Sen. Ben Cardin: Monday August 20, 1-2 p.m.

MY QUESTIONS DAN SHOULD ASK CARDIN:

YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE 2008 DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.....STRONG MIDDLE-CLASS AND SAFETY NETS FOR THE POOR? IF SO, GIVEN THAT YOU HAVE BEEN IN OFFICE THE ENTIRE 20 YEARS IT TOOK TO CREATE THIS HUGE MESS THE COUNTRY FACES, HOW DO YOU SEE YOURSELF RUNNING AGAIN THIS FALL?

YOU AND ALL THE OTHER MARYLAND DEMOCRATS VOTED TO END THE GLASS-STEAGALL WALL IN BANKING EVEN AS HEATED DEBATES ON HUGE INCOME INEQUITY AND MEGA-INDUSTRIES WITH NO ACCOUNTABILITY RAGED....EVERYONE KNEW THEN WE WOULD HAVE TODAY'S SITUATION.....DOESN'T THAT MEAN YOU ARE A BAD DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE?

WHEN YOU JUMPED ON BOARD DURING THE DEBT CEILING CRISIS FOR THE GRAND BARGAIN THAT MAKES HUGE CUTS IN SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE WHILE CUTTING TAXES ACROSS THE BOARD FOR THE RICH AND CORPORATIONS....THE ONLY THING STOPPING THIS BEING A TEA PARTY REVOLT, YOU HAVING A 14TH AMENDMENT SAYING DEBT CEILINGS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL, DO YOU THINK YOU ARE REALLY MEETING THE OBJECTIVES OF THE PARTY PLATFORM?

WHEN YOU SAY THAT TIERED WAGES FOR GOVERNMENT WORKERS ARE JUST FINE AS MARYLAND'S MIDDLE-CLASS IS CRUSHED WITH LABOR CONCESSIONS AND PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS THAT DRIVE ALL WORKERS TO POVERTY, DO YOU REMEMBER THAT IT WAS THE PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS 20-30 YEARS AGO THAT DROVE THE MIDDLE-CLASS BOOM BY FORCING PRIVATE BUSINESS TO RAISE WAGES AND BENEFITS TO COMPETE FOR WORKERS?

EVEN AS THE CAUSE FOR THE SHORTAGES IN PENSION FUNDS AND HOUSING FORECLOSURES WERE CAUSE BY MASSIVE BANK FRAUD, WE DON'T HEAR ANYTHING FROM YOU ON BRINGING BILLIONS OF AS YET COLLECTED FRAUD PENALTIES BACK TO MARYLAND WITH NO ONE GOING TO JAIL. WITH FINANCIAL REFORM BASICALLY GUTTED AND BANKS OPERATING AS USUAL, DO YOU THINK IT ODD NOT TO HEAR ELECTED POLITICIANS SHOUTING OUT FOR THAT SOLUTION RATHER THAN PUBLIC SECTOR PAY CUTS AND ENTITLEMENT CUTS?

WE ALL KNOW THAT HEALTH CARE REFORM IS CHIEFLY A MECHANISM FOR CREATING HEALTH SYSTEMS THAT WILL BE AS LARGE AS WALL STREET BANKS, JUST AS PROFIT-DRIVEN AND UNACCOUNTABLE. KNOWING THAT THEY WILL NOT CARE FOR THE POOR AND ELDERLY ....HOW DO YOU THINK YOU ARE SUPPORTING ENTITLEMENTS, WHEN THEY WILL NOT EXIST IN TEN YEARS WITH THIS GROWTH OF CORPORATE SIZE?

YOU TOTED 'KOOL SMILES' AS A DENTAL CARE FOR THE UNDER-SERVED. THIS IS AN EXAMPLE TO COME OF WHAT HEALTH CARE FOR SENIORS AND THE POOR WILL LOOK LIKE WHEN NATIONAL CHAIN HEALTH INDUSTRIES FORM. KOOL SMILES IS UNDER INVESTIGATION ACROSS THE COUNTRY FOR MASSIVE ENTITLEMENT FRAUD AND PATIENT ABUSE AND YET IN MARYLAND POLITICIANS EMBRACE THE COMPANY.

I could go on forever on Ben's voting record and how he is single-handedly responsible for the state of our union. He in fact knew all of this would occur because he is a Third Way politician working for free-markets and protecting wealth.....what we have now was Third Way objectives. Why are they running as Democrats? To give you and I no choice but corporate. Why will Dan Rodricks not ask one of these very basic questions....we in fact never hear any of this on any news media discussion in Maryland?