Wow, thanks for dismissing Jill Stein.
The populist movement doesn't have to wait to move forward - Jill Stein is a candidate. Thanks for ignoring her. Why did you even bother to mention her name?
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I just read a statement by the White House budget director that made my stomach turn. In a commentary written in May, Mick Mulvaney stated that the Trump administration is “putting taxpayers first.” He wrote that “[t]aking money from someone without an intention to pay it back is not debt, it is theft.” Think about this: if they cannot pay the expenses for their care with personal wealth, almost half the babies born in this country, the sick, the disabled,
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