She is a liar. For years, Democrats have been perpetrating a massive fraud as they willfully hid Crooked Joe Biden's obvious cognitive decline from the public--and no one has been more central to the coverup than
Harris. Team Trump has documented numerous times Harris lied directly to the American people about Biden's condition.Kamala Harris' radical policies and her part in one of the greatest coverups in American history have disqualified her from office.
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Source: Trump Presidential Campaign 2024 press release: "Biden 2.0"
Ron DeSantis on Energy & Oil
: Jan 10, 2024
Kneecapping reliable energy means rolling blackouts
Q: Would you cut carbon emissions, the underlying cause of climate change?DESANTIS: On day one as President, we take Biden's Green New Deal and we throw it in the trash can. It is bad for this country. We have to have reliable energy. You're going to
end up having rolling blackouts if they kneecap reliable energy production in this country. Florida's had a massive decline in emissions--wasn't because of a single mandate. It was because of innovation, because a lot of natural gas has replaced coal.
We do have market-based solar, but we cannot walk away from reliable energy. The left wants you to pay more for everything. We need you to pay less for energy. We cannot have these mandates and they'll be gone the day I'm President.
Q: Would you do
anything to deal with the underlying cause?
DESANTIS: Innovate, and here's the thing. China is building two coal plants a week. So, why would we be cutting off our nose to spite our face? China is the problem here, and so hold them accountable.
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Source: CNN 2024 pre-Iowa caucus one-on-one debate
Jill Stein on Energy & Oil
: Dec 18, 2023
Take decisive action now to fight runaway global heating
From record heat waves and wildfires to devastating hurricanes, droughts and floods, the warning signs are clear: we must take decisive action now to fight runaway global heating and prevent the worst-case scenario of climate collapse.
We need a Green New Deal with massive investment in green jobs, industries, and technologies to revitalize the American economy, improve our quality of life, protect our planet and safeguard our children's future.
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Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website JillStein2024.com
Ron DeSantis on Energy & Oil
: Nov 8, 2023
Rip up the Green New Deal and throw it in the trash can
Gov. Ron DeSantis: I'm going to unleash all of America's energy potential on day one. I'm taking all the Biden regulations, the Green New Deal, ripping it up and throwing it in the trash \can where it belongs. We're going to lower your gas prices.
We're going to create jobs, we're going to lower energy costs, but we're also going to be more energy independent and secure. Biden's Green New Deal, that's good for Venezuela, it's good for Russia, it's good for Iran and it's good for China.
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Source: NBC News 2023 Republican primary debate in Miami
Doug Burgum on Energy & Oil
: Aug 23, 2023
Don't just trade Mideast OPEC with China's Sinopec
We can't just talk about the Biden economy because the economy, energy and national security are all tied together. We're paying too much for energy right now. But part of the reason why is because the Biden policies on energy.We've got a plan right
now, the $1.2 trillion Green New Deal spending buried in the Inflation Creation Act [the Inflation Reduction Act -- ed.] is something that is just subsidizing China.
If we're going to stop buying oil from the Middle East and start buying batteries
from China, we're just trading OPEC for Sinopec. And then belatedly, the Biden administration put sanctions on Russian oil. Who's buying it? China.
So, if you buy a battery in this country, you buy a solar panel, it's being produced in a plant in
China powered by coal where it's being powered by oil and gas at 20 percent off. And every farmer in this county like to buy diesel at 20 percent off, just like they're buying it in China.
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Source: Fox News 2023 Republican primary debate in Milwaukee
Cornel West on Energy & Oil
: Aug 7, 2023
Shift from extraction to regenerative and renewable energy
Fighting back against the escalating ecological catastrophe by targeting the corporate greed of fossil fuel companies and resurrecting the Green New Deal. Shifting from extraction and emission to regenerative and renewable energy.
Eliminating the environmental racism that disproportionately damages the life chances of poor people, especially poor people of color here and abroad. The future of life on this planet depends on this fundamental shift!
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Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website CornelWest24.org
JD Vance on Civil Rights
: Sep 9, 2021
OpEd: Mocked AOC for Native American phrase for non-binary
The 37-year-old bigot shared a tweet by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about trans, two-spirit, and non-binary people, along with the caption: "I'm sorry but what the hell is two-spirit? Would love if progressives just stopped inventing words."
Had J.D. bothered to simply Google "two-spirit" rather than tweet his ignorance about it, he would have quickly learned that it's not something progressives invented and is actually a term used in many Indigenous North American communities.
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Source: Queerty e-zine on 2022 Ohio Senate race
Mike Pence on Energy & Oil
: Oct 7, 2020
Biden's plan is a $2 trillion version of Green New Deal
PENCE: Joe Biden said, "I guarantee that we will abolish fossil fuels." They have a $2 trillion version of the Green New Deal, that USA Today said really wasn't that very different from the original Green New Deal. More taxes, more regulation, banning
fracking, abolishing fossil fuel, crushing American energy and economic surrender to China is a prescription for economic decline. President Trump and I will keep America growing.HARRIS: Joe Biden will not end fracking, he has been very clear about
that.
PENCE: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris would put us back in the Paris Climate Accord. They'd impose the Green New Deal, which would crush American energy and would crush American jobs. President Trump and I believe the progress we have made in a
cleaner environment has been happening because we have a free market economy. What's remarkable is the United States has reduced CO2 more than the countries that are still in the Paris Climate Accord, but we've done it through innovation.
