hard so another person can play the piano…because they like playing the piano?
Liberal thinking just really sucks. They don’t even think things out very far. It’s play-dough time. They never left Kindergarten. I’m going to vomit now.
Report Post »RabidPatriot
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 12:09amHe should lead by example and not just talk about it. Put down the mic, get a pair of overalls, go live off the land and paint a picture. He is just a smack talking trouble maker and has no skills other than stirring up the lazy and shiftless.
Report Post »WideOpen
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 1:23amOk, so in case you haven’t told everyone you know by now, here is a fact-
Any Black man with a bow tie is emulating Malcolm X-ray…
This means, they hate White people to an extent you could never imagine unless you grew up in one of their ‘hoods’ as I did….
Please stop believing this can’t come to your protected enclave….
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 2:07amThe PROBLEM with UTOPIA… is that it is a SLAVE WORKER Society… that supports an ELITE!
Report Post »teddie888
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 3:11amisn’t that what Jim Jones wanted?
Report Post »chucksue351
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 5:21amgive him a break he is a visionary he just finished animal farm
Report Post »gsp9993
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 6:22amThis clown has no idea what it takes to feed 300 million people or to heat and cool their homes.
Liberal idealism is out of touch with reality.
Report Post »historyguy48
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 6:55amComrade Van Jones needs to take better care of the plants himself.
Report Post »Perhaps as fertilizer!
georgette
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 8:14amI only have one rule when someone else comes up with something I should do:
“You first”..
Report Post »kadster01
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 8:36amJust as a dog has to have his nose rubbed in excrement to get the point, the US will have to experience real suffering to understand that Utopia does not exist. We can be told by millions who have already experienced the failures of communism and socialism in out own lifetime, but that just won’t do. We will have to live it.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 9:31am@OlderCowGirl
I’ve been battling cancer for a year and a half, stage 4 breast cancer, with conventional medicine. I just had a PET scan and they said I’m “stable” because I only “progressed a little bit.” I’m turning to “unconventional” medicine because conventional medicine has failed me. I had a friend steer me towards B17, and I feel great after only a few weeks. I’m just eating foods high in B17 right now, but considering Laetrile. The Pharmaceutical companies prescribe meds so that you have to take more meds for the side effects that the original meds cause.
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 11:45amVan is on to something here. Welfare reform. Skip the art, include policing up litter and cigarette butts.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:31pmWonder if VJ will go out and plant some solar panel seeds?
Report Post »Tractorboy
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 6:21pmThe best and brightest tried that, those things just don’t seem to grow.
Report Post »DDD
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:29pmHe’s too young to have been a hippie (unlike Pelosi), but here he is touting the nirvana of communes. Or is he? More like describing the utopia of socialism/marxism. He’ll be among the elite, though, while us “workers” take care of things for them and under their whip. 4 more months…..
Report Post »Optimist4now
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:39pmPelosi was too old to have been a hippie. If she has one more face lift, she’ll be sporting a goatee!
Report Post »DDD
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 5:06pmCan you do math? She was born in 1940. Hippies were around in the 60′s, early 70′s. Not all of them were teenagers, you know!
Report Post »DIR
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 10:38pm@OPTIMIST…
I think Nancy’s long past the goatee stage. She’s now sporting a Van **** and has fishy breath
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:27pmThat’s great. I trust the homeless crack addict down the street to plant my veggies and install solar panels on my house too, Van.
Report Post »highcarry
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 10:37amthis is a true story. we had a nice little garden growing and one day a black couple came to visit. the guy worked with my wife. i was out puttering in the garden when they arrived. they walked out to where i was and they were asking “what’s this? what’s that?”. as i was telling them what the plants were, i went to my potato bed, pulled some straw back, grabbed a baby potato, washed it at the hydrant, and started to eat it. they looked at me like i just put a dog t**d in my mouth. i thought they were going to puke. i believe she actually got a little woozy. it was the funniest damn thing i ever saw. well, they were from nyc. so van, good luck with that.
