Popmartijn
Blue Crack Supplier
I would suppose the point of so much being in one bill with the name “new deal” is because it’s supposed to emulate FDR’s New Deal, which was obviously (as you probably already know) a massive economic program centered around numerous things from unemployment to financial reform.
“Green” new deal, I would suppose, is another “new deal” meant to broadly address numerous problems, with an emphasis on doing it in a green fashion (if applicable).
But the original New Deal of 85 years ago never was just one bill with everything. It consisted of several acts. In total it was a massive economic program, but it was made up of smaller packages.
So why throw everything together now in one bill, one that isn't even specific enough to detail exactly how certain policies are achieved? It almost certainly contains something for everyone not to be content with. In total it gives almost everyone an excuse to vote against it. Especially in today's hyper-partisan political environment, where there's almost no political capital to spend, I don't think it's wise to just dump such a bill on the floor of Congress. It might work as a manifest (though every job created should be a union job, really?), but as an actual bill that can become law, the creators should have known that chances to get it passed are zero. And that it'll be used as a stick to hit the Democrats with, both those that vote for and against it.
You said that you want bold ideas, real change instead of just small incremental steps. But even then the proposals should be realistic. A big proposed change that does not get passed is less progress than several smaller ones that do become law.