The Socialist Party of CT Opposes Escalation of War in Afghanistan; Demands Money for Jobs and Health Care

Amidst the largest economic crisis since the Great Depression, President Barack Obama has mistakenly chosen to dedicate yet more resources, manpower and lives to military interventionism. The Socialist Party of CT finds this course to be foolhardy and wasteful. We advocate instead for an immediate withdrawal of all troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. The seemingly endless pool of public money spent on war could far better serve the unemployed, underemployed and uninsured people of the United States by creating a public works program and a single-payer national health insurance plan.

It has always been a core principal of the Socialist Party that public assets should be used for the public good by means of democratic administration. This recent exercise in defense spending, in addition to the ongoing health care reform "debate", further underscore the shortcomings of the capitalist political-economic system; namely that the voices of the many are repeatedly drowned out by the voices of the wealthy and powerful.

During the 2008 presidential campaign the mainstream media made a big to-do about claims that Mr. Obama was a "socialist" and yet did little or nothing to find out what the actual socialist candidates thought about the issues. Socialist Party Presidential candidate Brian Moore, Vice-Presidential candidate Stewart Alexander and candidate for U.S. Congress here in CT, Todd Vachon would have gladly informed the public that we stood for an immediate end of both wars. We also would have reminded people that mandating private health insurance is only socialism for the insurance corporations and bailing out bankers is yet further welfare for millionaires and billionaires...

We hope that the disenchanted popular movement that brought this administration into power on a tide of "hope" and "change" will not walk away and become apathetic. We invite them instead to join a real movement for real change starting tomorrow, Wednesday Dec. 2, at 4:30pm by joining us and dozens of other groups to protest the war escalation in front of the Federal Buildings in Hartford and New Haven and demand that our public assets return home to serve our public good!


SPCT platform and information available at:
www.socialistpartyct.org
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www.votevachon.com