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Bush |
Al Gore |
| Technology and New Economy |
-Preparing the proper environment to refresh junior businessmen, to encourage renovation and to provide equal
opportunities.
-Developing new economy through lower taxes, boosting investment, encouraging free
trade.
-Improving education and upgrading
technological communication services for the
handicapped |
-Balancing the budget, reducing the federal debt through lowering rate of
interest.
-Reducing taxes to assist families and small
firms in making initial investments for the future, investing in new
technologies and opening new external markets. |
| Education |
-Reform of public schools by creating high criteria for
evaluation
-Ensuring security in schools
-Providing equal opportunities |
-Reform of schools
-Improving medical treatment and students' health care
-Providing equal opportunities to ensure
that every American citizen receives adequate education and
training. |
| Agriculture |
-Farmers should cultivate according to market demands and not government
programs.
-Commitment to assist farmers in keeping up with the challenges of the world
market.
-Opening new overseas markets for American produce
-Refrain from subsidizing agricultural
exports |
-Improving living conditions in rural areas… for farmers and
others
-Granting American farmers the same rights of all Americans: high education, health care, quality transportation, and
housing.
-Guaranteeing more consistent payments for farmers' families and giving them more control on produce
marketing.
-Providing small farmers with low-interest loans.
-Guaranteeing long-term protection of
farmers. |
| Health & Family |
-Providing health insurance for low-income families.
-Annulling strict federal regulations
.-The consumer - not the Administration - is responsible for health-care
decisions.
-Reform of social security through allowing
individuals to invest part of the paid taxes into social security in
a pensions account. |
-Empowering families and communities to solve their own
problems.
-Supporting families by encouraging
community involvement in childrearing and supervision; expansion of
family support systems. |
| Social Insurance |
-Reviving retirement programs. Bush formed a joint committee between the two parties to rewrite social insurance and public health care. |
-Reducing the federal debt without improving the advantages of retirement as they will increase the long term pressures on the
budget.
-Increasing financial aid in the social
insurance programs for widows and women with a cost of $100 billion.
Health care and medicine programs are the most costly ones.
Extending the insurance coverage of citizens. |
| Foreign Policy |
-Redefining US-Chinese relations as competitors and not strategic
partners.
-Opposing further loans from the IMF and preventing international financing to Russia for brutal attacks on
Chechenya
-Feeding the young Russian generation with American cultural concepts such as civil society and sovereignty of
law.
-Continuing sanctions on Cuba and UN inspection on Iraq.
-Supporting the move of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
-India is the center of stability and security in Asia.
-Supporting the peoples of the Balkan, Caucasia, Central Asia and Ukraine through regional peace call, improving of economy and opening communications with the
world.
-Boosting US intervention in Kosovo.
-Supporting Australia in East Timor issue.
-Increasing transparency among international institutions.
-Supporting Star Wars program and preventing
embargo on WMD |
-Diplomacy and arms control will play significant role in supporting national
security.
-NPT of WMD
-Developing appropriate technology to establish limited missile defense system to defend the United States from any missile attack without breaking arms control
principles.
-Peace keeping
-America needs strong Europe as economic partner to assist in carrying the burdens of leading the world economy and as security partner to assist US in protecting freedom and democracy against dictatorial
countries.
-European-American relations are partnership
for open trade relations through NATO, and nurturing other security
alliances that defend our principles. |
| Defense |
-Strong and civilized Armed Forces is the basis of
peace.
-US military must receive more respect.
-US military must develop to be the Armed Forces of the Future
-Applying proper choices to renew confidence between the President and the military, and defending the US with intensive missile
defense
-Establishing Armed Forces capable of
confronting the challenges of the 21st century. |
-Investing manpower through improving soldiers' payments and standard of
living.
-Improving the readiness of the military for
any conflict in the globalization era. |
