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Help Choose Final Bush/Kerry/Nader Youth Voter Questions
Quite a few of the submitted questions were generated by Slashdot readers, and your moderations and comments helped select the 25 semi-finalists. There's only one step remaining in the process: Voting on the the final 12 questions that will be submitted to the candidates, which must be done on the New Voters Project Presidential Youth Debate site by noon Eastern Time on October 5. Note that Slashdot readers are the only members of the moderation panel providing "...nominations from an entire community." We'll post the answers from Bush, Kerry, and Nader (who was added after the process began) on October 12.
that the choices are only bush/kerry/nader
/. poll shows badnarik at 5% and nader at only 1%
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It is becoming increasingly difficult for working Americans to afford quality health care. Costs for health care and health care coverage are spiraling beyond the reach of many in this country. This is having an adverse effect on both the nations health as well as the nation's economy. (For example, the leading cause of personal bankruptcy is people not able to pay their doctor bills.)
If elected President, what would you do to make quality healthcare affordable to all Americans?
James Watt, President Reagan's Secretary of the Interior, was quoted in the Washington Post in 1981 as saying "We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand."
Please tell the young voters what your beliefs regarding the Second Coming are, and how those beliefs influence your choices on long-term policy matters such as energy, the environment, and foreign relations.
What do you intend to do about the continuing groth of the federal government at the expense of states rights? Laws like No Chiled left Behind (Which Mr Bush created and Mr Kerry voted for) and provisions in the patriot act unconstitutionally infringe on the states.
Last I heard, Nader was a member of the Reform party, not quite an important third party. Wouldn't people be better served if they interviewed David Cobb instead?
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These people are running for the highest office in the United States;
Yet they only have to submit to 12 questions?
Jesus! A McDonalds application has more than 12 questions!
What does your party intend to do about the coming shortage of petroleum based energy that will be even more apparent in the near future, (2-3 years)? I have heard President Bush's rhetoric regarding a "Hydrogen Economy", but hydrogen is merely an energy carrier, and not an energy source. Hydrogen may be the most abundant material in the universe, but it does not exist in a free state on the planet earth. Hydrogen must be extracted from compounds such as water or natural gas. Since natural gas is depleting at a very rapid rate on the north American Continent, and importation of this substance over oceans is very difficult. The effort to create a "hydrogen economy" is just boondoggle. If elected, what policies will you implement to ensure the continuance of energy for little cost, and how you ensure that a hard crash scenario does not occur? What will you do to ensure the survival of the "American Way" of life? Please only provide answers that are actually feasible with current technology, not just political tripe. I do not buy into the blind optimism that the media and political parties are forcing upon the American people. Positive thinking will not benefit a nation when mother nature is holding the loaded gun to our collective heads.
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These questions have a HUGE slant to them! They are not neutral nor are they informative. It seems that most of them are accusatory toward the President, and are 'softball' questions for the Democratic candidate. The questions come from a stance of supostion and assumption. Look at the Education (Sex Ed.) question; it is so biased that it was the straw that caused me to terminate my voting for the moderated questions. People are going to seriously ask these questions and expect an answer that they are open to? These questions are leading and closed. Why do I even bother reading the politics.slashdot section any longer?
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I think in order for that question to be valid everyone has to agree the world is going to end in 'the near future'.
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Do you consider think there are sign of disenchantment with politics or especially with politicians?
If so, in which ways do you consider partisanship the problem, and in what the ways the de-facto two party system.
What have you done, and do you to plan do to counteract this?
How do you think your political campaign affects the image of politicians in general?
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The summary promised a poll I could vote on, but I saw no Cowboy Neal option. Surely Bush, Kerry, and Nader would provide an insightful commentary on the life of said cowboy!
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Just how much crack are you smoking, that you'd be willing to risk subjecting the nation and the world to another four more years of the policies of George W. Bush? (Same question for George W.)
Unfortunately, in order to help select questions, you have to trust the NVP with your personally identifiable information. After a quick look at their privacy policy, I don't. Particularly:
Use:
We do not use any information collected for any purpose inconsistent with state or federal law, or for any purpose other than forwarding the goals of the New Voter Project.
Seems like dodging the issue to me...normally use of personal information is spelled out in some detail. Not to mention that political organizations are exempt from many privacy laws... And what exactly are those goals?...it never really says that either. Now, I'm not a tinfoil hat wearer (usually a tinfoil hat wearer basher, in fact), but given the above combined with reports of "irregularities" involving NVP in Wisconsin (amoung other places), I'm not going to be letting them know anything about me.
If God had had a computer it would have taken him 7 months to create the earth...if he even bothered to do it at all.
Mr. Bush, why is our government protecting one of the world's most notorious arms smugglers, Victor Bout, known affectionately as the "merchant of death" and is suspected of supplying weapons to Al Quaeda? The administration has pushed to protect Bout from international sanctions claiming he's "assisting" the US in Iraq. Why is our country protecting this criminal? Why would the US do business with a man who has been supplying terrorists with weapons? Why is this story not being covered by the mainstream media?
Are slashdotters becoming morons? I'm sad that I only have 5 mod points, and i'm not wasting them modding all the crap on this article as offtopc.
Clue in: We're not proposing new questions, and this *IS NOT* an Ask Slashdot. If you want your voice to have ANY chance of being heard go to the site (http://youthdebate.newvotersproject.org/) and vote for the questions you want to see answered by these candidates.
If y'all have INTELLIGENT comments to make, by all means make 'em, but quit baiting eachother with the usual republicrat false-posturing "A is a better choice than B because A stands for everything that B doesn't" crap, it's sickening.
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look at these questions:
16. Nearly 100 American media resources today are owned by only 5 corporations. While the Senate's overruling of the Federal Communications Commission's controversial 3-to-2 decision to further deregulate media ownership rules in June of 2003 is a source of encouragement, most Americans want more variety in their sources of news and entertainment. What will you do to ensure that Americans have accurate sources of information to base their democratic decisions on?
that is 100 times better of a question then the crap we saw the other night! I want to know how the candidate is going to fix things in MY country before worrying about someone elses!
11. Why won't the candidates address the difference between civil marriage and religious marriage? Do they recognize the significance that this demarcation holds as a stand against discrimination? Do they realize how their unwillingness to address this issue impacts every aspect of GLBT's (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender), and their families', lives? Are they aware that when political issues call civil rights into question that hate crimes rise exponentially?
I'm glad somebody is bringing up gay issues in the debate. This is important to Americans.
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I'm not entirely sure, but I assume you are referring to the MacDonald's applicants, right?
"Empathise with stupidity, and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot." - Iain M. Banks