Views on Goverment
Conservative: Small Goverment. Goverment should only defend its people and make law. Uncle Sam cannot and should not make our descisions for us in our personal lives. No man should ever be forced to pay for the lazyness or misfortunes of another. Conservatives believe in the induvidual to make his own life for himself and his family.
Liberal: Big Govermant. Goverment can be counted on to regulate social programs for people. Goverment should provide Social/Socialized programs such as Healthcare and Welfare paid for by the taxpayers to help the less affluant.
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Taxes
Conservative: Tax as little as possible to maintain the govermants role in making law and defending a nation. Ensure businesess arent taxed so much that they are firing workers and moving overseas. Everyone should be taxed the same percentage without discrimination of wealth. Trade should be free. The economy will be stronger, there will be more jobs, and people will be more weathy if goverment taxes as little as possible.
Liberal: Tax to pay for social programs that help the less affluiant. Tax the rich a far higher percentage than any one elts. Charge businesses taxes based on how sucessful they are and their effect on the enviroment. Make sure that everyone gets paid at least a mandated minimal wage.
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Healthcare
Conservative: Healthcare should be paid for and chosen by the induvidual. Health care providers should be able to compeat nation wide.
Liberal: Healthcare should be provided and paid for by the federal goverment. Taxes should be raised to pay for everyones healthcare.
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Welfare
Conservative: No man should be charged to pay for another mans misfortunes or lazyness. Welfare only makes people dependant on the federal goverment. Tax Free and indepoendant organizations should take care of thoes in need.
Liberal: Tax the Affluent to pay the wages to the less affluent who have no job or home. It is everyones responsibility to ensure that the poor are taken care of.
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Religion
Conservative: No man has the right to ristrict anyone from praticing their religion any where as long as they arent forcing others to join their religion. Children have the right to pray in school. Religious simbols may be posted in schools and goverment buildings.
Liberal: Religion should be compleatly left out of all goverment buildings and schools both from praticing it and displaying it, as it may offend otheres who do not share the same beliefs.
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Equal Oppertunity/Affirmitive Action
Conservative: No one should be given special privlages because of their race. People should be amitted to colleges because of their GPA and people should be hired and premoted based on their experience.
Liberal: All colleges, jobs, and job promotions, should accept/premote a certain precentage of minoritys based on their skin color, as America is naturally racist.
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Abortion
Conservative: People should accept responsibility for their actions if they become pregnant. Aborting a child should be illegal.
Liberal: Abortion should be legal and the choice of the woman. A child is not a child untill it is born.
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Gun Control
Conservative: Everyone has the right to own a firearm with the exception of felons that have comitted violent crimes, as the federal goverment cannot always guarentee your familys saftey. Restricting firearms will only give non compliant criminals an advantage.
Liberal: Guns should be restricted if not banned all togather. Guns only create more violence and therefore taking guns off the streets will lower violence.
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Illegal Immigration
Conservative: Illegal Immigrants should be deported. Children born of Illegal Aliens should not guarentee citizenship. A fence should be built on the Mexican Border and regulated by Border Patrol and electronic servalence. Businesses who hire Illegal mmigrants should be punished. Cops who pull over or arrest anyone should ensure their legal status.
Liberal: We should legalize all Illegal Immigrants in who are allready here as they are a needed workforce. We should only patrol the Mexican boarder and use electronic servalence. It should be Illegal to make people prove their legal status if they are pulled by a cop.
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Schools
Conservative: Schools should be able to fire non preforming teachers. Ultamatly a childs upbringing and education is the responsibility of the parents. Teachers Unions only prevent poor teachers from being fired and ensure that they can keep their job no matter how they preform.
Liberal: A childs education is the responsibility of the state. Teachers unions are a great way to guarentee benefits and encourage more people to become teachers.
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Diplomacy with our enemies.
Conservative: We should shut off all dialog and sanction thoes who are a threat to ourselves and other countrys. We should not establish diplomacy with terrorists or thoes who harbor terrorism. Talking to enemy countrys will only happen if they show an honest effort to become less of a threat to people and their rights.
Liberal: We should talk to our enemies and maintain constant dialog with them while showing our intent to help them. Showing that we are not a threat to them will encourage them to change their ways.
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If a conservative doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one. If a liberal doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn't` eat meat. If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.
If a conservative sees a foreign threat, he thinks about how to defeat his enemy. If a liberal wonders how to surrender gracefully and still look good.
If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life. If a liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.
If a person of color is conservative, they see themselves as independently successful. Their liberal counterparts see themselves as victims in need of government protection.
If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation. A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.
If a conservative doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels. Liberals demand that those they don't like be shut down.
If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church. A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced. (Unless it's a foreign religion, of course!)
If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it. A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.
If a conservative slips and falls in a store, he gets up, laughs and is embarrassed. If a liberal slips and falls, he grabs his neck, moans like he's in labor and then sues.
If a conservative reads this, he'll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh.
A liberal will delete it because he's "offended".
