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Children under 18 are already covered ... by state plans. The healthcare crisis isn't as critical as you're being told.
More funding to education does not improve the system. The Washington, DC school district (heck, any large city district) gets more funding pumped into it than anywhere else in the country, and those kids, in large measure, still aren't learning. It's not about the $$.
GWB is not just praying that things go away ... there's science in them thar hills. Yes, we have a lot of fucked up environmental policy in this country, but fault also has to be laid at the feet of the environmental movement (yes, I said it). I'm not in favor of clearcutting old growth forest by any means, but a lot of what's been done over the last 20-30 years has caused more problems (wildfires, landslides, etc.) than it's solved.
I had originally ended with my little dance on abortion, but I deleted it. I'm Pro-Abortion (get that, not "choice". I don't play semantic games about the procedure. I believe that life begins at conception. It's a baby, not a "foetus" to softball the idea to the woman who is selecting it.) I don't think that public funds should ever pay for an abortion. I don't think that any good will be served, however, by reversing Roe v. Wade, despite it having magically created a right to privacy that's not enumerated in the constitution. Safe legal abortion beats the old system every time ... back alley for the poor, and therapeutic D&C for the wealthy and/or connected.
Freedom OF religion is not the same as freedom FROM it, which is what most people today seem to think it means.. The government does not and has not established a state religion ... ever.
People can go right on ahead and be gay or whatever else they may want to be, but don't be asking to get married. I'm actually more for the abolition of marriage as a matter of civil law. It's religious law that was codified into civil law to begin with ... you want to get married to someone, go to the church of your choice. You want to cohabit with someone and become partners in a business like arrangement to simplify the division of property when you no longer want to cohabit? Go see a lawyer. I think that more was lost than people realized when the wedding ceremony wording was changed, even in the Catholic Church to "as long as your love shall last."
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