==Stephanie Sailor vs. The Machine==

Fast facts about Stephanie Sailor

--Gen X, age 29.

--Pro Second Amendment, but not a member of the NRA.

--A teacher, but not a member of the NEA.

--An artist, but not a supporter of that NEA.

--Doesn't advocate drug use, but supports re-legalization of drugs.

--Click here for more, including detailed bio.

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Libertarian Party

--The LP is America's largest and most successful third party.

--The party is organized in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

--Currently, more than 300 Libertarians hold elective office, more than twice as many as all other third parties combined.

--The LP ran more than 1430 candidates in the 2000 elections, more than twice as many as all other third parties combined.

--Click here fore more, including links to Libertarian Party issues & positions.

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Gun rights (self-defense)

--The most outspoken gun control advocates -- politicians and celebrities -- are the very same people who enjoy the luxury of armed guards or personally owning a gun: Rosie O' Donnell, Chicago Mayor Daley, Sen. Dianne Feinstein & others.

--Guns are used defensively over 2.5 million times/year. more

--Gun bans actually lead to an increase in crime, since disarmed citizens are defenseless against thugs (who will obtain guns regardless of whether or not it's illegal). When citizens are allowed to carry a concealed gun, crime drops.

--98% of the time when people use a gun defensively, merely brandishing the firearm is sufficient to stop an attack. more

--Click here to access Gun Facts Book in Adobe PDF.

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Drug war wrongs

--Drugs were legal in the United States until the 1914 Harrison Narcotics Act (give or take a year, depending upon the specific drug).

--There is a direct corrolation between drug prohibition and a skyrocket in crime. Click here for details.

--About 60% of federal prisoners are drug offenders. Just 3% are violent offenders. Whereas violent offenders serve an average of 54% of their prison term, drug offenders are legally required to serve at least 85% of their prison term. (US Justice Department Bureau of Prison Statistics)

--The impact of the drug war on families is devastating. Click here for more. To view the faces of nonviolent drug war prisoners, click here.

--Over 80% of the increase in the federal prison population from 1985 to 1995 was due to drug convictions. more

--The war on drugs is racially disproportionate -- 15% of illicit drug users are blacks yet they represent 39% of the prison population incarcerated for drug crimes. more

--The United States operates the biggest prison system on the planet. more

Click here for drug war facts and fallacies.

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School reform (liberating schools from politics)

--Minorities, poor families, and inner-city parents are the biggest supporters of school choice. more

--Free market schooling will deliver better education at less than half the cost of government-run schools. more

--About half of state taxes go towards government schools. Educational freedom means these taxes will plummet. The total tax cut can be over $300-billion per year. more

--Click here for school choice facts & myths.

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Social inSecurity

--Social Security will be in the red by 2012 if it isn't fixed soon. Social Security is a pay-as-you-go system, which means today's workers pay the benefits for today's retirees. In 1940, there were 42 workers per retiree; today there are three. By 2040 there will be only two. View graph

--Social Security benefits are not guaranteed. In two major cases, Helvering v. Davis (1937) and Flemming v. Nestor (1960), the Supreme Court ruled that individuals have no legal claim to Social Security.

--Blacks and the working poor would benefit the most from Social Security privatization. more

--Click here to compare your promised Social Security benefits with what you could have earned under a privatized system.

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Taxation (extortion)

--Most Americans believe paying taxes is a patriotic duty. Yet this very nation was founded upon people evading taxes in 1776. more

--Before 1914, there was no income tax.

--Today, add the cost of taxes (federal, state, local) and regulation together, and the government soaks up nearly 57% of your economic life -- a far greater share than feudal lords of the Middle Ages demanded of their vassals. (Harry Browne, Why Government Doesn't Work)

--In other words, you work until around July 27 of each year (6 months, 27 days) for government, and only the remaining 5 months and 4 days for yourself.

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