League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
San Diego County, CA March 2, 2004 Election
	Gary M. Waayers Answers Questions Candidate for United States Representative; District 50; Green Party

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Questions & Answers

1. What can be done to ensure that California gets its fair share of federal resources?

As a state, we the people of California need to reach consensus where California needs to be two to three decades from now. The entire Congressional delegation from California needs to work together to achieve this vision. As a block our delegation can bing the resources needed to achieve the people's goals.

2. What are your foreign policy priorities for the United States?

To work in a peaceful, cooperative, nonviolent way with all other nations to establish peace and justice. We need to return to the United Nations as full partners as in a marriage. We are interdependent with the rest of the world socially, environmentally, and economicly. We have no choice but to make the marriage work. Being violent will not accelerate the process of achieving peace or justice.

3. What are your priorities for the federal budget?

To ensure health, education, and safety programs are fully funded. To make sure the Armed Forces have the training and equipment needed to defend our country. To provide the funds needed to transistion a significant percentage of our oil based energy policies to renewables before oil production peaks in the next decade and to decrease our country's impact on global warming. To provide for the repair and upgrades in infrastructure needed to carry out interstate commerce. To provide the means to ensure the health and sustainablity of our environment and all our resources.

To change the tax codes to ensure that all individuals and businesses that use our infrastructure, our resources, our workers, pay their fair share of taxes.

Our economy is based on capitalism. But our great country is more then the economy. We must find ways to have the great gains of capitalism balance with the needs of all the other aspects of our country. Those that have gained the most from our economic system need to put the most back to help our country stay great.