Here's why I'm voting for Kerry:
1) Bush's tax cuts have absolutely left states dry in many public financing. As a result, federal subsidation of my university has dropped significantly, and every year I have been in school tuition has increased. That is a bigger problem because....
2) My father was forced into early retirement, and now he has a lot of trouble to even do contracting work (he's an engineer). Our family's income has gone down (while tuition has gone up). My brother graduated college last May, and the only jobs he is even competitive for seem to be in movie theaters and restaurants. What is his degree good for, honestly? The job growth may be there, but there are still way less jobs under Bush than Clinton (you can't blame 9/11 and the inherited economy for everything; Bush has to take some blame).
3) Foreign policy on the hot issues, honestly, isn't that much different between the two. Kerry isn't going to pull out of Iraq. We blew the crap out of the place, we have to rebuild it. He says he's going to attempt to get more countries involved (may or may not work). Both will get the Iraq job completed. Both will continue the war on terror with al-Qaida (I don't know that any president would have acted differently after 9/11, yet somehow Bush is seen as "the best person we could have had," (to quote many acquaintances).
4+)I'm against No Child Left Behind (underfunds the schools that need funding), for same sex marriage, pro choice.
I think the two main things that I agree with that Bush has done/said is about frivolous health care lawsuits (although the insurance companies have flown under the radar on this....they're trying to make up losses from other fields and the stock market by jacking up physician premiums) and AIDS relief (though I think it's messed up that he doesn't make the pharmaceutical companies charge less than they are, it would go a lot farther in the greater cause.....oh well, that's lobby groups for you).
And I'm done.
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