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This is a strange post in that it has 50 comments attached to it already. These are 50 questions for Bush and Kerry selected by non-Slashdot moderators, as explained in our original call for help with the New Voters Project Presidential Youth Debate. At this point, where you come in is not only with extra-insightful moderation of these 50 questions, but with your "many eyes" trying to spot questions these two candidates have answered elsewhere so that the final questions presented to them are not repeats. The first 40 questions are from potential voters aged 18 - 35. The last 10 are from future voters 13 - 17. And that's enough explanation. From here we might as well jump right into the questions...
To me as a young voter this is the most discouraging aspect of trying to stay involved in the political process: my elected representatives make laws that represent my views as a citizen (and the majority of my fellow citizens), only to be overturned by a judiciary not elected by me or my fellow citizens who wield their power from the bench to promote their own political and social agendas. Why should I vote?
Bush, your brother actually fixed a Florida State election. How do you sleep at night?
Because "No Child Left Behind" really means "No Wealthy White Non-disabled Child Left Behind."
Gods don't kill people, people with gods kill people.
Some old woman, like 98 or something like that is voting for her first time. she is the oldest "first time voter" ever. guess who she is voting for? Bush .... guess her reason for voting? cause 'she likes his wife' ...
Is democracy dead yet or what? :p
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What benefits do we derive from a two-party system? Having a choice between the old boss, and the new boss who's same as the old boss doesn't seem to actually do anything FOR us. Actually, each party is pretty different: Democrats want to take everyone's money and use it to help those who need help. Republicans want to help the rich without taking as much money... It's true that democracy was intentionally avoided but I think that the time for that might be past now. One man, one vote.
P.S. By one man I mean one person. How come womyn never seem to see "women" and "woman" as meaning more than men and man, anyway? End disclaimer.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
No one is ever paying that debt. Forget about it. It's not something which is even considerable anymore, we've entered an irreversible debt cycle.
Nonsense.
Soaring national debt is directly linked to Regan, Bush, and Bush. Under every other president since World War II the debt has been going down, at least in relation to gross national product. And that includes Clinton from 1996 to 2000. It is clearly not "irreversible", it is mainly an issue of getting a president who isn't gung-ho for running up the debt. It doesn't take a crystal ball to see that Bush is going to continue his policy of whiping out the national credit card and running up the bill even further.
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Correction: reappointed/elected.
This is one of the best questions.
Let me restate it:
My elected representatives enact laws based on popular opinion. Unelected judges then overturn, rewrite, or recreate those laws -- often based on nothing more than their own political or social agendas. Under this system, what's the point of voting? Do you have a plan to curb the abuse-of-power of the unelected judiciary?
Absolutely excellent question.
Unlike the first responder, I do agree that the founding fathers, if not ingenious, were at least creative. They had to deal with a series of states so disjointed that when Jefferson went to France to set up trade as first secretary of state, France wouldn't accept him until the other tweleve delagates arrived. Their response was easy and logical, make sure a state gets all the possible credit where credit should go, even if people couldn't get out and vote. This was especially important in a time where voting wasn't fair, i.e. public votes based on weights in barrels, corrupt counting practices, and off course a travel time of weeks, especially since the elections were in the winter. The best solution was the all or nothing idea of the electoral college. This idea means that one no longer votes for a President, but merely a group of electors. This tends to get the same point across, with only four exceptions in 54 elections and those were only 1 state per election, it creates the fairest system possible at the time. Next, I want to correct some of the random, and seemingly uneducated quips in hopes of staving off ignorance. First the 17th Amendment was passed by 2/3 the senate and 3/4 of the states because it moved us closer to a democracy, giving the people more say. Remember democracy, like what the middle east is lucky enough to have now .Your line about the Executive branch is odd at best. It represents the Union of States, duh, it is very obvious, that is why the President gives the state of the Union, he represents it. Next, according to Wiki...
The word fascism has come to mean any system of government resembling Mussolini's, that
* exalts nation and sometimes race above the individual,
* uses violence and modern techniques of propaganda and censorship to forcibly suppress political opposition,
* engages in severe economic and social regimentation, and
* espouses nationalism and sometimes racism (ethnic nationalism).
How does that relate to a republic unless you confused republican with republic, then yes Mussolini was in fact conservative.
Finally, your loser line, is obviously aimed at Gore, this has happened before and will happen again, even in this election all the polls are based on populare vote, if it was important why would major news groups still run them.
In summary, you are a math major.