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how to classify myself. I was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, so I guess I follow our forefathers with the idea that dissent and liberty go hand in hand. I admire John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Frankin, Tom Paine and everyone else who lived on the edge with the main goal being freedom and self-government.
As a woman, and one who lived through the 60s (despite being very young through most of it), I am a firm advocate for all women's rights, including those in career roles and reproductive rights.
As someone who is currently at poverty level, I think that our tax system needs vast improvement, and think that those who are rich are not paying their share of the tax burden in the country. Too many of those with gads of money find loopholes to pay less than their share.
On the other hand, I think there is a tremendous amount of fraud and misuse of social programs, having seen it myself--people on welfare who shouldn't be, and who take that support and abuse it.
I think the government should stay the hell out of personal and private business, such as who they decide to marry, join in civil union, have sex with, etc. These are things that should be left to individuals, and not "regulated" by the government.
I think big business needs far more restraints and regulations on them, however, and should not be allowed to get away with the shit they get away with. I also believe that those companies who move their base offshore should be penalized to the same level that they should be paying taxes if they had remained in the U.S., even more. To try and escape their taxes is just so nasty.
The environment is not ours to destroy, like so many cocky and arrogant people think. The choices we make daily are the ones that affect the air we breathe, the water we drink and the ground in which we plant crops. We need to be better informed about the many areas of science in which we are blissfully unaware or are completely ignorant about, because if the world is to survive our time, some tough decisions need to be made.
In that respect, continuing to rely on fossil fuel is not the answer. Those who control the oil would love to keep their empires alive, and as rich men, they have been able to do so for a long time. They have been able to monopolize industries and make the search for alternative energy sources face many roadblocks. It is up to the private citizens in the world to make that goal a tenable one and defeat these control freaks at their own game.
I guess I could go on and on, but there are so few things with which I could ever agree with the right about, that just taking their issues one by one, I could argue all day about any of them.
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