The Corporate-media sponsored Republican and Democratic presidential candidate debates are a well-constructed farce, designed to keep real issues from public cognizance and discusssion. After all, they own the 'weapons of Mass Distraction' and clearly intend to use them against We, The People. Any list of real, relevant and significant questions for "our" presidential candidates would include the following:

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Debate Questions Corporate Media Won’t Ask

The Corporate-media sponsored Republican and Democratic presidential candidate debates are a well-constructed farce, designed to keep real issues from public cognizance and discusssion. After all, they own the ‘weapons of Mass Distraction’ and clearly intend to use them against We, The People. Any list of real, relevant and significant questions for "our" presidential candidates would include the following:

1. How do you campaign for months on end and still represent your constituents? Are you not AWOL as a legislator or Governor?

2. Do you agree we ought to have full public financing for campaigns and get corporate money out of "our" election system. How much time do you spend raising money instead of performing your duties?

3. Do you believe we ought to have media give-backs for air-time and some semblance of a fairness doctrine to give minority parties their say?

4. Do you believe that money is speech or power? Do you agree with the Supreme Court’s definition in Buckley v. Valeo?

5. Do you believe the United States is a real Democracy or, effectively, a Plutocracy and Oligarchy of the rich and powerful?

6. Did you vote for, or continue to support, GATT/NAFTA? Do you think "free trade" has been a good thing for this country? For First World Standards? For democracy? Or, simply for those global international companies who have layed off many american workers, and have gained so much from international labor arbitrage?

7. Do you advocate getting out of the WTO? Would you if a majority of the American people wished to do so?

8. Would you call for the American people, and other countries, to elect their representatives to The World Trade Organization?

9. Do you think we should purposely ruin/diminish our currency value in order to compete against fasicst and undemocratic regimes, instead of having incentivizing, rifle-shot, tariffs adjustments to achieve better trade balances?

10. Do you support continuing to gut our tariff policy, give away our markets, and have monetary policy – i.e., currency ruin for everyone - attempt to adjust trade imbalances?

11. Do you believe it has been wise to become utterly dependent on a Communist, undemocratic, China for so much of what we need to live, and even for our critical defense needs?

12. Would you support a system of Distance Tariffs – (i.e., the greater the distance to market, the greater the tariff) so that we minimize the fossil fuel transhipment of goods and keep from destroying ourselves and our environment in the process of "free" trade?

13. Do you support higher taxes on SUVS and 8-cylinder cars?

14. Do you support a front-porch style, no fossil-fuel, election campaign instead of barnstorming around the country in a 4-mile-to-the-gallon behemoth? Have you heard of the internet and YouTube?

15. Do you accept the judgement of thousands of independent scientists regarding global warming, or prefer oil-company sponsored "science" on the matter?

16. Are you a better-safe-than-sorry Conservative following a precautionary principle, or, are you willing to risk your own children’s world, and mine, due to your ignorance of climate science, and a willingness to place economic growth above planetary survival?

17. What do you think is a fair ratio of top executives to workers in a company. Is it 15-25 times, as both conservative, Peter Drucker, and Liberal, John Kenneth Galbriath, once agreed is proper, or do you think today’s 500-1 ratio is just keen? If so, do do you believe in an excess compensation tax and more public representation on corporate boards currently filled with cronies of the chief executive?

18. Do you believe the "Federal Reserve" is a mistake, that our public central bank and congressional money power bequeathed by the founders of this country should ever have been given to a private cabal of big banks?

19. Do you believe we should be forced to pay interest to borrow money from a private central bank in order to: 1. Go to war, 2. Repair billions of damage from hurricanes and natural disasters 3. Re-build critical infrastructure?

20. Don’t you think its about time we audited the Federal Reserve, and made public the real owners of "our" central bank, and not simply the corporate fronts? Checked for the gold in Fort Knox? Have each state elect its representative to the Central Bank?

21. Where do these Hedge funds and private equity vulture funds get all their money? Are we, the public, involved in anyway as to what these banksters are doing by unnecessarily churning our economy to profit top executives and vulture capitalists? Can I go down to my local bank and borrow a couple of million to do a carry-trade deal?

22. Where is the public interest in "our" banking scheme?

23. Do you believe in 36% interest rates for credit cards? 700% interest for payday loans?

24. Would you support no-interest loans for housing, for all Americans, from a public central bank? Do you see the value of having money now spent on housing interest go into the economy instead - in this consumer-spending based economy? Are you familiar with economist’s velocity-of-money concept - wherein it is better to have more money in the hands of the many than in the hands of the few?

25. Do you believe that George Bush actually won the election in 2000 or 2004? Do you think it was appropriate for the Supreme court to anoint a president, in a "just this once" decision, rather than see the voting process completed fairly?

26. Who owns your own precinct's voting machine? Do you know? Do you favor the right of the public to fully inspect and certify the "proprietary" secret operating system and software with which "our" democracy currently functions?

27. Given the voting machine problems, would not it be better to return to paper ballots to assure the validity of election outcomes, and have a truly honest election process and democracy? Should not any voting machine company, given its position of power, have a publicly elected board and completely open system?

28. Should not each city choose their own voting system and not be subject to county, state or federal mandates? Should democracy not begin from the ground up?

29. Do you believe your faith is better than mine, or my preference for doubt as opposed to faith? Do you believe Jesus is the only son of god, or that you are among "God’s chosen people"?

30. Do you think the state should, in effect, become the father of children as soon as coitus is complete? If you are willing to force motherhood on pregnant women and girls, will you put up your own funds for the support of their unwanted children? Will you tax the unbelievers, rather than the Pope and Ayatollahs, to pay for religion’s unlimited population growth?

31. Do you support family planning expenditures? Do you think unlimited population growth is a good thing? What would you do to prevent growth-to-ruin?

32. Do you read all bills that you vote on? Should representatives not be required to read the full text of bills and have adequate time to consider them before voting? Is it not legislative malpractice not to do so?

33. Do you favor a National Initiative process by which the people can correct the mistakes of their legislators, assert their will, and veto corporate-fed and ruling-elite sponsored legislation.

34. Do you favor the North American Union plans? Do you favor losing sovereignty and constitutional prerogatives to an appointed, unelected, body (a "roach motel" deal, easy to get in but difficult to get out of) – like the European Union?

35. Are you in favor of a private central bank, like the so-called "Federal Reserve" and not a public one?

36. Do you believe 5 men should control the major media corporations thru their perogative to hire and fire their editors – therby reflecting the views of the few as opposed to having public imput on the hiring and firing of major media editors.

37. In short, do you believe in real, effective, democracy or a continuance of the stone-cold Oligarchy this country has become?

38. Do you believe the above questions are relevant to Americans and should be thoroughly discussed and debated? And, if they are not?

Kent Welton

Authors Website: www.KentWelton.com

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Author, Exec. Dir. The Center For Balance.org - Websites: PanditPress.com, OligarchyUSA.com, PublicCentralBank.com, EditorFreedom.com, FascismUSA.com & more