Debate Topics
 There are a number of topics not in the presidential debates:
1.  Pre-emptive agression, occupation, & exploitation                  Â
2.  Corporate control of health care options and alternatives
3.  A shrinking middle class and increasing poverty
4.  Lower wages and higher food, fuel, and utility costs
5.  Failing secondary schools and prohibitive costs of higher education
6.  Corruption, Cronyism, and Crime among public officials
7.  Illegal wiretapping, torture, rendition, and “signing statements”
8.  Constitutional subversion and the suspension of habeaus corpus
9.  An abrogation of treaties and a rejection of the rules of war
10. Crippled federal agencies, inadequate security, undermined intelligence
11. An executive branch which ignores congresss and the courts
12. Our international reputation, credibility, and honor
13. Fiscal collapse, skyrocketing deficits, incipient recession
14. Disappearing pensions & Social Security Trust Funds
15. Environmental degredation: Dirtier water, air, & food supplyÂ
16. The Occupation of Iraq and the Palestinian territories
17.  Religious, fundamentalist, fanatacism at home and abroad
18. Corporate adventurism, exploitation, and mercatilism
19.  Fear-Mongering, Lies, Propaganda, & Fraud
20. Oil Industry Corruption, Arms Merchants, & War-Profiteering
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This would be the short list…
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