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1. Will you support and demand
Electoral Reform Legislation to
pass by January 2008? If so,
what eight elements of reform
would you include?
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Answer to Question #1:
• If NO, get out of race right now.
• If YES:
• In Time for November 2008:
– Holiday Voting So Poor Can Vote
– Honest Open Multi-Party Debates
– Expanded Debates (3 Cabinet Posts)
– Instant Run-Off for True Majority
• By November 2009:
– State-Wide Multi-Party Proportional
Representation Define House Seats
– Tightly-Drawn Truly Local Districts
– Public Funding, Public Airwaves
– No Legislation without Online Public
Consultation in Advance
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2. Can you explain why voting
needs to take place on a holiday
or week-end?
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Answer to Question #2:
• The working poor, and especially
those who have to hold two jobs
to make ends meet, cannot vote
easily, and especially so if they
have to use mass transit.
• We do not have an honest
electoral system today. Apart
from gerrymandering, States can
manipulate the number and kind
of machines available and actively
discriminate against the most
needy members of our society
who have legitimate grievances.
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3. Can you explain why today’s
presidential debates are rigged,
not honest, and must be
changed?
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Answer to Question #3:
• The Republican and Democratic
parties—the leadership, not the
members—conspired to displace
the League of Women Voters
from their long-standing role as
an honest broker, for the specific
purpose of excluding third,
fourth, and fifth parties, and
controlling the debate process to
avoid substance backed backed
up by budget numbers.
• The debates must be open to all
parties, shown on all public
stations, and also offered free
online.
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4. How might we improve our
ability to understand who you
would appoint to your Cabinet,
and what policy perspectives
they would apply on our behalf?
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Answer to Question #4:
• We must demand that all
Presidential contenders, in both
the primary process and the
general election, name at least
three Cabinet positions in
advance: the Secretary of State,
the Secretary of Defense, and the
Attorney General.
• Cabinet debates must alternate
with Presidential debates.
• Eventually candidates will realize
they must both appoint their
Cabinet and produced a balanced
budget in order to qualify for
consideration by a smart engaged
public.
FIFTY-TWO TOUGH IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
5. Even if we did nothing else, what
one change could be legislatively
mandated in time for 2008 that
would assure a genuine winner
satisfactory to the majority of
us?
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Answer to Question #5:
• An instant run-off, in which the
second choice of each voter is
also considered, will guarantee
not only a majority winner, but a
fair shake for Independent,
Green, Libertarian, Reform, and
other candidates that scorn the
Democratic and Republican
parties as corrupt.
FIFTY-TWO TOUGH IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
6. Most Americans today no longer
identify with the leadership of either
of the two traditional parties. How
can we migrate toward full and
balanced representation of all
political points of view in our
legislatures?
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Answer to Question #6:
• Elections to Congress should be
based on party registrations,
which can be changed at any time
up to one month prior to the
actual election.
• On that basis, House of
Representatives seats can be
apportioned across the entire
political spectrum, ending the
winner take all and “party line”
poison that have destroyed our
democracy.
• See also Question #7.
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7. Apart from full and balanced
representation in the House of
Representatives, how can we
improved localized representation
from District to District?
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Answer to Question #7:
• After ascertaining the correct mix
of seats (for example, out of ten,
5 might be Republican, 3
Democratic, 2 Libertarian, and 1
each Green and Independent—
this will change over time toward
broader mixes), then tightly
drawn districts, ending
gerrymandering, will be assigned
based on the closest possible
affinity between the party
affiliation and the political
inclinations of each district.
• Local needs will always take
precedence over party “lines.”
FIFTY-TWO TOUGH IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
8. How to we eliminate corruption in
the legislature and the executive at
all levels, and free our
representatives to spend 100% of
their time on the People’s Business?
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Answer to Question #8:
• First, we must demand that the public
airwaves be offered free in prime time
to all candidates for office. This
should be part of a broader move to
Open Spectrum that ends the sale of
the public commons to private parties
and exercises eminent domain
repossession of the air waves.
