Here are your answers compared to this voter’s answers.
Social › Abortion
4>4 Personal answerPro-choice, and providing birth control, sex education, and more social services will help reduce the number of abortions |
Social › Gay Marriage
4>4 Personal answerYes |
the Economy › Equal Pay
4>4 Personal answerYes |
Domestic Policy › Gun Control
4>4 Personal answerYes |
Social › Gender Identity
4>4 Personal answerNo. Gender is not elective, it's determined by the luck of the draw. |
Social › Religious Freedom Act
4>4 Personal answerIt depends, in my opinion, on whether the service to be performed would actually require the vendor to perform an action known to be a violation of his/her religion. Baking and decorating a cake does not violate anybody's religion. Nobody is asking you to endorse their plans, only to do your chosen work: i.e., bake a damned cake. |
Immigration › Muslim Immigrant Ban
4>4 Personal answerYes |
Social › Planned Parenthood Funding
4>4 Personal answerYes |
the Economy › Minimum Wage
4>4 Personal answerYes |
the Environment › Climate Change
4>4 Personal answerYes |
the Economy › Paid Sick Leave
4>4 Personal answerNo |
Domestic Policy › Drug Policy
4>4 Personal answerYes |
Domestic Policy › Term Limits
4>4 Personal answerYes |
Foreign Policy › Mandatory Military Service
4>4 Personal answerMilitary service, basic training and subsequent active duty to add up to a total of 24 months, but alternative non-military service must be provided for those who belong to a religion which would provide conscientious objector status, for those who affirm that they are unable to serve in a combatant status and for those who are physically or mentally unable to serve in the military. And, these people must not be deployed into a war zone without their informed consent, freely given. |
Domestic Policy › Muslim Surveillance
4>4 Personal answerAre there Muslim neighborhoods? If there are, precisely how would such surveillance be effected? No. We need cops on the ground, walking a beat in residential areas and in commercial areas. We need CCTV watching our streets and we need people watching the monitors. We now have communications capabilities so that those officers can have very rapid back-up when needed. |
Immigration › Immigration
4>4 Personal answerYes, but it should not grant their parents citizenship |
Education › Student Loans
4>4 Personal answerYes, and increase government funding so every student receives a free college education |
Social › Death Penalty
4>4 Personal answerYes |
Healthcare › Marijuana
4>4 Personal answerYes |
Social › Government Mandates
4>4 Personal answerThat question is, should all health insurance buyers pay a higher rate so that birth-control services are provided at no charge to the users of those services. My answer is, no, if we are supporting Planned Parenthood, let them provide the birth-control services at no charge to the users. |
Social › Confederate Flag
4>4 Personal answerSure they should. As "sovereign polities" they should be allowed to do it. Of course any state which did so should expect to be taken over by people who object to that banner being flown. At least 5 of my ancestors fought for the confederacy, they were wrong. They were fighting for the right - privilege - to own people against their will and to freely abuse those people. That's not states' rights, it's obscene. The rebel battle flag and the "Stars and Bars" are symbols of a fight against progress in human relations that is still being waged by far too many of our countrymen. Slavery is dead in this land and so is the late confederacy. |
Domestic Policy › No-Fly List Gun Control
4>4 Personal answerYes |
Domestic Policy › NSA Domestic Surveillance
4>4 Personal answerYes |
Domestic Policy › Gerrymandering
4>4 Personal answerYes |
Social › Women in Combat
4>4 Personal answerIf we are to accept the idea that everyone is equal to everyone else, not - as it was before - equal before the law (which was never actually the case) then we must accept, in spite of our desire not to do so, that 18 year old girls in the military service are equally expendable as are 18 year old boys. We, fathers of daughters, have serious reservations about that while having also the desire that our beloved daughters have equal opportunity with other men's sons. There truly is not an easy answer to the question. The Israeli IDF has made their young women the equal of the young men for generations and there have not been news of huge numbers of sexual assaults on the young women of the IDF, but, the danger remains. We have to ask: "Are our girls the equals of our boys?" What do you think? |
Immigration › Illegal Immigrant Detainment
4>4 Personal answerYes |
Healthcare › Medicaid
