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Originally posted by AXiD670
One thing that really angers me about the current administration is they tout their "No Child Left Behind" program...but then they go and cut all federal funding for the program. Their recent budget release shows they are willing to spend more $$$ on election reform than they are on education. In my opinion, the best kind of election reform IS to spend $$$ on education. That way your voter pool is better educated and is going to make a better choice (of course...the Republicans know that would mean more Democratic votes... ).

I am definitely anti-war. I think the current war is pointless and an absolute waste of taxpayer money. But then again, that's just my opinion. I think our money would have been better spent in other areas, such as tracking down Osama and everyone else involved in 9-11 and making sure they were properly punished.

I am pro-choice and I am anti-handguns.

I am pro-environment and I am anti-"big business." However...on the business v. union issue I am pretty much down the middle because I am also anti-union. I think that unions were a necessary evil in the past, but now it has swung too far the other direction, and they are unnecessary 9 times out of 10.

I do not believe in the death penalty.

I believe in the separation of church and state. This does not mean I do not go to church or that I am not a religious person.

I am against any amendment that would prohibit flag-burning. That however, does not mean that I am going to go out tomorrow and burn one. But, the Republican way of thinking, it seems, is that if you support something, that means that you are going out and doing it. Like someone said in another thread (I think it was DeltAlum), that just because the Vietnam vets came back and protested the war, it didn't mean that they were all about Communism.

I think it is better to be liberal when writing laws than to be conservative because if you are liberal, you have a better chance of including everyone and less chance of alienating people's basic freedoms. Isn't that what the founders of our country wanted? To allow people more freedom? That seems like it must have been pretty liberal thinking back in the 1700s.

Amen!