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Libertarian Presidential Candidate Jorgensen Answers Debate Questions

KenH

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Dr. Jo Jorgensen answers the debate questions

Q: What are your views on Supreme Court appointments?

A: I would only appoint people who will actually obey the Constitution, including especially the rigorous limitations placed on government power by the 9th and 10th Amendments.

Q: What are your healthcare plans?

A: I would work to restore free-market healthcare. We need price visibility and competition to lower costs.

Q: What would you do about COVID-19, shutdowns, and masks?

A: I would let businesses decide whether to be open and when, where, and how masks must be worn. Customers could then make their own choices about where to go or not go based on those individual policies.

Q: What would you do about a vaccine?

A: I won't pretend to be America's pharmacologist in chief. Vaccine providers must do their job, and then individual Americans should be free to decide whether or not to take the resulting vaccines.

Q: What would you do about the economy?

A: The private sector uses resources better than the government. So I would cut government spending dramatically and put those resources back into the productive economy.

Q: What would you do about taxes?

A: I will cut taxes as fast as I can. Individual Americans will make better use of the money.

Q: What would you do about race relations in America?

A: Great Society programs destroyed black families. Then the Nixon administration launched the drug war to further devastate the black community. Then Senator Biden passed a crime bill that placed huge numbers of black men behind bars. I would end the drug war and all the other laws that police use to harass black people.

Q: How would you change policing in America?

A: I would repeal all victimless crime laws, so police would have fewer reasons to hassle people. I would also outlaw qualified immunity so that police can be held responsible for the consequences of their actions. The result would be fewer dead citizens and fewer dead cops.

Q: What would you do about the protests?

A: The Democrats and Republicans both use laws to impose things on people against their will. This makes people angry. I would work to repeal all such laws, thereby reducing the anger.

Q: Why should voters prefer you?

A: I won't use the government to impose things on them against their will. I'll free them to make their own choices provided they respect the equal right of others to do the same.

Q: What would you do about forest fires?

A: I notice that most wildfires start on public lands. I would try to put more lands in private hands and instruct the Forest Service to emulate what the private sector does to prevent fires.

Q: What would you do about global warming?

A: Increased use of nuclear power would do more to reduce carbon emissions than any other policy. I would end subsidies that favor other forms of energy, and remove obstacles that block the wider adoption of nuclear power.

Q: What do you think about election integrity?

A: Election integrity starts by letting all the ballot-qualified candidates appear in the debates.

Source: Campaign Email

The much more complete interview is here:

 
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canadyjd

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Mostly general statements about less government, more personal freedoms. Suggestions:

1. Actually name people that she would appoint to Supreme Court

2. Where does she stand on issue of abortion?

3. Be more specific about how much tax cuts, what programs will be cut, and any move to balance budget

4. Other than “drug laws”, what laws exactly are design to harass black people

5. Exactly which laws are being imposed on people that are “making people mad” so they are protesting; and which laws would you would repeal so people won’t be mad any more and would stop the protests?

more later

Later:

6: Do really believe wildfires are caused because the government owns the lands?

7: Identify the “victimless crimes” you believe causes police to “hassle” people.

8: When you legalize all drug use, does that include drug use by children?

9: If you say you don’t want drug use to be legal for children, doesn’t that mean you will have to pass laws with criminal penalties against that activity and won’t that cause police to “hassle people” to enforce those laws?

I agree that all candidates on the ballot should be allowed to debate.

peace to you
 
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RighteousnessTemperance&

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Does she avoid discussing how she would deal with our enemies and with all who would take advantage of us? Trump has met the challenges head on with NATO, NAFTA, the Paris Accords, Communist China, illegal immigration, H1B visas, ISIS, etc. I wouldn't trust a Libertarian with this as far as I could throw her.
 

church mouse guy

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When she says end the drug war, she means legalize all narcotics. Does this imply a continuance of the status quo in drug treatmenr?

Not arresting for victimless crimes means legalizing prostitution. That's nuts. Same for legalizing polygamy.

Americans have rejected nuclear power for electricity.

Libertarians oppose protecting the life of the unborn child.

Also, Americans do not want the debates jammed up by a group of small parties who have no appeal.
 

canadyjd

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......

Also, Americans do not want the debates jammed up by a group of small parties who have no appeal.
Personally, I don’t like the current system. The “commission on presidential debates” is an entity created by dems and repubs that make the rules on participation that favor those two parties.

I would rather see more debates, with more candidates at first and then narrow field to top contenders.

peace to you
 

church mouse guy

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Personally, I don’t like the current system. The “commission on presidential debates” is an entity created by dems and repubs that make the rules on participation that favor those two parties.

