Will the vice-presidential nominees influence your vote in November?

No

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by Frances Ruocco

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No, when I look at the issues I realize that the Republicans support the issues that have interested me for many years.

(1) My main issue is pro-live vs. pro-choice. I am very pro-life and believe that when giving the woman the choice to abort a baby we are taking away the rights of many other people involved in that issue. First of all the woman is not doing anything to her body, she is destroying the life of her own child. She may be destroying her mind, which will eventually lead her to more problems in later years, but at the time, she is doing the most damage to her child. We are also taking away the rights of men, siblings, parents and grandparents, especially in the situation where the woman is a teenager and can get the abortion without parental consent;

(2) Social Security, the Republicans wanted us to be able to invest some of our social security and the democrats who did not want us to be able to do so. I know many people who pass away before they ever collect one cent of the money the put into the social security system, if they invested 1/3 or 1/4 of their money they could leave it to siblings or other kin. Many of them never had any children so it isn't that their children are getting any money, many others pass away after their children are grown and again no one is seeing any of that money. As many of you know social security to work, approximately six people have to put in money and four have to pass for the other two to collect. The reason it is not working today is because those who are collecting are living longer and that is why they have had to raise the age when people can collect;

(3) Gun control, people who are going to use guns for evil will get that weapon regardless of the laws and/or rules that are applied. I don't know if people are fingerprinted when buying a guy if not they should be; people who sell to them unlawfully should be sent to prison or have their places of business closed and also be fingerprinted so they can't open another place of business in another town;

(4) School vouchers, the Republicans wanted them, the Democrats did not want them, we all pay taxes, and if we want to send our children to a private school then we should get that two thousand dollar allowance for doing so. Unless the school is teaching the downfall of our country we should be able to take full advantage of using another school be it religious, vocational, professional and get money credits for it. We all pay taxes why can't money go to schools of our choice. If not, then we should have a reduction in our taxes if we choose to send our children to another school rather than public;

(5) I believe both parties want to protect the environment, I don't know if both parties are really trying to do much in our War on Drugs, so I won't accuse one party of doing drugs themselves more than I won't accuse another party. There is too much money involved in drugs, and too many people are getting rich on the lives and blood of our children;

(6) Moral decay, another hot issue, where the Republicans seem to want to bring back some moral to our country, where the Liberals certainly want none. Again, I don't care what goes on in anyone else's bedroom or living room, but when they constantly bring it in to my living room, when they don't want ratings on a DVD or a CD or they drop the ratings so that when I purchase a DVD that is marked PG 13 and I think I can watch it with my grandchildren, and then it turns out to be what we would have considered X-Rated in the 1960s before the sexual revolution, then it annoys me. Therefore, I never purchase anything other than a G rating. To make the movie Delovey, then be so subtle, and push the bi-sexual life style and orgies then they are taking me for a fool and wasting my money.

So after being a Democrat my whole life, and then have the party go into denial and say that when Clinton lied under oath, he did nothing wrong meant that it was fine for him to do that, but if it were any of us we would go to jail. To have Spitzer who sent so many people to jail get away with misusing government money and still get his pension then something is wrong with the party that is backing him and their values. They are not for the everyday person anymore or honest. From what I see they have become a self-interest party with out any values.

If there were two candidates that were not pro-life, I would do a write in vote so that no one else could use my vote.

I also think we should be fingerprinted to vote and to collect welfare. We have to be fingerprinted to work in many professions, i.e. banking, wall street, legal. We also have to be fingerprinted to serve on Grand Jury, so if we have nothing to hide then we don't have to worry if we are fingerprinted or not. It is not an invasion of our rights, as some parties and/or people claim. Again to protect the rights of one, we take away the rights of many. I think we spend too much time protecting the rights of people who have something to hide instead of protecting the rights of people who have nothing to fear. Without it being our intention, we have taken away our right to live without fear.

Again like abortion to protect one person's rights we take away the rights of many.

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