1. What is the greatest problem facing the region that you
can help remedy? What will you do?
Automobile congestion is stifling job growth and driving
up the cost of living and the level of stress. We can spend $11 billion on a
waterfront tunnel that does nothing or $20 billion for a high speed regional
rail system that would solve these problems. Greater mobility would lower
rents and air pollution.
2. What, if anything, should Congress do to expand
health-care coverage?
We should adopt a universal healthcare system like the
ones in Europe. We already spend more public money than Europe does, but on
top of that pay $400 billion privately that goes to insurance companies and
bureaucrats for inferior care, as measured by our world life-expectancy
ranking of 28.
Congress should follow the intended mandate of the
Constitution and increase the size of the House to 10,000, or 30,000 people
per Representative, instead of the 600,000:1. At the last minute of the
Constitutional Convention, a aristocratic cabal mysteriously inserted the
words "at least" without debate, slowly poisoning the government with the
corrosive effects of power and money.
4. Do you favor the Bush administration's proposal to
create a Homeland Security Department, even if it leaves operations at the CIA
and the FBI largely untouched?
Before Sept. 11, the word "Homeland" was not part of our
vocabulary. It sounds like "Fatherland", has the same Nazi fascist police
state overtones. The stock market was crashing before Sept. 11, and it seems
likely to me that rogue elements in our own government set into motion the
Saudi terrorist cells to divert attention and stimulate a war economy.
5. What should be done to safeguard civil liberties and
privacy as federal investigators gain broader powers to pursue suspected
terrorists?
We should end the War on Drugs, which targets dark
skinned people, and diverts us from serious law enforcement efforts. We
should guard against mandatory bio-warfare inoculations, such as smallpox,
which the Government admits will kill and maim thousands of Americans. The
Government must not be allowed to play Russian roulette with our lives in the
name of national security.
6. Are new laws needed in response to the recent series of
corporate scandals?
We need much stricter anti-trust laws. Ever since the
so-called "Progressive Era" 100 years ago, corporate America has been running
this country rather than We the People. Companies should generally not be
allowed to merge, otherwise we wind up with paper monsters like Enron and
Worldcom.
7. What more should the federal government do to address
the region's transportation problems?
The U.S. should give Washington $10 Billion a year for
high speed rail projects. In a few years someone in Seattle could communte to
Portland or Vancouver, B.C. in under an hour or to Spokane in under an hour
and a half. Tacoma or Everett would be 15 minutes away and Olympia a half
hour. Bellevue would be 10 minutes away. We should impose a gas tax and stop
federal highway spending.
8. What value do you hold above all others and why?
Truthfulness. That's why the government should not be
involved in education, because it will naturally brainwash us into believing
lies which re-enforce the corporate power structure. That's why we have
either a good liar like Bill Clinton or a bad fool like George Bush for
President, because the former can re-enforce the lie and the latter earns our
false sympathy.