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Source: 2020 Vice-Presidential Debate in Utah
Kamala Harris on Energy & Oil
: Oct 7, 2020
Carbon-neutral America by 2035
PENCE: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris would put us back in the Paris Climate Accord. They'd impose the Green New Deal, which would crush American energy and would crush American jobs. President Trump and I believe the progress we have made in a cleaner
environment has been happening because we have a free market economy. What's remarkable is the United States has reduced CO2 more than the countries that are still in the Paris Climate Accord, but we've done it through innovation.
HARRIS: Joe understands that the west coast is burning. Joe has seen and talked with the farmers in Iowa whose entire crops have been destroyed because of floods. Joe is about saying we're going to invest that in renewable energy, which is going to be
about the creation of millions of jobs. We will achieve net zero emissions by 2050, carbon neutral by 2035We will also reenter the Climate Agreement with pride.
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Source: 2020 Vice-Presidential Debate in Utah
Joe Biden on Energy & Oil
: Sep 29, 2020
I support the Biden Plan, not the Green New Deal
Q: What about the argument that Pres. Trump basically says, that you have to balance environmental interests and economic interests? BIDEN: This is a guy who says that you don't have to have mileage standards for automobiles that exist now.
TRUMP:
Not true.
BIDEN: It's all true. And here's the deal--
TRUMP: He's talking about the Green New Deal.
BIDEN: I'm talking about the Biden plan.
Q: Is it going to cost a lot of money and hurt the economy?
BIDEN: What it's going to do, it's going
to create millions of jobs.
TRUMP: This is a 100 trillion dollars.
BIDEN: The fact is, it's going to create millions of good paying jobs, and these tax incentives for people to weatherize, is going to make the economy much safer. Look how much
we're paying now to deal with the hurricanes. We're going to be in a position where we can create good jobs by making sure the environment is clean, and we all are in better shape. We spend billions of dollars now, on floods, hurricanes, rising seas.
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Source: First 2020 Presidential Debate, moderated by Chris Wallace
Joe Biden on Environment
: Sep 17, 2020
Green New Deal is in platform and it's not too much
Q: Are you a firm supporter of the Green New Deal? Or do you think it's too much, too goes too far?BIDEN: Oh, I don't think it's too much. Now, I have my own deal. I've laid it out in great detail. [The Green New Deal] was the Democratic Party's
adopted platform. It requires for us to move in a direction to fundamentally change the way in which we deal with environment. I'm the guy that ran the Recovery Act which invested over $90 billion in bringing down the cost of renewable energy.
So it's now more competitive than it is for coal, or for oil, or for gas. And by the way, before I actually went through the whole thing. I sat down with every one of the major unions, they all endorsed me. And I said, "look, this is good.
It's not only good for the environment, it's going to provide jobs and you're not going to lose your jobs. Not producing the same energy producing different kind of energy."
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Source: CNN Town Hall 2020 drive-in with Anderson Cooper
Kamala Harris on Energy & Oil
: Aug 23, 2020
Deadlines for reducing greenhouse gases & renewable energy
Q: Is the Green New Deal still your ultimate goal?HARRIS: We need to have a goal that is based on timelines, about saying that we're going to have deadlines on when we're going to achieve greenhouse gas emission reduction, when we're going
to have an investment in electric vehicles, and do what we need to do to invest in renewable energies, there's a whole plan about investing in infrastructure around renewable energies-- one million jobs will be created as a result of that.
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Source: ABC This Week 2020 National Convention David Muir Q&A
Bernie Sanders on Energy & Oil
: Feb 19, 2020
Fossil fuel profit is a moral issue
If we don't act boldly within the next six, seven years, there will be irreparable damage to the world. The Green New Deal will create up to 20 million good-paying jobs as we move our energy system away from fossil fuel to efficiency and sustainable
energy. This is a moral issue. We have to take the responsibility of making sure that the planet we leave our children and grandchildren is a planet that is healthy and habitable. That is more important than the profits of the fossil fuel industry.
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Source: 9th Democrat 2020 primary debate, in Las Vegas Nevada
Bernie Sanders on Jobs
: Oct 15, 2019
Create jobs with infrastructure repair & Green New Deal
Q: Are you promising that you will have a job for every American displaced by automation?SANDERS: Damn right, we will. We have an infrastructure which is collapsing. We can put 15 million people to work rebuilding our roads,
our bridges, our water systems, our wastewater plants, airports, etc. Furthermore, the Green New Deal that I have advocated will create up to 20 million jobs as we move away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable energy.
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Source: October Democratic CNN/NYTimes Primary debate
Joe Biden on Energy & Oil
: Sep 4, 2019
Credits Green New Deal, but it lacks specifics
Q: You don't support everything in the original Green New Deal. Is it unrealistic, promising too much?BIDEN: No, it's not. But it doesn't have a lot of specifics about exactly what we'll do with regard to greenhouse gases. It doesn't have specifics
of what programs are you going to initiate to be able to deal with getting a net zero emission. I think the Green New Deal deserves an enormous amount of credit for bringing this to a head in a way that it hasn't been before.
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Source: Climate Crisis Town Hall (CNN 2019 Democratic primary)
Bernie Sanders on Environment
: Sep 4, 2019
Deal with existing nuclear waste before creating any more
Q: In your Green New Deal plan, you argue that nuclear energy is "a false solution" to the climate crisis. Why?SANDERS: We got a heck of a lot of nuclear waste, which is going to stay around for many thousands of years. We don't know how to get rid
of it right now. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me to add more dangerous waste when we don't know how to get rid of what we have right now. Number two, it costs a lot more to build a new nuclear power plant today than it does to go to solar or
to go to wind. So I think that it is safer and more cost effective to move to sustainable energies like wind, solar, and geothermal, and not nuclear.
