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Alright everyone, I'm interviewing John Kerry tomorrow via a conference call through the school paper. I'll probably only get a crack at one question, and here's the 3 questions I've come up with so far. But here's the thing, I seriously want input. SERIOUSLY. Me getting this shot at this bag full of hot air means all my friends get a shot too! Give me ideas, tell me what you think! I desperately want to know! Here's the stuff so far:
1) Senator Kerry, I know there's a lot of talk about perscription drugs for the elderly, but it's becoming a problem that's affecting young people as well. In the 18-25 age group, the number of perscription drugs has more than doubled over the past few years as ridalin, aderol, and legal performance enhancing drugs are becoming more prescribed and used nationwide. Esepcially with drugs like ridalin and aderol, there is increased question about how much these drugs are actually needed. Large drug companies, of course, are making huge amounts of money off of these perscriptions, and even cutting checks to doctors who prescribe these drugs. Do you have a plan, whether it be better medical research in identifying chemical imbalances or putting a lid on the drug companies' influence to deal with what is increasingly looking like exploitation of younger people.
2) The United States is, of course, a diverse nation with many problems and gifts as well. Congress alone, which you have been a part of for so many years, deals with any number of issues from transportation to environmental regulations to humanitarian aid in even its daily business. So, to hear one of your aids say last that you will campaign on only the economy and the war and domestic security is surprising, considering the many views you obviously have on different issues. What is motivating this? Is this campaign unwinnable by having a multi-faceted platform?
3)For a younger generation obviously affected by foreign policy, it seems as though your foreign policy will mark a turn back to past days of increasing dependence on the United Nations in international relations and increasing troops where they are needed. Iraq is that country of the year. However, that seems a dangerous culture of foreign policy that will cyclically lead back to missing problems like the Rwandan and Balkan genocides, and, in the end, costing more young American lives than is probably necessary because of botched attempts at cleaning up such problems later on. How do you plan to circumvent such catastrophes -- into which Iraq is constantly getting lumped into -- in the future?
1) Senator Kerry, I know there's a lot of talk about perscription drugs for the elderly, but it's becoming a problem that's affecting young people as well. In the 18-25 age group, the number of perscription drugs has more than doubled over the past few years as ridalin, aderol, and legal performance enhancing drugs are becoming more prescribed and used nationwide. Esepcially with drugs like ridalin and aderol, there is increased question about how much these drugs are actually needed. Large drug companies, of course, are making huge amounts of money off of these perscriptions, and even cutting checks to doctors who prescribe these drugs. Do you have a plan, whether it be better medical research in identifying chemical imbalances or putting a lid on the drug companies' influence to deal with what is increasingly looking like exploitation of younger people.
2) The United States is, of course, a diverse nation with many problems and gifts as well. Congress alone, which you have been a part of for so many years, deals with any number of issues from transportation to environmental regulations to humanitarian aid in even its daily business. So, to hear one of your aids say last that you will campaign on only the economy and the war and domestic security is surprising, considering the many views you obviously have on different issues. What is motivating this? Is this campaign unwinnable by having a multi-faceted platform?
3)For a younger generation obviously affected by foreign policy, it seems as though your foreign policy will mark a turn back to past days of increasing dependence on the United Nations in international relations and increasing troops where they are needed. Iraq is that country of the year. However, that seems a dangerous culture of foreign policy that will cyclically lead back to missing problems like the Rwandan and Balkan genocides, and, in the end, costing more young American lives than is probably necessary because of botched attempts at cleaning up such problems later on. How do you plan to circumvent such catastrophes -- into which Iraq is constantly getting lumped into -- in the future?