• Second, we must pay our public
servants, including public safety,
health, and education employees, a
solid middle class wage, and forbid all
financial contributions to any
campaign.
• In an election, information is the only
public good that should be in play.
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9. How do we impose on every
legislator at every level the lesson
that Davy Crockett learned, that the
public funds are not theirs to give?
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Answer to Question #9:
• Secret earmarks and obscure
legislative language are the means
by which Senators and
Representatives have used the
public treasury to transfer wealth to
the already wealthy contributors to
their campaign.
• By demanding that all legislation be
written in explicit plain English, and
posted online at least seven days in
advance of consideration in both
Committee and on the Floor, we can
have open legislation with full
public consultation.
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10: The White House and Congress
have run the economy into the
ground, imposing an enormous
debt burden on us all. How do
we fix that?
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Answer to Question #10:
• First, we restore the Constitution and end
the practice of government borrowing
from banks. The Constitution provides for
the issuance of monetary currency backed
by the full faith and credit of We the
People.
• Second, we eliminate income taxes to get
We the People back on our feet, and
substitute the Tobin Tax, a tiny .0006 fax
on every Federal Reserve transaction,
combined with a severe tax on products
whose “true cost” in oil, water, child labor,
and tax avoidance is unsustainable.
• Third, we join Brazil, Cuba, China, Thailand
and other pioneers in licensing generic
drugs that cost 1% of what we pay in the
US, 10% of what Canadian drugs cost.
That wipes out the future unfunded
Medicare and Medicaid obligations
imposed on us by a corrupt Congress that
forbade the Executive to negotiate drug
prices.
FIFTY-TWO TOUGH IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
11. Can you name, in priority order, the
top ten high-level threats to
Humanity and our Republic as
identified by LtGen Dr. Brent
Scowcroft and the other members of
the High-Level Threat Panel?
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Answer to Question #11:
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01 Poverty
02 Infectious Disease
03 Environmental Degradation
04 Inter-State Conflict
05 Civil War
06 Genocide
07 Other Atrocities
08 Proliferation
09 Terrorism
10 Transnational Crime
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12. Senators and Representatives used
to brag that they did not need a
passport because nothing that
happened overseas mattered to their
constituents. Do you have a one line
answer for why that is so wrong?
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Answer to Question #12:
• None of the ten high-level threats
to humanity, but especially the top
three, recognize national borders.
• The near pandemic that was
stopped by alert monitors of
Chinese web sites who sounded the
alarm on SARS (Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome), could have
exploded out of Hong Kong and
gone world-wide because the
Chinese government was
concealing the problem.
• All ten of the threats are intimately
linked and must be addressed as a
whole system, not one at a time.
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13. Why is poverty more
of a threat to the
Republic than any other
threat including war?
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Answer to Question #13:
• 01 Poverty breeds disease, crime,
and conflict. It is a cancer that can
destroy civilization and humanity if
it is not addressed immediately and
comprehensively.
• 02 In the case of the Republic,
poverty is what drives illegal aliens
to risk death or prison in order to
find work. Eliminating poverty
elsewhere is the best way to
eliminate illegal immigration.
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14. Why is Infectious
Disease the second
greatest threat to
Humanity and the
Republic?
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Answer to Question #14:
• 01 Infectious Disease has killed over
20 Popes, Presidents, and Prime
Ministers. Just as the rich in New
York City discovered that public
health was needed to protect them
from epidemics spawned amidst the
poverty of the ghettos, so also must
we recognize that infectious disease
can wipe out entire countries.
• 02 Our indiscriminant use of
antibiotics and pesticides had led to
an increase in mutating and new
diseases leaping from animal to
human hosts, coincident with a
reduction of the human immune
system.
FIFTY-TWO TOUGH IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
15. Name the five largest
exporters of weapons
used in inter-state
conflict and civil war.
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Answer to Question #15:
• 01 The USA, the United Kingdom,
France, Germany, and Russia are
the largest arms exporters and also
indiscriminate and irresponsible in
selling to known dictators and
warlords.
• 02 The USA sells three times more
weapons than the United Kingdom,
five times more than Russia, in any
given year.
