1) With the babyboomers heading towards retirement, many analysts believe that the social security system, as we know it, will collapse. What would you do, as President, to ensure the viability of Social Security?

A. Increase the threshhold to $150K for both employee and employer’s matching fund; however ½ of the proceeds over the current maximum would, if opted, be put into a 401k. The Medicare facet should be adjusted for inflation every other year.

2) The national debt has increased substantially in the past two years. A few years ago this country was running a modest surplus. Now we are running record deficits. As President, what are your thoughts about the national debt?

The actual expenditures for homeland security and the war should commensurately increase the income tax rate across the board. Earned Income tax credit should be eliminated and replaced with an incremental tax table beginning at 1% of adjusted gross income. All unearned income — including capital gains under ten year duration — should be flat taxed at 25%. “Patriotic” $100 twenty year bonds should be issued for the iron-clad purpose of paying down the debt. All frivolous “pork” should be eliminated, along with esoteric or irrelevant research and development. Entitlements for able bodies not directly caring for young children should be cast off and replaced with a work program whether private and/or government sponsored. There should be a .05% VAT for every product imported product, and a luxury tax of 3% on vehicles not delivering at least 25 MPG.

3) The poverty rate in the United States remains remarkably high. Given the great society programs of the 60s and 70s, it seems that the war on poverty has not been won. As President, what would you propose we do to help the poor in this country?

Incentives or subsidies to small businesses in every community to expand and hire more from the unemployed ranks of its respective locale, including those heretofore considered unemployable. Private companies, unions and governmental incentives to reopen abandoned plants and rehire employees at lower but livable wages, together with emergency loans to the rehired who are in debt from the plant closing. Since infrastructure is in dire need of modernization, corporation and government should join in massive projects aimed at full employment while simultaneously rebuilding America.

4) The war on drugs is nearings its third decade with no end in sight. Drug usage has hovered about the same but our prisons are filled with drug users and police report that a great deal of violent crime is the result of the illicit drug trade. As President, what would be your prescription to deal with drugs? Legalize them? More enforcement? More education? What?

Education certainly helps a little; but the influence of a free-for-all environment is mostly responsible and their should be a task force that comes down on the entertainment world that glamorizes drug-use. Surely, there needs to be non-criminalized rehabilitation, rather than dumping them in prison. Users should be in work or boot camps to clean up their act, but at the same time administer available phase-out clinics, rather than expecting cold turkey to be the solution. The soft, so-called social drugs should be available on the market to strip the drug lords of their merciless powers. Enforcement should be exclusive for criminal rings that exploit the defenseless and innocent.

5) With tragedies like the Columbine massacre, gun violence has really become a front and center issue for the American public. As President, what is your position on gun control?

Should be a non-issue except retain and enforce the laws already in place. However, assault weapons purchased at a gun show or fair should be entered into a municipal database.