Survey of 2016 Presidential campaign websites: on Homeland Security
John Kasich:
Improve veteran healthcare with more options & fewer delays
The same kinds of policies that John Kasich has deployed successfully in Ohio to support veterans will be a model for the veterans policies he pursues as president. A particular focus will be health care, where he supports improving the current system
as well as giving veterans new flexibilities and options to eliminate delays for needed care.- Prioritizing Veterans as a Ready Workforce: Reforms Gov. Kasich pursued in 2014 made it easier for veterans to transfer their skills to
receive licensure credit.
- Providing Property-Tax Relief to Disabled Veterans: Ohio doubled the homestead exemption for veterans with full service-related disabilities to make sure they are able to stay in their homes and better manage
property tax bills.
- Creating an Online Career Center for Veterans: Ohio created OhioMeansVeteranJobs.com--an online resource offering veterans a host of services to help them get a job.
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website, JohnKasich.com
Dec 27, 2017
John Kasich:
Easier licensing for veterans; and more job services
Veterans have advanced training and experience in many of the skills that Ohio job creators are seeking. Reforms Gov. Kasich pursued in 2014 made it easier for veterans to transfer their skills to receive licensure credit so they can quickly begin
applying their skills in good-paying jobs that support their families. Further, Ohio's state licensing boards and commissions have adopted consistent military definitions and made changes to their applications and policies to make certain that veterans
and spouses are identified and prioritized.Ohio created OhioMeansVeteranJobs.com--an online resource offering veterans a host of services to help them get a job. The website has a "military skills translator" that helps map military experience to
job skills to build a resume from military service. For businesses looking for qualified workers, Ohio created the Veterans Business Support Center to assist employers in locating qualified veteran candidates for job openings.
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website, JohnKasich.com
Dec 27, 2017
Evan McMullin:
Free America requires strongest in the world
A free America requires the strongest and most capable military and intelligence infrastructure in the world. The bravery and commitment of our men and women in uniform is unquestioned; we need to provide
them the technology, training, and support to defeat the threats of today and secure our nation in the future.
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website EvanMcMullin.com
Aug 12, 2016
Ajamu Baraka:
Close the 700+ foreign military bases
- Cut military spending by at least 50% and close the 700+ foreign military bases. Ensure a just transition that replaces reductions in military jobs with jobs in renewable energy, transportation and green infrastructure development.
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Stop U.S. financial and military support to human rights abusers. Barring substantial changes in their policies, this would include Saudi Arabia, Israel and Egypt.
- End the US' role as the world's arm supplier.
Source: Stein-Baraka platform on 2016 presidential campaign website
Aug 8, 2016
Jill Stein:
Close the 700+ foreign military bases
- Cut military spending by at least 50% and close the 700+ foreign military bases. Ensure a just transition that replaces reductions in military jobs with jobs in renewable energy, transportation and green infrastructure development.
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Stop U.S. financial and military support to human rights abusers. Barring substantial changes in their policies, this would include Saudi Arabia, Israel and Egypt.
- End the US' role as the world's arm supplier.
Source: Stein-Baraka platform on 2016 presidential campaign website
Aug 8, 2016
Ajamu Baraka:
Public opinion is manipulated to support permanent war
This "blowback" theory [that the US actions in the Middle East led to the creation of al Qaeda and ISIL] is controversial especially among some who view all of these attacks [by terrorists on civilian targets in Europe and the US] as part of some grand
design to manipulate public opinion to support the permanent war strategy being operationalized across the planet in the name of fighting terrorism. While the forces of domination can tactically take advantage of these attacks to further that agenda,
the position that this is all part of a grand plan gives those forces a ubiquity and level of competence among the people making policy that the evidence of how policy is developed and executed does not support.
There are already calls being made in some quarters for a more forceful intervention into Syria to crush ISIS in response to the attack in Turkey.
Source: 2016 vice-presidential campaign website, AjamuBaraka.com
Jul 6, 2016
Jill Stein:
Slash dangerously bloated military budget by at least 50%
On Tax Day, Stein calls for massive cut in dangerous, bloated military spending: "The best way to reign in wasteful federal spending is to slash the dangerously bloated military budget by at least 50%," said Stein. In addition to bankrupting us
financially and morally, the inflated military budget has created a trigger-happy foreign policy, leading to disastrous military interventions and regime change. In the Middle East, this has produced failed states, mass refugee migrations, and
ever-worsening terrorist threats. Stein added, "Instead of needless and destructive wars, that make us less safe not more safe, it's time to bring our tax dollars home to rebuild America." President Obama has requested roughly $600 billion for
this year's Pentagon budget. "If we include spending on nuclear weapons, Veterans Administration costs, and the military's portion of the national debt, we are spending over $1 trillion on the military each year."
