Political Positions Quick Statement - add yours

[Joe Manco]

Al Gore is a woman.

And you don't get things through congress by politicking; you get things through via payoffs, blackmail, or threatening family members.

Yours truly,

Joe

[Ronin]

Joe:

Is there a difference?

If that's the case, nice-guy Nader certainly isn't going to cut it.

[klif]

Lets see how close we are John

NO- Abortion Is A Woman's Right
NO- We should Require Companies To Hire More Women/Minorities
NO- Sexual Orientation should Protected By Civil Rights Laws
YES- Organized Prayer should be allowed In Public Schools
YES- I support the Death Penalty
YES- I support Mandatory "Three Strikes" Sentencing Laws
YES- I support an Absolute Right To Gun Ownership
NO- There should be More Federal Funding For Health Coverage
NO but we should be allowed to opt out of it- Social Security should be privatized
NO- Parents should be able to Choose Schools Via Vouchers
NO- We shoudl Spend more Resources To Stop Global Warming
NO (surprized?)- Drug Use Is Immoral: Enforce Laws Against It
??- We should Allow Churches To Provide Welfare Services
YES!! fixed %- We should Make the Income Tax Flatter And Lower
NO- Immigration Helps Our Economy - Encourage It
Yes and NO (depends on the bill)- We should Support And Expand Free Trade
YES- More Spending On Armed Forces Personnel
NO- Reduce Spending On Missile Defense ("Star Wars")
YES but only because of the cheap slave labor products that undercut domestic business - We should Link Human Rights To Trade With China
Isreal YES, Russia NO, others maybe- We should Continue Foreign Aid To Russia, Israel And Others

[Mako]

my 2 cents worth....

OK, JB, read these and let me know what "catagory" I fall into. How would you rate my political views?
(i.e. liberal, conservative, fiscal conservative/social liberal, etc. etc.)



(Limited Rape/Incest) - Abortion Is A Woman's Right
NO - We should Require Companies To Hire More Women/Minorities (hire by qualificaton)

NO - sexual Orientation should Protected By Civil Rights Laws (no, unless men who like big "bunda" brazilians get
inclusion too!)

NO(not institutional, but student led) Organized Prayer should be allowed In Public Schools.
(i'm a christian, but why is school the place for this?)

NO - I support the Death Penalty
(I'm total "sanctity of life" here, no on abortion,
no on the death penalty.) Of course, if someone hurt one of my daughters, i'd kill them personally, but I find it abhorrent that our govt., as a system, kills people.
Very strange.

NO - I support Mandatory "Three Strikes" Sentencing Laws

YES (barring convicted felons)- I support an Absolute Right To Gun Ownership

NO - There should be More Federal Funding For Health Coverage (since when is this a right guaranteed by govt?)

YES - Social Security should be privatized (if you can't outperform the SSA w/your investments, your inept.)

YES - Parents should be able to Choose Schools Via Vouchers
(open it up for competimtion, make schools compete
and watch them improve)

NO - We should Spend more Resources To Stop Global Warming

NO - Drug Use Is Immoral: Enforce Laws Against It
(drugs are bad, mmmkay, but the "drug war" has been
a huge failure)

YES (supplementally, not in lieu of current services)- We should Allow Churches To Provide Welfare Services

YES! YES! YES! - We should Make the Income Tax Flatter And Lower (I've been successful in life, so please take more of my money to support failed big government programs! NOT!)

NO - Immigration Helps Our Economy - Encourage It
(I live in South Texas, so I see this one up close.People freak out about immigrants "stealing our jobs". That's ridiculous, not like someone is swimming the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo and stepping in as the CFO of your company. Most of these immigrants are taking jobs you and I wouldn't do. On the other hand, it is becomming a problem as far as numbers go.)

?- We should Support And Expand Free Trade
(i'm still up in the air on this one)

YES - More Spending On Armed Forces Personnel
(spend money retaining quality people)

NO - Reduce Spending On Missile Defense ("Star Wars")

NO - We should Link Human Rights To Trade With China
(it's a business decision. economic prosperity will lead the rest. Once the capitalist "geenie" is out of the bottle, people will get a taste of freedom, and roll from there. Just ask mother russia about this one.)

ISRAEL YES, RUSSIA NO - We shoudl Continue Foreign Aid To Russia, Israel And Others. (while we do, as a defense measure, owe it to ourselves to make sure the economy of russia (and former soviet republics) isn't completely unstable, we don't need to prop them up.)

[Tony10]

Okay, I'll play:

- Abortion Is A Woman's Right
Absolutely

- We should Require Companies To Hire More Women/Minorities
Hire based on ability; insure, however that a qualified person is never DENIED a job because of race/sex

- Sexual Orientation should Protected By Civil Rights Laws
Absolutely

- Organized Prayer should be allowed In Public Schools
Nope. Church and state are to remain separated. Go to church to pray.

- I support the Death Penalty
Undecided. But a) it is NOT a deterrent and b) you're dreaming if you think lots of innocent people haven't been put to death. In Illinois right now it's on hold after 13--THIRTEEN--death row inmates were exonerated. Most of them or all were black.

- I support Mandatory "Three Strikes" Sentencing Laws
These are ridiculous and clog our prisons with non-violent offenders. Another feel-good "get tough" measure that does nothing except cost us lots of money

- I support an Absolute Right To Gun Ownership
Undecided on the specifics

- There should be More Federal Funding For Health Coverage
Yes. Don't buy the crap about choice being taken away--what do you think being in an HMO is? It doesn't stand for "have more options."

- Social Security should be privatized
No. You've got a 401K to play with your money.

- Parents should be able to Choose Schools Via Vouchers
Undecided.

- We shoudl Spend more Resources To Stop Global Warming
Absolutely; where's the f***ing mystery here?

- Drug Use Is Immoral: Enforce Laws Against It
Bulls**t. Drug addiction is a medical problem, not a criminal one. Legalize pot immediately. 60% of our prison population is non-violent drug offenders.

- We should Allow Churches To Provide Welfare Services
Don't know this issue.

- We should Make the Income Tax Flatter And Lower
God, yes.

- Immigration Helps Our Economy - Encourage It
Not right now. Take care of our own first before we invite guests.

- We should Support And Expand Free Trade
Not if it means more pollution and American companies paying workers 10 cents a day to make sneakers which they turn around and sell to you for $100. You want to profit here, you have to provide something in return. You want to profit from America, you need to contribute to America

- More Spending On Armed Forces Personnel
More SMART spending, not plumbs for defense industry cronies. We should have the best, most intimidating armed forces in the world and it should be obvious to any punk state who's thinking of making trouble

- Reduce Spending On Missile Defense ("Star Wars")
Until you get one that looks like it's going to work, yes.

- We should Link Human Rights To Trade With China
Yes.

- We shoudl Continue Foreign Aid To Russia, Israel And Others
Case-by-case basis.

[Mako]

Tony,

Just to clear one of your points up...


"- Social Security should be privatized
No. You've got a 401K to play with your money."

It's ALL your money!

[Tony10]

Freudian slip perhaps...