Position Papers

Position Paper # 4: 

    There are many important issues in this year's campaign.  In this paper, we will be covering three important issues.  These three issues are health care, social security, and the environment.

    One important issues is health care.  George bush will make insurance affordable for hard-working, low-income families.  Bush's plan will provide people with a $2000.00  refundable health credit so they can choose physicians and health plans that fit their needs.  Governor Bush will make it easier for small businesses, which employ 60% of the uninsured, people.

    Bush will make health insurance affordable by giving uninsured families a health plan of their own.  This is a basic plan that includes hospitalization, physician benefits, and discounted prescription drug.

    Governor Bush will make getting insurance for  small business easier by being committed to them.  He wants to make health insurance more affordable for small businesses and their employees.

    Governor Bush believes that people should have every opportunity to manage more of their won health care needs.  

    Another important issue in this year's election is social security.  George W. Bush believes that social security is a defining American promise that must be kept.  if elected president, George Bush will not change benefits for current retirees or for the next generation.

    Bush will honor and strengthen social security.  He will protect all benefits for today's seniors.  Bush will also ensure that social security is available for their grandchildren.

    Bush believes that the social security surplus must be locked away for only social security.  He believes that social security payroll taxes must not be increased.

    Governor Bush is committed to a new era of environment protection.  As President, Bush will maintain a strong federal environmental role, but will return significant authority to states and local communities.  If George Bush were President, the federal government will ser high environmental standards and provide market-based incentives to develop new technologies and approaches to that Americans meet, and exceed, those standards.  He will also ensure that the country's largest polluter, the federal government, follows all environmental laws.  

    This paper should have given you a better understanding of these three important issues and where George Bush stands on them, and the improvements that he would make to these subjects.  

Position Paper # 3:

There are many important issues in the Presidential election.  Three issues that are often addressed in the political campaigns are the welfare system in the United States, racial equality, and stopping the drug use.  I will talk about these three issues in this paper.

One important issue is the welfare system.  George W. Bush believes that children are great treasures.  He encourages states to help families that are in crisis.  To help encouragement, Bush will provide the states an additional on billion dollars, over the course of five years, for preventative services to keep families together and to keep, or return children to their home.  Governor Bush will make the adoption tax credit permanent and will provide one billion dollars , over five years, to increase tax credit from $5000 to $7500 to families for expenses associated with adopting a child.  He will provide three million dollars for vouchers to young people who reach and appropriate age to live on their own.  These vouchers can provide $5000 to each student to use for college tuition or training.  Each of these ideas will help the welfare system in the United States.

 Another important issue this year is concerning the best way to obtain racial equality, and whether busing is the best means of doing this.  Governor Bush opposes busing as the best means to obtain racial equality.  He opposes racial preferences.  Busing destroys the neighborhood school concept.  In the end, Bushing will actually hinder the development of improved race relations.

One other issue is how to control the United States' drug use.  George Bush believes that w have a responsibility to confront the problem of illegal drug abuse.  It is destroying people's lives and ruining our nation.  We should confront this problem with a balanced policy of education, treatment , and law enforcement.  

In Texas, Bush started the Texas Right Choices campaign to teach children the importance of making the right choices in life.  That includes saying no to drugs and alcohol.  He hopes to extend these efforts throughout the nation.

 On the supply side, Governor Bush will improve interdiction and stop drugs before they reach our nation.  He will work with countries like Bolivia and Peru to stop the harvesting of the drugs.  George Bush will work with banks to prevent money laundering.  Better intelligence and surveillance will be used to catch smugglers before they reach our borders.  If George W. Bush was elected President, the suppliers and pushers of hard drugs will receive harsh punishments.

I hope this has given you a better understanding about these issues and where Governor Bush and the Republican party stand on them.

Position Paper# 2:

In this year's Presidential race, there are many important issues and the candidate's views on these issues will determine the next President of the United States.  The next President is going to make decisions that will affect our nation for years to come.  It is important to know what each candidate believes about certain issues that you feel strongly about.  The three issues that will be discussed in this paper are the military, foreign aid , and inflation.  George W. Bush feels very strongly about these issues. 

One important question asked in the Presidential race is whether cuts should be capable, and modern military is the foundation of the peace we enjoy today and hope to extend for future generations.  The military of the present must be better supported and choices must be made to protect America effectively and create a military capable of meeting the challenges of the 21st century.

George W. Bush wants to better the military in order to ensure peace for generations to come.  Achieving this goal will require spending more, but also spending more wisely. 

Bush thinks that the military should be able to fight and win our nation's wars, which will result in preventing war.  We should not send our military on missions unless there is a reason for the mission.  Sending the military on pointless missions is a sure way to destroy morale.

Governor Bush, as President, would set the following goals for America's military restore the morale of our armed forces, insist that deployments have will defined objectives, focus on defending the American homeland, prepare military for challenges of the new century, and begin to build the military of the future.

 Another important issue is about foreign aid and whether it should be continued or done away with.  Governor Bush believes that American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis.   It must have a great and guiding goal:  to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.  This is accomplished by concentrating on enduring national interests and by resisting the temptation to withdraw from the world.  As President, George Bush will set goals to avoid drift foreign policy.

Governor Bush has many foreign policy priorities.  He wants to work with our allies in Europe and Asia to extend the peace and deal with the challenges of China and Russia- two great powers in transition.  He aims to defend America's interests in the Persian Gulf and advance peace in the Middle East.  Bush will promote a fully democratic world.  George Bush will lead toward a world that trades in freedom.

Bush believes that America cannot withdraw from the world and can't isolate itself.  The President must se priorities and stick to them, Which Governor Bush intends to do.

Another important question asked is, are wage -price controls necessary to control the inflationary spiral in the U.S. economy.

George W. Bush believes in wage-price controls.  He believes they should play into laborer's hands.  Bush wants some of the money to go back to the people that work hard.      

Position Paper # 1:

There are many important issues in this presidential election.  Three of the main issues oar abortion, tax dollars going to parochial/ private school, and the death penalty.  On important issue in this presidential race is abortion.  George W. Bush is pro-life ( against abortion )  with exceptions of rape, incest, and risk of losing the mother's life.  He believes that all children should be welcomed in life and protected by law.  Bush supports parental notification, banning of taxpayer funds for abortion and banning partial birth abortion.  In stead of abortion, Bush supports efforts to increase adoptions.  Abortion is the same as murder.  The baby is still alive, even if it is still in the mother's womb.

Another important issue is whether the government should use tax dollars to support parochial schools.  Bush doesn't support tax dollars going to parochial, or private, schools.  He will reform the nation's public schools, just like he did in Texas.  Texas is one of two states that have made the greatest progress in education.   Bush will set higher standards, close the achievement gap, ensure school safety, and promote character education.

Bush stated that as Texas' governor, and if he was elected president, his first job is to make sure the laws are carried out.  He wants to0 uphold the law of the death penalty at all costs.  On the issue of the death penalty, Bush says, " I keep in mind the victims, and the reason why I support the death penalty is because it saves lives."

One of Bush's representatives says. " He examines each case carefully before each execution."

Bush believes strongly on this issue and states, " If it costs me politically, it costs me politically."

I hope this gives you a better understanding of these issues and where Bush and the Republican Party stands on these issues.

This document was originally written by Heather Vaught and Chrissy Durrough