by Frances Ruocco

Created on: August 01, 2008   Last Updated: August 04, 2008

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

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