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Letter & Questionaire For The 2010 Congressional Candidates Fellow Blogger: Below is an email that I have composed to the candidates of my states for the 2010 Congressional Election Race. I welcome any positive input that you may have regarding it. I will finalize it and send it after I have received and reviewed your input and that of my friends. Also, you may wish to use my letter as a guide in composing your own letter to the candidates from your state. It is high time that our elected officials start doing what is good for us in all areas: morally and economically. Okay, here is my letter: Dear Mr. Candidate: I am preparing to vote in the 2010 congressional primary in May and in the general election in November. I have reviewed the websites for all the congressional candidates in the 2010 campaign race. I did not feel that the below issues were answered to my satisfaction. I will not make my decison on who to support based upon generalized statements designed to play on my feelings and draw in votes. I am going to need proof of a candidates intentions, as they say "the proof is in the pudding". Furthermore, I am tired of the negative campaign ads that deal in half-truths, and most likely the perpetrators of such ads are guilty of the very things they are condemning the target of their ads of. I would like to see candidates speak about what they have done and will do, rather than what their opponent has done and will do. I don't put much stock in a candidate that resorts to smear tactics, for it appears to me that they do not have anything good to say about themselves when they do this. I have noticed how the two parties of this nation have polarized in the following camps: the Republicans promote a moral platform while having a weak economic platform that is good for the middle class; the Democrats have an immoral platform while having a sound middle class economic platform. In spite of their platforms it always seems that no real headway is made towards each respective parties' goals once they are elected. I hate how it seems that the Republican Party tries to hold us captive with their moral platform while they sell us out economically to globalization, etc. I would like to see both parties work together for the good of the middle class and for the nation by extension. I think I speak for most Americans when I say that "I want real substantive change in our economy that I can take to the bank!". I would like for you to provide specific answers to the issues I have addressed below. I would also like for you to document specific examples in your personal and professional history that demonstrate that your answers to me are more than mere words, but rather are your very character. In other words, tell me what you have done in the past that shows me what you will do in the future. For the purposes of the economic questions we will use the following definitions: Blue-Collar Middle Class: The working class of society made up primarily of those working in trade industries, manufacturing industries, technical industries, and service industries whose members do not consist of professional, college degreed persons. Typically, those employed in these jobs earn an annual income sufficient to comfortably provide for all the needs of a family and enjoy liberal fringe benefits such as health insurance, defined-benefit pensions, paid vacations, etc. This class is the backbone of any economy in any free country in the world. The healthier it is then the stronger the whole economy whole country is irregardless of which country is being spoken of. Heavy Industry: A heavy industry can be viewed as a the foundation of the economy in that from it springs all the industries required to support it's operation. Examples of heavy industries are the auto industry, the steel industry, the railroad industry, the mining industry, etc. It's workforce consists of blue-collar workers in operations and gray-collar and white-collar workers in it's technical and management levels. Just as the health of the blue-collar middle class enhances the general health of a nation, so does the healthy, strong presence of heavy industry enhance a nation's well-being. 1. What is your plan for restoring the blue-collar middle class in the United States to the level of health, size and economic security it held prior to it's destruction? a. What is your plan for ending the outsourcing of ALL American jobs to third world countries? b. What is your concept of the term "living wage"? c. What is your plan for creating an environment in which a living wage is paid to all Americans who work? d. What is your plan for restoring the heavy industries that made America the envy of the world up until globalization and outsoucing gutted America's heavy industry? e. What is your plan for creating a stronger market for American made products over foreign made products within the United States especially, and around the world, without sacrificing a strong, healthy middle class that earns the highest wages and has the highest standard of living in the world? 2. What is your plan for restoring the sovereignty of the United States of America and withdrawing from the progression toward a one-world system of economy and government? 3. What is your plan for a healthcare system that provides for the needs of all Americans without regard to social class, and does not discriminate against those with pre-existing health conditions, at rates that even the poorest of Americans can afford while still allowing them to meet their other needs and other financial obligations? 4. Why has the government passed, and continues to do so, legislation that does not protect our economy and good-paying, blue-collar jobs, ie: the trade deals for example? What is your view on these trade deals? What will you require of future trade deals before you support them? 5. What are your thoughts on the following? a. Roe v. Wade (the abortion law). b. Prayer in public schools c. Same sex marriage d. The flagrant, open practice of sodomy in the nation and the condoning/sanctioning of it by the law of the land 6. What are your plans for dealing with/preventing terrorist acts against the United States? 7. What are your plans for caring for our veterans? Likewise, for our active-duty soldiers? 8. Describe in detail your plan for "Putting Americans First" in all areas of our society. I could go on and on. But, I want to get this off to you so that you can respond in time for me to digest your answers in time for me to make my decision on who I am going to support in the primary and general election. But, of course you may go further in your response to me if you wish. Thank you in advance for your timely response. Your Potential Constituent Revelation 3:8 (King James Version) "Thou hast kept my word." |
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