PRESS RELEASE - US Global Imperialism Must End To Provide Balanced Budgets

Midge Potts for Senate 2010

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 26th, 2010

President's Discretionary Spending Freeze Is Off Target

Comprehensive Restructuring Of US Budget Proposed By Progressive Senate Candidate

Springfield, MO - As the US Congress is furiously working to pass a bill that would increase the federal debt limit to over 13 trillion dollars, the White House announced on Tuesday that President Obama would suggest a three year spending freeze on programs labeled as 'discretionary' in the US budget. Exemptions to the proposal would include all funding for military and foreign aid, as well as appropriations for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA and Homeland Security. Freezing non-discretionary spending at the fiscal 2010 level of 447 billion will save an estimated fifteen billion dollars per year, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

"The American people do not want a limited 'freeze', they want proactive solutions that will end deficit spending so that Congress can consistently produce a balanced federal budget; spending money we don't have is economic suicide," said Midge Potts, Progressive-Green candidate for US Senate in 2010, "if elected to serve as Missouri's next senator, I will NEVER vote to raise the debt ceiling, and I will attempt to end 'pork barrel' earmarks by proposing legislation that would require all appropriations to be properly vetted through the proper congressional committees." Ms Potts added, "With more than 150 American military bases scattered across the globe, the appropriate first step in reducing appropriations, in addition to withdrawing troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, would be to systematically put an end to US imperialism, and to end the foreign aid that is directly tied to appeasing those countries where we maintain military forces."

Midge Potts, co-chair of the Progressive Party of Missouri, is the party's candidate for U.S. Senator in 2010. She and other party members are circulating petitions to get Ms. Potts and other Progressive Party candidates on the Missouri ballot this year.

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