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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (1446)	10/6/2000 8:02:12 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

It's called relativism. It doesn't preclude personal morality- it just precludes establishing a morality and forcing others to obey it.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (1446)	10/6/2000 9:06:38 PM
From: stevedhu	Respond to of 10042

Ron, A little more "FICTION: Gore claims an extensive knowledge of law as a result of his extensive study at law school. FACT: Al Gore dropped out of law school. FICTION: Gore claimed that his knowledge of God and spirituality came to complete fruition while "finishing" divinity school. FACT: Al Gore dropped out of divinity school." Subject: Texas Under Governor Bush 1st in student improvement on test scores, especially for African-American and Hispanic students. 1st in reducing the amount of releases and disposal of toxins - more than all 49 other states combined. 1st in the nation to allow a patient to appeal an HMO's decision to deny care. 1st to create a prison ministry to help offenders reintegrate into society. 1 of only 3 states to require reductions of harmful pollution from older, unpermitted utility plants. 1 of only 10 "highly successful" states in reducing welfare rolls between 1995 and 1998. 4th in growth in total personal income. 9th in teacher pay, when adjusted for cost of living and teacher experience. $1.8 billion investment in healthcare initiatives. 1.2 Million jobs created, representing more than 10 percent of new jobs created nationwide and 48,000 new businesses. Lowest unemployment rate in twenty years -- 4.7 percent. Doubled the number of adoptions of abused and neglected children in Texas. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ What did Arkansas look like when Al Gore joined Bill Clinton in 1992? 50th in environmental policy initiatives. 47th in per capita state spending for education. 43rd in per capita spending for higher education. 41st in citizens living in poverty. 45th in children living in poverty. 47th in children without health insurance. 45th in children living in hunger. 43rd in infants born with low birth weight. 47th in personal income. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ America under Clinton-Gore: The number of uninsured Americans increased by more than 8 million. Almost 70 percent of fourth graders in the highest poverty schools cannot read at basic level. Teachers were victims of 1.8 million crimes at school, including 657,000 violent crimes. Illegal drug use among high school seniors increased 78 percent. Federal prosecutions of gun-related offenses decreased by 46 percent. More than 12,000 U.S. soldiers are on food stamps. Enacted a $115 billion tax increase on Social Security benefits. Federal government is the nation's largest polluter, costing taxpayers nearly $400 billion for cleanups. 45 convictions, 72 indictments/misdemeanor charges, and 8 imprisonments related to the 1996 campaign finance scandal, improper conduct by Clinton-Gore cabinet officials, and Whitewater. Enacted the largest income tax increase in the history of the American people. You make the decision for America's future.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (1446)	10/7/2000 5:34:37 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 10042

Unless you're some kind of Vulcan who desires only a rational world where logic rules over one's heart, I would be a bit careful... Logic can be very useful tool for people who have designs on your life, or happiness... Don't concede the your side of the arguement is illogical. Logic is a tool that can be used to come to conclutions but it does not state what those conclutions are. It can show you how an arguement is valid or invalid but by itself it does not say what the conclutions should be. Any logical arguement depends on its premisies. The arguement "all cats are blue, all things that are blue are dogs, thefore all cats are dogs", is a logical arguement. Its conclution is false but if both premises where true the conclution would have to be true. Tim