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From: holt@parsec.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Democrats vs. Republicans - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 5-Aug-83 22:40:18 EDT
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parsec!holt    Aug  4 13:57:00 1983

    I couldn't agree more with you.  Democrats seem to feel that it is
the Government's responsability to insure everyone's well being.  If that 
is what a person believes, then that person should be a Democrat.  If, on
the other hand a person believes that it is each and every person's 
responsability to provide for themselves, then the person is probably more 
of a Republican.  I am a rabid Republican on this issue.  But, this is only 
one difference between the two parties.  
    A second difference is that the Republican party as of late has taken
on the idea that Government should tell people what to do.  I don't like that
at all.  I don't want my teenage daughter to worry about Planned Parenthood
telling me whether or not she has asked for birth control devices.  That is
a freedom I would like to see her retain.  I don't want the Government telling
pregnant women whether or not they can make the choice to have an abortion or
not.  It is the mother's right to make that choice.  I don't want prayer
reinstated in public school.  Religious freedom should be retained.
    But wait a minute.  The Democratic party seems to be jumping on this 
bandwagon as well.  They (in some states) have proposed gun control laws.
I don't want the Government telling me whether or not I can own a gun.  They
also feel that the more money a person makes, the greater the percentage the
government has a right to.  I disagree entirely.  Taxes should be based on
a set percentage of income.  Let's do away with brackets altogether.
    What this all boils down to is that I am currently a Republican because
of their economic positions.  But, I am more than a little disturbed with
their stand on personal freedoms.


				Dave Holt
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