Q: Can you go carbon neutral without nuclear in the short term?
SANDERS: I think you can. And
I think the scientists tell us, in fact, that we can. And I think if you talk to the people in Japan in terms of what happened at Fukushima, talk to the people in Russia what happened in Chernobyl, they may not feel so comfortable with nuclear power.
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Source: CNN Climate Crisis Town Hall marathon (10 Democrats)
Kamala Harris on Government Reform
: Sep 4, 2019
Get rid of the Senate filibuster to pass Green New Deal
On the issue of this climate crisis, I'm going to tell you, I strongly believe this is a fight against powerful interests. And leaders need to lead. So, lead, follow, or get out the way, and get out the way starting with Donald Trump.
Yes, we need to work across the aisle. But I'm going to tell you, I have been there now two years and some months. I'm seeing no evidence of it. I kid you guys not--in our United States Congress,
I was part of a committee hearing, during which the underlying premise of the hearing was to debate whether science should be the basis of public policy. This on a matter that is about an existential threat to who we are as human beings.
So, again, back to the United States Congress, here's my point. If they fail to act, as president of the United States, I am prepared to get rid of the filibuster to pass a Green New Deal.
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Source: CNN Climate Crisis Town Hall marathon (10 Democrats)
Bernie Sanders on Health Care
: Sep 4, 2019
We lose 30,000 people a year due to not going to the doctor
Q: Of all of your ambitious plans--free public college, Medicare-for-all, eliminating student debt, Green New Deal--SANDERS: Keep going. You're doing great!
Q: What is the priority on climate change compared to all these others, if you have to
choose?
SANDERS: Well, I have the radical idea that a sane Congress can walk and chew bubble gum at the same time. And, you know, there are so many crises that are out there today. I worry very much that we lose 30,000 people a year because they
don't have the money to go to a doctor when they should and that 87 million people are uninsured or underinsured. And I will implement as president a Medicare-for-all single-payer program. So to my mind, it's not prioritizing this over that.
It is finally having a government which represents working families and the middle class rather than wealthy campaign contributors. And when you do that, then things fall in place.
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Source: CNN Climate Crisis Town Hall marathon (10 Democrats)
Bernie Sanders on Principles & Values
: Jul 30, 2019
Americans want "extreme" Democratic-Socialist solutions
Q [to Hickenlooper]: You ran a Facebook ad that warned "socialism is not the answer." The ad also said, "don't let extremes give Trump four more years." Are you saying that Senator Sanders is too extreme to beat President Trump?Gov. HICKENLOOPER: I'm
saying [that socialist ideas on healthcare & the Green New Deal] are a disaster at the ballot box.
Q: Senator Sanders, you are a proud Democratic-Socialist, how do you respond?
SANDERS: Every credible poll that I have seen has me beating Trump--
including the battleground states of Michigan and Pennsylvania. And the reason we are going to defeat Trump, is that he is a fraud and a phony and we're going to expose him for what he is. The American people want to have a living wage; I've helped lead
that effort. The American people want to pay reasonable prices for prescription drugs; I've helped lead the effort for that as well.
HICKENLOOPER: If we're going to force Americans to make these radical changes, they're not going to go along.
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Source: July Democratic Primary debate (first night in Detroit)
Kamala Harris on Energy & Oil
: Jun 27, 2019
Climate crisis represents existential threat to our species
I don't call it climate change. It's a climate crisis. It represents an existential threat to us as a species. And the fact that we have a president who has embraced science fiction over science fact will be to our collective peril.
We must confront what is immediate and before us right now. That is why I support a Green New Deal. It is why I will re-enter us in the Paris Agreement, because we have to take these issues seriously.
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Source: June Democratic Primary debate (second night in Miami)
Marianne Williamson on Technology
: Jun 27, 2019
Harness motivation like JFK did going to moon
Kennedy did not say I have a plan to get a man to the moon. Kennedy said, by the end of this decade, we are going to put a man on the moon. I have had a career harnessing the inspiration and the motivation of people. When we say we are going to turn
from a dirty economy to a clean economy, we're going to have a Green New Deal, we're going to create millions of jobs, we're going to do this within the next 12 years, we are interested in our grandchildren. Then it will happen.
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Source: June Democratic Primary debate (second night in Miami)
Howie Hawkins on Environment
: May 28, 2019
Convert corporate agribusiness to organic agriculture
The Green New Deal will convert corporate agribusiness to organic agriculture. Conversion to regenerative agriculture is needed to combat climate change by drawing atmospheric carbon into the biosphere and to end the pesticides and habitat destruction
of industrial farming that is a major cause of the mass extinctions of species now underway. We want to replace monocultural, chemicalized, and industrialized corporate agribusiness with family and cooperative organic farms.
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Source: Declaration of Candidacy for the Green Party Nomination
Howie Hawkins on Tax Reform
: May 28, 2019
Better to tax the rich than borrow and pay interest to them
We are going to pay for this Green New Deal with more progressive taxes on income, wealth, and estates; with ecological taxes on carbon and resource extraction; and with expansive monetary policies. The budget for the ecosocialist Green New Deal
requires about $2 trillion a year. Some of this money will come from a more just tax system. It is better to tax the rich upfront than to borrow money from them and transfer more of our wealth to them through interest payments on the debt.
