6.
We’d like you to address the topic of wiring the
country for high volume; high speed universally accessible Internet signals –
we ask this question. Have you given
this topic any consideration? Do you
realize that America is dependent on a few private companies that seek to
maximize their bottom line and, in the process, deliver low cost service at the
highest possible price resulting in a dearth of choice for Americans in this
important service? The Internet is not just
some convenience that should be in the control of one or two companies. America needs to be wired; maximum capacity
and maximum growth potential and it needs to be regulated as a utility. Let the content be wide open – unregulated –
but first let’s wire (or do it without wires) the country so that anyone can
access true broadband Internet services in a manner that mirrors more advanced
countries around the world. What say
you?
7.
Do you have it in you to lead? Can you stand up and explain a process by
which fiscal responsibility returns; take the heat from all the special
interests and the protected classes; the whining from the opposition and the
Hollywood media and stay the course even if it means you are a one term
president? Can you say “I don’t care if
I am reelected?" I will treat all
Americans fairly – distribute the burden of correction fairly – and explain
myself and what I am attempting to do vigorously and you can judge my
performance based on stated, measurable objectives – not some politicians
pandering proclamations”?
8.
Financial reporting. We know if we asked you to provide a P and L
statement and a balance sheet for the US government you would, at least, know
what we were asking for unlike the current occupant. So, are you ready to state that you will
provide an accurate, once a year accounting of all known and anticipated and
calculable (even if by estimate) assets and liabilities of the US federal
government? And mail it to all federal
income taxpayer’s? And sign it? And insist that your treasury secretary and
the fed chairman sign it also. And by
signing it you all take personal responsibility (you are subject to perjury
laws, fraud laws and civil liability laws) for its thoroughness and accuracy? Much the same as federal laws today create
liability for corporate CEO's and CFO's?
9.
The working, taxpaying American citizen is
getting royally screwed by its government now.
We used to call this group of citizens – the middle class – you know the people who
work; who educate their kids; who obey the law; who pay taxes and who save
money for the future. They have been
royally screwed by democrats and republicans – and mostly by unneeded
bureaucracies populated with hundreds of thousands of overpaid, over benefited,
over pensioned employees performing completely unneeded tasks and laying
massive burdens on everyone – mostly the middle class. Ben Bernanke is actually devaluing the dollar
daily to sustain bubbles in government, education and health care
spending. Where is your plan; you
specific plan to provide badly needed relief to the middle class by eliminating
entire unneeded bureaucracies and significantly cutting back the rest? Are you afraid to approach this topic? If you are, in our opinion, you are not
worthy of anyone’s vote. Best to let the
current occupant complete his destruction ASAP.
10. Last question - this one is the $64.00 question. Debt. DEBT, Mr. Romney. There is just no point in you even running if
you are not going to state your position that the debt of the United States,
barring a colossal world war, is not going to rise during your presidency – in
other words, whatever it is on the day you take office it will be equal to or
less on the day you leave office voluntarily.
We know you can make that pledge; the question is, “WILL YOU?”
America is now addicted to
debt – we cannot afford our governments, at any level; we cannot afford the
wars our federal government insists we fight and we cannot afford basic
government services much less education and health care because of unions and bureaucracies
and rules and endless nonsense. To ask
one man to correct this mess could be described as a tad unreasonable. But by fighting as hard as you have to gain
the opportunity to win this job we need to know that you embrace the same level
of concern over the state of our country as we do and that you are willing,
just as our forefathers were, to pledge your life, your fortune and your honor
to a free and prosperous America.
If you lack this level of commitment; no
fancy answers; no dancing around the topic will mask your prevarication. We will know.
There is no way for you to win except to commit. And persevere. You will be attacked; you will be vilified;
you will be hated. They will challenge
your upbringing; your family; your religion; your success; things that happened
decades ago; things that may well have never happened; heck, they will make
stuff up. The Hollywood media (PBS, NBC,
Fox, CBS, ABC and the rest of the gang) will beat you like the proverbial red
headed stepchild. When that happens, you
will know that you have won. Early signs are positive. We will
stand with you every step of the way. We will be victorious. But first, you must
lead; you must embrace risk.
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