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| From Left: Tammy Duckworth (8th District), Geoffrey Petzel (6th District), Maureen Yates (6th District), Raja Krishnamoorthi (8th District), Leslie Coolidge (6th District) |
How can the Democratic candidates win the election?
With the mounting debts and deficits, when China emerges as the ever expanding military super power, when people are disgusted of do-nothing means-nothing Congress, how could Democrats win the election?
At a Congressional Primary Debate session at the Palatine, IL, each Democratic candidate answered the questions. The debate was held in the Palatine Library, starting with this specific question: "how do you regard yourself beating the Republican candidates?".
Does a 1%'er like Romney care to fix the nation's problem of huge gap between the rich and the poor? How does the Congress work to close the corporate loopholes? When his tax rate of 15% is lower than our 99%'ers, we already know where we should be heading for.
Mitt Romney = 1% The audience = 99%
In fact, the corporate lobbying successfully rewarded them with huge subsides. The tax rates of those big corporations are, indeed negative according to "Representation Without Taxation: Fortune 500 Companies that Spend Big on Lobbying and Avoid Taxes".
We are here for the middle class. Our district represent the middle class. The proposed Ryan budget plans are scaring elderly with the voucher system.
I had the honor to shake hands and to speak with the candidates after the debate. I asked a few questions to Maureen Yates: do you ever care to balance the budget? Would the war in Afghanistan end? Her answer was short. We should end the wars and save the nation from the huge debts out of the wars.