League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
San Francisco County, CA June 3, 2014 Election
	Michael Steger Answers Questions Candidate for United States Representative; District 12

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Questions & Answers

1. In this time of high unemployment and budget deficits, what are the most important steps that should be taken to improve our nation’s economy and sustain job creation?

We need an immediate return to the tradition of FDR and JFK. This means, first, Obama must be removed as he has served the interests of Wall St. from day one. Next, Glass-Steagall must be restored and Wall St. put through bankruptcy. Once these steps are taken we can provide the necessary federal credit, as was done under FDR's RFC, and begin a major job development program in two key areas: 1. nuclear power and fusion power development. We must shut down fracking, this is a criminal program of cheap labor and the literal destruction of our economy. With nuclear power we can address our water issues, provide abundant energy for manufacturing and production, and create a new advanced manufacturing base here in the United States. Second, we should build the NAWAPA water development project as John and Robert Kennedy had intended, ending the droughts in the western states and ensuring our food supply, both here and in Mexico. Add to this a fusion development program, and in 20 years we can fulfill an entirely new standard of human economy, inspiring our best scientists towards ever greater discoveries. This will set a new standard for the world, and is the foundation to end the genocide occurring in Africa, South America, and globally, under today's fascist international system.

2. What, if any, changes should be made to federal health care policies or programs?

Obamacare must be ended. It was modeled on the Nazi's T-4 program, and is a fraud with no commitment to healthcare, but is a commitment to the profits of private financial insurance companies who wrote the bill. Instead, the cuts made to Medicare must be immediately restored, and Medicare expanded to cover a larger area of the aging population given the severe economic breakdown. The private insurance industry must also be put under a Glass-Steagall reform and forced to comply with basic public health standards of care. The standard of care available must then be returned to the Hill-Burton law, and all critical hospital facilities in lower income urban areas, as well as rural farm areas, must be kept open as part of an emergency public health policy. Once these steps are taken, and the large employment projects such as NAWAPA are established, we can expand Medicare for all as part of a basic single payer system. As a final point, the principle of management generally can no longer remain based on personal financial incentive. Healthcare, as well as other areas of our society, such as education, scientific research, and government, are not profitable endeavors in and of themselves, but expand the quality and productivity of our culture and society when these areas are managed well, creating the basis for all other profits. Consider the Apollo project as an example. Management in these critical areas, as with the Apollo Moon project, is not based on individual reward but is based on a mission program, such as winning the war and not one's personal survival, and so asks as John Kennedy did, "What you can do for your country?" This must be the basis of healthcare, and of our society, and not simply for the nation, but for mankind.

3. What are your priorities with respect to our nation’s energy policy?

Our survival as a human species depends on the development of thermonuclear fusion. Unless one is morally decrepit, then one cannot tolerate any policy promoting the reduction of human population. Any acceptance of that, however justified, is genocidal and must be denounced. The fracking program is a fraud and must be outlawed. It is based on an primitive economic agenda of resource extraction and cheap labor and will provide no substantial growth. It is already exhausting our limited infrastructure and will create accelerated rates of poverty and death. With a drive towards fusion energy, which entails two major stages of experiments over approximately twenty years, we will transform the entire discussion on energy and resources, which with fusion energy will then seem to be relatively infinite. There is no need for wind, solar, or the like. With a return to nuclear power for the next twenty years and the full reprocessing cycle we can solve the energy and water crisis, put an end to the fracking idiocy, and provide the necessary resources for a breakthrough in fusion. That's the natural direction of an optimistic and scientific society.

4. What, if any, changes should be made with respect to our nation’s security, including our national defense or anti-terrorism measures?

Every major step taken by the Executive branch, and largely endorsed by Congress and the Supreme Court, since the 9-11 attacks has pushed our nation closer towards a fascist dictatorship. This includes the NSA police state, torture, illegal wars, drone murders including American citizens, intimidation of Congress, the Citizens United decision, and the bailouts to Wall St. This entire fascist program must be shut down. First, we must throw out Obama who has expanded, enforced and protected all of the major criminal acts by the Bush-Cheney regime. Next, we must shut down Wall St. with Glass-Steagall, and expose the direct Saudi and British involvement in the 9-11 attacks, as in the notorious 28 pages of the 9-11 report. Then, after acknowledging the atrocities of the last 15 years of our foreign policy, including the encroaching provocations against Russia and China towards a nuclear conflict, we must initiate a collaboration with Russia, China, and other nations dedicated to eliminating the narco-terrorist networks, including the supporting financial institutions. In addition to this strategic collaboration to eliminate the threats of terrorism and violent instability, we must initiate an economic collaboration around large development projects, including an international research program for fusion energy development.

5. What is your position on the issue of immigration reform? What, if any, changes to legislation or policy would you support?

Our foreign policy towards Mexico and South America, given the relevance this has on immigration policy for the people of these nations, has been criminal. We have endorsed the liberal imperial programs of the IMF and the World Bank, the Wall St. houses, as well as actions taken directly by the British Empire in their own name for the last three or more decades, and this is a criminal violation tantamount to treason of our Constitution. We must return to the tradition of John Quincy Adams and Franklin Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor Policy," and defend the sovereignty of every nation in our hemisphere. This entails a commitment to debt relief and long term economic agreements for large development projects, and funded through low-fixed-rate long term credit, avoiding any risk of imposed debt slavery. A Glass-Steagall system must also be adopted by all the nations of the Americas to ensure the successful development of every nation. The large-scale projects then include the north-south high-speed rail corridor from Tierra Del Fuego to the Bering Strait through the Darien Gap of Colombia. In addition, the water development program of NAWAPA-PLHINO to irrigate the areas of northern Mexico. Once the drug cartels are shut down, and their dope banks prosecuted, this will create a major area of economic development throughout the southwestern desert region, including abundant food production. Critical will be the development of fusion energy to create the most scientifically advanced discussion among the leading scientists of these nations, oriented towards the development of mankind. These steps are fundamental to ensuring that immigration reform is successful, including ending the deportations, rehabilitating those involved in petty crimes, and creating an environment of collaborative development among these nations.

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