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League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
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Candidates Answer Questions on the Issues United States Representative; District 37 | |||
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The questions were prepared by the League of Women Voters of California and asked of all candidates for this office. See below for questions on
Federal Resources,
Foreign Policy,
Federal Budget
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Answer from Herb Peters:
The federal government overhead is so "excessive" we are better off not accepting federal aid.
For example, "Helping the Poor;" 72 cents of every federal dollar budgeted is spent on the government employees and their facilities and equipment!
The reality, then, we would be better off paying for things ourselves.
Let's examine a little more:
Lets say we want to accept money from the feds for schools or police or some other essential. Our local federal recipient puts an excessive effort into keeping the federal agency happy + rather than keeping the local people happy.
What we get is a local agency that gets a small part of its budger - say 5% of its money from the feds - and the other 95% from the local community. But, the local agency "salutes" the federal agency and tends to shun the locals.
This is not acceptable to me.
I want our schools to keep the local parents happy. Same idea with other local agencies such as the police.
Therefore: No federal aid to our local police, no federal aid to education. We want these agencies serving us + NOT some federal agent in Washington DC.
Just say NO to federal aid.
Herb Peters
Candidate for US Representative,
California's 37th Congressional District
Answer from Herb Peters:
We have troops in 144 of 200 nations in the world!
Our troops are there, in some nations, keeping oppressive dictators in power + remember the Shaw of Iran. No wonder they hate us!
Let's bring troops home. Reduce Terrorism Threat. Save Billions.
http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/MiddleEast/Resources.asp
Answer from Herb Peters:
No federal aid to anyone. No subsidies to anyone.
Reduce the size of the federal government. Socialism does not work. It failed in the Soviet Union, it failed in Rome and it is failing here. Our federal debt of about $74 trillion is adequate proof that socialism has failed here.
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