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

To: TimF who wrote (3093)	10/18/2000 6:37:12 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

Right-wing views of Bush: - Pollute the environment for personal gain - Promote drilling, mining and clear-cutting even in most precious last wild-life refuges - Refuse any special treatment to any minorities - Help no countries with black populations - Accept dirt-poor Mexicans - Take care of the rich first - Fight against campaign finance reform - Allow concealed gun permits even to questionable characters - Privatize medicare and social security - Cut crucial government programs in the name of "small government" - But increase the military - Fund un-needed military programs which the defence corporations want to sell us - De-regulate industry even if it costs us an S+L debacle - Be a memnber of an all white male country club - Be against a woman's right to choose - Talk tough on drugs but ignore the human problems - Talk tough on crime but ignore poverty - Talk tough on public schools but take away money from them - Accept low teacher pay and fight their union - Fight unions in general - Minimize victims right to sue corporations - Give tax breaks to cronies and the very rich - Don't pay off the deficit - Support local control meaning local right-wingerers can dominate schools, law enforcement and all the rest. - Refuse to show sympathy for victims of hate crime - Try to get by on slogans and charisma - Avoid giving specific answers about programs you mean axe - Avoid putting money behind alternative clean fuels - Allow energy waste but rant and rave about DC waste - Be a vindictive prude about sex even if you're horny too - Vote against cop-killer bullets because NRA says so - Vote against school lunch and Headstart - Give 1% of millions in income to charity - Lax government controls on white collar crime but lock a kid up for 20 years for a gram of cocaine - Deny you snorted coke yourself as a kid I am forgetting something?