IMPORTANT ISSUES

IMPORTANT ISSUES
Vindicator readers
Some comments from Vindicator readers when asked: "If you had an informal chat in your living room with each of the presidential candidates, which issues would you discuss with them as being the most important to you?":
"My question would be a two part. One, what ideas/plans do you have to make America a great country for all? Two, how can this be accomplished by keeping peace and safety at home and abroad?"
Susanne Miller, Youngstown
"Concern over this country losing its major manufacturing industries and the tax revenues that those jobs produce to sustain our standards of living."
Tom Flynn, Warren
"Why, in a country with so much wealth, do we still have poor neighborhoods and old, dilapidated schools that look like they belong in a third world country?"
Nicholas DuBos, Pittsburgh, formerly of Youngstown
"How is it we can spend billions and billions on wars and trips to Mars, yet we have no public health care and prescription drug plan for our citizens?"
Frank Raub, Mineral Ridge
"First and foremost, the economy. Will our soldiers come back to find they have no jobs? If MBAs can't find work, what chance do the less skilled have?
Nancy DeRamo, Youngstown
Source: Associated Press Managing Editors National Credibility Roundtables Project