EDUCATION:
If you can do it properly, homeschooling would give you control. T-shot says that you learn valuable social skills in school. What would those be? How to rebel against parental authority? How to properly use a condom? How to report your parents if they own guns or smoke? How to feel good about yourself even if you don't know how to read or write or add?
If you don't like what's going on with your schools, you SHOULD be able to take it up with YOUR LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD. Bush would let you do that. Gore would force you to deal with Federal mandates. Those disruptive kids are a protected constituant class and will not be triffled with!
SOCIAL SECURITY:
If the SocSecSystem isn't reformed it WILL go bankrupt and your children will be forced to pay marginal tax rates upwards of 80% to pay for the government Ponzi scam. Gore is lying and using fear to frighten seniors into maintaining the hopelessly doomed house of cards. Only the US and Cuba don't have a personal account principle in the Western Hemisphere. Anywhere where privatization has occurred, members are getting far greater returns. Without reform, when the system chokes, they'll either have to cut benefits or raise taxes. And Gore will prolly be DEAD (or in his 80s) and unable to take the blame for his promises. We have to fix the system NOW and only Bush is promising to do it.
ENVIRONMENT:
The Left claims that Big Business? will destroy the planet for money because the GOP has a secret stash of air and water and rocketships to Mars. If you think the 2nd part of that sounds ridiculous, it shouldn't, because for the first part to be true, the second would have to be too. It IS possible to develop domestic energy resources without destroying the environment. Why do you think the West had such devestating forest fires? (Other than the Bozos in the Park Service being Trashcan Men?) Because the government forbade logging companies from taking out the excess lumber, dead trees, etc. There was just too much fuel there. So, in the name of being "green", Al and his Planetary Rangers might as well have lit the match themselves.
Also, what are the odds of you wanting to visit the 7,000 acres in Alaska that could help reduce dependency on foreign oil? If Big Oil? were to do a Chernobyl job on that land, honestly, would you miss it? It's a swamp and it's permanently dark two months of the year. If Gore was truly concerned about the Earth, why does he only want to hobble the American economy? The Kyoto Climate Accords would tax American energy and industry but leave China and India free to pollute to their hearts content. (They refused to sign on.) Saving the world or just taxing Evil America?
Finally...you MUST get over your "if [taxes] are used wisely and for the greater good, then taxes are necessary." madness! It assumes that a faceless bureaucrat is a better judge than you of what YOUR money should be used for!
If you wanted to send your children to a private school or for you to stay home and homeschool, how are you going to afford it when Gore et al can come in and say, "Sorry, but we need money to bus kids into your district. No tax cut for you. Don't be so greedy." If there is need in YOUR community, wouldn't you rather cut a check to a local charity instead of having the Feds take a dollar from you, take a cut for itself and then give the remaining quarter to someone in a politically favored area, probably on the other side of the country?
Gore has been slinging the class warfare about "tax cuts for the rich" and how the government can't afford them. News flash: There is NO line item in the Federal Budget for "Tax Cuts". NONE. ZERO. ZIP. The surplus is excess cash that's be withheld. Your money. Sitting in their pockets. Current budget obligations are being paid for and the surplus is the leftovers. If you don't get that money back (or better yet, don't send it in the first place) they'll use it to buy the votes of other people while guilting you into silence. Don't want to be called "greedy", do you?
How do you figure your household budget? You and Mr. Isla prolly sit down, total up the paychecks and figure the bills. Your lifestyle, your car, your vacations, your savings have to come out of what you take in. If you don't have enough money for something, what do you do? Do you have the ability to increase your income unilaterally? Can you go to the boss and say, "The children need more money."? Of course not. You'll have to live within your means; learn to prioritize what's REALLY neccessary; get a Dreamcast for $150 instead of a $300 Playstation 2, etc. Why would you vote for politicians that reserve power to themselves that you'd never have?
Hope this has given you food for thought. Your children's future depends not only on having clean air and water, but also on their having the FREEDOM neccessary to develop their potential to the fullest without being forced to labour in service of some politicians promises that mortgaged their future for another chance to put their snouts in the trough.
Peace.