( – promoted by michael horan)

Just received my google-alerts and found this great Boston Globe piece on the Governor’s race.  As usual, Jill Stein is the only one who makes any sense and has a clear picture of not only what is wrong in Massachusetts, but how to make it right:

Stein: I would like to create a revolving loan fund, a low- or zero-interest loan fund using some of this money which is being squandered right now in these tax giveaways for insiders. In particular, we need jobs in weatherization. These are jobs that pay for themselves. Where energy is otherwise going out the window and up the roof, instead we get dollars and that gets put back into the economy. The local food economy is another area, and it’s going like gangbusters, even with incredible disadvantages. But there are so many farmers markets and CSAs (community supported agriculture programs) – these are ready to expand, but communities don’t have the capital to do it, so I’d like to see loans there as well. The third area is transportation, so building bike paths and safe sidewalks and public transit. It reintegrates a more active lifestyle into our communities. One other area is the recycling economy and also clean manufacturing. We know that 90 percent of the waste stream is actually useable or recyclable, and that means employing people to sort, to remanufacture, to reengineer – all sorts of spinoff factory-based jobs can be created.

The Green-Rainbow Party’s voice has been found and doors are opening everywhere.  I hope there are lots of votes counted for Jill Stein, Nat Fortune, and the others running in this years election.  Better than that, I hope they win.