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Source: Declaration of Candidacy for the Green Party Nomination
Howie Hawkins on Education
: May 19, 2019
Free public education from pre-K through college
A VOTE FOR THE GREEN TICKET IS A VOTE FOR:- AN ECONOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS: Free Public Education from Pre-K Child Care through College
- JUSTICE: Empower Racially Oppressed Communities and Disempower Institutional Racism through
Community Control of Police, Schools, Housing, and Businesses
- PEACE: A Global Green New Deal--Invest the Peace Dividend from Military Spending Cuts inClean Energy, Regenerative Agriculture, and Basic Human Needs Around the World
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Source: 2020 Presidential Campaign website HowieHawkins.us
Howie Hawkins on Foreign Policy
: May 19, 2019
Oppose US military intervention for regime change
An enduring peace requires replacing capitalism with ecosocialism--capitalism's nationalistic competitive militarism with ecosocialism's international cooperative security. We will call for deep US military spending cuts and converting to a defensive
military posture from today's global military empire of over 800 foreign military bases. The savings will be a peace dividend to reinvest in a Global Green New Deal for economic human rights, clean energy, and regenerative agriculture around the world.
The US can make friends instead of enemies by using its wealth to be the world's humanitarian superpower instead of its imperialist superpower. We will call for a recommitment to the recently abandoned arms treaties and to vigorous new negotiations for
further reductions toward complete nuclear disarmament and for scaling back the world's militaries to strictly defensive forces. We will oppose US military intervention for regime change and speak up for human rights wherever they are violated.
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Source: 2020 Presidential Campaign website HowieHawkins.us
Howie Hawkins on Tax Reform
: May 19, 2019
Graduated wealth tax & graduated estate tax
A VOTE FOR THE GREEN TICKET IS A VOTE FOR:PEACE- Transition from Forward-Based Imperialism to Home-Based Defense
- A Global Green New Deal--Invest the Peace Dividend from Military Spending Cuts in Clean Energy and Basic Human Needs
PROGRESSIVE TAXATION- lncome and Wealth Taxes
- More Progressive Personal Income Taxes
- Higher Corporate Income Taxes
- A Graduated Wealth Tax
- A Graduated Estate Tax
- Eco-Taxes
- A Progressive Carbon Tax with Rebates to Low-to-Moderate
Income People
- A Land Value Tax on Unearned Appreciation of Land Site Values Due to Social Investments
DEMOCRACY- Instant-Runoff Voting for President
- Abolish the Electoral College
- Proportional Representation in Congress
- Abolish the
US Senate
- End Voter Suppression
- Promote Community Assemblies with a Federal Grant Program
- Full Public Campaign Financing
- Adopt the We the People Amendment--End the Corporate Personhood and the Money Is Speech Doctrines
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Source: 2020 Presidential Campaign website HowieHawkins.us
Howie Hawkins on Welfare & Poverty
: May 19, 2019
Reintegrate urban amenities, like walkable mixed-use cities
The ecosocialist Green New Deal will rebuild and restructure our cities around egalitarian and ecological principles. Skyrocketing rents are driving working people out of their homes and communities. Sprawl development is a social and ecological
disaster. Segregation by race and class has been increasing for decades, isolating the poor away from resources and opportunities and isolating the rich away in their gated communities.We will campaign for an urban policy that will reintegrate
urban amenities with the natural environment. It would promote walkable mixed-use neighborhoods, convenient and affordable mass transit, clean energy, urban agriculture, green manufacturing, and a massive public housing program that is
high quality, mixed income, carbon negative, and scattered site across the city/suburbs divide. It will be a jobs program, a desegregation program, and a clean energy program as well as an affordable housing program.
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Source: 2020 Presidential Campaign website HowieHawkins.us
Marianne Williamson on Corporations
: May 13, 2019
Repeal corporate tax cuts
ECONOMY/TRADE: Increase minimum wage by region, repeal corporate tax cuts in 2017 tax law.Williamson has put forward a four-step plan to reduce income inequality. It includes providing cash relief through a universal basic income; creating jobs
through Green New Deal legislation; boosting government funding for early education and caregiving; and introducing a universal savings program. Williamson has proposed paying for the plan by rolling back tax cuts to the wealthy and big businesses.
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Source: PBS News Hour 2019 coverage of 2020 Democratic primary
Kamala Harris on Energy & Oil
: Apr 22, 2019
Green New Deal sets agenda for dealing with climate change
The climate crisis is representing an existential threat to who we are as human beings. I support the Green New Deal because it puts timelines in effect. I think, for example, that we need to have -- really diversify public policy on water,
with an equal emphasis on recycling, on conservation, on capture of water, storage of water, desalination. We need to invest in electric cars. We need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. All of that is in the Green New Deal.
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Source: CNN Town Hall 2020: 5 candidates back-to-back
Howie Hawkins on Energy & Oil
: Apr 19, 2019
Green New Deal can close racial income gap
The Green New Deal can close racial income and wealth gaps by empowering racially-oppressed communities through community control of Green New Deal programs so these communities are no longer subject to discrimination and exploitation by outside
employers, landlords, real estate agents, and other gatekeepers.
In addition, HR 40 for a Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans should be enacted to find the best way to create
individual and collective wealth to compensate for hundreds of years of unpaid and underpaid labor.
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Source: Truthout.org on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Howie Hawkins on Welfare & Poverty
: Apr 19, 2019
Reparations and Green New Deal to close racial income gap
The income gap between the rich and everyone else has been growing markedly.
