>From: Chuck Kuecker <ckuecker@mcs.net>
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>To: extropians@extropy.org
>Subject: Re: Fwd: Bush vs. Browne (was Re: GUNS: Why here?)
>Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 19:47:13 -0700
>
>
>There is a slight, but significant pull of votes from the Republicans to
>the Libertarians and Reform parties - but no symmetrical loss to the
>Democrats - they get the labor vote, the teacher vote, etc. regardless of
>what idiocy they expound.
This is not true - I expect Nader to pull in more votes then Buchanan and
Browne combined, perhaps even by double or triple. He was way ahead of
Browne in the '96 election.
>Perot indeed did spoil the election for the
>Rebublicans - and we got Klinton.
>
>If not for this, I would vote Libertarian in the next election - but I
>consider the possibility of getting Gored just tooo scary - so I am voting
>for Bush. Perhaps the state elections that bring in Libertarians - and
>there should be at least a few who win, or show large voter turnout - will
>moderate his and the next congress' thinking.
Could you point out some specific policies which discern Gore and Bush from
eachother enough that it will make a lot of difference in the amount of
freedom individuals have?
Not "positions", I mean specific policies. Gore's "position" on social
security is to keep it 100% public, Bush's is to privatize a very small
percentage (what % was it again?), which will still be confiscated from you,
but which you will be able to decide which government approved stock it goes
into. In terms of actual difference that will make in anyone's life, it's
not much, unless you consider it a first step towards dismantlement.
>
>Chuck Kuecker
>
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