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October 27, 2011

Protester Disrupts Budget Deficit Meeting, Calls For End to War 
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On Wednesday, Leah Bolger of Veterans for Peace disrupted an open
meeting of the Congressional supercommittee.

Leah Bolger, Veterans for Peace: "The American people want to tax the
rich and end the wars. That's how we fix the deficit. And all this
obfuscation with percentages of GDP, this is just trying to confuse the
issue ... tax the rich and end the wars. That’s how we fix the
deficit. And all this obfuscation with percentages and GDP, this is just
trying to confuse the issue ... the vast majority of the public wants
you to tax the rich, end the wars ... this history of this vast,
grotesque spending on wars and the war machine has depleted the base of
this economy. We would have enough money for housing and health care and
everything that we want if we stopped spending our money in this black
hole of the military machine. It's very obvious. I speak for the 99
percent: End the wars and tax the rich."



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