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Written by Melanie Knight   
Friday, 20 July 2007

Friday, July 27th at 7:00 pm (CDA Block Party!)
Saturday, July 28th at 10:00 am
Bull Street near Russell House 

 

Contact:  Aaron Rubin, OreoMobile Project, Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , 917-273-0406; www.sensiblepriorities.org

Vehicle Designed by Ben, Co-Founder of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream You might think giant Oreo cookies would give kids a tummy ache.But the tire-sized Oreos aboard the renowned OreoMobile—coming to USC Columbia on Friday and Saturday—actually explain how to make South Carolina kids healthier.Using giant Oreos as props, OreoMobile actors will dramatize in a 15-minute show how America can provide health insurance for the 102,000 South Carolina kids who lack it.Here’s what else the OreoMobile shows:The Pentagon yearly base budget is $500 billion, not including Iraq. If the Pentagon trims just $60 billion currently wasted on obsolete weapons, not only could the U.S. begin reducing the deficit, help millions of starving children in impoverished countries around the world and reduce America’s use of oil by half within a decade, but the states would receive enough money to make local dreams come true.Proportionately, South Carolina would receive $500 million every year, enough money to 1) provide health insurance to all kids in the state who don’t have it, 2) renovate and modernize all of South Carolina’s K-12 public schools over twelve years, 3) offer job training to South Carolina workers laid off by large companies and 4) create thousands of local jobs in alternative energy programs.

Most Americans, including those in South Carolina, support this change in budget priorities and want their taxes spent the way the OreoMobile illustrates, according to recent polling by the Program on International Policy Attitudes. See, http://65.109.167.118/pipa/pdf/mar05/FedBudget_Mar05_rpt.pdf

“Canceling Pentagon weapons systems designed to fight the collapsed Soviet Union is not being weak on defense,” said Ben Cohen. “It is rebuilding our schools, providing health care for our kids, training our workforce for decent jobs, reducing our dependence on foreign oil, and creating a good quality of life for all of us.”Cohen is now President of Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, sponsor of the OreoMobile. Cohen is undertaking this project on behalf of Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities and not on behalf of Ben & Jerry's.

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