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specsaregood
I know you are having some fun, but what did he say that was remotely Libertarian? The socialist or green party people should definitely help him though.
I don't know what he said that would pass the Libertarian Council of Approval, but I like what he says. It gets real good starting here:
"I will break up the big banks. I will put them out in the street, just as they want to put you out in the street. Those bankers who committed fraud will do hard time.
I will stop debt collectors from calling you. I will make it illegal for a company to sell a debt you have for purposes of collection. You and your family have dignity: you are not cattle to be sold back and forth in the debt marketplace. You know how horrible it is to have those vampires calling you, again and again and again.
I will shut down payday lenders who are sucking you dry.
In America, if you lose your job, and you get sick, you go broke or you die. This happens in no other civilised country. The stories that socialised medicine does not work are lies. Pick your system – Austria, Britain or Canada – but we must have universal health insurance. Healthcare, for free, for everyone.
Until recently, in Britain, where I was stationed as an intelligence analyst for the air force, students paid nothing to attend college. When Prime Minister Tony Blair tried to make students pay up to $4,500 for college, there was a revolt. The University of South Carolina, where I got my degree in political science, costs twice that. College education should be free in America.
Where will the money come from? The department of defence can't say where $1tn went. The army can't locate 56 planes and 32 tanks – how do you lose a plane? Rumour has it, the Pentagon started off as the Hexagon, but one day one of the sides went missing.
A Halliburton truck driver makes $120,000 a year, but that's not what a soldier gets. As an honourably-discharged army veteran who was stationed in Korea, I know how much money is wasted, and how much can be saved.
I'll save your house. I'll save your job.
Half the members of the US senate work for BP. The other half work for Halliburton. Who works for you?
This coming election day, let's teach at least one of those senate millionaires what it's like to be unemployed."
He wants to take on the bankers. He is a good man. He needs a little adjusting; a few little tweaks here and there, but overall, he has great potential.
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