Some Questions for “The One”
While this is an exercise in futility as I will never get close enough to ask the president some questions, but I still think that these are important questions that someone should ask him. I sincerely would love to have answers to these:
- As a professed Christian you know that God does not say our lives are going to be “fair”. Why do you believe that you or the government can make it so?
- You have publicly stated that the constitution is a document of “negative rights”. If there were to be changes to make them “positive rights” wouldn’t you be opening up the American people to having their rights change at the whims of whatever party happened to be in charge? Wouldn’t it be so that what the government can give you they also have the right to take away?
- You believe we should be making investments to our public education system. The system is currently broken, I think we could all agree on that. If money were the only issue why do other countries spend less per pupil and have better results?
- Until our public school system improves why are you opposed to giving choices to parents that have children in a school system that is failing them? While the money being spent per pupil has grown, the test scores have stayed stagnant or have lowered. How long do these parents have to wait?
- You believe in societal safety nets for the poor. Do you believe that some families that are now reaching the second, third and in some cases the fourth generation of poverty and public assistance are actually being helped by the current system which seems to have them living in generational poverty?
- Both you and your wife have publicly stated the need for family values and the virtues of the family dinner table. Some public school systems are now giving three meals a day to students. Don’t you think that this is damaging to the family unit and interferes with the bonding time between parents and children?
- If children of very poor families qualify for food stamps and for the free food programs in public schools aren’t the tax payers paying twice to feed the same child?
- You say that you don’t need additional tax cuts, yet on your most recent tax return you deductions lowered your rate by more than 10%. Why didn’t you skip the deductions and pay the full 35%? Wouldn’t that have been the more patriotic thing to do?
- Do you think it is “fair” that people like Jon Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen, who are both multi millionnaire rock stars, to take farming subsidies for raising bees, which lowers their property tax rates to below people who have much less property? Shouldn’t these subsidies be used only for people who are trying to make a living farming?
- I am a fiscal conservative. I believe in small, limited government. You, two former presidents, and other high level people within the democratic party, which you head, have called me a racist for being a member of the tea party and being against the expansion of government and the unprecedented spending that have taken place since you have taken office. Do you really believe that fiscal conservatives would approve of your policies if you were white? If not, doesn’t your party owe me and other tea party members an apology for calling us racist?
I have many more, but I thought this was a good start. What questions would you ask?
fuzislippers 4:42 AM on 04/21/2011 Permalink |
Good list. I’m a firm believer in letting someone hoist themselves on their own petard, so some of my questions open the door for him to do just that. I’d ask the following:
1. Since you’ve taken office, the number of people on food stamps has doubled, with over 44 million Americans now on them. Do you see this as a success for your administration and why?
2. Since you’ve taken office, the welfare rolls have expanded dramatically. Is this the access to the American Dream that you speak about?
3. You’ve racked up more debt in your two years in office than President Bush did in eight years. Can you explain how that is and the way that it directly relates to President Bush’s policies as you so often claim that it does?
4. You famously told Joe the Plumber that you think “it’s better for everyone” when you spread the wealth around a little. What policies have you enacted that back up this statement? What concrete steps have you taken to spread the wealth around?
5. When you ran for office in 2008, you ran in part on the idea of there being no red states, no blue states only American states, but even a cursory scan of the stimulus payouts reveals that most of the money went to “blue” states. Further, southern governors have alleged that you withheld federal support after the Gulf Oil disaster because they are Republicans. It’s also quite clear that partisan divide has spread beyond your administration and into the general public. Do you plan, Sir, to return to your 2008 rhetoric of one America or to continue in your current campaign the ideological, class, and race warfare that has marked your first two years in office?
Sherry 7:48 AM on 04/21/2011 Permalink |
Excellent questions. Expect to hear crickets from now until eternity. That being said, here are mine:
How much is that at what point a person has made enough money and why if you have reached that threshold have you not lead by example and donated all of it to the charity which in this case is government, of your choice?
Why do you repeatedly call for a “new tone” and then insult and degrade and throw red meat to your constituent base in the next breath?
How can you lead if you always let everyone else –czars, the House, whomever, craft the policy?
Why if you wanted this job do you seem endlessly tired and bored by the prospect of asserting yourself in a meaningful way?
At what point would you think the government has spent enough money? Is there a threshold where you would stop?
Do you really think half the country is misinformed and/or racist because we didn’t vote for you and don’t agree with your policies?
Why aren’t you going nuclear over GE paying no taxes if it is so important to spread the wealth around?