The First Presidential Debate in 2000

For the first time face to face the first deliberate of the 2000 presidential election was held at the campus of the University of Massachusetts. For ninety minutes stand night, Democratic toilettedidate Vice electric chair Al dialog box and Republican Candidate Governor of Texas George W. crotch hair battled one another over assess cuts, prescription drugs, Social Security, push policy, abortion, and education.On issues such as tax cuts, the Vice President proposed a plan, which cut taxes for middle class families, balance budgets every year, and pay down the national debt. He criminate the Governor of cutting taxes for only the wealthiest 1% of the population. Gores plan was for every $1 disposed 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. Gore felt that it was chief(prenominal) to resist squandering the budget surplus. He as well felt th e prosperity should be used to amend families and help parents strengthen families, making sure the schools they attended were safe, and preventing exposure to cultural pollution.Governor provides views on tax cuts differed. His proposal was to put one half towards Social Security, one fourth towards outstanding projects and the remaining one fourth to the people who pay the bills. Also accusing Gore of Medi Scare, he tell he would make sure all seniors have Medicare and a variety of options to choose from. He also proposed a plan, Immediate Helping Hand, in which seniors could get immediate healthcare if they needed it.Gore remote his Medicare payment plan saying that it would fail to help seniors for the first four to five years and that Bushs plan spends more money on tax cuts for the wealthiest one percent, than all the spending he proposes for education, health care, prescription drugs and national defense combined. He also had much to say about the energy crisis.He wants to explore local areas for gas and oil, thus reducing dependency upon foreign sources. Gore concord that reliance overseas 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 less energy. Bush felt that we should, rather than import one million barrels of oil a day from Saddam Hussein, drill the oil here. He wants to also break Canada and Mexico in exploring the land for oil reserves.Out of all the comments that Bush made about Gore last night, the most prominent one probably was when he kept on asking why Gores priorities havent been accomplished by now. For example, on prescription drugs, he said, It seems like they cant 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 would be when Gore did the math on Bushs tax plan and demonstrated why it would not be a good decision, Bush replied th at he was doing fuzzy math. and phony numbers They couldnt even agree on the size 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 gazillion more than that.