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Chase Oliver on Homeland Security
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Cut defense spending to pay for college loans
I will immediately end the Federal backing of student loans by asking Congress to make all current loans interest-free, while simultaneously ending all future government-guaranteed loans. I would then make the discharge of interest revenue neutral
by requiring the Department of Defense to cut costs by closing overseas bases and installations and bringing our troops home, instead of engaging in expensive nation-building and peacekeeping missions abroad.
It is only right that the DoD bear part of the cost, as mounting debt is as big a threat to our security as any foreign enemy, Finally, I would allow students to stabilize their financial situations by allowing student loan debt to be
dischargeable in bankruptcy just like any other loan. I want a well-educated populace that can compete with the minds of any other nation, but not at the cost of our nation's financial and retirement security.
Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website VoteChaseOliver.com
, Dec 23, 2023
China just an excuse to fund military industrial complex
On China, Oliver said he feels there's been much saber rattling, but that both countries are so economically dependent on one another that he sees
Chinese aggression as "somewhat of a hollow threat" that some officials use to increase funding for the U.S. military industrial complex.
Source: Cedar Rapids Gazette on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
, Jul 23, 2023
2008: Close Guantanamo; stop drone policies
Q: I've heard you describe yourself as a former Democrat--how did the Democrats lose you? A: I started out my political life as an anti-war activist in the wake of the war in Iraq. I was an ardent supporter of
Barack Obama in 2008, because he promised to close Guantanamo. He said he was going to stop the drone policies of the Bush administration, and the wars.
And he really didn't do any of those things--and yet he got a Nobel Peace Prize. That, to me, was very insulting. And what really bothered me was that the anti-war left that
was marching with me in the streets while Bush was president, completely disappeared while Obama was president. That drove me out of the Democratic Party.
Source: Rolling Stone magazine on 2022 Georgia Senate race
, Nov 12, 2022
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