Rob: /
Yeah, I would agree with you.
Jill: /
What Occupy represents hasn't been fixed and there is not a hope, not even a
germ of a plan being proposed by Republicans or Democrats is going to fix this.
All they talk about is restoring us to that phony economy of high finance by
giving away more tax breaks and more deregulation as if Wall Street wasn't
deregulated enough or the climate isn't deregulated enough. It's like, "What
are they thinking?"
Rob: And
they appoint more and more of the same banksters to fix the problem that was
created by banksters. / I just want to mention one thing though.
Jill: /
Exactly.
Rob: Your
website is JillStein.org.
Jill: That's
right.
Rob: That's
JillStein, S-t-e-i-n dot o-r-g and that's where people can see the whole
description of the Green New Deal, because you've kind of gone over a lot of
your issues and they sound like just the kind of positions that my listeners
and the readers at OpEdNews like, so I'm not going to go too much further into
that area with you / unless there's anything in particular that you want to
cover.
Jill: /
Well, there's one thing I should say which is just that the core of the Green
New Deal is actually creating jobs and for the cost of the President's first
Stimulus Package, which made a small dent but really wasn't a solution. It was
not a solution of the magnitude that we need. This would really create the
solution that we need for the same amount of money but it would work, because
instead of just giving it away to corporations, which was the majority of that
Stimulus Package. It was basically tax breaks. That doesn't create jobs.
Instead we would do direct job creation like they did during the New Deal. It
actually worked. It substantially moved us forward out of the Great Depression.
This would put resources and money--
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