The Green New Deal can close racial income and wealth gaps by empowering racially-oppressed communities through community control of
Green New Deal programs so these communities are no longer subject to discrimination and exploitation by outside employers, landlords, real estate agents, and other gatekeepers. In addition, HR 40 for a Commission to Study and Develop Reparation
Proposals for African-Americans should be enacted to find the best way to create individual and collective wealth to compensate for hundreds of years of unpaid and underpaid labor.
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Source: Truthout, "Popular Resistance" on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Marianne Williamson on Energy & Oil
: Apr 18, 2019
Transfer subsidies for dirty energy to develop clean energy
Q: Do you support new regulations to cut greenhouse gas emissions beyond what was in place under President Obama?Williamson: "The Obama regulations are too incremental to turn things around in ways that are necessary. I am a supporter of
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal, which seeks to meet 100 percent of the power demand in the United States through clean, renewable and zero-emission energy sources within the next 10 years.
I would end all subsidies for dirty energy and transfer them to subsidies for clean energy. I would prevent coal companies from using misleading marketing terms like 'clean coal,' and look for ways to move coal jobs to clean jobs, while closing coal
plants & opening clean energy plants. I would start a phase-out of production of fossil-fuel-related vehicles. I would require zero-deforestation supply chains--that's one of the more effective ways to help encourage healthy practices in other countries.
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Source: 2019 "Meet the Candidates" (NY Times.com)
Marianne Williamson on Energy & Oil
: Apr 14, 2019
Supports Green New Deal
Green New Deal:
Supports.
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Source: Axios.com "What you need to know about 2020"
Bernie Sanders on Energy & Oil
: Apr 12, 2019
Co-sponsor of Green New Deal
Green New Deal:
Sanders is a co-sponsor of the bill and has spoken consistently about the severity of climate change.
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Source: Axios.com "What you need to know about 2020"
Marianne Williamson on Energy & Oil
: Apr 8, 2019
Supports Green New Deal and green jobs program
Under a Williamson administration, we will take a full systems approach. A Green New Deal would provide an overall strategy for how clean energy, sustainable infrastructure and transportation, and a national green jobs program can revitalize our economy
and utilize our innovative and human capacity to benefit all our people. While it doesn't cover the whole range of measures we must undertake to reverse global warming, it is an important step, therefore I support it.
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Source: 2020 presidential campaign website Marianne2020.com
Bernie Sanders on Energy & Oil
: Mar 27, 2019
Perfect score on "350 Action's 2020 Climate Test"
The environmental group 350 Action released a candidate scorecard known as the 2020 Climate Test to assess presidential hopefuls on three major metrics: support for a Green New Deal, opposition to new fossil fuel development and refusal to accept money
from energy companies.Three candidates have made firm climate-forward commitments, issuing their support for the Green New Deal, vowing to keep fossil fuels in the ground and banning donations from Big Oil.
- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (NY)
-
Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT)
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren (MA)
Four candidates have supported two of 350 Action's three benchmarks.- Sen. Cory Booker (NJ)
- Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI)
- Gov. Jay Inslee (WA)
- Andrew Yang (CA)
Three candidates
have failed all three of 350 Action's tests, attacking the Green New Deal or making no firm pledges to work against fossil fuel companies.- Donald Trump (NY)
- Former Rep. John Delaney (MD)
- Former Gov. John Hickenlooper (CO)
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Source: Mother Jones, "On Climate," on 2020 Presidential Hopefuls
Donald Trump on Energy & Oil
: Mar 27, 2019
Establish panel devoted to challenging climate science
The environmental group 350 Action released a candidate scorecard known as the 2020 Climate Test to assess presidential hopefuls on three major metrics: support for a Green New Deal, opposition to new fossil fuel development and refusal to accept money
from energy companies.Trump is the only Republican listed; he failed all three tests. On the Democratic side, 2020 candidates have for the most part indicated support for environmental policies, though some appear more willing
to acknowledge the seriousness of the situation than others.
Despite public sentiment [in favor of climate action], Trump and his administration have maintained a firm anti-environment agenda.
The president regularly mocks the idea of climate change on Twitter, and the White House is planning to set up a panel devoted to challenging the science behind the phenomenon that includes an avowed climate skeptic.
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Source: Mother Jones, "On Climate," on 2020 Presidential Hopefuls
Marianne Williamson on Jobs
: Mar 5, 2019
Supports $15 minimum wage & Green New Deal
Economy: Williamson supports the institution of a $15 minimum wage. She also supports the
Green New Deal, an economic stimulus bill that calls for radical environmental and economic policies.
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Source: Townhall.com: 2020 Democratic primary "Candidate profiles"
Howie Hawkins on Energy & Oil
: Feb 25, 2019
Claims to be the "original Green New Dealer"
Howie Hawkins accused the congresswoman of appropriating the Green New Deal--a bold new plan introduced by Ocasio-Cortez that calls for the U.S. to run on 100% renewable energy by 2030. "A lot of people think [Ocasio-Cortez] thought it up," Hawkins told
The New Republic. "But I'm the original Green New Dealer." Hawkins proposed to fight climate change "with the same urgency ... that our country demonstrated in converting to war production" during World War II.
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Source: The Week/The New Republic on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Howie Hawkins on Energy & Oil
: Feb 22, 2019
I'm the original Green New Dealer, since 2010
Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins wants to set the record straight. "A lot of people think Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thought up the Green New Deal," he told me. "But I'm the original Green New Dealer."Hawkins says he was the first American political
candidate to run on the promise of a Green New Deal. During his run for NY governor in 2010, he proposed a plan to fight climate change "with the same urgency, speed, and commitment of resources that our country demonstrated in converting to war
production for the mobilization for World War II." To reduce carbon emissions to net zero over ten years, Hawkins's plan would "devote resources to and create jobs in renewable energy, public transit and organic agriculture." And those resources would
come from progressive tax reform.
