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20 REASONS TO VOTE
FOR RALPH NADER
1. Ralph
Nader is not for sale. Millions of corporate dollars
and twenty-two thousand corporate lobbyists are choking American
democracy. Nader is the only candidate running a clean money
campaign. While Bush and Gore rake in millions of dollars
in soft money and obligations to special interests, the Nader
campaign refuses soft money, corporate contributions or PAC
donations.
2. Ralph
Nader is a real reformer. During his 37-year career,
he has been the driving force behind landmark pieces of legislation
such as the Motor Vehicle Highway Safety Acts, the Clean Water
Act, the Clean Air Act and the Freedom of Information Act.
3. Ralph
Nader is the only candidate fighting for universal health care
coverage now. 46 million Americans do not have health insurance
–nearly a 30% increase since 1992. A universal health
care system of public payment and private delivery would cut
the huge administrative costs which burden American wallets.
4. Ralph
Nader vigorously fought the confirmation of extremist Supreme
Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.
A Senate controlled by Democrats confirmed Scalia and Thomas.
Ralph Nader respects and will protect a woman’s right
to choose when to have children. Nader will continue to fight
for fair, impartial justices.
5. Ralph
Nader strives to abolish child poverty in America.
While Western European nations have all but eliminated child
poverty, one in five American children lives in poverty.
6. Ralph
Nader is the only candidate who supports the repeal of the Taft-Hartley
Act, “the chokehold on American labor.”
Nader encourages the growth of trade unions—now at a sixty-year
low in the private sector—to protect worker’s rights
and safety.
7. Ralph
Nader is the only candidate who would withdraw the United States
from the WTO and NAFTA and renegotiate all trade agreements
to include provisions that safeguard workers, consumers, and
the environment.
8. Ralph
Nader attacks racial discrimination. Nader would protect
people of color by enhancing affirmative action, cracking down
on racial profiling, implementing widespread community policing,
and terminating the illegal lending patterns of redlining and
blockbusting.
9. Ralph
Nader opposes the failed War on Drugs. Nader believes that
this policy has only amplified street crime and transformed
the private prison industry into one of the fastest growing
industries in America. Nader contends that drug addiction
should be treated as a health problem.
10. Ralph
Nader is against the death penalty. Bush and Gore
are for it.
11. Ralph
Nader fights corporate crime and welfare. Corporate
crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money
than street crime. Corporate welfare siphons hundreds
of billions of taxpayer dollars away from where they are needed
to rebuild America’s bridges, schools, health and recreation
centers, drinking water systems, mass transit systems and other
public facilities.
12. Ralph
Nader calls for an end to the economic sanctions on Iraq,
which cause the deaths of 5000 children per month according
to the American Physicians Taskforce. Unlike military sanctions,
economic sanctions actually strengthen the dictatorship in Iraq.
13. Ralph
Nader is the only candidate who supports equal rights for gays
and lesbians – in the military, in civil unions, in
the workplace, and in the marketplace.
14. Ralph
Nader protects family farms, “the cultural backbone
of America.” Bush and Gore accept large contributions
from giant agribusinesses intent on displacing small farmers.
Additionally, along with 90% of Americans, Nader supports labeling
genetically-engineered food. Gore and Bush oppose labeling.
15. Ralph
Nader would cut the swollen military budget. Although the
Cold War ended ten years ago, the Republicans and Democrats
continue to fund unnecessary gold-plated weapons systems such
as the unworkable anti-ballistic missile defense system and
the unsafe Osprey fighter.
16. Ralph
Nader supports a significant increase in the federal minimum
wage and a living wage nationwide. Although the record-breaking
economy has doubled in size over the last thirty years, the
inflation-adjusted federal minimum wage is currently approximately
$2.15 lower than it was in 1968.
17. Ralph
Nader would end all commercial logging in our National Forests.
The Federal Government subsidizes logging in the National Forests
to the tune of 1.2 billion dollars annually, yielding just 3%
of the national timber harvest.Nader would use the 1.2 billion
to restore those forests for future generations.
18. Ralph
Nader would reshape our energy policy to favor clean energy
technologies, such as solar and conservation. His push for
efficient and clean mass transit systems would not only greatly
reduce our dependence on oil, but would reduce transportation
costs, pollution levels and traffic accidents.
19. Ralph
Nader will protect your privacy. Never before has the privacy
of American citizens been under such an invasion, from increased
government surveillance to Internet commercial snooping to the
sharing of personal medical records without your consent.
20. Every
vote for Ralph Nader is a vote towards the creation of a watchdog
political party that will empower civic groups and send
a clear message to the two major parties: “shape up or
shrink down.” If you agree that Ralph Nader is the only
presidential candidate capable of reforming politics, vote Nader.
Do you expect your members of Congress to vote their conscience?
Shouldn't you
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