What’s up with the lack of letters on behalf of Bush? Jen Kistenmacher made several points I’d like to refute.

“The U.S. economy is in the best shape that it has been in for a damn long time. During the time Al Gore served as Vice President under President Clinton, for once we had a budget surplus, and the economy is still expanding.” One man, Alan Greenspan, has done everything, not Clinton and Gore.

“Unemployment is low. Inflation has been kept in check.” At whose expense? Half of this country still lives in poverty and I swore I heard the Clinton/Gore team say they would help minorities get out of poverty.

Hasn’t happened yet. You know why? Gore has created a dependent citizenry. Why work your own problems out when the government will take your money and do it for you, at cost, of course?

“One could infer the two would have similar ideals where politics are concerned.” (Referring to Bush Sr. and Jr.) Hypocrite. Sounds like a double standard to me; I thought Gore did the same thing last night when he said “I’m my own man.” if it applies to Bush, it applies to Gore.

“The deficit was in the trillions.” We have a huge deficit now and there is no surplus. That money belongs to Medicare, Social Insecurity, the interest on the current deficit and the tax cut we were promised by Clinton in `96. How can Gore initiate these 200 new social programs he plans and give a tax break? Answer: Raise taxes, after all, it isn’t as if we notice. Most Americans fork over nearly 33 percent of their taxes. What’s another 10 percent right?

“Republicans also like to ride the moral high horse on how terrible a person Clinton is, how you shouldn’t vote for someone associated with him.” Many people lie, steal and cheat on a daily basis, and I myself am as guilty as everyone else.

But the fact of the matter is that the Presidency is a higher office to be scrutinized and held accountable as he/she who sits in office is supposed to represent what is best in America. Those same republicans you claim committed the same lewd acts as Clinton did, did the morally right thing. They resigned their posts in shame.

“All politics is corrupt, and if the Democrats wanted to play dirty they could focus on George W. Bush’s crazy college days, the drugs, alcohol, etc.” Where’s the proof? Most people in college have experimented with things they shouldn’t have. It’s a very influential environment and people make bad choices. Whether or not Bush did them does not reflect the character of the man he is now.

I heard Tuesday from Gore, “Bigger is better.” It used to be that people could make their own decisions on what they thought was in their best interests.

To Gore, the solution to America’s problem is this hypothetical surplus and how he knows what is best for you. I once asked my father what is best for me.

He told me to look at my feet. He said, “You’re standing in the shoes of the man who knows what’s best for you.”

Andy Gonzales

Junior

Political science