The
next question was about “reducing the deficit” and this is also an easy one for
me. Trillions of dollars have been spent on the US War OF Terror against the
world since 9/11/2001 and the Military Industrial Complex is sucking the economy dry
with its murderous greed. The wars should come to a speedy end and the bases
that the Empire maintains around the world should be closed and our military
should be reduced to the size where it can be “drowned in a bathtub.” Our
platform also calls for the end to the CIA and other alphabet agencies that
wreak havoc at home and abroad. And this leads to the next question. There are
PLENTY of wealth and resources in this nation but the national priorities are
way out of whack…a re-prioritization of programs would render the next question
unnecessary.
-- Cindy Sheehan, "A Socialist Response to The Greatest American Scoundrel Show (Debate)" (Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox).