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GOOOH! Questions Answered Outside of For/Against
As answered by Dave Doc Rogers
c.20090627
Part 3...
Part 3...
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against the government providing Health Care vouchers to every American citizen that can be used to purchase health insurance from either the government or a private provider, thus ensuring that every American has access to coverage?
DJR: Against. I stated above that the fed should work with the states and local health care systems rather than trying to build their own infrastructure. Use the existing one. It would be more cost effective.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against supporting the death penalty in cases of murder?
DJR: Against. Initially my thinking was ‘an eye for an eye’ but even while that is stated in the Judeo-Christian Bible, the Law allowed for 5 sanctuary cities. If they ever left the city, the injured family could freely kill the killer. We won’t go there in the USA but we can provide a life for them outside of normal society and provide them a way to live productive lives. Incarcerated, certainly. Just isolated, no. Put them to work. Let them pay for part of the room and board. As I pointed out earlier, our prison system should work toward profitability.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against limiting deployment to 10,000 troops, for a maximum of three years, in any country which we are not at war with and have not been for any of the last ten?
DJR: Against. The needs of our troops in forward deployment cannot be determined by a blanket answer. The situation will warrant the actual need based off of the educated and reasoned advice of our generals and admirals in forward positions. We do need to lower our international footprint of forward deployed troops. I propose four types of ready troops: rapid response, forward deployed, home/sustained deployment, and ready reserves.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against limiting the time that any person or family can receive welfare to twenty-four months or less in any five year period?
DJR: Against. I don’t think you can set a hard target like that. It would have to depend on the specific needs of the person receiving aid. Now should there be an end goal to get the person off of aid and economically self-viable? Absolutely.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against allowing those seeking citizenship an opportunity to serve in the military for six years in exchange for citizenship, but ensure that mercenaries make up no more than 10 percent of military personnel?
DJR: For.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against allowing citizens who are mentally sound, older than their “life expectancy” and terminally ill, to opt for euthanasia?
DJR: Against.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against a law requiring the children of elected officials to attend the public school in the district in which they live?
DJR: Against. If they are from Texas it does not seem reasonable that the parent should live so much of their time in Washington without their children. If the elected state or local official is able to afford from their income resources a different schooling option for their child, let them.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against government funded Health Care for all Americans under the age of twenty-one?
DJR: Against. As I said in other places, the Fed should work with state and local health care systems.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against decreasing total foreign aid contributions to match the average contributions of the leading countries in the world in absolute dollars: Britain ($4.9b), Germany ($5.3b), France ($5.5b), China ($0), Russia ($0), Australia ($1.0b), Canada ($1.0b), and Japan ($9.9b), or approximately $3.5 billion per year ($27.6b / 8)?
DJR: Against. The USA gives according to our ability to give. If other countries cannot or will not match that, it is their loss.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against supporting states' rights over federal rights at least 90 percent of the time?
DJR: Against. The US Constitution is quite clear in the separation of powers between the federal and state governments. It is already quite clearly stated.
GOOOH!: As long as the federal government remains involved in the education system, will you vote for or against the teaching of religion in public schools, as an elective?
DJR: For, as long as it is fair and balanced. Current indoctrination through the education system is the invalidated belief in evolution. Intelligent design and other equally valid arguments are not compared or explored. In true science, all possibilities are presented to allow the mind of the individual to seek out the possibilities. Current philosophical teaching in public and higher education does not support that. Chiefly, what is taught is evolutionary atheism.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against legislation declaring that those in the country illegally do not have any of the rights granted to citizens of our country, other than the right to humane treatment?
DJR: For. Catch them and send them back if they are here illegally.
GOOOH!: As long as the federal government remains involved in the education system, Will you vote for or against a law that requires the removal of the bottom 3 percent of teachers in each school district each year?
DJR: I answered this above. There should be a grading system on teachers, principals, and administrators. Those who consistently fail to meet standards or removed from employment. Option back in? Remedial education via accredited course work to validate new learnings.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against amending the Constitution to re-establish and re-clarify equal rights for all over special rights for a few (e.g. prisoners, seniors, students, gays, and minorities)?
DJR: Carefully, I would vote for. By carefully, I would give serious thought and discussion to any attempt to modify our current US Constitution. Secondly, the addition verbiage I would add would deal with the US concept of ‘individual sovereignty.’ The rights of a special class, or protected class, of citizenry create dangerous precedents that I do not think we want here in the USA. In the case of prisoners, their rights were forfeited by felonious acts. Seniors, students, and minorities are already protected. Those who identify themselves by their sexuality [gay, lesbian, trans-gender, etc.] are already protected under Civil Rights Act titles, EEOC guidelines, and the US Constitution.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against a law that requires all legislation be limited to one subject?
DJR: For. Give the President the line item veto and that will shorten a lot of legislation that comes to the desk.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against the establishment of a government program to facilitate the design of an alternative Transportation System, developed by private companies who can propose solutions that utilize cleaner, more efficient, fuels (such as fuel cells), is not dependent on a foreign country, and can begin deployment within ten years?
DJR: I will for a partnership with the understanding these partner companies must pay back the USA for the investments just as they would pay back in other investor.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against limiting total military spending to 3 percent of GDP, excluding periods when our nation is imminently at risk of war with another country or a recognized military unit (i.e., claiming we are at war with terrorists is not the same as being at war with another country)?
DJR: Against. While I would like to see military spending reduced to those dollars and percentages, an unstable world precludes that. If we lower our guard now, we make ourselves vulnerable to anyone who thinks they are close enough militarily to pick a fight. World history has proven that last statement over and over.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against supporting a completely free press at all times?
DJR: For. I may not like it sometimes but I will defend their right to free press in the USA.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against a law that requires each representative to certify he/she has personally read the final version of a bill, in its entirety, prior to being allowed to vote for the bill?
DJR: For.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against the government providing free computers to all minors?
DJR: Against. The state and local run education system is the best place for learning solutions. The US government handout of computers to minors would only be clumsy and mismanaged.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against eliminating all government price and production controls, including abolishment of the minimum wage?
DJR: Against. The US government oversight into production quality and safety have saved more than they have harmed. The minimum wage has forced businesses to keep the base hourly rate on track with inflation, somewhat.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against providing government funds to the ACLU?
DJR: Against. A private law firm that spends more time separating USA citizens is not really trying to benefit. Not one of my little copper pennies should go to them.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against terminating all medical litigation by creating a separate account, funded by a 2 percent take of all medical procedures, that will be used to compensate patients or their families when the medical system fails?
DJR: Against. That would create a slush fund for law suits.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against reducing the cost per inmate, currently estimated at almost $30,000 per year, by 10 percent each year, until the number is less than the national average spent on public education?
DJR: For. The average cost for maintaining an inmate should be reduced to a zero sum balance; meaning, the inmate and the facility should be engaged in activities that lead toward profitability and re-introduction back into society.
GOOOH!: As long as the federal government remains involved in the education system, will you vote for or against giving vouchers to students so that they can attend the school of their choice (including home schooling)?
DJR: For. Improve the local systems and the parents would be less likely to move their children.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against funding the development of fuel cell technology beyond all others?
DJR: Against. We cannot put all of our ‘eggs in one basket.’ It would be unrealistic to expect one technology to jump of a sudden to the forefront and that being the one we chose. Several technologies were being looked at when the gas internal combustion engine came to forefront. We must be forward thinking and searching for new technologies and not settling everything on one solution.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against amending the Constitution to exclude people with a law degree from serving in the House of Representatives?
DJR: Against. Not all lawyers are bad.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against limiting the fees a plaintiff’s legal representative can receive to one hundred times the amount a plaintiff in the case receives? As an example, if a plaintiff receives $10,000, the combined legal fees could not exceed one million dollars.
DJR: Against. It is incumbent upon the law firm to submit reasonable fees for its services. That does not mean, however, the judge will rule that all of those fees are payable. If the law firm is so unethical as to charge those fees to its client, then the client needs a new law firm.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against removing juveniles from their parent(s) after the juvenile's third arrest, sending them to live in a boot camp that focuses on education and discipline?
