Gore

Medicare prescription drug proposal-Gore would like for you to be able to go to your own doctor and have your doctor choose your prescription. Then you go to your own pharmacy, and Medicare pays half the cost. If you're in a very poor family or you have very high costs, Medicare will pay all the costs -- a $25 premium and much better benefits than you can possibly find in the private sector.

Abortion-Gore is for a woman's right to choose. Would support a ban on partial-birth abortion if the health or life of the women were at risk. (Pro-Choice)

Education-voluntary national tests in the fourth grade and eighth grade, hire 100,000 new teachers, new accountability standards for teachers, improve schools.

Surplus Policy- Gore would like to have targeted middle class tax cuts, pay down the debt and improve upon Welfare Reform.

 

Bush

Social Security- Bush wants to give workers the option, at their choice, of being able to manage some of their own money in the private sectors to make sure there's a Social Security system around tomorrow.

Abortion- Bush believes that every child, born and unborn, ought to be protected in law and welcomed into life. He is against partial-birth abortion. (Pro-life)

Military- Bush would like to have a billion dollar pay raise for the men and women who wear the uniform to ensure that the troops are well housed and well equipped. Bush would like to include bonus plans to keep some of our high-skilled folks in the services; and a commander in chief who clearly sets the mission, and the mission is to fight and win war, and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place.

Education- Bush would like to change Head Start into a reading program. He would also like to consolidate federal programs to free districts, have mandatory testing and vouchers for school choice.