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website, Jill2016.com
Apr 18, 2016
Jill Stein:
Cancel F-35 project; cancel the Littoral Combat Ship
Stein would remove American troops from unnecessary bases around the world. The US spends a hundred billion dollars per year maintaining over 1,000 military facilities in more than 130 countries. Stein would also root out the massive corruption in
military spending. A failed attempt to audit the Department of Defense during the Clinton administration found that $2.3 trillion of $7 trillion in transactions could not be justified. "War profiteering by military contractors--which has been rampant in
Iraq and Afghanistan--should be eliminated and prosecuted. The revolving door between government and military contractors must be shut," said Stein. Stein would save up to a trillion dollars in coming years canceling obsolete or unnecessary projects
like the F-35, the new strategic bomber, and the Littoral Combat Ship. She would save an additional trillion dollars over a decade by canceling the development of new nuclear weapons, which threatens to start a dangerous new nuclear arms race.
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website, Jill2016.com
Apr 18, 2016
Ted Cruz:
Provide our veterans the care they have been promised
- Ted Cruz is committed to honoring our veterans, and providing them the care they have been promised.
- The mismanagement in the VA is unacceptable. We should expand options for our
service members' health care so they have more choices and more immediate service.
- A Cruz administration will bring more accountability to the VA and provide greater options for our veterans.
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website TedCruz.org
Mar 15, 2016
Gary Johnson:
Founding Fathers would be disgusted about spying on citizens
When you ask Americans today what the greatest threat to their individual liberties is, far too often the response is: "The government". That is simply unacceptable in a nation that was literally founded on the notion of liberty.Imagine the disgust of
the Founding Fathers if they were to see the national government spying on citizens' private communications, monitoring financial transactions, photographing license plates, and even demanding to know what a person is doing at a public library--all
without warrants or due process of law.
Decades of ever-more-intrusive government has steadily eroded personal freedom in this country. Adults are no longer free to make their own decisions, and virtually no part of Americans' private lives are
today safe from government scrutiny and regulation.
Gary Johnson believes government should be truly limited--limited in the way the Founders envisioned--without unconstitutional scrutiny by the NSA, the ATF, the DEA or any other government agency.
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website GaryJohnson2016.com
Jan 11, 2016
Gary Johnson:
Overturn simplistic, chaotic, reactive military policies
Looking back over the past couple of decades, it is difficult to see how the wars we have waged, the interventions we have conducted, the lives sacrificed and the trillions spent on the other side of the globe have made us safer. The chaotic, reactive
military and foreign policies of the past two Presidents have, if anything, created an environment that has allowed real threats to our safety to flourish. As President, Gary Johnson will move quickly and decisively to refocus U.S. efforts and
resources to attack the real threats we face in a strategic, thoughtful way. The U.S. must get serious about cutting off the millions of dollars that are flowing into the extremists' coffers every day. Relationships with strategic allies must be repaired
and reinforced. And the simplistic options of "more boots on the ground" and dropping more bombs must be replaced with strategies that will isolate and ultimately neuter those who would, if able, destroy the very liberties on which this nation is founded
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website GaryJohnson2016.com
Jan 11, 2016
Gary Johnson:
Reactive military policies allow real threats to flourish
The objective of both our foreign policy and our military should be straightforward: To protect us from harm and to allow the exercise of our freedoms.Looking back over the past couple of decades, it is difficult to see how the wars we have waged, the
interventions we have conducted, the lives sacrificed and the trillions spent on the other side of the globe have made us safer. The chaotic, reactive military and foreign policies of the past two Presidents have, if anything, created an environment
that has allowed real threats to our safety to flourish.
As President, Gary Johnson will move quickly and decisively to refocus U.S. efforts and resources to attack the real threats we face in a strategic, thoughtful way. The U.S. must get serious
about cutting off the millions of dollars that are flowing into the extremists' coffers every day. Relationships with strategic allies must be repaired and reinforced.
Source: 2016 Presidential campaign website GaryJohnson2016.com
Jan 11, 2016
Lawrence Lessig:
The size of our own defense budget induces instability
We must recognize the instability that we induce by the very size and nature of our own defense budget. Eisenhower warned of the military-industrial complex. His original term was even better: the military-industrial-congressional complex.
