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In the two thousand presidential elections there are two main candidates. The candidates
are Al Gore and Governor George W Bush. Al Gore is the candidate running for the
Democratic Party and Bush is running for the Republic party. Each candidate has great
points on certain issues. The president whom won my vote though, was Governor Bush.
Bush won my vote for many reasons. Some of his feelings for certain issues met in
agreement with mine. His main mentor is his father. He is governor, so he definitely has
the leadership skills needed to be president. His tax cut plan seems to be highly
intelligent. He feels that it is important to cut taxes to lessen government spending and
to keep economy growing. He pledges to cut one point three trillion dollars for everyone.
The best part being is that George wants to cut taxes for people of every class. He has
what seems to be a great social security plan, which is to not cut social security for
senior citizens. Bush doesn't even want to think of touching set aside money for social
security. He wants to give younger workers the option to invest some of their
contributions. According to George, his first priority is education. He wants to assist
education any which way he can to increase its efficiency. He feels that the government
should give schools more stately freedom. Governor Bush has a list of principles to
better schools, some of which are: having measurable goals, regular testing,
accountability, local control, and competition. He applied this principle to Texas where
he is govenor and the results are incredible.
Gore did not win my vote. He didn't win it for a few reasons. He is the vice- president;
this is proof that he definitely has the experience. He wants to bring more government
into people's lives. He feels it is trully necessary. Al's first priority is
campaign-finance reform. He feels that it needs many adjustments, for there are so many
flaws in the old laws that contain it. Al wants to reduce the cost of campaigns, restore
the faith of the people, and eliminate the influence of special interests and more. He
offers great ideas but this shouldn't be his first priority. For social security he feels
the system should be kept the same and have Uncle Sam fund extra retirement plans for the
working class. He has many propositions of how to save the social security fund. Some of
his propositions are; to devote all social security surpluses to social security, oppose
efforts to raise the retirement age, three: improving fairness to widows, to create
retirement savings plus accounts, which are tax-free accounts that are maintained by
private financial institutions, and more. This shows he wants more government
involvement. For his tax plan it seems that he wants to pick only certain people to give
assistance to and neglect the others. Some categories he has chosen to help out are;
Working families caring for children and aging parents, for educational purposes, Family
liabilities, retirements, low-income communities, and more.
My vote is for Bush, and stands firm. I like Gores tax plan a little better, but Bush's
whole outlook seems more beneficial to me. I don't like Clinton too much and I feel that
if we do get Gore as president it is just like reelecting Clinton. Gore has some good
ideas but his wanting for more government involvement made him lose my vote. Overall Bush
has better plans and ideas in-which government assistance is not needed.