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Independent Candidate for President
Misteradiant:
Standard of Living: I will raise the minimum wage to $7.50 and hour beginning in January, 2008 and $9.00 an hour in December of 2010. This will raise the standard of living of millions of workers, lifting millions of families from poverty.
A Strong Dollar: America will continue to fight in Iraq to prop up the dollar as the standard currency the world trades oil with. OPEC might want to make more with the euro, but our regional forces are a not-so-subtle threat to them to keep the dollar. While we hope to build a democracy in Iraq, America will start an even larger effort to develop biodiesel fuel for automobiles and renewable energy technology. The United States will no longer fight a war that costs America 200 million dollars a day.
With the means to become a fully energy independent nation, we will no longer need Iraqi oil. We will leave. We will no longer need Saudi oil. We will leave there as well. Osama Bin Laden has said that his main gripe with America is its occupation of his homeland of Saudi Arabia, "It is an American colony." What else then would be his reason to kill us after we went home, leaving not just his homeland but the entire Middle East region?
A strong dollar starts be being backed by industry and farming. It starts by being the largest producer of biofuels in the world. America will be the largest producer of biofuel in the world. She is the breadbasket of the world. She is the heartland founded by farmers. She produces more food than any nation on the earth. The United States of America is still big enough to provide more.
The cost of the Iraq War:
One day at war in Iraq could provide comprehensive safety and health training to 121,875 workers.
(Cost $1,600 per worker.)
Source: Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration
One day at war in Iraq could pay for an increase of $3.34 per hour in the wages of every minimum wage worker in the country!
(7.3 million Americans would be affected by such an increase in the minimum wage.)
Source: Economic Policy Institute
One day at war in Iraq could provide paid sick leave to one million workers for six months.
Source: Institute for Women’s Policy Research, April 2005
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