I don’t believe there is a defense treaty with Israel, but I could be wrong.

Would you really go to war for Estonia against the Russians, the only nation that could wipe us out with nukes. I would not.

1. Should the United States pull our troops out of Iraq as soon as is safely possible, spending the funds necessary to insure a safe withdrawal?

No___________ Yes_____X________

2. Should the United States pull our troops out of Afghanistan as soon as is safely possible, spending the funds necessary to insure a safe withdrawal?

No___________ Yes______X________

3. Does the Second Amendment guarantee an individual right to bear arms?

No___________ Yes______X_______ (but only as to firearms available for purchase in 1791).

4. Should the federal government continue to subsidize exports?

No___________ Yes_____________ WTF Does this mean? ______X_______

5. Would you eliminate any of the following federal agencies or programs or any others not named? (Check those you would eliminate.)

Agriculture _________
Commerce _________
Education __________
Energy _________
HHS ___________
HUD ___________
Interior ___________
Labor ____________
FEMA ___________
Foreign Aid _________
World Bank ____________
International Monetary Fund ___________
NASA ____________
SBA ___________
Others—please list_____________________________________________

6. Do you oppose or favor corporate welfare (cash grants, loans or special tax breaks to certain businesses)?

Favor_____X_______ Oppose_____________

7. Should the federal government prosecute those who use marijuana for medical purposes?

Favor____________ Oppose____X___________

8. List all foreign states on whose behalf the United States should go to war if they are invaded or attacked?

______ All 191 foreign states (http://www.un.org/members/list.shtml)

_______None

Only these countries:

Countries with whom we have executed a multilateral or bilateral treaty for mutual defense, including but not limited to members of NATO.

Please explain the legal rationale for doing so, including constitutional provisions and/or treaties.

Duly ratified and executed international treaties are the Supreme law of the United States. US Constitution Article II, section 2, clause 2; US Constitution Article VI.
9. Which best describes your view of government’s role in health care.

a. I like the current system, where health care is highly regulated at all levels of government and heavily subsidized by states and by the federal government._________

b. I favor movement toward a free market in health care, greatly reducing government subsidies and carefully deregulating health care and insurance to eliminate lucrative legal monopolies and to give consumers greater choice.___________

c. I believe that the government should fund and control all health care as in England and Canada.____________

d. Other___A free market system that also contains provisions for subsidized comprehensive health care coverage for those who cannot afford it.

10. Which government spending programs would you enlarge, if any?

infrastructure (highways & rail)

Secondly, wouldn’t blather and sound bites be better than nothing? It sounds like you haven’t gotten any response from your survey ever, so why is that a better idea than mine?

If you dying of cancer and writhing in pain, are you really concerned at that moment about who you’re going to vote for. Avoid the hyperbole. Besides, there are other medicines used to treat that.

There’s a method to our Reefer Madness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?emb=0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2Fvideosearch%3Fq%3Dmedical+marijuana+romney&v=NY6UTnS6Z-A

7. Should the federal government prosecute those who use marijuana for medical purposes?

I wasn’t aware federal prosecution of medical marijuana users was such a “burning” issue (sorry for the pun) for the voters of NY-26.

Can we expect future surveys on the candidates’ opinions on abolishing the federal government?

This refutes itself. The survey would allow this illibertarian to sniff out anyone who believes in individual freedom and vote against them.

The reason for a survey is to compare. Elections are choices. Also, if you ask the candidates to state their views, they will, if experience is any judge, give us blather and sound bites.

Example, “running government like a business.” Someone was recently elected on that “platform.” Since it is not in any sense possible to do so (it’s a misleading metaphor), we will never know if that person fulfilled his promise.

That person by the way refused to answer our survey which would actually have pinned down that person so the voters could know if he did what he promised.