Hawkins thinks the Green New Deal is being unfairly co-opted. But he's happy that it's become mainstream, because "it's our opportunity to explain how the Democratic establishment chopped away the pieces," he said.
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Source: The New Republic magazine on 2020 Presidential hopefuls
Donald Trump on Energy & Oil
: Mar 2, 2017
Green New Deal does not fulfill America's energy needs
Green New Deal--I encourage it. I think it's really something that they should promote. They should work hard on. It's something our country needs desperately. But I'll take the other side of that argument only because I'm mandated to. But they should
stay with that argument. Never change. No planes. No energy. When the wind stops blowing, that's the end of your electric. Let's hurry up. "Darling, is the wind blowing today? I'd like to watch television, darling." No, but it's true.
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Source: Speech at the 2019 CPAC Convention
Jill Stein on Energy & Oil
: Oct 9, 2016
Climate change is humanity's greatest existential threat
Climate change is the greatest existential threat that humanity has ever faced. Here is how we will address it:- Enact an emergency Green New Deal to turn the tide on climate change, revive the economy and make wars for oil obsolete.
- Enact
energy democracy based on public, community and worker ownership of our energy system. Treat energy as a human right.
- Redirect research funds from fossil fuels into renewable energy and conservation. Build a nationwide smart electricity grid.
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End destructive energy extraction and associated infrastructure: fracking, offshore drilling, and uranium mines.
- Support a strong enforceable global climate treaty that limits global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius and provides just
financial compensation to developing countries.
- Support organic & regenerative agriculture and sustainable forestry.
- Enact stronger environmental justice laws to ensure that low-income/communities of color are not disproportionately impacted.
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Source: ScienceDebate.org: 20 questions for 2016 presidential race
Jill Stein on Environment
: Oct 9, 2016
Apply federal Superfund program to polluted drinking water
Q: What steps will you take to deal with aging infrastructure, aquifer depletion, pollution, and ensure access to clean water?JILL STEIN: We need a national comprehensive water plan. Clean water is a human right. The Green New Deal's focus on
infrastructure will help prevent future poisoned drinking water crises like that in Flint, Michigan. Rejuvenating the federal Superfund program will help clean up the polluted drinking water of millions of Americans.
TRUMP: must explore all options to include making desalinization more affordable and working to build the distribution infrastructure to bring this scarce resource to where it is needed for our citizens and those who produce the food of the world.
CLINTON: Chronic underinvestment in our nation's drinking and wastewater systems poses health risks to humans and wildlife, disrupts ecosystems, and disproportionately impacts communities of color.
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Source: ScienceDebate.org: 20 questions for 2016 presidential race
Jill Stein on Energy & Oil
: Aug 8, 2016
Green New Deal to turn the tide on climate change
- Enact an emergency Green New Deal to turn the tide on climate change, revive the economy and make wars for oil obsolete.
- Initiate a WWII-scale national mobilization to halt climate change, the greatest threat to humanity in our history.
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Support a strong enforceable global climate treaty that limits global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius and provides just financial compensation to developing countries.
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End destructive energy extraction and associated infrastructure: fracking, tar sands, offshore drilling, oil trains, mountaintop removal, natural gas pipelines, and uranium mines. Halt any investment in fossil fuel infrastructure, including natural gas,
and phase out all fossil fuel power plants. Phase out nuclear power and end nuclear subsidies. End all subsidies for fossil fuels and impose a greenhouse gas fee / tax to charge polluters for the damage they have created.
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Source: Stein-Baraka platform on 2016 presidential campaign website
Jill Stein on Energy & Oil
: Apr 22, 2016
Create 20 million jobs by investing in renewables
Stein came up with a "World War II-scale" program that is in large part due to the sheer necessity of it. What Stein is offering is something called the Green New Deal, a program that would not only bring the US towards 100% clean, renewable energy by
2030 but would "create 20 million jobs by investing in renewables such as wind, solar, tidal and geothermal, as well as public transit, sustainable agriculture, conservation and energy efficiency," she said, adding that this would make "wars for oil
obsolete."As Stein puts it: "The Green New Deal is not only a major step towards ending unemployment for good, but also a tool to fight the corporate takeover of our democracy and exploitation of the poor and people of color. Our transition to
100% clean energy will be based on community, worker and public ownership of our energy system, rather than maximizing profits for energy corporations, banks and hedge funds. We need to treat clean energy as a human right and a common good."
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Source: Red Dirt Report, "Election Central", by Andrew W. Griffin
Jill Stein on Technology
: Jan 12, 2016
Green New Deal for efficient public transportation
The economic and climate crises can be solved together, with a Green New Deal--an emergency WWII-style mobilization to revive the economy, turn the tide on climate change, and make wars for oil obsolete. It creates 20 million jobs to achieve 100%
renewable energy by 2030. It creates efficient public transportation and local sustainable food systems, repairs critical infrastructure, and restores ecosystems. It immediately ends all new fossil fuel infrastructure, exploration and extraction--
including fracking, offshore drilling, extraction on public lands and in the Arctic. And it creates a planned, orderly transition to a decentralized, democratically controlled energy system, including public ownership of energy resources and
infrastructure. The Green New Deal will fund itself through massive health savings by ending pollution and improving food quality, with military savings from making wars for oil obsolete, and with savings from reductions in the cost of energy.
