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Why do we have to have social security and medicare? Get rid of them! Keep those that are already dependent or have put money into those programs on there, but why should I have to be told by the federal government that I have to put money into a government savings account or into a government medical plan when private investments and private medical plans are so much more efficient? Why shouldn't I have the freedom to do so?

And yes, any of those who don't pay taxes should not be able to vote.
If Person A pays $100,000 in taxes/yr. and Person B. pays none, it is almost criminal to think that Person B has just as much say so as Person A as to how that $100,000 is used! That's like a person that owns no stock or never purchases from say, Compusplice Inc. having an equal say as someone who owns stock and purchases regularly, over how Compusplice Inc. is run!

I don't care how or why they are poor. People are in the condition they are in because of the decisions they make or by decisions they passively allowed others to make for them.

John Kerry claims that, if elected President, he will curb job losses, provide inexpensive health care, etc. etc.

Why hasn't he been doing this already? Congress authors legislation, NOT THE PRESIDENT. If he is so concerned about these issues, why hasn't he authored a single piece of legislation to correct them?

If he was against the war in Iraq, why did he approve the the bill authorizing use of force? If he's for the war in Iraq, why did he vote against the financial backing of it? That's like putting firefighters into a burning building and cutting the water off.

The Bush tax cuts were only for the wealthy in the sense that the wealthy got more out of them. But then, the wealthy also pay more taxes. The top 1% of income earners pay 37% of the taxes in this country. Any equal, across the board tax cut would subsequently result in the top 1% receiving 37% of the monies from the tax cut. And you don't roll back tax cuts or repeal them. You raise the taxes back to pre-cut levels. Yes, raise taxes. So if you vote Kerry to get the tax cuts "rolled back", you are essentially agreeing to pay to see other, more wealthier people pay as well. It's like paying a mugger $5 dollars to witness him mug $50 off someone else.

Personally, I feel that only those who actually pay taxes should be allowed to vote. Persons who contribute no funds to the system should have no say over how the system funds are used. Letting people that pay no taxes vote is like giving a three year old, who contributes no money to the household, a credit card.

Hmm.. That's funny, it's the same Richard Clark that turned down Osama bin Laden when Sudan offered him to the US in '98.

That's also funny that it's the same Richard Clark that kept insisting that the United States was gonna be attacked by cyberterrorism, and was demoted by Bush because Bush did not feel that the cyberterrorism threat was not as significant as that of other forms of terrorism.

That's also funny that The Free Press, publisher of Clark's book, is a subsidiary of Viacom, which owns CBS.

The secret service arrives in advance and cooperates with the local police to create "Designated free speech zones". Every anti bush protester is rounded up into a closed area about a half mile from the president were they are ALLOWED to practice there right as a citizen of this so called free country. If bush protesters are seen out of this area, they are arrested and fined for TRESPASSING.

Actually, this is pretty much standard fare for just about any protest. I remember that at the Masters Tournament women's protest in Augusta, protesters were forced to stay in a certain location. Several people were arrested for protesting outside that area. It's not something that Mr. Evil Bush (as some would have him) thought this up in his secret cave while munching on children.
Besides, it's not like the media doesn't cover the protests. It seems anything Bush does is "amid protests".