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Los Angeles County, CA June 5, 2012 Election
Smart Voter Political Philosophy for David William Steinman

Candidate for
United States Representative; District 33

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WAR

Polls repeatedly indicate the majority of Americans are opposed to funding the current US wars. The California State Party opposes funding the Afghanistan surge and urges withdrawal.

At home, these trillion-dollar war ventures are breaking our economy, stripping civil society and destroying our children's futures. For what?

Currently, the US supports the unacknowledged illegal bombings of Pakistan and Yemen populations by CIA drones...not even the Pentagon is in control! The CIA is supposed to be an intelligence gathering organization and is now 70% outsourced to private companies. Worse, these are often foreign companies employing foreign consultants and fighters. Congress has not only abdicated to the executive branch it's constitutional responsibility for declarations of war, it sends billions of our tax dollars to private mercenary corporations, and abandons our nation's "state monopoly of force" to foreign agents to wreak havoc on other populations without congressional oversight or accountability. How does this serve our security? Our sovereignty? Where are our legislators?

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