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GREEN PARTY U.S. SENATE CANDIDATE CALLS FOR ENDING OVERSEAS WARS TO PAY FOR
TUITION-FREE HIGHER EDUCATION FOR ALL
Immediate Release
October 7, 2010
Contact: i...@voteforduane.org
ANAHEIM, Calif – Duane Roberts, Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, calls
for "immediately withdrawing" all U.S. military forces from Iraq, Afghanistan
and Pakistan and using the cost savings to guarantee "every high school
graduate" is eligible to receive a "tuition-free education at a public college,
university, or technical trade school":
"If elected to the U.S. Senate, I will introduce legislation to establish a
nationwide program to fully guarantee that every high school graduate living
within the United States--regardless of immigration status--is eligible to
receive a tuition-free education at a public college, university, or technical
trade school of their choosing.
"We can pay for this program by immediately withdrawing all U.S. troops,
private mercenaries, and independent contractors from Iraq, Afghanistan and
Pakistan. About $200 billion in taxpayer funds is wasted yearly on these bloody
colonial wars and I believe this money would be better spent on providing
tuition-free higher education for all.
"The billionaires on Wall Street reap enormous profits from these overseas wars
as both Democratic and Republican Party politicians continue pouring money into
the Military-Industrial Complex to build even more jets, drones, missiles, and
bombs that will be used to kill thousands of innocent men, women, and children
throughout the Middle East.
"Meanwhile a college degree has become an unaffordable reality for millions of
young people as politicians from these same political parties use the current
fiscal crisis as an excuse to dismantle systems of public higher education
across the land: they slash university budgets, fire professors, cut classes,
and raise tuition fees to astronomical levels.
"There is something deeply rotten with the political leadership of this country
when they believe spending $200 billion a year to keep thousands of U.S. troops
in Iraq and dropping bombs on peasant villages in Afghanistan is a much greater
priority than ensuring every high school graduate here at home is given an
opportunity to go to college.
"The truth is, we can put an end to these overseas wars and use the money
squandered on them to pay for tuition-free higher education for all. But people
have to stand up and fight for it. As Frederick Douglas, the great
African-American abolitionist, once pointed out: 'Power concedes nothing
without a demand. It never did and it never will.
"U.S. out of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan now!"
www.voteforduane.org
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