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Wednesday 26 September 2012
Meet Jill Stein

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.

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    Green party.
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    jill stein is my bro
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    Too bad all people know is the self-perpetuating two-party election.
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    She also wants do give funding to countries that actually need it, aka, NOT ISRAEL (esp. Palestine) and she supports...
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    I feel this woman heavily as far as American politicians go
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    A the most successful Liberal 3rd party candidate ever, Ralph Nader running for the Green Party in 2000, who handed the...
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    considering voting third party? check her out!
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    This is exactly what I want… But I am tired of talk I want action. I’m still waiting for the hope and change from last...
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    fuck yeah.
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    If you live in Rhode Island, sure. North Carolinians, we’re a swing state. This is NOT the election to vote for a third...
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