What questions would you all like to be asked at the NY Debate? add your own.

[blueintelligentsia]

Last edited Mon Apr 4, 2016, 08:50 PM - Edit history (4)

I would like to take the most popular questions (succinct as possible) and submit them to a poll, then push them to be asked by Wolf Blitzer at the April 14th debate.

1. Do you believe you are a stronger advocate and leader when it comes to protecting and advancing Womens' rights and equal pay?
2. With the #panamapapers leak, do you think this strengthens your position against Wall-Street corruption?
3. Senator Sanders: Clearly, you focus on Wall-Street often, is it fair to characterized you as a one issue candidate?
4. Where do you stand on fracking and environmental issues?

Edit: Questions that are commented more frequently will be added on an ongoing basis here.

Edit 1: Senator Sanders, you have said on several occasions that you believe the business model of Wall Street is fraud. Can you explain what you mean by that?
Edit 2: What can we do on a Federal level to stop states from criminalizing imperfect pregnancies or births? Also, how will you achieve equal pay for Women?

[cureautismnow]

1. H or B: Will you declassify and release the missing 28 pages

from the 9/11 Commission Report?

Obama's supposed promises to unseal them have not yet come to fruition.

http://28pages.org/2014/08/18/obamas-unkept-promise-to-911-families-declassifying-28-pages/

[blueintelligentsia]

2. "I would have to see them before I could answer that question, though...

if they do not endanger American lives and are important to understand more fully 9/11, then yes I will release them"

[riderinthestorm]

3. Please women's right to equal pay, climate change solutions

Especially views on fracking.

I'd like to see a discussion on what we can do for Puerto Rico and their financial catastrophe.

Their plans for Social Security.

A solid discussion on decriminalization of mj and an end to the drug war (with an added bonus of discussing reducing mass incarceration).

[blueintelligentsia]

6. I'm getting an idea of what topics are most important....

On those important issues, would you mind proposing solid questions? If only for the one that you feel most passionate about. Thanks.

[BernieforPres2016]

4. Secretary Clinton, could you explain your infrastructure bank proposal?

You have advocated that the federal government start a public-private infrastructure bank, fund it with $25 billion of taxpayer money and then leverage it with $250 billion of private money. Can you tell us what kind of private investors would be involved, and how they would expect to get a return on their investment? Would taxpayers end up paying them returns via toll roads, higher rates for water and sewer and other services? Why should the private sector be involved in supplying basic infrastructure to the American public? Isn't that a government function?

[cherokeeprogressive]

5. Madam Secretary, would you vow to stop taking money from the interests of fossil fuels?

I'd have every other questioner ask it.

[blueintelligentsia]

10. My input....if you care to consider it...

Sanders: I have received donations from individuals who work for fossil fuel companies, but none of them have been lobbyists and my non-existent super Pac hasn't taken any money from the fossil fuel industry.

Clinton: I have not, those are individuals who work for fossil fuel companies, my campaign has received no money directly from the fossil fuel industry (super PAC's are not part of her campaign, technically).

[cherokeeprogressive]

14. LOL.

Go tell it to someone else.

Or answer the OP.

[blueintelligentsia]

16. Sorry....I'll leave my input to myself as the OP. n/t

[blueintelligentsia]

19. I've also heard that question asked in multiple ways too....

While you deny your campaign is taking money from the fossil fuel industry, you are not opposed to fracking, do you believe in gradually stopping it over time or immediately because of its often negative environmental effects?

[BernieforPres2016]

7. Secretary Clinton, you were for a single payer healthcare plan in 1993.

In 2008, you asked candidate Barack Obama since when did Democrats attack other Democrats on universal healthcare? If so many industrialized countries around the world can provide healthcare for all citizens, why can't the United States do it?

[blueintelligentsia]

11. I hope you don't mind my input.....

Clinton: I think extending the Affordable Care Act over time will give us universal health care, Senator Sanders wants to return to square 1 and I think it would be a huge mistake against a Republican congress. I can get it done this way, faster and more effective.

[BernieforPres2016]

15. The logical followup to that answer would be

So how long do you think it would take you to get to the ultimate goal of a healthcare system that covered everybody?

Or an alternate question:

Secretary Clinton, you have expressed support for continuing the current Affordable Care Act and making improvements along the way. Recently, your daughter Chelsea talked about the need to address what she referred to as "crushing costs" for many under the ACA. What are those costs, and how would you propose to address them? And what is your plan for addressing the 29 million people who still do not have healthcare insurance?

[blueintelligentsia]

25. That's an excellent question, I'll add it....n/t

[onecaliberal]

27. So how long should 29 million people without wait; how many will get sick and die?

[BernieforPres2016]

8. Senator Sanders, you have said on several occasions that you believe the business model

of Wall Street is fraud. Can you explain what you mean by that?

[blueintelligentsia]

13. That's going up! n/t

[itsrobert]

9. Senator Sanders, will you release the last 8 years of your emails?

You do know what EMails are, don't you?

[blueintelligentsia]

12. He will if it pertains to national security and the FBI asks him too n/t

[bettyellen]

17. What can we do on a Federal level to stop states from criminalizing imperfect pregnancies or births?

And also to increase local access to healthcare and family planning in every state where they are lacking?
(Perhaps someone could help with better phrasing, this is off the top of my head, which aches)


Great idea for a thread- thank you so much!!

[blueintelligentsia]

18. Added up top, thanks for your question, n/t

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

20. Hillary: Have you finished looking into the release of your transcripts?

[JackRiddler]

21. Ugh, gross, will it really be Wolf Blitzer?

I question whether I can watch that!

[blueintelligentsia]

22. I know, I think we can all agree on Wolf n/t

[blueintelligentsia]

23. Anyone have anymore questions? n/t

[JI7]

24. how are you going to get Republican Controlled Congress to pass your agenda

to both candidates

[blueintelligentsia]

26. Boom! I love that questions....n/t

[Blue Meany]

28. TPP and Wall Street Questions

1) Clinton: You have said that would not sign TPP unless American workers are protected, and their are clear labor protections for overseas workers. However, there are labor protections in NAFTA and we were promised that it would create American jobs, and we all know it did not, and that it depressed wage in both the US and Mexico. Why would you expect a different outcome in this instance and how would you guarantee that outcome?

2) Sanders: You have said that the business model of Wall Street Banks is fraud. Yet many American are forced by legal requirements to invest their retirement savings (in 401k and 403b plans) in the financial products of Wall Street firms. Will you commit working for the elimination of these requirements so that we can invest in safer, more profitable, and more ethical investments of our own choosing?

[Half-Century Man]

29. To be asked of both

Considering their success as a recruitment tool to Daish, Will you stop sending weapon armed drones into other countries we are not at war with?

What is your opinion on a suggestion of a sentencing guideline of a year of incarceration for every one hundred thousand dollars involved in a crime.

[ZombieHorde]

30. To all candidates:

Should a person who works 35 hours per week be able to afford food, rent, and other modern necessities?

What is the goal in the middle east and how do we accomplish that goal?

Why are there homeless and hungry people in one of the richest countries in the world?

Why do we put drug users in prisons instead of rehab?

What is the function of government?

Is food, water, and shelter a human right?

Do you believe the police disenfranchise black people, and if so, how do we stop this?

Why are we still making nukes? How many nukes do we have and how many more do we need?

What is the difference between sex and gender, and what is the government's role on this issue?

Where do you draw the line on abortion? What is the most restrictive policy you would support?

What should be our compass for declaring a behavior illegal?

Are budgets moral documents?

What is the goal of prison? Does our current system accomplish this goal? Why or why not?