FIFTY-TWO TOUGH IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
16. Describe in general
terms the root causes of
Civil War.
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Answer to Question #16:
• 01 Corruption and competition for
scarce resources fuel civil wars,
genocide, and other atrocities.
• 02 A million bribe can “buy” the
land containing a rich harvest of
gold or diamonds, but because of
the bribe, the value of that harvest
will never be realized on behalf of
the people who have lived there for
centuries.
• 03 In most civil wars, the only path
to wealth, women, and wine is
found through small arms and
violence.
FIFTY-TWO TOUGH IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
17. Name at least four
countries with on-going
civil wars.
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Answer to Question #17:
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Afghan Civil War, 1992–2001, armed conflicts persist
Algerian Civil War, 1991–2002, conflicts persist
Casamance Conflict, Senegal, 1990–present
Colombian armed conflict, 1964–present
Côte d'Ivoire Civil War, 1999–2000, 2002–present
Darfur Conflict, Sudan, 2003–present
Georgian Civil War, Abkhazia, South Ossetia in Georgia,
1988–present
Israeli-Palestinian conflict 1948-present
Iraq Civil War, 2003(?)–present
Kashmir Conflict, 1989–present
Northern Irish civil war, 1969–1998 (Considered ongoing
by extremist minority groups)
Palestinian Civil War, 2006–present
Somali Civil War, 1991–present
Sri Lankan Civil War, 1983–present
Ugandan Civil War, 1987–present
Yemen Civil War, 1979–1989, 1994, 2000s
Yugoslavian civil war, 1991–1995, Breakup — Slovenia,
Croatia, Bosnia (1st NATO intervention), Kosovo (2nd
NATO intervention), Preševo valley, Macedonia — Kosovo
War 1996–1999
FIFTY-TWO TOUGH IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
18. Name as many ongoing genocides are you
can. For extra credit,
name two acts of war
by the US that comprise
mass murder (in WWII).
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Brazil
Colombia
Democratic Republic of The Congo
Ethiopia
Sudan
Uganda
• Extra Credit: fire bombings of
Dresden and Tokyo, nuclear bombs
at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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19. Name at least two
types of crime against
humans that are
included in Other
Atrocities.
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Answer to Question #19:
• Kidnapping of young women to
supply the sex trade
• Kidnapping of individuals to harvest
their body parts
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20. What Nations are
active in the
proliferation of nuclear,
chemical, and biological
weapons?
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Answer to Question #20:
• Albania, Algeria, Argentina,
Australia
• Brazil, Canada, China
• France, Germany
• India, Iran, Iraq
• Israel, Japan, Netherlands
• North Korea, Pakistan
• Poland, Russia
• South Africa, Syria
• Taiwan (ROC)
• United Kingdom, United States
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21. What’s wrong with the
Global War on Terror or
GWOT?
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Answer to Question #21:
• Terrorism is a tactic. You cannot
defeat or make war on a tactic.
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22. How big a problem is
Transnational Crime?
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Answer to Question #22:
• It is a $2 trillion a year industry, in
comparison to a total global
economy of around $7 trillion. It is
a huge problem, in part because it
diverts revenue needed by
governments and it undermines the
overall culture.
FIFTY-TWO TOUGH IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
23. Can you list, in alphabetical order,
the twelve policies that must be
harmonized by each level of
government, and among all nations?
For extra credit, what is the single
greatest threat to our economy?
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01 Agriculture
02 Diplomacy
03 Economy
04 Education
05 Energy
06 Family
07 Health
08 Immigration
09 Justice
10 Security
11 Society
12 Water
Extra Credit: National Debt & Future
Unfunded Known Obligations
FIFTY-TWO TOUGH IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
24. Before we take each policy in turn,
just to provide a sense of urgency
and context, can you name the eight
demographic wild cards that will
determine the future no matter what
the USA and Europe do?
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01 Brazil
02 China
03 India
04 Indonesia
05 Iran
06 Russia
07 Venezuela
08 Wild Cards such as:
– Congo
– Malaysia
– Pakistan
– South Africa
– Turkey
FIFTY-TWO TOUGH IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
25. Name at least three
long-term objectives of
your Agricultural Policy.
