League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
	Contra Costa County, CA June 5, 2012 Election
	Candidates Answer Questions on the Issues United States Representative; District 11

The questions were prepared by the League of Women Voters of California Education Fund and asked of all candidates for this office.     See below for questions on Economy, Budget, Energy, Health care, Campaign financing Click on a name for candidate information.   See also more information about this contest. 1. In this time of high unemployment, what are the most important steps that should be taken to improve our nation’s economy? Answer from John Fitzgerald: End the wars and end the Federal Reserve. Let's close our 900+ foreign military bases and bring that money home. Our monetary system was hijacked by a criminal cabal of private bankers with the unconstitutional passage of the Federal Reserve Act in 1913. The constitution clearly states that congress should issue our money so the Federal Reserve must be audited and abolished. Thanks to these thieves printing money out of thin air and charging us hundreds of billions of dollars in interest for the privilege, our dollar today is worth just two cents of a 1913 Federal Reserve Note. The Federal Reserve caused this crisis. First they created the housing bubble by keeping interest rates artificially much lower than market rates, then as soon as Lehman Brothers collapsed, they + for the first time in their history + started paying interest on reserves paid back into the Federal Reserve by commercial banks. Within a few months of Lehman, the Fed took in $500 billion in reserves from the banks. Since banks can lend 30 or more times their reserves (fractional reserve banking), this underreported rule change sucked more than $15 trillion out of an already reeling economy. And the banks (who just happen to include shareholders of the Federal Reserve) are still not lending. We need a full audit of the Fed, including the naming of all private shareholders who must account for + and return + the tens of trillions they gave to foreign banks and companies in Europe and beyond. 2. How should the federal budget deficit be addressed, now and into the future? How should budget priorities for defense and domestic programs be adjusted? Answer from John Fitzgerald: See my answer to the first question. 3. What are your priorities with respect to our nation’s energy policy? Should there be an emphasis on clean energy and reducing carbon emissions, and/or on reducing our dependence on foreign sources? Answer from John Fitzgerald: Back in 1972, the Rockefeller-funded Club of Rome wrote: "In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself." The global warming scam was dreamt up by the Club of Rome as a method to bring in carbon taxes to fund global governance. Later Al Gore admitted he worked with Enron's Ken Lay to establish the carbon tax scheme. There never was a scientific consensus that human caused carbon dioxide emissions effected the climate. In fact, the reverse is true - ice core samples prove that carbon dioxide levels increase *after* temperatures rise. Carbon dioxide is a trace gas required for plants to grow with a negligible effect on our climate - I highly recommend everybody watch the BBC's excellent documentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle" on YouTube. The US has hundreds of years worth of coal, oil and the world's largest deposits of clean burning natural gas. It's cheap and plentiful, so lets use that. 4. What, if any, changes should be made to federal health care policies or programs? Answer from John Fitzgerald: Health care is not one of the Federal Government's enumerated powers, health care should be left to the States and Counties, as clearly stated in the Tenth Amendment. For example, San Francisco runs a very successful "Healthy San Francisco" program. MediCal works well too. I personally support single payer health care, run by the states. Unfortunately, Obamacare was written by and for the health insurance industry and merely forces us to buy private insurance from select private companies - and punishes us if we don't. 5. What, if any, changes should be made to federal rules on campaign financing? Answer from John Fitzgerald: First, I would like to see an end to Citizens United, tighter limits on campaign contributions, public financing of election campaigns and free, equal access to television spots to all candidates. This system works well in the United Kingdom. Responses to questions asked of each candidate are reproduced as submitted to the League.  Candidates' statements are presented as submitted. References to opponents are not permitted. The order of the candidates is random and changes daily. Candidates who did not respond are not listed on this page.