If we want to cure the things that threaten life, limb and even survival, we need to heal … - Jill Stein

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Jill Stein

If we want to cure the things that threaten life, limb and even survival, we need to heal our sick political system. That is, not just to address our physical ailments, but the things that determine whether we're going to survive into the next century. That is war, climate change, poverty, etc. We've got to fix our politics.

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The Obama Administration has embraced the policies of George W. Bush, and then gone much further. Wall Street bailouts went ballistic under Obama-$700 billion under Bush, but $4. 5 trillion under Obama, plus another $16 trillion in zero-interest loans for Wall Street.

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We call for cancelling student debt, for bailing out young people like Wall Street was bailed out to the tune of $16 trillion.

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We need a broad commitment to human rights across the board. We cannot attain that simply by protecting one oppressed group or the other.

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We also call for free public education going forward. We know it pays for itself.

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The other piece of this is that we call for cutting our bloated and dangerous military budget. And this is something that is made possible by moving to 100% clean renewable energy, where we cannot justify wars for oil, and where we cannot justify having some 700, 800 bases gathered around the world in something like 100 countries in significant measure protecting either access to fossil fuels or protecting routes of transportation.

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