4>4 Personal answerMedicaid was a bad idea poorly implemented. Some such program should be available for disabled people who are too young for Medicare. Healthcare for the indigent who are not disabled should be handled by the states for their own residents. A program for minor children of the poor needs to be intrusive and needs to examine the parents' resources very carefully. People who cannot support themselves should be penalized for bearing more children, not encouraged. That said, disasters do happen to people, and former earnings should be considered when deciding what penalties to apply, people who previously earned enough so that they could reasonably expect to be self-supporting ought not be further penalized for a run of misfortune. |
Immigration › Border Security
4>4 Personal answerNo, make it easier for immigrants to access temporary work visas |
Social › Gender Workplace Diversity
4>4 Personal answerNo |
Immigration › Immigration Healthcare
4>4 Personal answerNo |
the Environment › Alternative Energy
4>4 Personal answerYes |
Elections › Voter Fraud
4>4 Personal answerYes |
Immigration › Immigrant Laborers
4>4 Personal answerWe should: A. Enforce our laws. B. reform our laws according to current needs. C. Create a reasonable path to legal status and eventual citizenship for those people currently living in the country. D. Deport those undocumented folks who can't pass a reasonable background check. E. Fine companies which have failed to abide by our current laws. |
Domestic Policy › Patriot Act
4>4 Personal answerWell... Not really. They've gone too far with it. I do support placing cameras everywhere and monitoring what people do in public. Are 2 guys carrying satchel charges to the stands of the Boston Marathon? Gosh, maybe that's a problem. Did an unattended bag explode? Gosh, maybe we can see who put it there before it blew up... Is someone mugging your mother in front of the A&P? Gosh, maybe we could alert the cop on the next block... |
the Economy › Government Spending
4>4 Personal answerNo, increase taxes on large multinational corporations instead |
Foreign Policy › Israel
4>4 Personal answerYes |
Immigration › Immigrant Assimilation
4>4 Personal answerNo |
Domestic Policy › Net Neutrality
4>4 Personal answerNo |
Social › First Amendment
4>4 Personal answerNo |
Domestic Policy › Gun Liability
4>4 Personal answerYes, as long as the losing party pays all legal fees, it’s our constitutional right to sue anyone for any reason |
Crime › Solitary Confinement for Juveniles
4>4 Personal answerJuvenile offenders, except those convicted of capital offenses should not be incarcerated in a "prison". Those who are should be subject to the same rules as their fellow inmates - all of whom should be in solitary confinement for the entire term of their imprisonment. |
Social › Euthanasia
4>4 Personal answerA. I am terminally ill. B. The concern should be about weak and defenseless people being coerced into suicide by their potential heirs. If, given reasonable counseling a person wishes to cash-out, that should be allowed. |
Immigration › Skilled Immigrants
4>4 Personal answerIncrease |
Domestic Policy › Affirmative Action
4>4 Personal answerIf it means assigning scarce resources, i.e.,jobs and university placements, to less qualified people because their ancestors might have been discriminated against, or enslaved, or shipped off to Oklahoma against their will, I sort of think it should be looked at, but, it's not right to stifle the more qualified person's life, either... Those injustices you're trying to pay for happened long ago and the people living today are not at fault. Let not the sins of the fathers be visited upon the children. |
the Economy › Labor Unions
4>4 Personal answerHelp |
the Economy › Capital Gains Tax
4>4 Personal answerYes |
Immigration › In-State Tuition
4>4 Personal answerNo |
Education › Common Core
4>4 Personal answerNo, teach to each student's potential instead of uniform testing |
the Environment › Oil Drilling
4>4 Personal answerYes |
Foreign Policy › United Nations
4>4 Personal answerYes |
Healthcare › Obamacare
4>4 Personal answerYes |
the Environment › Fracking
4>4 Personal answerYes, but not in heavily populated areas |
Domestic Policy › Eminent Domain
4>4 Personal answerOnly as long as it's done within the framework of constitutional law. |
Foreign Policy › North Korea Military Strikes
4>4 Personal answerSo far, no. Let the Chinese whip their boy. If he gets too carried away, and if China won't control him - which we should tell them that we think they ought to - then a few carefully plotted strikes might be in order. It should be remembered, however, that there are millions of people living there who are without fault in this stupidity. |
Foreign Policy › Torture
4>4 Personal answerNo |
Foreign Policy › ISIS Ground Troops
4>4 Personal answerIf we can't stop them any other way, yes. |
Foreign Policy › Foreign Aid
4>4 Personal answerI've no idea. |
Foreign Policy › Drones
4>4 Personal answerYes |
Domestic Policy › Social Security
4>4 Personal answerNo |
