Posted on 01/05/2004 2:46:15 AM PST by billorites
ALL YOU Democratic and independent voters not committed to one of the nine Democratic candidates for President, listen up. Should you find yourself face to face with one of said candidates and at a loss to come up with an important-sounding question to ask, feel free to use one of the following.
1. How do you think Britain, Spain, Italy, Australia, Poland and Americas other allies in the Iraq war and the War on Terror would react if they knew that in your campaign rhetoric you have completely ignored their contributions to these efforts and repeatedly insisted on characterizing President Bushs foreign policy as entirely unilateral, as if no other nation joined America in defeating the Taliban and Saddam Hussein?
2. Four years from now Baby Boomers will begin to retire. Not long after that retirees in America will greatly outnumber those who pay Social Security taxes. Specifically, how will you keep Social Security from running out of money?
3. Would you ever use military force without United Nations approval, and if so, under what circumstances?
4. Should the United States always wait until attacked before using military force against an enemy?
5. As President, what, if any, business regulations would you attempt to repeal?
6. Do recent medical advances allowing unborn children to survive outside the womb sooner than ever before require any re-examination of abortion policies?
7. Will you pledge never to appoint a pro-life federal judge? What other litmus tests would you apply to the judiciary?
8. Should sales over the Internet remain tax-free?
9. If the rich should pay a larger portion of their income in taxes because they can afford to, shouldnt they also receive fewer Medicare, Social Security and other benefits from the federal government?
10. Does every qualified American have the right to attend college, with government subsidies if necessary?
11. Are pharmaceutical companies good corporate citizens?
12. In what areas of life would you prevent the federal government from interfering?
13. Regardless of whether it is a federal issue, has the time come for gay marriage?
14. Will there ever be a day when affirmative action is no longer needed?
15. Name a war that America has fought for oil.
16. Is it appropriate for the billionaire George Soros, one of the richest men in America, to spend his money trying to discredit and oust a President?
17. To what degree did Bill Clintons behavior in office damage the presidency?
18. Why have Americans elected a Republican President and Congress?
19. In every other nation in which health care is paid for by the national government, that care is rationed and citizens must wait months, even years, for treatment. How would you avoid this outcome in the United States?
20. Suppose you win the nomination. If, in the general election, President Bush wins the popular vote by a few hundred thousand votes, but you win the Electoral College vote, will you concede the election to Bush, as so many Democrats said President Bush should have done for Al Gore in 2000?
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16. Is it appropriate for the billionaire George Soros, one of the richest men in America, to spend his money trying to discredit and oust a President?The plain meaning of the Constitution is that anyone can spend as much as they want to print and distribute expressions of their viewpoint on anything. Whether or not the money was donated for the purpose individually or collectively or (what is practically the same thing) was paid for subscriptions to the publication in question.
Not that the government is now willing to be limited by the First Amendment . . .
2. Four years from now Baby Boomers will begin to retire. Not long after that retirees in America will greatly outnumber those who pay Social Security taxes. Specifically, how will you keep Social Security from running out of money?The Democratic Party will of course continue to wage political war on prudence--it exists for no other purpose.
The sovereign remedy for a predicitible future cash crunch is savings--in the past hopefully, but certainly in the present and immediate future. The problem we will in future face is the extent to which the so-called savings in the "Social Security Trust Fund" represents merely a claim on general fund treasury revenues--an instruction to raise taxes in the future. At present that extent is, by Democrat-passed law, 100%.
If the SSTF is to represent other than a future claim on general fund tax revenues, it must be invested in something other than government bonds. Therefore if the SSTF is to represent other than a future claim on general fund tax revenues, it must be invested in corporate bonds and/or stocks.
But if the government invests the SSTF in corporate stocks the government will soon become the biggest stockholder in most of the largest corporations--will IOW destroy free enterprise. Therefore the investment of the SSTF in stocks must not be under government control. Therefore individual responsibility for investment of the SSTF is an inescapable necessity.
The SSTF must morph into millions of IRAs, one owned by each payroll tax payer.
The good news is however that the deferred tax liablilty of existing IRAs is an asset to the Treasury which will help defray the Treasury's huge SSFT liability. Infusion of payroll tax money into the stock market via the morphing of young workers' SSTF funds into IRAs will help sustain market stock valuations as the baby boom generation sells off its IRAs to fund its retirement lifestyle.
Unless the Democrats continue to successfully demagoging the issue of "privatizing Social Security."
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