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In a message dated 3/29/2003
Dear Mr. Galt:How do you feel about the rise in terrorism over the past year?
I don't believe there has been a rise in Terrorism over the past year unless you consider the US Government as a Terrorist organization, their threats and attacks to the sovereign nations around the world are inexcusable. If you go back and study the sixties, seventies eighties, you will see that terrorism has been here all along especially in the middle east. A lot of people point to the Trade center disaster as a first and as a rise in terrorism. What about the previous attempt to bring the trade centers down? What about Oklahoma City? What about the attack at the Olympics? Pearl Harbor? and finally what about Waco, Ruby Ridge and Rainbow Farms?
I'd like to know your stance on the current war with Iraq, since it is such a hot topic today.
I think the war against Iraq is completely unnecessary and waste of manpower, a waste of money a waste of capital and a waste of life. I think our invasion of this sovereign country without international support, will only cause more violence and a rise in terrorism around the world. In this conflict we are no better than Germany, when they over ran Poland...
I'd like to know what your campaign strategy will be when the election becomes nearer.
My campaign strategy never changes. The web site went up in 1995. I have not changed my mind, my plan or my ambitions since then, I doubt you'll find any other candidate who can say they still stand for the same things they did ten years ago...
I will continue to speak publicly whenever possible, continue the email campaign, and continuously expose the president and his party for their flawed policies and actions...
Why do you want to be candidate for the 2004 election?In answering this question, I can answer all questions about what I do...
I do these things because, I am free, I have the choice to do with my life what I please. These are rights guaranteed to me by the U.S. Constitution and it's legally ratified amendments. Among those rights also exists a right as an American citizen to run for public office. I do it because I can and no one can stop me from exercising my rights!A lot of people say that, "I can't possibly think I am going to win?"
Well, I can say that I don't expect to win, but I certainly have not ruled out the possibility...The next question always seems to be... If I'm not planning on winning, then why am I spending so much of my time and money running this campaign?
First off it's my time and money, I have not asked for or accepted any monies for this campaign. I will spend my time and money doing what I want to do...
Secondly, the same question should be asked of the other 200 people running for president. After all there is only one winner, right? Well, the truth is most will be winners in one way or another, because they are out to enhance their political careers. and for myself I can't see how it could possibly hurt me to run for president and ... Well, I do have an agenda...
My Agenda?
My primary agenda item is the return of power to the people. I want to make sure that those "groups" of people whom are under represented or not represented at all, in the current governmental schemes, are given full consideration in the adoption of policies and laws. What I am about is allowing people basic freedom to be themselves, to live their lives the way that they want to and not be labeled characterized or stereotyped by bigots or by the government. I want to put common sense in common law. I want compromise to bring people together. I want be to be free and happy. I want our government to stop locking people up for being people.
I want to renew the time tradition fantasy that anyone can be president. I want to promote the pursuit of happiness. I want to make a difference so that I can live out my life in peace. I want to try to make genuine change in this country. I want to save my salary as president and retire. I want to save not only this country, but the earth from those posed to destroy it. Yes, I am a dreamer, a dreamer with a plan, a vision for better things in the decades to come, Because I don't want my grandchildren to have to live in a world more screwed up than the one I had.To you, what are the three most important issues in today's society that need to be addressed?
I find it interesting, that you ask about societies issues, most of my platform and ideas are about changing the government. Society is the people and we the people are supposed to be in charge in this country. Government reform would be on top of my list. Common Sense and Compromise need to be returned to the laws that govern our society.Prejudice, discrimination and intolerance, would also be on my list. Society is divided in so many ways, by race, by religion, by region, by economic status, by which sports team or NASCAR driver you support. People are constantly fighting and resorting to violence over these issues that as individuals we have little or no control over.
Peace Freedom and tolerance need to be learned and held close to the hearts of Americans, if our society is to progress...
Education System
Sometime in the eighties the focus of public schools turned from teaching and learning to attendance and collecting the federal bucks. I believe most of us also know that throwing good money after bad will not solve the problems, neither will standardized tests...How would you define the problems?
#1 Parents are not as actively involved with their children's education either because there are busy working two jobs and / or don't have the basic skills themselves.
#2. People are graduating from High School, without the ability to read.
#3. People are graduating from High School without basic math skills.
#4. Public schools have been turned into a strange cross of juvenile detention centers and day care.
#5 Teachers have lost the drive to teach under these circumstances.
Q: So what are our alternatives?
A: We could all do what our representatives in D.C. do, when faced with some of the worse schools in the country, send our children to private schools. We could also embrace home schooling. Of course the only way to provide equal education, would be for the country to have one teacher for each subject and one book for each subject. Technology gives us this option, through the Internet or television, but is it really practical? Are the American people ready to accept that 90% of the knowledge that those degrees represent is available free on the Internet? and all you have to do is know how to read...The real problems grew immensely when the federal government started to chip away at school funds to build more prisons. The Democrats are current touting the nineties as the growth years of education, because
now 90% + of high school graduates now go on to college. Is this good?People are graduating from college who can't read, make change for a dollar or even calculate taxes in their head. So now we have College grads who don't have the education that I had when I finished sixth grade. Is this what we deserve for $40,000 education? Those same grads are expecting $50,000 a year jobs for their worthless piece of paper... Around 50% of the current jobs in this country are still in Food Service i.e.: at or near minimum wage. People are going $40,000 in debt before they start their adult life and having to work 2 or 3 jobs just to get by... Now instead of two income families we have four income families who still can't get by, and have no time to teach their children basic math and reading skills, the cycle continues and there is no end in sight.