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Answer to Question #25:
• 01 Restore Local Farming for 85%
of the domestic market space, and
achieve 50% organic in five years,
75% in ten years, 100% in fifteen
years.
• 02 Dramatically reduce the amount
of food grown for the animal
industry, which will in turn reduce
animal waste entering the water
and animal antibiotics entering us.
• 03 Restore family and community
owned farmed, eliminating
absentee ownership in 25 years.
• 04 Migrate to Deep Root Farming
over the next 25 years.
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26. Name at least three
long-term objectives of
your Diplomatic Policy.
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Answer to Question #26:
• 01 Dogma kills, get back to the facts
and reality-based diplomacy.
• 02 Draw down our 750 military
bases overseas and redirect at least
$100 billion a year from waging war
to waging peace.
• 03 Create the Open Source Agency
called for on page 413 of the 9-11
Report, but under diplomatic
auspices with an Office of
Information Sharing Treaties and
Agreements.
• 04 Subsidize free cell phones for the
five billion poor, and create a global
network of 100 million volunteers
with Internet access able to teach
them “one cell call at a time.”
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27. Name at least three
long-term objectives of
your Economic Policy.
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Answer to Question #27:
• 01 End CEO Greed by pegging CEO
salaries to that of the lowest-paid
employee, and regulate pay for
performance standards.
• 02 Increase minimum wage to $10
an hour immediately, while also
eliminating all income taxes for
individuals at all levels.
• 03 Over the next fifteen years,
achieve full employment of all
citizens before allowing non-citizens
to take jobs in the USA.
• 04 Severely tax imports to reflect
their “true cost” and localize our
entire supply chain for goods and
services.
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28. Name at least three
long-term objectives of
your Educational Policy.
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Answer to Question #28:
• 01 Free online education all the way
to a college degree, with proctored
open book examinations.
• 02 Mandated apprenticeships from
Middle School onwards, in the trades
though high school, in the professions
through college.
• 03 End rote memorization and
competitive examinations, move
quickly to team or project learning,
learning to learn, individual
proficiency certification with team
scores.
• 04 Mandate continuous education for
all, free of charge (the Tobin Tax on
Federal Reserve will replace incomes
taxes as the national revenue source).
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29. Name at least three
long-term objectives of
your Energy Policy.
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Answer to Question #29:
• 01 Incentivize sustainable design
and green to gold capitalism.
• 02 Create the two-way grid featured
in WIRED Magazine the month Dick
Cheney was meeting secretly with
Enron & Exxon to plot the
occupations of Afghanistan & Iraq.
• 03 Nation-wide investment in wind,
solar, and portable hydrogen.
Federal and state governments
switch to hybrid cars for all new
purchases.
• 04 Complete independence from
foreign oil within four years.
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30. Name at least three
long-term objectives of
your Family Policy.
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Answer to Question #30:
• 01 Return to the one-income family
and incentivize multi-generational
living so the young can bear
children but the wiser grandparents
can help to raise them.
• 02 End overtime until we achieve
full employment.
• 03 Stop building malls and bedroom
communities, incentivize
neighborhoods, bike paths,
community transit, and community
centers.
• 04 Reduce the work week to 35
hours and legally prohibit forced
labor above 35 hours, such as
account executives expected to
work 60 hour weeks.
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31. Name at least three
long-term objectives of
your Health Policy.
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Answer to Question #31:
• 01 A Nation’s best defense is an
educated and healthy public. We
will incentivize healthy delicious
food and heavily tax unhealthy
food.
• 02 Employers and transport
companies will be required to
assure clean air free of toxins or
harmful bacteria.
• 03 Public health will be free and of
high quality, equivalent to public
safety and education (the latter will
be doubled in quality).
• 04 Natural and alternative cures will
pre-empt medication & surgery
wherever possible.
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32. Name at least three
long-term objectives of
your Immigration Policy.
