Nader to talk about Wall Street, bailout
Ralph Nader, perennial independent presidential candidate, will be in Maine tonight, speaking at the First Parish Church in Portland.
In a telephone interview, Nader said one of his prime talking points will be Congress's $700 billion effort last week to save the nation's flailing financial system and his plan to tax Wall Street to pay for it.
Nader said he views U.S. taxpayers as shareholders who should be repaid for their rescue investment and receive dividends.
"We'll talk about the bailout and what went wrong on Wall Street," he said. "We'd give control to the taxpayers and the company they own."
He said he'll also talk about every citizen's right to earn a living wage and the need to end the war in Iraq.
If elected, he said, he plans to fight poverty and corporate crime and promote consumer protection, alternative energy and workplace safety.
"According to OSHA, 58,000 people in the United States die each year because of workplace-related disease and trauma," Nader said. "We need to stop that."
The event starts at 7:30 p.m. The church is located at 425 Congress St., near Portland City Hall and the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram.
Posted at 11:13 AM
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