Here’s how. There are 43 million young people – and not so young people –
who are locked in predatory student debt, with no prospects for getting
out. And there is only one candidate who
will cancel that debt – and you’re looking at her. And by the way, we
bailed out Wall Street, the guys who crashed the economy with their
waste, fraud and abuse. It’s about time we bailed out the young people
who are the victims of that abuse. So if young people come
out on election day 2016 to vote green to cancel their debt, they can
actually take over the election, not only to cancel student debt, but to
advance the whole agenda for justice. And the world will be a better
place for it! And millennials are the self organizing demographic that
can do this.
So we do have the power to end student debt, and to make public higher
education free. This is the right thing to do to provide the younger
generation with economic security in the 21st century, just like free
high school education provided security in the 20th century. And it pays
for itself by a 7:1 margin, as the results of the GI bill demonstrated
following the 2nd World War.
-- Jill Stein, Green Party presidential candidate, Saturday, August 6, 2016, in her acceptance speech.