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Source: Green Party response to 2016 State of the Union speech
Jill Stein on Energy & Oil
: Jun 25, 2015
Completely zero out climate emissions, as fast as possible
Q: Many climate scientists have pointed out that we are already "locked in" to a certain amount of climate change. So, why is a Green New Deal the answer?A: I transitioned into doing climate work because from my knowledge of science and
how you read the data, I certainly share the perspective that we can't take a single day for granted--that we have to work as fast as humanly possible to completely zero out climate emissions, but we have to do more than that as well.
Restoring ecosystem resilience is part of the Green New Deal, which we don't often talk about because we're usually focused on the headlines: energy, transportation and food.
Those are the big three for climate emissions, and they're critical for economic security, so that's kind of where the focus is.
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Source: Interview with Candice Bernd of Truthout.org
Jill Stein on Health Care
: Jun 25, 2015
What injures the climate's health also injures human health
The Green New Deal virtually pays for itself just in terms of the health savings alone because what injures the health of the climate also injures human health. We're so accustomed that we don't recognize it, but our major health epidemics--
from asthma, cancers, heart disease, lung disease and learning disabilities--have enormous ties to air pollution that results from fossil fuels. This has been documented by a whole variety of studies.
It was also documented by Cuba when their oil pipeline went down. Without changing their health-care system, when they zeroed out their fossil fuel emissions, Cuba got healthy. It was not only reduction of emissions; it was also that they transitioned to
a sustainable and healthy food system, and a sustainable and healthy transportation system, and those are essentially the underpinnings of modern disease--between pollution and a poisonous, predatory food system and passive transportation.
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Source: Interview with Candice Bernd of Truthout.org
Jill Stein on Jobs
: Jun 25, 2015
Focus on pink jobs: the jobs of meeting human needs
With the Green New Deal, we're usually focused on the headlines--energy, transportation and food--but the Green Party equally talks about so-called "pink jobs"--the jobs of meeting human needs.We also talk about the
jobs of ecosystem needs and restoring ecosystems, in the same way that the New Deal had a big conservation component to it. There's a big component of restoration as well in the Green New Deal.
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Source: Interview with Candice Bernd of Truthout.org
Jill Stein on Technology
: Jun 22, 2015
Renew our infrastructure and assure everyone has a job
Q: Your top planks in your platform?STEIN: So, our top plank really is a Green New Deal to transform our economy to a green economy, 100 percent wind, water and sun by the year 2030--we can do it;
this is an emergency, and we must do it--but to use that as an opportunity to put America back to work, to renew our infrastructure and to basically assure that everyone has a job.
That's another key plank of our Power to the People Plan, that it ensures economic rights for everyone--the right to a job, the right to complete healthcare through a Medicare for All,
improved Medicare-for-All plan; that we ensure the right to quality education, from preschool through college, and that includes free public higher education and abolishing student debt.
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Source: Democracy Now interviews of 2016 presidential hopefuls
Jill Stein on Energy & Oil
: Feb 6, 2015
Make wars for oil obsolete: 100% renewables by 2030
We will lift up the bold solutions the American people are calling for: - 20 million living-wage jobs, in an emergency Green New Deal to enrich communities not corporations, end climate change and make wars for oil obsolete;
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An emergency transition to a green economy powered by 100% wind, water and sun by 2030;
- And foreign policy based on diplomacy, international law and human rights, rather than global military and economic domination.
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Source: 2016 presidential campaign website, Jill2016.com, "Announce"
Jill Stein on Principles & Values
: Oct 18, 2012
Petition to open up debates to more than two candidates
The biggest misperception in this race is that there are only two candidates in this race and that there's only one choice, which is for a corporate- and Wall Street-sponsored future. In fact, there are many other candidates. I urge people to go to
my website, jillstein.org, and sign a petition there to open up the debates so that everyone can actually hear that they have real choices. And my campaign is providing that choice for a Green New Deal.
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Source: Democracy Now! Expanded Second Obama-Romney 2012 debate
Jill Stein on Health Care
: Oct 16, 2012
75% of expenditures are sick care system, not healthcare
We support a Green New Deal, which will put everyone back to work at the same time that it puts a halt to climate change and it makes wars for oil obsolete. And as a medical doctor, I want to note that what is good for the economy and for the planet is
also good for our health. So it really creates the infrastructure for real health with a local, sustainable food system; with fresh food; with public and active transportation that allows you to get your exercise on the way to school; and
with clean, renewable energy that provides, effectively, pollution prevention. So we can get healthy and save an enormous amount of money, as well, by preventing [about]
75% of our expenditures under what's really a sick care system, not a healthcare system. We move to the fundamentals of health, as well, through the Green New Deal.
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Source: Democracy Now! Expanded Second Obama-Romney 2012 debate
Jill Stein on Jobs
: Jan 29, 2012
Stimulus spent $220K per job; I propose $20K per green job
The Green New Deal is an emergency jobs creation plan that addresses unemployment & also the climate. It's a win-win on all those fronts and is modeled after the New Deal that helped us get out of the Great Depression. It would jumpstart the economy
as a green economy, instead of going back to the same old economy. It goes green and also relocalizes, and it jumpstarts, in particular, small businesses and co-operatives. And in so doing, it puts a stop to escalating climate change.
We're talking about green manufacturing, sustainable local agriculture, public transportation and clean renewable energy that has the added benefit of making wars for oil obsolete. The cost for Obama's stimulus package worked out to be about
$220,000 per job created, because the mechanisms were indirect and relied a lot on tax incentives, which don't always get used to create jobs. This, instead, would be money used directly to create jobs and would be more like $20,000 per job created.
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Source: Interview with Steve Horn of Truthout.org
Jill Stein on Budget & Economy
: Jan 25, 2012
90% tax on bonuses for bailed out bankers
The watered down Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform did not fix the massive problems with the deregulated financial status quo. Wall Street and the big banking interests continue to steer the economy just as they did before the Great Financial Crash of 2008.
It's time to really reform Wall Street so that working America has a chance. Here is what the financial reforms of the Green New Deal will do.- First, the debt overhang holding back the economy must be deleveraged by reducing homeowner and student
debt burdens, including an immediate halt to all foreclosures and evictions
- Democratize monetary policy. This means we'll nationalize the private bank-dominated Federal Reserve Banks
- We will break up the oversized banks that are "too big
to fail."
- We will end taxpayer-funded bailouts for banks, insurers, and other financial companies.
- We will establish a 90% tax on bonuses for bailed out bankers.
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Source: Green Party 2012 People's State of the Union speech
Jill Stein on Education
: Jan 25, 2012
Right to a tuition-free public education, pre-K thru college
The Green New Deal begins with an Economic Bill of Rights that recognizes our rights to an economy that serves people. This means all of us have the right to quality education, health care, housing and utilities. We will honor the right to a
tuition-free, quality public education from pre-school through college at public institutions. And we will forgive student loan debt left over from the current era of unaffordable college education .
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Source: Green Party 2012 People's State of the Union speech
Jill Stein on Environment
: Jan 25, 2012
Green Transition Program: convert gray economy to green
The second priority of the Green New Deal is a Green Transition Program that will convert the old, gray economy into the new green economy. We will do this by shifting to green technologies and sustainable ways of making things. We must do this right now
because the environment is the foundation for our economy--and for life itself. And that environment is deeply imperiled. The benefits we get from the environment dwarf those that come to us from human economic activity--even when measured strictly in
dollar terms. What we usually call "the environment" is really another word for Mother Nature's economy. A business model that destroys our forests, our fisheries, our topsoil, our water supplies, our health, and our climate--is a business model that
will inevitably collapse upon itself. And an economy that is addicted to ever-increasing supplies of oil is not only doomed, it is a national security disaster just waiting to happen.
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Source: Green Party 2012 People's State of the Union speech
Jill Stein on Homeland Security
: Jan 25, 2012
End Patriot Act; it surrenders freedoms in name of security
We must protect our liberty from those who would frighten us into surrendering our freedoms in the name of security. The Green New Deal will repeal the Patriot Act & those parts of the National Defense Authorization Act that violate our civil liberties.
It will prohibit the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI from conspiring with local police forces to suppress our freedoms of assembly and of speech.
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Source: Green Party 2012 People's State of the Union speech
Jill Stein on Immigration
: Jan 25, 2012
End the war on immigrants; end "secure communities" cruelty
Over the past thirty years, courts [cited] a doctrine known as "field preemption." We have seen public safety, food labeling, human rights, immigrant rights, drug policy, and other reforms "preempted."The Green New Deal will end the war on
immigrants--including the cruel, so-called "secure communities" program-- which is terrorizing millions of Americans, both citizens and non-citizen immigrants, on no basis other than their perceived immigration status.
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Source: Green Party 2012 People's State of the Union speech
Jill Stein on Jobs
: Jan 25, 2012
Economic Bill of Rights: unionize; fair taxation; fair trade
The Green New Deal begins with an Economic Bill of Rights that recognizes our rights to an economy that serves people. This means that everyone willing and able to work has the right to a job at a living wage. All of us have the right to quality
education, health care, utilities, and housing. Each of us has the right to unionize, to fair taxation, and to fair trade.This means that everyone willing and able to work has the right to a job at a living wage. All of us have the right to quality
education, health care, housing and utilities. Each of us has the right to unionize, to fair taxation, and to fair trade.
The promise of an Economic Bill of Rights came out of the last period of widespread, extreme economic hardship, the
Great Depression. In 1944, FDR said that "true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence." And 20 years later, Martin Luther King raised up the call for an Economic Bill of Rights once again.
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Source: Green Party 2012 People's State of the Union speech
Jill Stein on Principles & Values
: Jan 25, 2012
Green New Deal: emergency 4-part anti-recession program
The political establishment is telling us there's little we can do to change our direction. I don't believe it and I suspect you don't either. It is time to break free from the old economy, and the old politics. It's time for a Green New Deal for
America.The Green New Deal is an emergency four part program of specific solutions for moving America quickly out of crisis into the secure green future.
- We will guarantee the economic rights of all Americans, beginning with the right to a job
at a living wage for every American willing and able to work.
- We will transition to a sustainable, green economy for the 21st century, by adopting green technologies and sustainable production.
- We will reboot and reprogram the financial sector so
that it serves everyday people and our communities, and not the other way around.
- We will protect these gains by expanding and strengthening our democracy so that our government and our economy finally serve We the People.
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Source: Green Party 2012 People's State of the Union speech
Jill Stein on Jobs
: Dec 21, 2011
Green New Deal: emergency program for 25M jobs
The Green New Deal is an emergency program of job creation to put 25 million people back to work--based on the New Deal that got us out of the Depression. It will end the Bush-Obama recession and transition us quickly to the environment and economy we
need to survive in the 21st century. One of its merits is it will make wars for oil obsolete, which provides additional benefits to our economy, Those wars are a drain of over $1 trillion a year if you add up the military-industrial costs.
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Source: 2011 AmericansElect interview questionnaire with Jill Stein
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