AXO Alum, I will do my best to answer you point for point.
First of all, equal rights is the ideal (if I knew how to underline, that word would be underlined) basis of our freedom. The reality is far from it.
As far as what politicians have I seen who have come up with exact numbers, Gore has done it throughout this campaign (i.e. Bush's 1 billion dollar social security bumble).
In terms of big brother, it is an interesting contradiction that you would support a candidate who is at once against big government, but would then presume to tell the woman of the nation what they can and can not do with their own bodies.
As far as school vouchers are concerned, not only are they not a feasible solution, because only one in twenty child would qualify for them--not to mention the fact that these vouchers would not pay the entire cost of the school, but they would siphon monies away from the public schools that can use as much funding as possible. (Another interesting contradiction, is it not another form of big government to have governmentally funded vouchers--this is not to even think of all the red tape that you would have to go through to obtain the voucher money.)
Bush says that he is about offering choices, but Gore is about offering options. How can you have a choice if you do not have options. Gore is about giving insurance to the 44 million children in this nation that do not have insurance. Gore is about offering everyone a fair shake at an excellent education, not just the privileged and the one in twenty who would qualify for Bush's proposed vouchers (Interesting, though Dubya's camp claims that Texas has gone up in education it is still ranked only 48. Dubya has admitted more that once that education is not his priority and furthermore the federal government should have no hand in rehabilitating schools across the nation.)
I will stop for now though I have much more. I know that I probably won't change your mind, but others, who are perhaps less informed need to see both sides.
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