Thank you to everyone who has submitted an “Ask Fred” question. I have very much enjoyed the exchange of ideas. Here are a few of my responses. Go here to submit your own “Ask Fred” question.
Is Obama Trying To Hide His Past?
Q (from 99568): We are all aware that if someone hides information, it MUST be something bad, or they would be eager to show it. The current president has hidden nearly everything about his past. Are we wrong to assume there is something there he does not want us to see? Do we have a fundamental right to know about his past?
A: Yes we do, but right now I’m more worried about his future.
How Is Mitt Going To Handle Medicare and Social Security?
Q (from 37138): My friend was watching channel 5 news and they said Mitt wants to change seniors Medicare, where everyone gets private insurance and then the government will give them one lump sum, or something like that. I did not see it. I think the media lies and uses scare tactics. Do you know how or if Mitt is going to handle Medicare and our Social Security?
A: Mitt proposes no change for those at or near retirement age. For younger folks they could choose regular Medicare or get a payment from the government with which to buy their own insurance. Don’t let them scare you. Mitt is trying to keep it from going bankrupt. The Democrats are only interested in getting past the next election and leaving a colossal mess for our kids.
How Will Obama’s Supreme Court Justice Appointments Affect Us?
Q (from 43334): What are your thoughts about what will happen to our great country if Obama gets back in and can appoint more inept supreme court justices?
A: It would certainly be bad news in many respects but you’ve put your finger on one of the most important—Supreme Court justices. If he is reelected then much depends upon how the senate is constituted. If the
Democrats have less that a 60 vote majority and are not able to cut off a filibuster by the Republicans, then Obama would have to moderate. Right now it’s looking like a 50-50 split.
How Much Control Will Romney Have Over The Budget If He Is Elected?
Q (from 76028): Hi Fred, I had hopes I would be able to vote for you in 2008, but alas. I do, however, enjoy your column.
If Mr. Romney is president the next four years but liberals in the senate (Rs & Ds) are able to suppress a vote on the budget, do you think it is likely the ongoing budget will be status quo, with the stimulus a repeating part of the bloated budget? If so, how much discretion does the president have to just not spend it? And on a related note, where has the stimulus money been spent in the “out” years, those years that was not actually voted on? Thanks!
A: A budget or a “continuing resolution” has to be passed every year and the president has the right to veto. They will not have the votes to override his veto and they will either have to work it out or see who blinks first. A new president Romney would have the upper hand.
What Can We Do To Give Our Military The Chance To Vote?
Q (from 75756): Fred…I’m eighty-one years old and not in good health. I’ve been a fan of yours for many years. Question, what can we/I do to help the military have a chance to vote? Anyone can plainly see Obama is doing every thing he can to see they don’t get the chance.
A: You’re absolutely right. That’s what’s going on in Ohio, for example, a crucial state. My old senate colleague, Mike DeWine, is the attorney general in Ohio now. I talked to his about this very thing and he is fighting hard for our armed forces. I think this will hurt the Democrats with all right -thinking people.
Is Canada Facing The Same Fiscal Issues We Are?
Q (from 98208) Fred, I know we need change to get back to the freedoms we have lost, but what is going on in Canada? Are they facing the same type of losses of freedom that we are facing? Is their spending out of control like ours is? Thank you!
A: No, they are in better shape than we are financially. Prime Minister
Harper is a good guy–a conservative by Canadian standards.
What Does “Politically Correct” Mean?
Q (from 06370): Do you know who coined the phrase “politically correct” and what does it constitute? People I ask have no idea at all. Thank you.
A: Good question. I don’t know how it started but I’ll give you my own definition: Saying something in a way that is designed, primarily, not to offend anyone, instead of saying it in a more direct and truthful way.
Do You Support Term Limits For Congress?
Q (from 71024): Do you think term limits on senate and congress would help matters? Get rid of those 10-20-year veterans who are there to line their pockets and get new blood in every 8 years that may actually listen to the people that got them there and help this country- WE DO NEED HELP!
A: I’ve been a term limits supporter all my professional life. I promised to limit my own terms in the senate and did so. I think careerism in politics is the source of many of our problems. People have too much at stake and will say and do anything to stay in instead of telling the truth, which often people don’t want to hear.
- Fred Thompson
Our problem with the Presidency is that we need to find some highly successful businessman who could run for President, someone who understands the concept of turning a failing enterprise around and eliminating the wasteful expenses that come from the natural inclination of large bureaucratic businesses and governmental organizations. It would be nice if the guy had proven experience as both the head of a state government (like a governor) AND the head of a large, financial turnaround corporation that made their billions in profit by being successful and making others successful.