I would rather see more debates, with more candidates at first and then narrow field to top contenders.

peace to you

How many speeches by Ralph Nadar types do you want to sit through? The American republic is a two-party system. If you want a bunch of parties, try Canada if you like government run by the province of Quebec.
 

canadyjd

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How many speeches by Ralph Nadar types do you want to sit through? The American republic is a two-party system. If you want a bunch of parties, try Canada if you like government run by the province of Quebec.
This American republic has many parties. The two most prominent have given us $20+ trillion in debt, abortion on demand, never ending assaults on our God given liberties, and deep state/international corruption so pervasive it may never be fully revealed.

Drink your cool-wide and keep hoping for something to change.

I’m unafraid to hear opposing views.

peace to you
 

Reynolds

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Dr. Jo Jorgensen answers the debate questions

Q: What are your views on Supreme Court appointments?

A: I would only appoint people who will actually obey the Constitution, including especially the rigorous limitations placed on government power by the 9th and 10th Amendments.

Q: What are your healthcare plans?

A: I would work to restore free-market healthcare. We need price visibility and competition to lower costs.

Q: What would you do about COVID-19, shutdowns, and masks?

A: I would let businesses decide whether to be open and when, where, and how masks must be worn. Customers could then make their own choices about where to go or not go based on those individual policies.

Q: What would you do about a vaccine?

A: I won't pretend to be America's pharmacologist in chief. Vaccine providers must do their job, and then individual Americans should be free to decide whether or not to take the resulting vaccines.

Q: What would you do about the economy?

A: The private sector uses resources better than the government. So I would cut government spending dramatically and put those resources back into the productive economy.

Q: What would you do about taxes?

A: I will cut taxes as fast as I can. Individual Americans will make better use of the money.

Q: What would you do about race relations in America?

A: Great Society programs destroyed black families. Then the Nixon administration launched the drug war to further devastate the black community. Then Senator Biden passed a crime bill that placed huge numbers of black men behind bars. I would end the drug war and all the other laws that police use to harass black people.

Q: How would you change policing in America?

A: I would repeal all victimless crime laws, so police would have fewer reasons to hassle people. I would also outlaw qualified immunity so that police can be held responsible for the consequences of their actions. The result would be fewer dead citizens and fewer dead cops.

Q: What would you do about the protests?

A: The Democrats and Republicans both use laws to impose things on people against their will. This makes people angry. I would work to repeal all such laws, thereby reducing the anger.

Q: Why should voters prefer you?

A: I won't use the government to impose things on them against their will. I'll free them to make their own choices provided they respect the equal right of others to do the same.

Q: What would you do about forest fires?

A: I notice that most wildfires start on public lands. I would try to put more lands in private hands and instruct the Forest Service to emulate what the private sector does to prevent fires.

Q: What would you do about global warming?

A: Increased use of nuclear power would do more to reduce carbon emissions than any other policy. I would end subsidies that favor other forms of energy, and remove obstacles that block the wider adoption of nuclear power.

Q: What do you think about election integrity?

A: Election integrity starts by letting all the ballot-qualified candidates appear in the debates.

Source: Campaign Email

The much more complete interview is here:

There are no victimless crimes.
 

church mouse guy

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Site Supporter
This American republic has many parties. The two most prominent have given us $20+ trillion in debt, abortion on demand, never ending assaults on our God given liberties, and deep state/international corruption so pervasive it may never be fully revealed.

Drink your cool-wide and keep hoping for something to change.

I’m unafraid to hear opposing views.

peace to you

How is legalizing prostitution and narcotics and polygamy going to help anything? You sound like former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels who never wanted to talk about social issues, only money.
 

canadyjd

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How is legalizing prostitution and narcotics and polygamy going to help anything? You sound like former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels who never wanted to talk about social issues, only money.
I don’t think they will help anything and certainly make some things worse.

How does denying the utter failure of the two major parties help anything? How does refusing to listen to other ideas from other candidates help anything?

peace to you
 

church mouse guy

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I don’t think they will help anything and certainly make some things worse.

How does denying the utter failure of the two major parties help anything? How does refusing to listen to other ideas from other candidates help anything?

peace to you

The victors represent the decision of the American voters. Third parties have little appeal. If the Democrats lose this election, they may be at the end of their viability. The GOP ruled roughly from 1860 to 1932 and the Dems have ruled roughly from 1932 until now. The Whigs are gone and it may be the end of the road for the Dems.
 

canadyjd

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The victors represent the decision of the American voters. Third parties have little appeal. If the Democrats lose this election, they may be at the end of their viability. The GOP ruled roughly from 1860 to 1932 and the Dems have ruled roughly from 1932 until now. The Whigs are gone and it may be the end of the road for the Dems.
Wishful thinking

peace to you
 
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