Is It Ruth Bader Trump? And Other Questions For the Fox Business News Debate

New York Sun ^ | 11/10/2015 | By IRA STOLL

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The news that Fox News’s Neil Cavuto will be one of the moderators for this week’s Republican presidential debate should reassure anyone fearing a replay of last month’s CNBC debacle.

Mr. Cavuto was known in New York Sun newsroom as “The Great Cavuto.” The other moderators who will be participating — the Wall Street Journal’s Gerald Baker and Fox Business News’s Maria Bartiromo — are no slouches, either. But in case any of the three need any last-minute inspiration, here are some questions that are from by my own reporting in New Hampshire and that might be illuminating to see answered, or at least asked, on Tuesday night.

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For Senator Ted Cruz: You voted against fast track negotiation power for President Obama on Trans-Pacific Partnership. Are you going to want that authority from Congress to negotiate your own trade deals as president? Can you explain why Republican voters should be comfortable that on trade, you agree with socialist Senator Bernie Sanders and Democrat Hillary Clinton that the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a bad deal? Do you really in your gut oppose this free trade deal, or are you just pandering to anti-trade talk-radio hosts and their audiences?

Do you see any irony in the fact that a Canadian-born Cuban-American such as yourself is basing his campaign in part on opposition to President Obama’s “unconstitutional amnesty” for illegal immigrants?

For Donald Trump: Last week in New Hampshire, responding to a question from the Washington Examiner’s Philip Klein, you said you supported the use of the government’s property-seizing eminent domain power not just for roads and bridges but also for private commercial projects such as casinos or oil pipelines. In essence, in answering about the substance of the Kelo v. New London Supreme Court case, you sided with the Supreme Court liberals

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

I'd like to ask every single one of them:

"It's clear that the Social Security and Medicare programs are actuarily unsound, with multi-trillion dollar deficits projected within the next few decades. What do you propose as a plan to bring the expenditures of these programs in line with their income?"

It's just too bad that the Huckster has been kicked to the kid's table because I'd love to watch him blow smoke on this one.

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

And it’s similarly too bad that Christie has been demoted, because wrong as he is on many other things, he is dead right on this one.

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RE: Social Security

Ted Cruz provided a good compromise answer to this in the CNBC debate which we’ll have to seriously consider -— Keep the promises to the retirees and near retirees but allow the younger folks ( he mentions people his age and younger ) to put money in their own tax free retirement account similar to what the Federal government allows its employees to do.

Unfortunately, the last CNBC debate did not ask any questions about Medicare ( they preferred the gotcha questions, which Ted Cruz amazingly summarized in less than 40 seconds ).

[MNJohnnie]

Dear Moron Journalists

YOU still do NOT get it. The Debates are NOT about you. Did you learn NOTHING from the CNBC debacle?

We are not interested in you mugging for the cameras. Ask serious policy questions in a direct, no nonsense style. then shut up and let the candidate answer. It is up to the OTHER candidates, not your MORONS in the MEDIA, to take on the canidates answers.

This is NOT about you Media clowns posturing for your the rest of the Clown Media. You are her eto moderate the debate not be part of it.

Morons all. And you wonder these stooges wonder why they have a7% approval rating with the American people?

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

That plan doesn't address the fact that the liabilities for those 55 and up are way, way more than what's available to pay them. On the order of a ~25% shortfall.

Are we gonna cut the payout, or keep the taxes on those still working in addition to what they put in their own self directed accounts, or some of both??