League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
San Diego, Orange County, CA June 5, 2012 Election
	Albin dennis "Al" Novinec Answers Questions Candidate for United States Representative; District 49

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Questions & Answers

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

The housing market created the recession, we need to fix the housing market. By fixing the housing market we would get back on track to recovery. People lost their jobs because the market collapsed, by fixing the housing market we would put builders back to work, home contractors, as in repair contractors, realtors, ect. Lenders would hire more employees due to more home loans. The banks have 4 trillion dollars to loan, this would bring buyers back into the market, if they wanted to loan it out. The government owns or insures 9 out of 10 mortgages, let's make the banks ease their restrictions on loans, and the market will improve. I have a ten point plan on my website on how to fix the housing market in (1) one year, lets make it work.

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?

First and most important the Senate needs to pass a budget. They haven't passed a budget in three years, and by federal law they are supposed to pass one every year. We pay 484 billion dollars in interest every year for the deficit, does anyone but me find this riciduclous. A private citizen would do a or create a budget. The government needs to stop spending our taxes on needless things. Pay off the highest interest debt first and then work our way down, on my website I talk about the fraud and wastefull spending our congressmen do. They dont care about us because most of them are millionaires, they are the 1% and they dont understand, what the working class people want or need. We dont need higher taxes, we need to cut spending.

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?

Step one should be open our own energy sources, like oil and gas, as a short term fix. This will in truth lower prices at the pump, instead of being beholding to OPEC. Then with the money we save we can work twords a more green energy policy. We also need to work with other countries to help them and teach them how to do the same. The carbon emissions is world wide not just in the U.S. We can only change and reduce carbon emissions if we get all the nations on board with this idea.

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

I would work with other candidates to stop spending our taxes overseas, and use them to support our own programs, instead of giving Greese billions of dollars for their bail out, I would work twords putting that money into health care and programs like social security. It is our taxes use them "Here" not in other countries, we spent over (1) one trillion dollars in Iraq and Afganistan, WHY! we need to put that money into the United States not other countries.

5. What, if any, changes should be made to federal rules on campaign financing?

All canidates should be responsible for their own campaign financing, stop outside forces. What I mean by this is the only donations should be by the people they repersent, not big business. If we get the word out and only receive smaller donations from our voters, we would only owe our alligiance to the voters, cap the donations to maybe 100 dollars per person, and see how they would spend that oney for advertisement. I am sure they would focus on the main topics and not smear campaigns. I finance my own campaign if the other canditates did their own financing, we would be sure they wanted to do their civic duty and not just try to get into some lobyiest or corporations pocket. Lets bring honesty back to governmet and stop this plague of big money owning our candiates.

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