Candidate Free Air Time: 2008 Howie Hawkins

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Posted by: wxxi on Oct 27, 2008

Candidate Free Air Time is WXXI Public Broadcasting Council program. Howie Hawkins is the Green Populist candidate. He is running in the 25th Congressional District.

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My name is Howie Hawkins. I'm the Green Populist candidate
for Congress in the 25th District. I'm a Green because
building a Green economy is how we can recover
from the economic crisis we now face and it is how
we can stabalize climate in order to prevent
catastrophic global warming. I'm a Populist because
we need fairer distribution of income and wealth
and power. I am the only candidate in this race who opposed the Wall Street bailout
from the start and called instead for taxpayer buy-in
to create publicly owned and controlled banks
that would restore credit and investment and get the
economy moving again. I am the only candidate in this
race who supports a single payer national health insurance
plan. I am the only candidate who says it is time for an economic bill of rights,
starting with the right to a job at a living wage.
Private jobs are good, but public jobs are necessary
for full employment. When people cannot find jobs in the private
sector, they should be able to go to the employment
office, not the un-employment office and say I want
my job. And they should be put to work in public works and services
to meet needs defined by that local community.
I am the only candidate in this race who supports a
full withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan.
I am the only candidate who supports deep cuts in military spending
and investing the savings to rebuild our communities with sustainable green
technologies. If we don't cut military spending and
bring all our troops home there won't be enough money
to meet the people's needs and restore the environment. It is time to end these wars
for oil and devote our public resources to building a
new green infrastructure of solar powered sustainability,
renewable energy, mass transit, building our railroads,
clean buildings, green manufacturing,
organic agriculture. That is how we can put people
back to work for economic prosperity.
We need public investment in the real economy as labor and industry
and we need to reregulate the paper economy of finance
and make it serve the real economy of production again.
So I stand for a real alternative to the two
old parties now entrenched in Congress. That is why I offer my candidacy
and ask for your vote.

Candidate Free Air Time: 2008 Howie Hawkins

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