DJR: Against. However, if a felony, the teenager should go to a ‘boot camp’ environment to learn some discipline and well as demanding educational training during that same time frame. The second and third trips as well. If a fourth trip, then a more real incarceration, rehabilitation, and restitution program would be inacted.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against only applying the Endangered Species Act to animals that are larger in mass than a golf ball (i.e. eliminate protection for species such as salamanders, crickets and spiders)?
DJR: For.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against allowing parents to have a vote for each of their children under the age of eighteen, fathers for their sons and mothers for their daughters?
DJR: Against.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against reducing total expenditures on government programs by at least 5 percent each year you are in office?
DJR: For, if not more than 5% per year.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against fining employers 3 percent or more of their gross income if they hire illegal immigrants not registered as "Guest Workers" on their first offense?
DJR: Against. There should already be a process, up to imprisonment, for knowing hiring / harboring illegal immigrants. The Fed / Homeland Security or US ICE should have oversight and input. If it goes across borders or aids in the traffic of the FBI and federal justice will engage at that point.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against funding nuclear power plants to help address our energy needs?
DJR: For. And, add to that updated oil and gas refineries.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against the right of lawyers to use whatever means necessary to defend a client, including concealing information and using "technicalities," as long as they do not violate a written law?
DJR: Against.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against reducing farm subsidy allocations by at least 25 percent each year you are in office?
DJR: Against. Farm subsidies need to be reviewed. There are some farms that cannot survive without them and others that are over producing. Our US farming industry needs to be reviewed.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against capping medical expenditures, paid by the government (e.g. Medicare and National Health care [if we get there]; does not apply to care for military personnel) in any five year period for any one person, to 25 times the median income (approximately $1.1 million dollars)?
DJR: Against. I would have to see additional data on this metric quoted.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against amending the Constitution to specifically affirm that we are a nation under God, that God is welcome in all that we do, but no man can be forced to participate in worship at any time or in any way?
DJR: Against. The US Constitution is written to keep the government from establishing a religion, or in the case of atheists establishing a non-religion.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against preventing lawyers from knowingly misrepresenting the truth to defend their client?
DJR: Against. It is called lying. In court it is somewhat illegal and the misrepresenting lawyer can be dis-BAR’ed.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against lifetime prison terms for those who possess a gun while committing a felonious act?
DJR: Against. They should have to re-earn the right to possess firearms. They should serve hard labor and be rehabilitated back toward normal society. See statements above.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against legislation that targets lowering the number of homeless by at least 5 percent each year?
DJR: Depends on the legislation and how they present it. To be effective the Fed and State need to reach out to the community and faith based organizations that are out there taking care of these people. Work with them to funnel the homeless into shelters and education toward homes and viability in society.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against setting congressional pay to four times the median income, indexing the salary, and replacing the congressional pension with a standard 401k retirement plan?
DJR: For.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against processing all people who commit a crime against a U.S. citizen who are not U.S. citizens in military tribunals instead of the U.S. legal system? (Effectively declaring they do not have the same rights as our citizens.)
DJR: Against. Non-US persons who commit crimes against US citizens should be tried in US courts under USA laws. Persons performing acts of war against the USA or US citizens should be dealt with as military combatants.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against eliminating the “by reason of insanity” defense?
DJR: Against. However, the sentencing that would have applied to a sane felon would apply to a felon deemed insane except in the location of the incarceration. The insane person would spend their sentence time in a facility for the criminally insane until such time as the sentence is fulfilled and they have proven themselves to no longer be a danger to themselves or society.
GOOOH!: Will you vote for or against United Nations recommendations or dictates given to the United States?
DJR: Depends. If it is something that requires the State Department to review prior to a decision being made, then it goes to the State Department. If it regards a treaty, that will go to the President to Congress for review and approval.
The USA is a sovereign nation of a sovereign people. We do not like being dictated to.
© 20090627 Dr. David J Rogers
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