Report Post »BeingThere
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:27pmI won’t work in the garden but I demand to share in the harvest!!!!!!
Report Post »Tigress1
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:26pmWhich came first? The word “Commune” or “Communism”? Kind of like the chicken or the egg question, huh?
Report Post »sooner12
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:21pmJones‘ utopia was tried and failed in the 60’s. They were called communes. Maybe that is where his parents met each other. At any rate what a dope.
Report Post »crazyrightwingmom
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:19pmYou know what, VAN! Americans have been planting gardens, helping each other and doing art forever! Where have you been?? Need I ask?
Oh, and who is going to melt the steel and drive the trucks and build the houses these artists live in? This is beyond belief…too many university coffeklatches! (sp?)
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 9:37amWell, us stupid people who believe in a work ethic are supposed to support not only our own families but someone else’s. The more money you make, the more families you’ll be forced to “adopt.” Sort of like those commercials, sponser this poor child from another country who can’t get food to live on…just 29 cents a day will feed him for a month. REally? Then why does our welfare system give out so much free money? I hate to be there when they run out of dopes willing to work for someother shmoe who doesn’t want to work, but wants to strip down naked and pour paint over themselves and roll around on a canvas and call it art.
Report Post »dictionmary
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 10:02amCouldn’t have said it better! Thanks, CRWM!
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:14pmSounds like ideal commune living to me. Didn’t the Russians try out this system a few years back?
Report Post »I suppose there’d be no need for an overload or task master in such a community; all equal, all fair, just do’in art and stuff. Kinda like life on the plantation, but without the whips and stuff.
lani59
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:21pmJones is the biggest idiot in America right now and of course you know and he knows that he‘ll never live this way because being an elite means your wealth will be protected by the Gov’t. His dream is for us to slave in the sun planting wheat and raising chickens so he can get his waffles and fried chicken any day he wants. Oh yeah, keep dem watermelons coming…
Report Post »OlderCowGirl
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 10:45pmIsn’t that what that other “Jones” guy tried in Guyana? And see how well that turned out.
Report Post »JamesW
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 4:45pmThis guy was picked by Obama. Both are in LA LA land.
Report Post »amerbur
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:13pmWho builds Van will build the homes and make the clothes and cleans the water and recycles the trash and make the beds and the solar panals and and the tools for the garden to deliver those things that make life comfortable you dim wit. What the hell do you think Americans do, sit around and think up ways to take things from their neighbor. Grow up Van.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:13pmWhat kind of drugs is this guy on? If he is not on any, maybe he should be! Dreams like this don’t even happen in Disney….
Report Post »oldschool66
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:12pmi wonder if our new buggies will be able to outrun the drones chasing us?
Report Post »great white hunter
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:12pmI am really weary of liars,fools and idiots. This dirt bag should be removed.
Report Post »fixer
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 6:30pmthey’ll either be gone in November,or they’ll be gone next year permanently!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:12pmThe scary thing isn’t him saying it, we all know what to expect from him. The scary thing is that so many gullible Americans will listen and believe him.
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:34pmI suppose it might sound like a pretty good life to the ghetto blacks with a hankering to get back to real plantation living.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:51pmThere are plenty of white folks ready to sign up for that system as well. Look at OWS, mostly white.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 5:01pmGONZO..Jones doesn’t believe that crap for a second. This is about power, not utopian dreams. He knows a modern industrialized society with all the advantages it enjoys can’t exist if a population is given the option to “drop out” and just plant trees or draw pictures or play the lute all day. It’s all tailored to appeal to the beguiled of the left to stir unrest and protest activity and for the bone idle lazy to join in.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 5:11pmRoger that AK. He’s a commie. They always spread dreams of utopia to the ignorant masses to gain power. The ignorant masses end up being slaves to commies in charge instead. That’s what I meant about the people that fall for this cr*p are the scary ones. He’s nothing new.
