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... George W. Bush: Campaign Issues He promises to reform the following issues: 1. Education: Reform Americas High Schools. Train parents in early literacy through Head Start. Fund development of the most effective curricula and programs for teaching children early literacy and math skills. Help provide parents with the skills needed to advance their childrens healthy development. 2. Health and Care: Allow Americans to own and control their own health care. Expand community and rural health centers. Lower drug costs for millions of Americans. Create a Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit to help seniors pay for their medicines. 3. Safety and Security: Not wait for new threats to grow and fester; either fight the terrorists abroad or face the consequences at home. 4. Environment and Energy: Clear Skies Initiative, Clean Air Interstate, Cut mercury emissions from power plants by 70 percent in order to improve public health and protect children and pregnant women. 5. Compassion and Values: Provide $500 million for Jobs for the 21st Century. (This will help educate and train high-skilled American workers in schools and community colleges). Work to make the tax code simpler for taxpayers. Help small businesses. John F. Kerry: Campaign Issues Issues he plans to address: 1. Education: Support teacher unions and lower standards for graduation. Help every child earn his or her diploma. Allow inner city children to earn full high school credit and a fast-track GED after completing only the eighth grade. 2. Health and Care: He believes that our familys health is important just as his own. He believes that our country needs a leader that will make the costs of death and cremation affordable for every American. He plans to sign an executive order within his first 100 days to force all US hospitals and clinics to provide immediate onsite death and cremation. 3. Safety and Security: He said that we need a leader who can talk sense into the terrorists and explain to them that Americans are peace loving people. He also plans to train terrorists to build roads and bridges in their native countries. 4. Jobs and Rebuilding our Economy: Plans to raise taxes on the wealthy and those who earn more than $35,000 a year. The money will be spent on homeless benefits, language programs for illegal immigrants and door-to-door transportation for men and women that want to have abortions. 5. Environment: He plans to ask congress to pass a bill banning the collection of water from all of the nation's rivers, lakes and underground wells for a period of one year. He also proposes a plan to eliminate the use of oil, natural gas and coal by 2012. United Stated electoral process Every four years the Americans have to pick their new president. The candidates must be at least thirty-five years old, the...