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Answer to Question #32:
• 01 We will enforce the law and
demand that all employers and
landlords verify legality before
employment or rent (and one
family per dwelling).
• 02 We will demand global labor
unions and standards, and reject all
products that do not meet those
standards.
• 03 We will redirect 25,000 positions
from the Department of Defense to
the Border Patrol.
• 04 We will seal the borders and
demand two years national service
of all those who wish to be citizens.
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33. Name at least three
long-term objectives of
your Justice Policy.
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Answer to Question #33:
• 01 We will pardon all marijuana
offenders after they serve two years
in national service (Armed Forces,
Peace Corps, or Homeland Corps).
• 02 We will wind down the prisonslavery complex and terminate all
Haliburton detention centers and all
secret United Nations armed forces
within our borders.
• 03 We will eliminate corporate
amnesty under the personality
clauses intended for freed slaves,
and hold corporate officers
accountable as individuals.
• 04 We will not allow the President
to pardon Presidential staff for high
crimes and misdemeanors.
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34. Name at least three
long-term objectives of
your Security Policy.
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Answer to Question #34:
• 01 I will move $100 billion from the
Pentagon’s inflated budget to a new
budget, Waging Peace.
• 02 Over the next 25 years, I will
reduce the military-industrial
complex, and replace it with a
peace & prosperity complex.
• 03 The core ingredient for the
future is connectivity: I will
subsidize free cell phones for the
five billion poor and recruit 100
million volunteers able to teach
them “one cell call at a time.”
• 04 Morality is central to our future.
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35 Name at least three
long-term objectives of
your Society Policy.
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Answer to Question #35:
• 01 We will implement universal
service as a civic duty, offering three
choices: Armed Forces, Peace
Corps, and Homeland Corps.
• 02 Public Health will be free, as are
Public Security and Education.
• 03 English in the national language
and Christianity, with tolerance of
other faiths and a strict separation
of church and state, is the national
religion.
• 04 Voting will be mandatory, on a
holiday, with other Electoral
Reforms implemented by law.
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36. Name at least three
long-term objectives of
your Water Policy.
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Answer to Question #36:
• 01 Water will be sold at it’s true
cost, and a nation-wide water
conservation policy begun
immediately.
• 02 We will create a Global
Manhattan Project to restore
aquifers and push salt water back.
• 03 We will demand regional Water
Authorities both at home and
overseas.
• 04 We will fund ten $100 million
dollar water desalination facilities
using renewable energy.
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37. Why is Brazil
important to our
future?
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Answer to Question #37
• It is one of the seven
demographic powers that will
determine the future regardless
of what the USA and EU do.
• It is energy independent and
central to Latin America, Africa,
and southern Asia
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38. Why is China
important to our
future?
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Answer to Question #38
• It is one of the seven
demographic powers that will
determine the future regardless
of what the USA and EU do.
• It has major energy and water
shortfalls and is also an epicenter
for infectious disease. If China
implodes, America will suffer.
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39. Why is India important
to our future?
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Answer to Question #39
• It is one of the seven
demographic powers that will
determine the future regardless
of what the USA and EU do.
• Other than Indonesia, it has the
largest Muslim population on the
planet, stands between Iran and
China, and while it has major
problems, is potentially a focal
point for creating wealth through
knowledge that will stabilize that
entire region.
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40. Why is Indonesia
important to our
future?
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Answer to Question #40
• It is one of the seven
demographic powers that will
determine the future regardless
of what the USA and EU do.
• It is the largest Muslim nation
that has maintained a secular
government and contained
radical Islam elements, rich in
natural resources and a potential
leader in southern Asia.
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41. Why is Iran important
to our future?
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Answer to Question #41
• It is one of the seven
demographic powers that will
determine the future regardless
of what the USA and EU do.
• It is the largest Shi’ite Muslim
nation, offsets the corrupt and
perverted Saudi Royal family, in
the true representative of the
Persian civilization, and a key
actor in stabilizing the Middle
East
• Extra Credit: The US overthrew
their democratic government to
keep the Shah in power. We were
wrong to do this.
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42. Why is Russia
important to our
future?
