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Independent Candidate for President
Misteradiant:
My platform has a few issues that are tightly intertwined. The issue of Illegal Immigration, Free Trade, the Economy and Jobs have elements within them that tie them to each other.
The thrust of my campaign is to create a national biofuel industry. The largest commodity in the world today is foreign oil. When that oil supply is less than worldwide demand, what is America going to do? Having the world's best biofuel industry does not only mean security from terrorism, transportation cost savings and the lives of American soldiers, it means jobs. An American biofuel industry means jobs for millions of people. From farmers to factory employees, truck drivers to auto manufacturers. Biofuel is what will save America from collapse.
As President of this great nation, I will fight the special interest lobby for foreign oil. They do not care about what happens in 25 years, they know that as supply falls short of demand, they can make even more money per barrel of oil, more dollars per gallon, more Chevy Suburbans per dead soldier.
I want the Federal Government to pay American workers no less than $15 an hour to strengthen our antiquated and failing power grid and to create renewable and sustainable energy by installing windmills across our great expanse of a nation. We will no longer wait for corporate interests to do what is right, rather than do what makes more money. If an energy corporation fails in upgrading their grid to a level determined to be adequate for the year 2050 by 2010, they will be subjected to fines for endangering the safety and security of the American people.
FDR created four million jobs 60 years ago with just one program. The country was busted from the stock market crash and the dust bowl made farming a ridiculous investment. We don't have that problem, but we have more debt. The way to erase that debt is to create more products, like biofuels and to export more of what we make with fair trade policies. We can put people to work by raising the value of our nation with public works.
Like a home improvement loan raises the value of your house, a new power grid, sustainable and renewable energy, an industry that the entire world needs, a cleaner environment and citizenry that is wealthier and more educated raises the value of a nation. We do not need war and foreign oil to live. This is the United States of America and we were built upon bones and blood of freedom-loving men and women who believed in a government of the people, by the people and for the people, that it shall not perish from the earth.
America will invest in university research, tripling it's investment in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) terms from under 0.8% to 2.4%. 50% of the United States' economic growth since 1945 has been technology-based. To venture such a small amount for such a large return is wise. Investing in the future of the largest percentage of our economy for the past 60 years will keep America, through investment, innovation and invention, the world's leader in the information age.
The cost of the Iraq War:
One week at war in Iraq, which costs $3 billion, is 100,000 American jobs that each pay $30,000 a year.
One day at war in Iraq could provide unemployment benefits for almost 722,000 unemployed Americans for one week.
(Average unemployment benefit $270 per week.)
Source: National Employment Law Project
One day at war in Iraq could fund Social Security retirement benefits for one day for over 6.75 million Americans.
(Average retiree OASI daily benefit is $28.87.)
Source: Social Security Administration
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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I promise you will receive a personal response and that your opinion will make my bid for President of the United States a more inclusive candidacy than any out-of-touch multi-millionaire opponent and his corporate conglomerate backers could pay to fabricate. |
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