Report Post »jonathanfarrar
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:12pmSo, what if EVERYONE decided to quit and channel their inner artist? I want to say I’m astounded at the absolute stupidity, out of touch with the slightest semblance of reality that is so evident in these knucking futs progressives. I’ve seen more evidence of my own guilt of taking the gift of Liberty for granted. NO MORE. This is a fight worth dying for.
Report Post »Rainbow Dash
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 9:26amAmen to that
Report Post »Iamnotanumber
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:11pmGood luck getting them off their fat lazy b-hinds to do all of these imaginary things, this is not Star Trek!!!
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:55pmOh, it is Star Trek it’s just that the Borg have taken over.
Report Post »pissantno.10
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:57pmthe scary thing is i think most of these people beleve in star trek
Report Post »normalmom
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 5:21pmYou can’t dis star trek too much, there have been some inventions that got an idea from star trek. Got a cell phone anyone. The guy has to be higher than a kite to really think this would work.
Report Post »Sophie47
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:11pmRead Mark Levin’s “Ameritopia” where he describes the history of these utopian dreamers.
Van Jones wants me to work to pay for other people who can just hang out and “do art.” No way Mr. Communist.
Report Post »hatchetjob
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:19pmExactly SOPHIE47, as you said “do art”, and make lots of babies while whitey slaves away in the garden.
Report Post »Optimist4now
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:44pmHow do you think Art will feel about being “done” by all these idiots? Maybe if he’s just out of prison it will feel like home.
Report Post »bobefann
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:11pmWhat these hacks do not understand is that nirvana is not for this world. There will always be rich people and there will always be poor people. Has been and always will be till the end of time. There will always be a bottom 20%. But what makes America different is people, who have drive and determination, can change the prospect for their family in THEIR lifetime. That 20% will always be there, but what statistics and numbers do not show the American People is the validity of those numbers. People are always fluctuating in and out of that 20%. Nothin is worth having if it is given to you. I guess that is why Libs hate everything because they have to work for it.
Report Post »Old Truckers
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:10pmSounds like he wants the country to turn into some big hippy commune farm.
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:30pmPlantation I think.
Report Post »oldschool66
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:10pmIf this administration gets its way we are going to be forcing the Amish to teach how to survive ….then we will all be in little communes with our homemade goodies and strap marks on our backs..
Report Post »Chromo200
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 1:04amwell said …
Report Post »bobbyjoe
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:09pmWas he saying work in community gardens as in the rice fields Poi Pot?
Report Post »Cavallo
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:05pmHe means we will all be working in the rice paddies for Chairman Obama. All praise to our Brilliant Comrade.
Report Post »SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:04pmI wonder if Jones wants this to be Volunteers of is he going to force us to go work in the fields…….I think I have read this book before…..Yikes!
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 2:43amSPOT_OF_TEA, Good post without any name calling or threats. Amen!
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:04pmVan Jones is a communist and a racist. Who cares what he thinks? When he talks about the unemployoed and the people….he is only speaking of blacks. Whites…to him..will be doing all the work so these blacks can live in utopia………lol…think again.
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:39pm“Know thy enemy” ~ Gen. Sun Tzu
Report Post »hatchetjob
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:02pmYou can lead an unemployed person to a community garden, but you can’t make him/her work.
Report Post »tothepoint
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 5:27pmThose living in the communes of the 1960‘s and 1970’s learned that what you wrote is true.
Report Post »It sounded ideal when they started but, as time went on, there were those who wither worked little or refused to do any work at all. The lazy ones wanted the same share as those who worked. Eventually, the communes failed.
WaterTheTree
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 10:13pmHatchetjob said: “You can lead an unemployed person to a community garden, but you can’t make him/her work.”
Actually, the Soviets did just that. They found work for everyone, and if they didn’t want to work on a collectivist farm or factory owned by “the people”, then there was always work for them in the gulags!
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