First, she said, she’d bring back job programs like the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), so that unemployed people could do something useful instead of just drawing government benefits. “If you don’t have work, you’d go to an employment office, not an unemployment office, and you’d get a job, not sit home, depressed, with a check.”
On health care, she’d extend Medicare to everyone, which she said would “save trillions of dollars” by eliminating the “health insurance bureaucracy.”
On education, she said she’d make public higher education free to everyone and bail out student loan debtors. (“We know higher education pays for itself,” she says, citing the GI Bill).
And, because three things weren’t enough, she added that she’d downsize the military to below its 2000 funding levels and avoid “hypermilitarism,” from which, she says, “we are getting a lot of blowback right now.”
She also favors ending the Patriot Act, and rolling back the civil-liberties infringements of both the Bush and Obama administrations — the latter, she says, being worse than Bush’s in many respects.
Not feeling the main two presidential candidates? Try Green Party candidate Jill Stein on for size.
Green Party candidate in Tucson mayoral race lives in Occupy tent: Mary DeCamp is about to have her house foreclosed upon, but she’s decided to walk away from it and run her Green Party campaign from a tent. She certainly has the right name for such a move. source
We have decided that we can no longer continue in government.Irish Green Party leader John Gormley • Revealing their plans to exit the coalition with Prime Minister Brian Cowen’s government, likely forcing a much quicker election than Cowen anticipated. (One was planned for March 11th already, but might be needed sooner.) Despite washing their hands of Gormley’s government, they plan on supporting a key piece of legislation regarding the country’s austerity plan. (Edit: Sorry we screwed up the link; fixed now. Thanks ilyagerner) source (via • follow)
You would think that electronic voting machines wouldn’t be so hard to screw up, but as this Texas guy here proves, it’s not the case. He tried to vote for the Republicans straight ticket and he got the Green Party instead. Some, however, are suggesting this clip is fake. Look at the position of his thumb and judge for yourself. source
Do Texas voting machines have a Green Party-favoring glitch?