Dems and Reps keep out
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Dems and Reps keep out
| Fri, 07-23-2004 - 9:51pm |
This thread is dedicated to Moderate Centrists, Independent voters, third party enthusiasts, Libertarians, Greens, and even Communists - in other words anybody who is not a Republican or a Democrat.
I bet you a cookie this thread gets hardly a friendly response! Prove me wrong!

Elaine
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Sorry to have taken so long to respond to your post.
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However, in order for your vote to be effective in our "winner takes all" electoral system, you do have to choose.
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However, I also know that when you move beyond the local level and your vote is translated into Electoral College votes; you have to acknowledge that it will benefit or hurt one or the other of the two major parties. That shouldn't keep anyone from voting for the candidate who most effectively addresses the important issues.
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I think that states should be responsible for managing their money as well as the Federal Government, and while I know many programs are Federally mandated, these programs should see some money from the Federal Government. I do not however, feel that it is the Federal Governments responsibility to bail out states that mismanage their budgets, or else you end up in the cycle of constantly doing this.
Second, if it were not for 9/11, most economists projected that this economy would have created an additional 3 to 3.5 million jobs on top of the 1.9 million it has created in the past 12 months. Add to this the 800,000 or so jobs that went poof with the collapse of the dot.com boom, and you have a thriving economy, where unemployment is close to 4.2% (or lower).
If you want to look at fiscal responsibility, I look at the deficit of Bush, and I look at the one project that Kerry was a supporter of (The Big Dig). Bush has run a deficit of $450 billion for an entire country (which I am not happy with). Kerry's pet project ran $15 billion over budget. This gets me to wonder what on earth he would do with the budget for a nation with thousands and thousands of projects each year..... it scares me.
Compare the budget of one project in one state to a budget for an entire nation.
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