A: I strongly support. ˙Fl. legislature shouldn't dictate what's appropriate for a woman to do. Abortion is a painful decision she has to make. Focus on fully feeding, clothing, housing and health care for every child born in Florida. STOP focusing on children in the womb. Do something positive!
A: Strongly support this approach.˙ America was able to remove 3-5 million Americans from poverty just by providing families with extra stimulus incomes over the last 12 to 18 months due to the pandemic.˙ That has ended, and 3.5 million children have slid back into the level of poverty already.˙ The market-led recovery approach is based on profit, greed, survival of the fittest (the privileged few) at the expense of the common good.˙ It has run its course and proven to not be effective nor successful.
A: Strongly oppose.˙ We should separate the non-violent criminals from those responsible for physical violence.˙ We should de-criminalize certain drug violations.˙ We should enhance our mental health system to address offenders during their youth and thereafter.˙ Our economic system has to assure a more equitable distribution of monetary benefits for all citizens if we are to reduce crime in our cities.˙ The privatization of prisons is costly, wasteful and ineffective, if not downright destructive to rehabilitation.˙ We need to reduce the number of prisons in our society, and reform our penal system.˙
A: I am in favor of decriminalizing all drugs and treating drug addiction and mental health on a massive scale.˙ I return to my favorite theme, that a fairer and more equitable economic system will resolve many of the festering problems America has now with regard to war, poverty, unemployment, physical and mental illnesses, violence, mass shootings, hunger, and domestic violence.˙ Capitalism is not the answer, it is the problem.˙ A more socialistic economy will be able to unquestionably solve many of our present day problems.
A: Strongly oppose.˙ Funding Charter schools is basically a scam benefiting the private sector individuals and businesses, without improving the educational levels of its students.˙ In fact, charter schools are not required to met the restrictions and regulations of public schools, and analyses show that 3 out of 4 charter schools fail in improving the education of its students. ˙ Public schools provide a much better level of education to its students.
A: Fund climate change improvements statewide, not just for the coastal areas; and invest a large among of monies into reducing gas and fossil fuel emissions, facilitate climate change, and related activities ˙
A: Strongly oppose.˙ With climate change and use of fossil fuels in our country, we are destroying valuable resources, and adversely affecting the overall health of the general public from ˙pollution, bad water, air, smog, and manufacturing gases.
A: I strongly support equal rights for all human beings, whether they be for individuals or for married couples, including same-sex marriage.
A: Strongly oppose this false notion of American exceptionalism.˙ It is based on a capitalist system of the profit motive, greed, and a continuing expansion of profits despite its destructive impact on the quality of life and well-being of its natural resources and of its citizens.˙ We need to be exceptional in fostering democracy, communal participation, and a more equitable distribution of resources and wealth to all its inhabitants.
A: Strongly opposed. ˙Free˙trade˙causes global inequalities, poor working conditions in many developing nations, job loss, and economic imbalance. ˙˙ Free trade does not create more jobs. It encourages more urbanization. There are more risks for currency manipulation. There can be fewer intellectual property protections because of free trade. The developing world doesn't always have worker safeguards in place.˙ Poorer countries become more˙dependent˙on their free trade partners.
A: I strongly support.˙ We ˙should foster same day registration on election day, lower the age to vote, dedicate a week to have polls open, declare a national day or two to encourage voting amongst all citizens.˙ We should remove the private sector from all campaigns, and the public sector should administer a more equitable and fairer system for candidate access, public funding, fair and open debates, and a shorter time for campaigning itself.
A: Strongly oppose if I understand this to be the right of all citizens to own a wide variety and quantity of guns.˙ We need to enhance our vetting system of gun ownership, limit the types and number of guns that a citizen can own, remove semiautomatic and automatic guns from our society, and reduce the number and type of bullets allowed in the replenishment mechanism. ˙(cannot think of the word)
A: Strongly oppose.˙ We need to have a government run health system for all citizens in the state.˙ The private sector, which is a major part of Obamacare, should not be part of the system.˙ It should be an entirely government run health system, offering comprehensive medical and mental health care for all.
A: Strongly oppose.˙ The military-industrial complex is alive and kicking, to the loss of financial and safe conditions hurting the country, and threatening more worldwide violence and wars. We are a behemoth in a strong defense, with too many military bases and involvements worldwide.˙ We need to foster democracy and peace, not threaten opponents or our enemies with physical threats and intimidating presence around the world.˙ Our motives are based on self interests and economic gain at others expense.˙ More art, culture, social, athletic and peaceful exchanges need to be fostered and financed by our federal government. ˙ We should also redirect our defense and space industries to explore new and improved solutions for our country, our citizens and our world in the areas of health, art, culture, education, music, science, etc.˙ We also need to reduce our nuclear stockpiles and ballistic missiles worldwide with all nations in possession of such weapons.
A: Strongly support.˙ We are a nation of immigrants, and part of our wealth is tapping in to the skills and intelligence and ingenuity of the millions of immigrants who arrived on our shores several centuries ago.˙ We should improve our vetting system when welcoming immigrants, but at the same time, open our borders and our doors to the millions of refugees and immigrants fleeing war-torn countries, or regions of poverty, famine and violence.˙ The United States is a vast land, with significant open areas where new communities and impoverished communities can be redeveloped and refurbished to enhance the overall quality of life for every American citizen and foreign individuals living in our land.
A: I strongly support legally hiring all citizens as a right and not favor one group of people over another based on race, gender, color, sexual preference, ethnicity, etc.˙ As a socialist, I will guarantee full employment, with a fair wage to assure a quality of life, to all citizens, as a right, not a privilege.˙
A: I strongly oppose the merging of religion with government.˙ As a practicing Catholic, and a former seminary student for five years in a Catholic Order (Franciscan) I strongly believe there should be a clear and definite separation of church and state.˙ Plus, we should respect the rights of all citizens in our country to have freedom of religion, whether Christian, Mormon, Muslim, Jewish,˙
A: Strongly oppose.˙ As I call for a government run comprehensive care health care system, ˙so too should the federal government run an improved system which will increase benefits and more security to the elderly, infirm and widows.˙ Turning it over to the private sector will be more costly, and while it may help the overall economy, it will not improve the economic well being of the individual recipients.˙ Other areas of government spending will have to be reduced, like corporate subsidies, the defense system, and increased taxation on the wealthy sector of our society.
A: Strongly support. In fact, my platform calls for a cap on maximum earnings for individuals per year to $25 million; and a cap on corporate profits per year to $1 billion.˙ Plus, my platform includes a 5% tax on all earnings over $500,000 per year.˙ Plus a variety of taxes on security, ?? And ?? Taxes will be used to provide new monies to deliver the improved and comprehensive social security, social and health services called for in my above answers to other questions.
A: I strongly support this measure, if it means we are to not get involved in regime change or leader change in other countries, despite that they may be adverse to our country and our own interests.˙ We need to be more respectful, open and honest with all countries and world bodies like the United Nations.˙ However, we do have an obligation to become involved in a country's activities, if there is occurring humanitarian disasters, famine and instances similar to the holocaust of WWII.˙ We do have an obligation to our neighbors and to humanity when and it they are put in grave danger to their health and well-being.˙ In these instances, we need to become our neighbor's keeper.
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