President Term: 4 Years Alyson Kennedy Socialist Workers Party

The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the U.S. The president is the chief executive
and is in charge of the executive branch. They can veto and sign bills, sign off on legislation laws, represent the U.S to foreign
countries, and nominate cabinet members and supreme court justices, and they are supposed to represent the best interest of
the American people.

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Question 1: How are you going to make health care easily accessible to everyone? This is another reason to fight for workers and farmers to run the government in the interests of the
toiling majority. Health care, too, is based on making money rather than what human beings need. The insurance companies, pharmaceuticals, and big-business hospitals close down in
“markets” that are not “profitable”, even during the pandemic. The health care system in the US and other wealthy countries will continue to deteriorate as the international economic
crisis deepens. The Cuban Revolution shows what is possible when health care is not provided for profit but because it is needed. This is only possible because the Cuban workers and
farmers took power into their own hands in 1959, and have worked mightily since then to defend it. Despite the fact that they are a poor country they send volunteer doctors and nurses
to countries around the world, where people have never been seen by a doctor in their lives. They have many more doctors and nurses per capita than the US, and their health care
system is based on community clinics with home medical visits. They carry out advanced medical research. As Che Guevara said, “to be a revolutionary doctor, there must first be a
revolution.” Join nurses and other healthcare workers who stand up for better health care, wages and working conditions and to defend their unions!

Question 2: What are your plans regarding covid 19 and what role do scientists and health care experts play? This system has no answer to the pandemic. What the U.S. government —
both Democrat and Republican administrations — defends first are the billions in profits of the large hospital and pharmaceutical corporations. Information on work on vaccines should
be shared openly to allow scientists world-wide to cooperate on their development. What is developed should be free to all, beginning with the elderly and all those most at risk,
including many categories of retail and industrial workers (essential). This is part of a fight for more control of working conditions, for safe conditions for all. Open up the schools and
workplaces with serious and adequate safety provisions! Health care is a right, which can be fought for and won, from cradle to grave.

Question 3: Health care/ what is your stance on childhood and covid vaccination and what steps should we take to educate people on it?  We favor vaccinations at no cost for all and an
educational rather than a coercive way to convince parents that this is a safe way to protect their children.

Question 4: What steps will you take to make sure guns do not end up in the wrong hands? The growing economic, social, and moral crisis of capitalism breeds more and more anti-
social behavior. Against this we fight for a new society based on human solidarity. But blanket schemes to “get guns out of the wrong hands” will be used against the working class. A
society based on solidarity will not need to use guns against each other. But there will be times when workers may be forced to organize to defend picket lines against company thugs
and anti-union gangs, as they did in the 1930’s, and again during the Civil Rights movement in the South (the movie “Deacons For Defense” depicts that). In those situations, the wealthy
classes believe that workers hands are the wrong ones.

Question 5: How do we return economy to pre pandemic state? We call for a government-funded public works program to put the more than twenty-five million people who are today
without a job back to work at union scale wages. We to go to work to repair the crumbling infrastructure, roads, bridges, public transportation, schools, etc. We need more housing, as
well as more child-care centers, more medical clinics and hospitals, drug treatment centers, and the people to staff them. Tens of thousands of more layoffs are coming. We must fight
for jobs that pay enough to live on and to start and maintain a family.

Question 6: How will you ease the racial tension in our country and stop police brutality towards people of color and the LGBTQ+ community? We demand that cops who brutalize
anyone regardless of their race, nationality, or sexual orientation be prosecuted and punished, and we actively participate in actions demanding that, whether for George Floyd, Breonna
Taylor, or the Caucasian rancher in Council, Idaho, Jack Yantis. There is less individual racism among the working class now than ever in US history. The massive outpourings of people of
all races and nationalities in protest, demanding “charge the cops” and so many others in cities and towns across the country this summer were a profound demonstration of that fact.
But we live under a system of exploitation that perpetuates and reproduces grinding race and sex oppression just the same. Part of fighting for jobs for all means that we fight together
for good jobs for those who have been discriminated against and shut out of them. Fighting for amnesty for all undocumented immigrants in the United States cuts across anti-immigrant
prejudice. Fight racist discrimination and the entire capitalist injustice system, with its frame-ups, “plea bargains,” onerous bail and “three strike” prison sentences, all of which
disproportionately hit workers who are Black. We demand the right to vote for ex-prisoners and all workers behind bars.

Question 7 What will you do to stop or reduce climate change? The profit-driven damage to the earth’s environment is a powerful argument for workers and farmers to take control of
industry and the use of the world’s resources. To defend nature, we must take it out of the hands of those who currently own or control production, distribution, and sale of commodities.
Commodities are not produced because they are necessary or good, but only because they can be sold for profit. This profit is not used to better the lives of the vast majority of
humanity, but to line the pockets of a tiny minority, the owners of industry and finance. Promoting mere reform will have a temporary effect at best, as long as everything from human
labor to the products of nature is an object for sale — the basis of capitalism. The stewardship of nature, of the natural environment, falls to the working class. To change the way land,
air, water, and the very lives of the vast majority of humanity are used and abused we must consciously work to take political power away from the exploiters, so that the billions of
workers and farmers, who have no profit interest in reckless production or the distribution of dangerous/shoddy goods, may decide what shall be made and how it shall be done. The
unions will need to be at the forefront of this fight. Immediately, we must fight for solidarity in every workplace, workers control of production, and a labor party, a political party based
on the interests of the working class. We say every fight for safer working conditions is a step in the direction of worker’s control. Every fight to defend farmers from being driven off the
land helps defend them from the agribusiness giants and financial industry that exploits them now. These fights prepare our class for the fight for political power.

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