Diogenes' six: Four questions for everybody.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Four questions for everybody.

Is there corruption in government?
Do you intend to end it?
How?
When?

But especially, they are questions that should be answered
by every candidate for political office.

My friend Mark longs for a return to the day, when if a
politician did not answer a legitimate question from the
press, the only question that any other member of the press
would ask, would be that question again, until it was finally
answered.

Even if ending the corruption and incompetence in government
won't balance the budget, shouldn't we end them anyway,
as a matter of principle?

Why would any candidate refuse to answer these four
questions; candidly, forthrightly, and honestly?

Except to hide the truth.

For incumbents, there is a fifth question;