Geez - stay away for 2 days and there are so many posts I want to quote back at, this would look like a patchwork quilt! 
Snowbird: If I read that line about “clamp her legs shut and say NO” one more time I will SCREAM! Wise up woman! You’ve had children; therefore you’re not a virgin - hopefully you know sex CAN be enjoyable?? Why should a male be able to take his pleasure (take being the operative word) while the female is pressing her legs together?? Why shouldn’t a woman be able to enjoy sex? And if that means getting EDUCATION, REDUCED COST BIRTH CONTROL, AND MEDICAL CARE then TG for Planned Parenthood. Get out of the 40’s with that ancient attitude.
Regarding those unwanted babies the Republican’s want women to have rather than abortions… only if they’re white and healthy. If all prospective “adoptive” parents just wanted a child, then they’d take whatever was available, right? But they don’t do that. They go to Eastern Europe to get white babies so they don’t have to deal w/ “why is Johnny black when his parents are white” and learning a different culture. Yes! Some DO go to China, and some DO adopt racially mixed children, and some DO adopt children w/ known medical problems. But IMHO most couples want a child the same skin color as their own and who can blame them? If you’re caucasion looking at your Vietnamese child you are reminded EVERYTIME you look at him/her that YOU were unable to bear a child.
Taxes: If you have a big piece of the pie, and you loose a chunk of it, you’ll notice it less than the person w/ a sliver.
Appychick: welcome to the board. Go back to lurking if after all you’ve read on this thread “who’d want Gore for a president” is the best you can do. 
To give you the quick answer you don’t deserve:
A woman who wants control over her body, and who wants to know she can make her decision knowing if she needs help financially, it is there. A woman who sees through the rhetoric of a tax cut many will see little of and a few will see millions of. A woman who realizes that “christian-right tolerance” is an oxymoron. A woman who can’t believe a candidate believes in enviornmentalism when his own capitol city has an exceedingly high smog factor. For starters.
As for Nouveau’s not being philanthropical, two words… BILL GATES. His foundation is huge and will do great things for many children.
The formation of Social Security: Occurred in 1935 as part of FDR’s New Deal to improve conditions for people suffering from the fall out of the Great Depression. A system of Federally funded services and payments to help support the needy, the aged, and the temporarily unemployed as well as neglected children, and rehabilitation for the disabled. NOT instituted for “war hero’s” since WWI ended in 1918 and WWII wasn’t until 1941 (US entry). (Source: The Dictionary for Cultural Literacy - What Every American Needs to Know) Perhaps the poster was thinking of the GI Plan which helped discharged soldiers go to college?
Thank goodness the election is almost here.
[This message has been edited by Kryswyn (edited 10-28-2000).]
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