Foreign Policy › Terrorism
4>4 Personal answerIf the suspect is a legal resident - of any status - of the USA or any of our territories, then yes. They are legally entitled to those rights. If the suspect is captured outside the USA but not in a war zone, the person is subject to the laws of the state in which she was captured. If the person was captured in a war zone, during the commission of hostile acts against the US military or against US officials, then the laws of war would apply - whatever that might be under international law. Torture is illegal. |
Foreign Policy › War on ISIS
4>4 Personal answerExcellent question... Probably not. That might give them recognition as a national entity. We should obliterate them. |
Science › Space Exploration
4>4 Personal answerYes |
the Economy › Offshore Banking
4>4 Personal answerNo, and neither should corporations and business organizations |
Foreign Policy › NSA Surveillance
4>4 Personal answerYes |
the Economy › Federal Reserve
4>4 Personal answerYes |
Foreign Policy › Cuba
4>4 Personal answerI was in the blockade in 1962. I think it's about damned time we normalize relations with Cuba, it should have been done in 1972 instead of normalizing the PRC. |
the Economy › Farm Subsidies
4>4 Personal answerYes, but only small local farms instead of large corporations |
Foreign Policy › Russian Airstrikes in Syria
4>4 Personal answerGreat idea - let's back Putin into a corner so he can lash out at us... No, damn it, we don't need to make an enemy of Russia, we need to talk with the guy. |
the Economy › Property Taxes
4>4 Personal answerNo |
the Economy › Pension Reform
4>4 Personal answerWith a transition period and worker election, yes for federal employees after a certain date with earlier workers allowed to choose their own status. State and local govts are not subject to outside interference. |
the Economy › Bitcoin
4>4 Personal answerNo |
the Economy › Trans-Pacific Partnership
4>4 Personal answerNo, this will incentivize companies to move jobs out of the country |
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You side slightly towards “security”, meaning you more often believe the government should do everything within its power to ensure the security of its citizens. This theme is most important to you.
You are a centrist on left wing and right wing issues. This theme is more important to you.
You are a centrist on authoritarian and libertarian issues. This theme is more important to you.
You are a centrist on democratic socialism and capitalism issues. This theme is more important to you.
You side slightly towards “nationalism”, meaning you more often support policies that prioritize the interests of our nation above others. This theme is more important to you.
You are a centrist on politically incorrect and politically correct issues. This theme is more important to you.
You are a centrist on unilateralism and multilateralism issues. This theme is more important to you.
You side slightly towards “religious”, meaning you more often support policies that reflect religious values and principles. This theme is more important to you.
You side moderately towards “protectionism”, meaning you believe globalization is detrimental to the safety, compensation, environment, and standard of living of workers. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You side slightly towards “deregulation”, meaning you more often believe that government regulation stifles innovation and economic prosperity. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You are a centrist on assimilation and multiculturalism issues. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You are a centrist on pacifism and militarism issues. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You are a centrist on traditional and progressive issues. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You are a centrist on isolationism and imperialism issues. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You are a centrist on individualism and collectivism issues. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You side slightly towards “decentralization”, meaning you more often believe that administrative power and decision making should be handled at the local level and serve the best interests of the local community. This theme is only less important to you.
You are a centrist on tender and tough issues. This theme is only less important to you.
You are a centrist on small government and big government issues. This theme is only less important to you.
You are a centrist on keynesian and laissez-faire issues. This theme is only less important to you.
You are a centrist on anthropocentrism and environmentalism issues. This theme is only less important to you.
You are a centrist on meritocracy and democracy issues. This theme is only less important to you.
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