Katherine Swift
At the age of thirty three she hopes to become the youngest president of the United States. Hm. She has a little political experience, primarily working for the Texas Green Party and other groups. Let's examine her position on the issues.
Katherine's Issues
Yah!
Simple black plain text on a white background... So boring! Give them bolded white text on a black back background for that warm and fuzzy sensation of having your pupils dilated at the optometrist office. Hey! Why not go for full tilt and select outline font style as well...
Anyway, she doesn't understand that the biggest objection to school prayer. It's not that school kids pray on taxpayer paid time, but the government sanctioned peer pressure. The whole justification for school prayer seems utterly fake. Can't get up a bit earlier to pray, can't stay late the night before to pray, or for that matter during the lunch hour or dinner hour, nope just too busy. Yet they find time in their packed lives to lobby for this issue. Hm.
What does she mean by a peace tax? Of for that matter, who pays a religious freedom tax? Inquiring minds want to know. Okay, she wants the rich ought to pay more than the poor. But she wants the corporations to pay more, despite the fact that those same corporations must pass on those taxes to their customers who, it just so happens, includes the poor. Hm.
Nothing here really thought out in depth. I'm moving on.
Ken Masplay
Much better, the reversed color scheme is gone, but the bolding remains. Our eyes recover a little. He has a rambling, stream of thought style, that goes on just a bit too long.
Mexico And Immigration
He has an excellent solution to the immigration problem. If you live on the border then you get dual citizen ship. This solves problems with investing in Mexico or own a home there. Properly extended, citizens in Maine could vote in Mexican elections and hopefully clear up the corruption problems in Mexico or make our own government more corrupt.
Seriously, the idea of employers entering requests for workers, with guaranteed livable wages, legal transportation, and provided housing, coupled with low cost visas for migrant workers - sounds like a winner. With an expanded emigration and naturalization service, a great number of problems with the environment, drug smuggling, and secure borders could be solved. I know, it'll go over like a lead balloon.
Healthcare
He declares healthcare a human right and wants a single payer system, eliminating administrative costs, advertising costs, and lawsuits. Sure you can do this but at the cost of filling the streets with insurance executives, tele-marketers, bureaucrats, and lawyers.
Hm. I'm not finding anything extraordinary here.
Moving on.
Cynthia McKinney
She served in congress for six years, passed legislation ending the sale of arms to known human rights abusers, passed legislation to extend health benefits for veterans, introduced legislation eliminating federal subsidies for corporations taking jobs overseas, and introduced articles of impeachment against Bush, Cheney, and Rice. Hm. Currently running a federal matched contribution campaign. Nothing exciting here.
Questions & Issues
For IRV, living wages, against death penalty, single payer universal health care, for the Kyoto Protocol, opposed Patriot act, and voted no on the War on Terror. Hm.
No excitement, I'm sleepy.
What's wrong with these candidates?
It's like talking to a politically active neighbor who doesn't have a full understanding of economics or international affairs, but who wants change the world for the better.
Where's the candidate saying, "a tank in every garage" or "a nuclear warhead in every pot?"
Do they really think they can win without saying something interesting?
At the age of thirty three she hopes to become the youngest president of the United States. Hm. She has a little political experience, primarily working for the Texas Green Party and other groups. Let's examine her position on the issues.
Katherine's Issues
Yah!
Simple black plain text on a white background... So boring! Give them bolded white text on a black back background for that warm and fuzzy sensation of having your pupils dilated at the optometrist office. Hey! Why not go for full tilt and select outline font style as well...
Anyway, she doesn't understand that the biggest objection to school prayer. It's not that school kids pray on taxpayer paid time, but the government sanctioned peer pressure. The whole justification for school prayer seems utterly fake. Can't get up a bit earlier to pray, can't stay late the night before to pray, or for that matter during the lunch hour or dinner hour, nope just too busy. Yet they find time in their packed lives to lobby for this issue. Hm.
What does she mean by a peace tax? Of for that matter, who pays a religious freedom tax? Inquiring minds want to know. Okay, she wants the rich ought to pay more than the poor. But she wants the corporations to pay more, despite the fact that those same corporations must pass on those taxes to their customers who, it just so happens, includes the poor. Hm.
Nothing here really thought out in depth. I'm moving on.
Ken Masplay
Much better, the reversed color scheme is gone, but the bolding remains. Our eyes recover a little. He has a rambling, stream of thought style, that goes on just a bit too long.
Mexico And Immigration
He has an excellent solution to the immigration problem. If you live on the border then you get dual citizen ship. This solves problems with investing in Mexico or own a home there. Properly extended, citizens in Maine could vote in Mexican elections and hopefully clear up the corruption problems in Mexico or make our own government more corrupt.
Seriously, the idea of employers entering requests for workers, with guaranteed livable wages, legal transportation, and provided housing, coupled with low cost visas for migrant workers - sounds like a winner. With an expanded emigration and naturalization service, a great number of problems with the environment, drug smuggling, and secure borders could be solved. I know, it'll go over like a lead balloon.
Healthcare
He declares healthcare a human right and wants a single payer system, eliminating administrative costs, advertising costs, and lawsuits. Sure you can do this but at the cost of filling the streets with insurance executives, tele-marketers, bureaucrats, and lawyers.
Hm. I'm not finding anything extraordinary here.
Moving on.
Cynthia McKinney
She served in congress for six years, passed legislation ending the sale of arms to known human rights abusers, passed legislation to extend health benefits for veterans, introduced legislation eliminating federal subsidies for corporations taking jobs overseas, and introduced articles of impeachment against Bush, Cheney, and Rice. Hm. Currently running a federal matched contribution campaign. Nothing exciting here.
Questions & Issues
For IRV, living wages, against death penalty, single payer universal health care, for the Kyoto Protocol, opposed Patriot act, and voted no on the War on Terror. Hm.
No excitement, I'm sleepy.
What's wrong with these candidates?
It's like talking to a politically active neighbor who doesn't have a full understanding of economics or international affairs, but who wants change the world for the better.
Where's the candidate saying, "a tank in every garage" or "a nuclear warhead in every pot?"
Do they really think they can win without saying something interesting?
