your issues

[low_delta]

What are the issues that are important to you when deciding where your vote is going? Guns? Education? Big government? Morality? Abortion? Are there any specific segments of the larger issues that are more important to you than other parts of them.

I'm not concerned with your stance on the issue, so much as I'm wondering what the issues are, that are important to people (unfortunately, this sample group is rather small). Feel free to comment anonymously.

Comments

[ranunculus.livejournal.com]

In no particular order:
Environment
International Relations (including keeping us out of gratuitous wars).
Separation of Church and State
Fiscal Responsibility

I'm reluctantly of the opinion that the right to bear arms is more important than banning them.
Morality and Abortion come under my heading of separation of Church and State; the State should not be deciding such questions for me.
Big government is always an issue. Everyone wants the services that "Big" government provides, but doesn't want to pay for them. I'm of the opinion that trimming things now and then is good, however we have now been through a good "trim" session and it's time to go forward.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I'm reluctantly of the opinion that the right to bear arms is more important than banning them.

That's about how I feel about it. But since I don't think gun control is going to change drastically, no matter which candidate is elected, guns is a non-issue for me.

[i.livejournal.com]

the supreme court

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

An issue that transcends the policies of the candidate.

[vwip.livejournal.com]

If I was there...
- get rid of capital punishment (which isn't an issue here, as no one's seriously suggesting reintroducing it)
- universal health care (and not delivered via private insurance companies either) - I find it quite weird that education is seen as something to be provided to a certain extent as of right, but not health care.
- ban firearms except for sports/recreation, and in those cases license both each gun and each gun owner.
- rework the electoral system in such a way that more than half the people feel that it's worth voting.
- some sort of equivalent of our repeal of s59.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

What's s59?

[vwip.livejournal.com]

The first subsection of it in our Crimes Act 1961 used to read:

S59. Domestic discipline -- (1) Every parent [of a child and, subject to subsection (3) of this section, every person in the place of the parent of a child is justified in using force by way of correction towards the child], if the force used is reasonable in the circumstances.

It didn't actually end up getting repealed entirely, but it was amended in such a way so that those parents who were escaping prosecution for severely beating their children because their use of force was 'by way of correction', should longer be able to do so.

- oh, and I forgot the first time: fully adopt the damn metric system! :)

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

fully adopt the damn metric system!

Real change is difficult these days.

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

Environment
Roe vs Wade
Social Programs
Education
Civil Rights
Economy

[northernsnokat.livejournal.com]

Economy
Price gouging
health care
Roe vs Wade
Something has to be done about the electoral voting system

did I mention...economy.....

[mcohenmn.livejournal.com]

Many of the preceding items are important to me too, but I want to add Commitment to Building Sustainable Infrastructure (i.e. energy) to the list. National defense / security is also on my list, though I don't believe that's an issue with differentiated capability along partisan lines.

Issues? I have issues, alright...

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Environment
Foreign diplomacy--we have *lots* of repair work to do.
A proper exit strategy out of Iraq.
Ethics--real ethics, not fake morality people can wave like a flag.
Single payer health care
Fixing social security
Repairing our infrastructure--bridges, roads, etc.
Women's biological rights.
Education--ideally, I'd like most college to be free.
Fixing our economy...

Just for a start, anyway.

Re: Issues? I have issues, alright...

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I heard that supplying college tuition for all who want it would be incredibly cheap. Seems like it was a fraction of what we spend on Iraq in a day. I wish I could find the figure.

[sweetinsanity.livejournal.com]

Abortion, and education (and namely scary religiousness therein).

[sweetinsanity.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. And environment (the protection of), and health care (the universalization of).