What will you do if Bush wins?

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Registered: 08-20-2004
What will you do if Bush wins?
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Fri, 08-20-2004 - 12:02pm
I would like to know what you all will do if Bush wins? I don't know if I can handle another 4 years. Any ideas of how to reclaim our country and restore democracy and freedom? I'm worried that another 4 years will increase the authoritariansm and absolute power that Bush has come to claim and further trample on our constitution and individual liberties. I'm truly frightened.

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Registered: 05-24-2004
Mon, 08-30-2004 - 2:40am
Yeah at mcdonalds.
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Registered: 04-18-2004
Mon, 08-30-2004 - 4:45am

Hello itstybitsy38!


Welcome to the board!

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Registered: 04-18-2004
Mon, 08-30-2004 - 4:46am

Hi coffeecat37!


Welcome to the board!

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Registered: 04-18-2004
Mon, 08-30-2004 - 4:47am

Hello angiet4673!


Welcome to the board!

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Registered: 04-18-2004
Mon, 08-30-2004 - 4:48am

Hi nightingale14!


Welcome to the board!

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 08-30-2004 - 6:57am
<<"Just because he is a department head at a college means he is chock-full-o-fact???? come on now.">>.....I do believe that Singer's resume (an atmospheric physicist,

Djie

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Registered: 02-23-2004
Mon, 08-30-2004 - 8:51am


No, we're actually not all free to believe whatever we like. Some religions believe polygamy is ok, it's illegal. Some religions believe a wife should be stoned for being unfaithful to her husband. That's illegal. Religion, morality and law are not, and never have been, completely separate entiities. They are inextricably intertwined. Personally I am pro-life but it has nothing to do with my religion , any more than my being anti-child abuse has anything to do with my religion-it's just something I believe is right. The "religious right" label is a red herring-the fact is about half the people in this country are pro-life-I don't think they're all right wing religious fanatics, that's just the way the far left likes them to be portrayed.

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Registered: 02-23-2004
Mon, 08-30-2004 - 8:55am

Sure, there are jobs out there, but if it costs more for childcare, transportation and other expenses than the job pays, should one take the job just for the sake of having a job?>

Typical Democrat logic-one shouldn't work because one can't afford childcare. I have to ask, why would someone have children if they could not afford to care for them? And if they choose to have children despite the fact that they can't afford them, why should I have to pay to raise them? I always thought we were responsible for caring for our own children.

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Registered: 08-21-2004
Mon, 08-30-2004 - 9:20am
Dear Venus:

Throughout our nation's history we as a group have purposefully or inadvertantly shown descrimenation towards particular groups of people. We at times have wanted to ignore those horrid realities about ourselves, but does not change the reality. We descriminated against various minorities, most notably the black population, and we are still working at addressing issues of discrimination and equality where women are concerned. Your not wanting to admit that a discrimination is occuring towards single/married people with no kids, does not mean it does not exist.

********Already there are signs among singles of a growing disenchantment with their benefits situation. Some single workers contend that they are stuck paying for such benefits as health care for their married colleagues. Singles also are more likely than married workers to take on extra, odd-hour work on short notice. A recent study by the Conference Board, a global management organization based in New York, reported that about 25 percent of 300 professionals surveyed believed they were having to shoulder more work with less to show for it than married workers. ********

The types of real life descriminations listed from the artical above are but one example of the descrimination we deal with as a group on a daily basis...though you refuse to accept it, my issue with school taxes are yet another example of that descrimination that you wish to be blind towards. For instance, did you know that in the IRS code alone that there are over 1100 specific tax breaks given specifically to the class of people known as married with children that are not available to those without children....sorry, but that is not justice and fairness for all, that is not a tax code/law created to afford equality for all.

In fact, though not widely known, one of the reasons for the Christian Rights move to thwart gay marriages has nothing to do with the Sacred position of the marriage within the church and holy matrimony, but instead it is the groups selfish unwillingness to have to share in the dispersement of all of these benefits.

What those who are married with children do not realize, or do not want to see is that the axis of balance is shifting and as it shifts those of us making different life choices are finding our voice and demanding that this country truly provide us with equal rights, which means equal pay and benefits packages, and an equal fair and equitable sharing of this countries tax burdens, and as this occurs, the American Family contingent is doing everything it can to deny that this descrimination exists.

Virginia Business Online: Unfair to singles? (Article quoted from.)


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Registered: 08-30-2004
Mon, 08-30-2004 - 9:27am
Well, Bush is a liar and he should be impeached for making this country LESS<-- yes, LESS safe. Common sense would suggest:

1. Attacking a nation under FALSE pretense will inevitably have them retaliate! So, how in the world are we safer in the USA?

2. The weapons of mass destruction was a LIE unless OIL is considered WMD!

3. Iraq had NOTHING<-- to do with 911, absolutely NOTHING!

4. There are many job losses since this idiot took office, don't even blame the Democrats.

Should I go on? :)

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