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Presidetial election 2000 
The two main candidates for the election of 2000 are George W. Bush and Al Gore. Al Gore,
of course, being the current Vice President. I have never been into the whole politics
game. But, know that I am 18 years old I feel I should start paying more attention to
political issues. I don't know if I am going to vote this year, and if I did I don't know
who I would vote for. I really don't know much about either canditate. All I know is that
Gore is Vice President to Clinton, and we all know how most people feel about Clinton. In
order for me to make a judgment on who I am going to vote for I would like to know where
each canditate satnds on different political issues. Some of the issues I will be
covering are abortion, crime, drugs, education, environment, and gun control. These are
the issues I am most interested in, and I would like a president who agrees with me on a
good portion of these issues. To start off, I am going to state where I stand on each of
the isssues. I then will sate where each presidential canditate stands on each issue. The
first topic I would like to discuss is abortion. Abortion is kind of a big thing to me. I
am one of those who is against abortion. I feel abortion is kind of like murder. I know
it is easy for me to say that abortion is wrong, because I have never gotten a girl
pregnant before. I understand that some tees make mistakes and want to correct those
mistakes. But, I feel more people should stand up for their mistakes and take some
action. Instead of having the baby aborted, the parents should put the child up for
adoption. What if that kid was going to come up with a cure for cancer? I bet the parents
would not want o abort the child then. Abortion is one area I agree with Bush. Bush wants
to cut down the amount of abortions given out the whole year. Bush also wants to turn the
choice of having abortions over to the state. Gore, on the other hand, wants to leave the
choice in the woman's hand. He feels it is up to her to decide whether or not to have an
abortion. Gore also wants medicare to pay for abortions. I feel that it is totally wrong
for the government to support the murder of an unborn child. I have to say that I am a
little disappointed that neither canditate is taking a direct stand against abortion.
Although I agree with Bush more than Gore I feel both candidates are trying to steer
around the abortion topic. The next issue I would like to discuss is crime. As we all
know crime is a big problem in our country. I am in favor of adding more funding to
increase police officers pay and to increase the overall bettering of policing across the
country. I feel police officers are extremely under paid for the jobs that they do. Crime
is one issue I agree with Gore on. Gore wants to intensify the fight against crime. He
wants to add 50000 more police to the streets in the next 10 years. Bush on the other
hand didn't have too much in speaking out against crimes. Both candidates support having
the death penalty. But, only Gore states that he wants to have the death penalty for the
killing of a federal officer. I like that idea because it shows that Gore is going to
protect his own. The next issue I am going to discuss ties in with the previous issue of
crime, drugs. Drugs are a huge problem right now in our society. Almost everyone I know
has done a drug at some point in their lives. I know growing up in Chicago I came across
a lot of people with a drug problem. But, it is not only in the city where drug use
occurs. It happens in the suburbs, the farms, and everywhere else. The fight against
drugs is an area I feel both candidates should concentrate. Because almost ever family
has probably been touched by a drug problem. Gore and Bush both feel similar in the drug
policy. Both candidates want to toughen up the war against drugs. They both want to
concentrate more effort on stopping drug transportation from Colombia. One thing I like
about Gore is that he admitted to using marijuana when he was younger. This shows me that
he is an honest and open guy. I don't feel people should judge him on this because almost
everybody has tried marijuana at some point or another. Another topic I would like to
touch up on is that of education. I feel the education in our country could use some
tuning up. We can accomplish this by adding additional funding to the public school
systems. Especially, the public school systems in the cities. I feel the government
doesn't pay enough attention to some of these schools just because they are in bad
neighborhoods. Gore wants to add 170 billion dollars in funding to schools in the next 10
years. He also wants to add 2 million teachers in the next 10 years. Bush wants to add
400 million to after school projects and he wants to add money to help pay for more
teachers. One thing I love about Gore is that he is in favor of letting students do
voluntary prayer in school. It sickens me when I hear that prayer has been banned in
school. It is such a terrible thing to ban religion because God is the center of so many
peoples lives. One thing I am happy to see both presidents standing for is better funding
for college students. Both candidates want to make it easier for a college student to
attend college. They plan to do this by easing up the requirements on getting a loan, and
by adding more money in the scholarship pool. Gore wants to reduce class sizes so the
students can learn easier. I feel both candidates are for bettering schools it just seems
like Gore wants it a little more than Bush. ] My next topic of choice is going to be that
of Environment. I know tree huggers and hippies is what people think of when they hear
environment. But, the environment has got to be one of the most important issue of this
years coming election. We are living in times were people are actually questioning when
we are going to run out of natural resources. What would happen if the world ran out of
oil? How far back would that set transportation and our economy? For the first time ever
these are issues that are going to have to be considered. Look at how are ozone is going.
From what I hear there is a huge rip up toward Anartica. I can only imagine what would
happen to a person living near there. For all these reasons I want a president that is
sincerely concerned with our environment. In researching Gore I found that he wants to
invest more in clean water, air, and land. Which is wonderful, because we all know how
sad it is for people not to have clean drinking water. We can only hope our next
president will help the people in tose poor counties without clen drinking water. Other
things gore said was that he wants to help safe the rain forest. Obivously, another good
thing because we need the rain forest to breathe. Finally, Gore wants to lead a global
environment movement. I feel Gore has Bush beaten in the environmental issues. Because
the only significantly big thing I could find on Bush was the fact that he wanted to
spend money to preserve national parks