That complex creates enormous pressure for us to spend money on weapons of war. It puts enormous pressure on the United States government to encourage or at least tolerate the sale of weapons in contexts that could not induce peace.
And it continues to put pressure on our government to spend money in ways that cannot help our long term security. The wars of tomorrow won't be fought in Bradley tanks, regardless of what the lobbyists say.
Which is why, once again, we must pass The First Reform, and secure a Congress free to lead.
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website Lessig2016.us, `Issues`
Oct 29, 2015
Jill Stein:
700+ foreign military bases are bankrupting us
Peace and Human Rights: Establish a foreign policy based on diplomacy, international law, and human rights. End the wars and drone attacks, cut military spending by at least 50% and
close the 700+ foreign military bases that are turning our republic into a bankrupt empire. Stop U.S. support and arms sales to human rights abusers, and lead on global nuclear disarmament.
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website, jill2016.com, "Plan"
Jun 25, 2015
Jill Stein:
End persecution of government and media whistleblowers
Justice for All: Restore our Constitutional rights, terminate unconstitutional surveillance and unwarranted spying, end persecution of government and media whistleblowers,
close Guantanamo, abolish secret kill lists, and repeal indefinite detention without charge or trial.
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website, jill2016.com, "Plan"
Jun 25, 2015
Donald Trump:
Increased Veterans Day parade audience from 100 to 1 million
Trump has long been a devoted supporter of veteran causes. In 1995, the fiftieth anniversary of World War II, only 100 spectators watched New York City's Veteran Day Parade. It was an insult to all veterans.
Approached by Mayor Rudy Giuliani and the chief of New York City's FBI office, Trump agreed to lead as Grand Marshall a second parade later that year. Mr. Trump made a $1 million matching donation to finance the Nation's Day Parade.
On Saturday, November 11th, over 1.4 million watched as Trump marched down Fifth Avenue with more than 25,000 veterans, some dressed in their vintage uniforms. A month later,
Trump was honored in the Pentagon during a lunch with the Secretary of Defense and the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website, DonaldJTrump.com
Jun 16, 2015
George Pataki:
A strong America is a safe America: strengthen our military
I will not forget the lesson of Sept. 11th. I fear too many in Washington already have.In the face of an increasingly dangerous world this is not the time to weaken America's military, it's time to strengthen our military.
Not so that we can use it, but so that we don't HAVE to use it. A strong America is a safe America.
Ronald Reagan proved that peace through strength is more than a slogan. Peace through strength is a policy that works. Weakness, equivocation and false promises lead only to chaos, brutality and war. The world is a better place when America is strong, an
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website: Announcement speech
May 28, 2015
Rand Paul:
Provide veterans support tools to adjust to civilian life
As a physician, it is particularly upsetting to me when I hear of bad experiences our veterans have had with the Department of Veterans Affairs. These experiences represent a failure of one of our most basic obligations - to provide for those who have
worn the uniform and shouldered the burdens of war.We owe it to the men and women who have served in combat to provide them with quality care for injuries sustained in defense of this nation. We must provide our veterans the necessary support tools
as they adjust back to civilian life.
We consider all veterans, service members and their families to be an important part of our local communities.
As President, I will continue to support veterans and service members of this country. It is my strong belief that we must protect those who have made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our nation.
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website, RandPaul.com, "Issues"
Apr 7, 2015
Ajamu Baraka:
Militarization to fight terrorism is permanent war posture
Militarization in the name of fighting terrorism--the terror phenomenon seems to develop in whatever country the U.S. has a strategic interest--is the cornerstone of the "new" strategy of counter-terrorism partnerships that President Obama revealed in
his famous (or infamous, depending on one's view) speech at West Point on May 28.The strategy of reducing the U.S. footprint by relying on small numbers of special forces--Delta force, Seals, Green Berets etc.--and not committing massive ground
forces, thus reducing the possibility of U.S. casualties and the attention of the public, reflects a serious strategic threat to the cause of peace and anti-interventionism. It is not only a strategy that commits the U.S. to a permanent war posture,
especially since the connection of covert U.S. support to these terrorist operations is now well established, it also means that the plan for Africa is being written in the blood of the people in Iraq, Syria and Libya.
Source: 2016 vice-presidential campaign website, AjamuBaraka.com
Jun 25, 2014
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