The Oct. 7th “Town Hall” debate between presidential candidates Obama and McCain is accepting questions from the public. All questions will be forwarded to moderator Tom Brokaw for consideration.
PHI submitted the following question:
By 2016, we will need a million more direct-care workers to care for our elders. But direct-care jobs pay poverty wages and have massive rates of turnover. How will you ensure that America has a workforce that is prepared to care for its aging population?
How YOU can submit a question (deadline Friday, Oct. 3)
Here’s how you can resubmit PHI’s debate question or submit a question of your own:
- Go to www.mydebates.com
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- Wait for animation to end or click “skip this”
- Enter your question (or resubmit ours)
If you do submit a question, please let us know by posting a comment below.
(hat tip to The Future of Aging blog)
Aaron Toleos, Online Communications Director
atoleos@phinational.org
Thanks for the debate question. I submitted it as well.
Debate Question:
If McCains proposal to put Social Security in the Market and additionally to take a trillion $ out of Medicare & Medicaid programs then all those programs would virtually become bankrupt and eliminated for Seniors by his device.
What will happen to Seniors who receive nursing home services funded for them by those eliminated programs?
Do Seniors understand the issue well enough to vote.
I would like to know what we gave up in the bail out. What can government now do to investigate or spy on us by looking into our credit reports and backgrounds. What other options were added and that are not discussed in the open and how will it impact us as americans?
In regards to the free running of Wall St and why we are in the situation we are in right now.
I have scratched my head for years when I pull up a web browser to check my financials and see that the market is CLOSED, yet there is this thing called “after hours”. My question is why? This is like the store closing and then opening a gambling casino in the back room. Again, why is the market CLOSED,. yet some are allowed to continue to trade. Closed means closed.
In addition, the SEC allows, in its rules and regulations, these individuals named analysts to say any and everyting they want to say about companies that they are even allowed to own stock in. I see this as the biggest corruption of the US. How is this any different than insider trading? I work for a company and read stuff that is so far from the truth all the time from these analysts that drives the stock in one way or another. Why is this allowed and again, I feel this is killing our economy and making these analysts rich at the sake of millions of others.
All I have to say it that this is a sad state of affairs when corrupt indivuals are allowed to get away with our hard earned money.
Tx,
Bill Lahey
I would like to know if either candidate has made a full disclosure of their health. The job of president is one of the most stressful jobs that one can hold. At least three times in our history a president’s health issue has had unfortunately consequences for the nation.
The first was Woodrow Wilson who had a stroke in office while the U.S. was voting on Joining the League of Nations.
The second was Franklin Roosevelt who was in poor health at the Yalta Conference and died about the same time that the Allies had an opportunity to move on the Berlin in World War II. The opportunity to take Berlin was lost as a consequence.
The third was Dwight Eisenhower who had a stroke and was suffering from depression just before a disarmament summit with the Soviet Union. Because of his depression, generals and technicians convinced him to make one last U-2 flight over the Soviet Union. The U-2 was shot down and the summit was cancelled. This led to three more decades of the Cold War according to several historians.