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Answer to Question #42
• It is one of the seven
demographic powers that will
determine the future regardless
of what the USA and EU do.
• It is the largest land mass
spanning Europe and Asia, a
critical offset to Chinese power,
and potentially a major
contributor to European, African,
and Asian peace and prosperity.
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43. Why is Venezuela
important to our
future?
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Answer to Question #43
• It is one of the seven
demographic powers that will
determine the future regardless
of what the USA and EU do.
• It has the largest reserves of
petroleum in the Western
Hemisphere; together with Brazil,
it could determine not only the
future of democracy in the
region, but also whether China is
or is not allowed to take over the
entire region through an
emigration policy that gradually
displaces indigenous peoples.
FIFTY-TWO TOUGH IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
44. Why are Wild Cards
important to our
future?
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• The Earth is like a delicate
aquarium, where balance must be
maintained if we are to have a
sustainable future. There are no
borders when it comes to the
spread of disease or well-being.
• Countries like Malaysia and
Turkey are essential branches of
Islam at peace; countries like
Pakistan or the Congo are
potentially violent and
contagious. Countries like Chile,
Argentina, and South Africa are
potential engines for regional
peace and prosperity.
FIFTY-TWO TOUGH IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
45. In 2007, how much did
our government spend
on diplomacy as
opposed to war?
What’s wrong with
that?
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• Diplomacy received roughly $30
billion while the Pentagon
received over $950 billion.
• This illustrates a government that
is out of control, insolvent
according to the Comptroller
General, and a very dangerous
over-reliance on weapons instead
of reasoned policies. We are a
spend-thrift Nation, and at
imminent risk of a national
economic melt-down.
FIFTY-TWO TOUGH IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
46. In 2007, how much did our
government spend on spies and
secret satellites, as opposed to
legal ethical sources of foreign
intelligence? What’s wrong with
that?
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• The National Intelligence Budget
is at least $60 billion a year,
double what it was at its previous
high point under President
Reagan. The secret agencies are
optimized for stealing the 4% of
the information that is secret, and
spend less than a billion on open
sources in 183 languages we do
not speak.
• We need to reduce the secret
budget to $12 billion a year, and
redirect the savings to national
education & our electronic
infrastructure.
FIFTY-TWO TOUGH IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
47. Will you commit to
naming your Secretaries
of State and Defense,
and your Attorney
General, prior to 3
January 2008?
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• If NO, don’t bother coming back.
• If YES go to next question.
FIFTY-TWO TOUGH IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
48. If you win the
nomination for the
general election, will
you commit to having
Cabinet-level debates?
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• If NO, don’t bother coming back.
• If YES, move on to next question.
FIFTY-TWO TOUGH IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
49. If you win the nomination
of your party, will you
commit to preparing and
posting online a balanced
budget prior to election
day?
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• If NO, don’t bother coming back.
• If YES, move on to the next card.
FIFTY-TWO TOUGH IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
50. Can you explain the
concept of
transpartisanship, and if
elected, commit to
appointing a Transpartisan
Cabinet?
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• Transpartisanship, a concept developed
by Don Beck and Jim Turner, means a
return to an objective balanced policy
process in which facts and reality are
the foundation for dialog and decision,
instead of ideological fantasy and
extreme partisanship.
• Yes, we need the very best people on
the Cabinet, from across all parties. To
demonstrate my commitment, if I am
elected President I will ask the loser of
that election to be my Vice President so
we can all come together and get this
great Republic back to being America
the Beautiful.
FIFTY-TWO TOUGH IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
51. What is America’s
greatest source of
strength and national
power?
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• An educated engaged citizenry.
FIFTY-TWO TOUGH IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
52. What can we do to get
America back on track?
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• Ask these same questions of each
and every contender, and don’t
let them snow you with
platitudes.
• A policy is not real until is has
been put into a balanced budget.
Make all of us demonstrate we
can govern before we are
elected—this is too important to
practice partisan politics as we
have in the past.
• Demand that the League of
Women Voters be restored as the
sponsors of open honest multiparty debates aired nationally.