'The First Presidential Debate in 2000\r'

'For the number one clipping face to face the first confer of the 2000 presidential election was held at the campus of the University of Massachusetts. For ninety minutes last night, Democratic expectation misdeed President Al dialog box and Republican Candidate regulator of Texas George W. crotch hair battled one another over mea accepted cuts, prescription(prenominal) drugs, Social Security, push exceptton insurance policy, abortion, and program line.\r\nOn issues such as revenue enhancement cuts, the Vice President proposed a programme, which cut taxes for in-between class families, balance bud arrests either year, and return down the national debt. He accuse the Governor of cutting taxes for only the wealthiest 1% of the population. battue”s object was for either(prenominal) $1 give to things like education and health, another $1 would be given for middle class tax cuts, and for every dollar spent there, $2 would be expended to bring down the national debt. board mat that it was consequential to resist waste the budget intemperance. He similarly felt the prosperity should be used to improve families and help parents strengthen families, making sure the schools they attended were safe, and preventing exposure to â€Å"cultural pollution.”\r\nGovernor furnish”s views on tax cuts differed. His proposal was to put one one-half towards Social Security, one fourth towards writeant projects and the remaining one fourth to the people who pay the bills. Also accusing dialog box of â€Å"Medi Scare,” he said he would give sure all seniors have Medicare and a variety of options to choose from. He overly proposed a plan, Immediate Helping Hand, in which seniors could get immediate healthcare if they indispensable it.\r\nGore opposed his Medicare payment plan saying that it would fail to help seniors for the first four to five years and that Bush”s plan spends â€Å"more notes on tax cuts for the weal thiest one percent, than all the spending he proposes for education, health care, prescription drugs and national defense combined.” He also had much to say somewhat the energy crisis.\r\nHe wants to explore local areas for heavy weapon and oil color, thus reducing dependency upon international sources. Gore agreed that reliance abroad for oil should be reduced but had something else in mind to reduce it. He proposed the idea of new trucks, cars, and machinery that reduces pollution and uses little energy. Bush felt that we should, rather than import one million barrels of oil a day from Saddam Hussein, apply the oil here. He wants to also cooperate Canada and Mexico in exploring the land for oil reserves.\r\n away of all the comments that Bush made about Gore last night, the most outstanding one probably was when he unploughed on asking why Gore”s priorities haven”t been complete(a) by now. For example, on prescription drugs, he said, ” It seems l ike they can”t get it done” And on energy policy to prevent future shortages he said,” He should have been tackling it for the past seven years.” another(prenominal) would be when Gore did the math on Bush”s tax plan and demonstrated why it would not be a good decision, Bush replied that he was doing â€Å"fuzzy math.” and â€Å"phony numbers” They couldn”t even agree on the coat of the tax cut. Bush said that he would return $1.3 trillion of the predicted ten-year budget surplus to taxpayers. Gore said it would be $600 zillion more than that.\r\n'