It would be great if we could find someone who learned from his earlier experiences and failures and took a different tact, and who can recognize truths of positions counter to those he adhere to when he found them to be true… you know, someone willing to learn from his experiences and to admit the same while applying them to his continually polished worldview… maybe something like seeing the Light about killing babies before they’re born or MAYBE even AFTER they’re born when they survived an attempt to kill them in an abortion.
What would really make him the total package is if he was genuinely a nice guy who would take quiet steps to help others throughout his life even if he not only made nothing from his efforts, but sometimes actually spent his own resources to help others. We could hope that he someday became a born again Christian as well, but that would be between him and the Lord.
As far as being an excellent President, if he would continue to actually implement his principles and give others the same vision, you know, kind of like if he took over a crashing Winter Olympics and turned it into THE example for a world-wide, multi-national HUGE operation, THEN we’d have something there.
Our economy would turn around, I think people would start paying attention and learn the concepts of taking economic opportunities and applying them for themselves and their families. America could actually retake its place as the leader of the world and a banner for applying Constitutional (basic organizational structural guarantees of a government) freedoms in a representative republican format of government.
Democracy in and of itself alone isn’t necessarily a good thing. The French Revolution was a democracy, but the American Founding Fathers devised a unique, and I believe, God given form of government with the protections of a Republic having a controlled democracy based on citizenship, individual responsibility and freedoms, and a tripartite divided government purposefully limited in overreaching power and remaining subject to the states and the people thereof.
Wonder where we can find that kind of guy? I’m guessing we COULD get by with that person’s doppelganger, Mitt Romney vs. the current Marxist, Socialist empty suit that the pseudo-Emperor’s not wearing, but actually is. Mitt should do until the real deal gets here.
WHAT IS UP WITH EX ORDER 13603 . OBAMA TRYING TO TAKE OVER COUNTRY BEFORE ELECTION AND DECLARE HIMSELF KING??
Yes I do support term limits for Congress and the Senate. They should also not get such good benefits, etc. from us as we have been taking cuts in everything. they should pay for their own travel, rooms, etc., and especially they should have to take Obama Care as it is being forced down our throats. Stop sending aid to the damn muslims, mexicans, and politicians as they hate us anyway, just want our money. Also should PULL OUT OF THE UN and take CARE OF OUR OWN COUNTRY!!!
Abby
As usual, Fred calls it right.
May God bless you and your dedication to a better, and freer, America.
Fred what can you do o help all americans see that if we can not get an amendment to the condstitution on term limits that we must enforce them on ourselves by voting out incumbents. Until we make the change to put citizens back in congress we will not get the needed changes made in congress.
Fred Thompson and Grass Roots know of the existence of my 1722-page eBook “ON GARD, OBAMA, YOU ARE AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL PRESIDENT BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT A NATURAL-BORN CITIZEN, WHICH I SHALL PROVE BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT. Grass Roots owns a complimentary copy. Conservatives have become as brainwashed by political correctness as progressives and liberals. They fear the truth. John Jay’s “natural born Citizen” took its definition from “indigenes” in Emer de Vattel’s “The Law of Nations.” While negotiating Jay’s Treaty with Lord Grenville in London, Grenville introduced Jay to Sir William Scott, King’s Advocate to the High Court of Admiralty. Jay told Scott what natural-born citizen meant and that is how the term replaced indigenes in the 1797 edition of “The Law of Nations.” Sir William was the secret editor. There was no way a self-respecting French-to-English translator would have translated “indigenes” to “natural-born citizens” without knowing the meaning of the latter term in the U.S. Constitution. It is as simple that. Obama could be impeached next week based on the evidence in my eBook if we had honest politicians and conservatives. So could the five Supreme Court justices who voted to constitutionalize Obamacare. Limbaugh, Trump, Issa, Schlafly, Blackburn, Ailes, Napolitano, Corsi, Farah, McClintock, and a host of others have complimentary copies. Their code of silence reminds me why so many injustices are committed by our police.
Yes, I believe he is trying to hide his past, I understand to run for the presidency your parents have to be US citizens. I understand his father is a citizen of a foreign country. If he has nothing to hide why did he take so long to show his birth certificate, if someone wants mine I would produce it immediately.
I only hope Mitt gets his act together for the debates and yes I agree that at least 47% do not pay taxes that does not mean they are LOSERS just victums of curcumstances, I do not have to pay because I am on social security only, does that make me a loser? According to some newspapers that wrongly quoted him are the real losers. That person that leaked the private conversations should be arrested for giving that info out same as the ones who comment about things and don’t want to identified.
