[Vision2020] Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate

[Joe Campbell]

I'm not sure what this all means. If I knew I wasn't going to be
elected, I'd promise you the moon.

Let's stick to one issue. Why is he against Obama care? What does
"Obama care" mean to you, for starters? Is it equivalent to
"socialized medicine" or "universal healthcare," for instance? Are you
against universal healthcare? I think that caring for everyone --
apart from the right thing to do -- is economically sensible since we
already have universal healthcare in the form of emergency rooms,
which are costly. And preventive medicine is a good investment. What
do you think?

Joe

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Not happy with our current President or with Mitt Romney, I decided to look
> into the other candidates.
>
> Here is what I found out about the Libertarian Party candidate, Gary
> Johnson.  He is a former Governor of New Mexico and is currently a business
> man.
>
> Where he stands on some of the issues, condensed (from
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Gary_Johnson):
>
> For:
> - balanced budget
> - vetoing any bills with expenditures in excess of revenues
> - replacing income, corporate, and estate taxes with the FairTax proposal (a
> high sales tax with an "up-to-poverty" monthly "prebate")
> - building new coal-fired and nuclear power plants
> - clean air, clean water, conservationism
> - auditing the Federal Reserve
> - free trade
> - tort reform and control of frivolous lawsuits in health care
> - trade unions, except that he supports merit-based wages
> - continuing Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, but would enact
> "responsible entitlement reform"
> - raising the retirement age
> - cutting the military budget by 43% (back to 2003 levels)
> - military intervention only as the last option
> - humanitarian interventions in other countries, if emergencies
> - 100% campaign finance transparency
> - amendment to reverse Citizens United
> - States' rights
> - continued legalisation of abortion
> - legalisation of marijuana
> - school voucher system
> - simplified legal immigration
> - work visas for illegal immigrants rather than amnesty
> - marriage equality for same-sex couples
>
>
> Against:
> - earmarks
> - TARP
> - bailouts
> - American Jobs Act
> - "quantitative easing" (printing more money)
> - government subsidies to businesses
> - tariffs
> - "ObamaCare"
> - medicare prescription drug plan
> - continued US involvement in Afghanistan
> - renewing the Patriot Act
> - physical or psychological torture
> - due process for Guantanimo detainees
> - "Americans giving up their civil rights in the name of fear"
> - War on Drugs
> - death penalty
> - Department of Education, would abolish it at Federal level
> - Federal involvement in student loans
> - gun control
> - fence along border with Mexico
> - internet neutrality
> - government regulation of marriage at all
> - public funding of stem cell research
> - sin taxes on cigarettes
>
>
> Lots of things I personally agree with, some I don't.  What do others think?
>
> Paul
>
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