Quote Originally Posted by Trevor Ash
Did anyone have a change of opinions about anything after last nights debate?

The one thing that stuck in my mind was Kerry's health plan........[cough]hogwash[cough]
Agreed.

The big thing that stuck in my mind about Bush was his response to the question asking what he'd tell someone who lost their job to offshoring. The answer that Bush gave seemed like it was geared at how to fix the problem in the long term. His answer was to make our education system equally competitive with other countries. In the short term, his answer was giving money so someone like myself could go to a community college and obtain the skills required to do the job.

What a bunch of crap. I already have the skills. It's not all about skills Bush. It's about money. It's just plain cheaper to get the job done overseas.
Agreed again. The president's answer here was totally lame, and echos what most "politicians" do when in a tight spot: promise to throw money at people (which amounts to our own money, by the way!). This is what I mean when I say the federal government has its nose in too many issues that it shouldn't be concerned with constitutionally. If it stuck to its limited powers as outlined in the constitution, these issues wouldn't even come up in a presidential debate, not to mention we'd have a whole lot more money in our pockets if we weren't funding all these things with our federal taxes.

Anybody else out there agree with me, or do you think it's the federal government's job to tax us more and more and spend our money to provide for education, welfare, social security, health care, prescription drugs and the like to the citizens of the U.S.? And if so, I'd like to hear what your basis is for believing so.

Ray