Re: Politically off topic: Our Bush experience

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Hi! I wanted to respond for a minute to your post. I have a child with

autism and a niece and a nephew with autism also. I know that battles and

the struggles that are waged trying to get them the help that is needed.

There are a lot of places dealing with " imperfect condtions " one of them

being where I live.

I know that no single canditate running for pres. is going to be able to

make things " perfect " for everyone. Not even Gore. He turned his back on

the tabacco growers when he said he understood their plight and that he had

worked in the fields with them and knew of the struggles they were having

and then he turned his back on them. To the farmers they need to grow

something, for that is there way of making a living, tabacco or no tabacco,

they needed a new direction. They are taxed with an enormous death tax and

family farms struggle to keep afloat. To the good citezens who do own guns,

legally, he wants to punish them for the cases of abuse of hanguns by taxing

and having them list on their 1040 all the hanguns they own with a possible

tax of $50.00 a hand gun. I am not a member of the NRA, but believe that

that is the same correlation e as if a drunk driver killed someone then all

would be punished for that persons lack of responsibility.

To the Boy Scouts who Gore is fighting with to try to force them to take the

word God out of their oath, and also pressuring people in high positions to

make it so they can not choose a leader for the boys based on sexual

orientation. I have nothing agains Gays or Lesbians except where it

infringes on anothers rights. Forcing this by pressuring the United Way

into removing funding for, and for pushing that they not be allowed to use

private property until they do so. I do not have a son old enough to be a

boy scout yet, but I believe that a private organization should be able to

have certain rights as to what they hold to be important to them as an

organization. The lions club has no such pressure. You dont have to be a

boy scout or a lions club member..you have a choice, if you dont believe as

they do, then let them alone, but don't take their rights away.

I personally like the idea of getting a tax cut. Both parents in lots of

instances are have to work. I would appreciate anything that would help and

enable me to stay home with my three kids. I would like to be able to

choose how I invest a portion of my retirement. We are self-employed and

have to match our Social Security amount, which is costly.

I believe that people are empowered by smaller government. More laws

stiffle the average citezen. Laws that restrict do not make us free. Where

is the the common concern and care one has for another be he stranger or

friend? I don't believe that more government programs are going to solve

our problems either. direct and teach the people good principles and let

them govern themselves. I would like a government that guides and directs

but does not control.

I know that our children are important, I know the struggles of raising an

autistic child, but I think its not only the issue of our children that are

at risk. Its good moral principles that others are battling right now too.

Each person in every walk of life has a different concern. Who will best

address them? To those in the military who defend our country who could be

and have been in the trenches of war, whos wifes and children wait for there

return I ask, who will best support them? If my son was old enough to be in

the Boy Scouts the question of having to alter an oath of allegiance to God

and Country having to be changed would be a concern. It's something I

personally don't believe they should have to change to accomidate those who

don't believe in it, Form your own group to fit what you do believe in.

I don't mean to demean your struggles in anyway and appreciate your example

of advocacy. I wonder though if life had taken us down a different road,

what would it be that we would be advocating for if our weight to carry was

any of these other issues? Who is going to best address the issues of a

whole nation, not just me singly?

If I were a little more computer illeterate I would be able to send the

congressional web site for the bill pending on the hand guns and also the

facts on the Boy Scouts and the United Way boycotting the Boy Scouts and a

struggle at this moment that is taking place, but I struggle with this silly

contraption I would be happy to forward them separately though. I'm

grateful for a country in which there is choice and I respect yours, but

thought I would add my thoughts. Thanks!!

Jill

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[Guest guest]

Hi! I wanted to respond for a minute to your post. I have a child with

autism and a niece and a nephew with autism also. I know that battles and

the struggles that are waged trying to get them the help that is needed.

There are a lot of places dealing with " imperfect condtions " one of them

being where I live.

I know that no single canditate running for pres. is going to be able to

make things " perfect " for everyone. Not even Gore. He turned his back on

the tabacco growers when he said he understood their plight and that he had

worked in the fields with them and knew of the struggles they were having

and then he turned his back on them. To the farmers they need to grow

something, for that is there way of making a living, tabacco or no tabacco,

they needed a new direction. They are taxed with an enormous death tax and

family farms struggle to keep afloat. To the good citezens who do own guns,

legally, he wants to punish them for the cases of abuse of hanguns by taxing

and having them list on their 1040 all the hanguns they own with a possible

tax of $50.00 a hand gun. I am not a member of the NRA, but believe that

that is the same correlation e as if a drunk driver killed someone then all

would be punished for that persons lack of responsibility.

To the Boy Scouts who Gore is fighting with to try to force them to take the

word God out of their oath, and also pressuring people in high positions to

make it so they can not choose a leader for the boys based on sexual

orientation. I have nothing agains Gays or Lesbians except where it

infringes on anothers rights. Forcing this by pressuring the United Way

into removing funding for, and for pushing that they not be allowed to use

private property until they do so. I do not have a son old enough to be a

boy scout yet, but I believe that a private organization should be able to

have certain rights as to what they hold to be important to them as an

organization. The lions club has no such pressure. You dont have to be a

boy scout or a lions club member..you have a choice, if you dont believe as

they do, then let them alone, but don't take their rights away.

I personally like the idea of getting a tax cut. Both parents in lots of

instances are have to work. I would appreciate anything that would help and

enable me to stay home with my three kids. I would like to be able to

choose how I invest a portion of my retirement. We are self-employed and

have to match our Social Security amount, which is costly.

I believe that people are empowered by smaller government. More laws

stiffle the average citezen. Laws that restrict do not make us free. Where

is the the common concern and care one has for another be he stranger or

friend? I don't believe that more government programs are going to solve

our problems either. direct and teach the people good principles and let

them govern themselves. I would like a government that guides and directs

but does not control.

I know that our children are important, I know the struggles of raising an

autistic child, but I think its not only the issue of our children that are

at risk. Its good moral principles that others are battling right now too.

Each person in every walk of life has a different concern. Who will best

address them? To those in the military who defend our country who could be

and have been in the trenches of war, whos wifes and children wait for there

return I ask, who will best support them? If my son was old enough to be in

the Boy Scouts the question of having to alter an oath of allegiance to God

and Country having to be changed would be a concern. It's something I

personally don't believe they should have to change to accomidate those who

don't believe in it, Form your own group to fit what you do believe in.

I don't mean to demean your struggles in anyway and appreciate your example

of advocacy. I wonder though if life had taken us down a different road,

what would it be that we would be advocating for if our weight to carry was

any of these other issues? Who is going to best address the issues of a

whole nation, not just me singly?

If I were a little more computer illeterate I would be able to send the

congressional web site for the bill pending on the hand guns and also the

facts on the Boy Scouts and the United Way boycotting the Boy Scouts and a

struggle at this moment that is taking place, but I struggle with this silly

contraption I would be happy to forward them separately though. I'm

grateful for a country in which there is choice and I respect yours, but

thought I would add my thoughts. Thanks!!

Jill

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