So many questions and not enough answers.
Who decides what questions are to be debated? You can be sure it is not the every day citizen.
If he gets relected you can kiss the second amendment goodbye. I was against the last two judges from being appointed, they both lied thru their teeth. I feel the judges should be elected and not appointed. I guess I could go on and on but best stop now before my blood pressure goes crazy. Keep up the good work.
Why is Obama getting away with not being a legal citizen? Who should be responsible for this? Where are our checks and balances?
I am worried about the future, too. But, if he does not have a legal right to be president or run again, why isn’t something being done by whoever needs to take these steps? These are the people we need to be afraid of in the future or now!?
Why won’t the GOP grow a backbone and fight back? Seems every chance they get, they let it slide.
What is so darn important about Mitts tax returns???!!!
That is NONE of anyone’s business.
Glad to read the answers that
fred gave. We as nation need to wake up and realize that Obama is settingup a socialistgovernmen and we will no longer have the right to liberty and happines. Norwill we be free to worship as we choose. I am not some young person with a vivid imagination. I am 71 yrs old and am alarmed by the lack of respect that is being shown not only to ourtroops but to our country. We need to start earning back that respect. Tax returns are not important. What is, is the number without jobs’ houses food medicene just the basics oflife. we need to open our hearts and help other.
His birth certificate, past drug use, shady associations, possible foreign student status etc. are a mute issue and it has nothing to do what’s happening right now domestically and internationally. He and his appointees are incapable to govern and can only use old Bolshevik techniques to deceive, divide, instigate and sermonize. Stop worrying about the birth certificate and focus rather on their carbon print and consistent lies.
With all the investigative tools at our fingertips, why has Obama’s TRUE personal background not been brought to light all these years? Mr. Ex-President Nixon seems like a pussy-cat compared to Obama’s and Mrs. Clinton’s desire to see redistribution and OUR Constitutional Rights wrenched from us! They should be tried for ” Treason” with their apologies to our enemies. WAKE UP CITIZENS! FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS come November. STAND UP AND BE COUNTED! I pray for this every night.
I would like to thank Mr. Thompson for allowing my first reply to be published. Unfortunately, I still have to report that conservatives do not have the courage to address the issue of Obama’s constitutionality. I have had the correlative and corroborative evidence needed to impeach Obama for two years now! I give you a short explanation of the problem by quoting from my eBook ON GARD, OBAMA, YOU ARE AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL PRESIDENT . . . available at Amazon.com: “I must confess that I have sadly discovered, after many emails and telephone inquiries directed to famous news commentators, conservative radio and television talk-show hosts, conservative constitutional lawyers, national conservative political analysts, best-selling conservative authors who claim to want nothing more than a one-term presidency for Obama, many conservative foundations and organizations, one potential presidential candidate, three actual presidential candidates, the Republican Party, conservative Super PACs, a plethora of individuals who claim to be birthers, the Speaker of the House, and five branches of the Tea Party including the Tea Party Express, that none are interested in what I have to say. Was the reason they snubbed me that I was forthright in my wish to make some money to offset the $30,000 I spent to buy books spanning five centuries? The federal tax laws require that I make money from the books I purchased before I can take them off as deductions. Was it that the conservatives feared the favorite Democratic tool of political correctness and the Democrats’ favorite epithet of racist so much they ran and hid? Were the conservatives so brain-washed by progressives and liberals to believe that the presidential eligibility clause stood in the way of globalization and should be changed anyway to include almost everyone? Were conservatives convinced that natural-born was indeed the same as native-born? Were they put off by my demand that they sign a nondisclosure agreement before they hear what I had to offer? This way they wouldn’t have to pay for something they didn’t think was worth anything, but I would still come away with the protection that they could not legally divulge my results until I was ready.” Later I was willing to give the information away for free, but found no takers. Conservatives are brainwashed and deathly afraid of losing power over confronting the natural-born citizen issue because Karl Rove has advised them that birtherism is silly and hogwash propagated by crazies and O’Reilly and Coulter have called us wackos. They firmly believe that telling the truth will hinder the chances of Romney getting elected.
I receive a govt check every month…Am I a bad person? (disability from Viet Nam)
Fred,
I appreciate your straight talk.
Neither Romney or Obama have mentioned the “Czars” in the debates. Do you have any resource that gives the amount that is being spent on these superflous departments? The appointment of them is a huge expansion of the federal government and must be a huge part of the deficit spending that is going on.
Thanks.