Jill Stein Quotes
By the time we complete the care for the wounded soldiers, $6 trillion, that's $50,000 per American household.
Stein, Jill. Interview by Chris Cuomo. CNN Green Party Town Hall, Cable News Network, 17 Aug. 2016.
Wilson was very candid that there would be high cost to war and sacrifice would be needed. See {584570} for other similar candor. This quotation was often used by critics of George W. Bush who initiated the Iraq War and then cut taxes for the rich, but then financed the war through the budgetary emergency appropriations bypassing the budget rules that the revenue must be specified to pay for it. His administration even claimed at an early stage in the war that the oil revenue from Iraq oil would defray the costs.
In every American war, there have been those leaders who wanted to fight it “on the cheap.” While most modern people are most aware of the George W. Bush Administration providing insufficient funds to our troops in the Iraq War, there was a problem in the First World War, and President Roosevelt had to twist conservative arms to get the funds necessary for the Second World War. But even the American Revolution had the same problem as this quotation illustrates.
These were Catholic militias who armed themselves to protect against Protestant anti-Catholic violence. However, once organized they became a political force, a pattern which continued till modern times—organizations originally designed to protect against sectarian violence become major political forces, sometimes perpetrating more sectarian violence. Grattan, a parliamentarian unusual for his times, was one of the first to argue for the obligation of an elected member to the will of the electorate was offended by the Volunteers crudely trying to exercise political power while having no democratically elected leadership.
The founding fathers antipathy to standing armies had an historical basis, even in England.
This remarkable quotation illustrated the historical hatred aroused by the concept of government debt. Bryan, a religious man, states that debt is worse than murder. But a little over 100 years later, George W. Bush, also a very religious man, incurs a debt larger than all Presidents before him combined. Yet he thought it virtuous and best for the country. Both men were fundamentalist Christians.
Jill Ellen Stein is an American physician, activist, and former political candidate. She was the Green Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 and 2016 elections and the Green-Rainbow Party's candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 2002 and 2010. During her campaigns for President, she campaigned on the theme of a Green New Deal which included a number of reforms to address climate change, income inequality as well as civil and political rights reform. In 2012, Stein was on the ballot in 37 states and received 469,501 votes (0.36% of the popular vote). In 2016, she was on the ballot in 45 states and received 1,457,216 votes and 1.07% of the popular vote.
