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By mid-summer, 100,000 young people in New York City had become discouraged workers -- abandoning the search for jobs in a society which has abandoned them.

Ten percent of our work force is idle.

Thirty percent of our manufacturing capacity is at rest.

Fifty-seven cents of every federal tax dollar is committed to militarily-related expenses.

Two-thirds of the interest payments on the National debt are war-related.

Our government opposes abortion, and supports the death penalty -- they believe life begins at conception and ends at birth.

They intend to rearrange America to fit their sterile vision, to force conformity with their small minds and smaller dreams. Riding the crest of a wave of antagonism against those Americans who cannot do for themselves, they intend to impose an awful austerity on us all.

This Conservative confederacy intends as well to take the federal government entirely out of the business of enforcing equal opportunity in America.

They intend to eliminate affirmative action for women and