Voters’ Voices 2012

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“To keep and maintain the safety and security that we experience now. Definitely the defense of country – make sure we are protected, that our borders are protected. That’s important, the defense. Definitely, if I could understand what’s all the brouhaha about the Medicare and Medicaid. I mean, there’s so much going on, I’m not quite sure what’s true and what’s not true, and what’s the impact it has on me, so definitely some clarification. If there could really be some clear, definitive, just non-partisan information going out as to what’s going on, instead of being for a political side. I want them to stop politicizing issues and just think about what’s best for the county and not what’s best for a political party.”
(Ruby Beal, 67, of Syracuse, retired Syracuse City School District teacher, unaffiliated with a political party)

“Jobs, fuel and healthcare, not necessarily in that order. Too many of my friends are unemployed. Fuel, because I see it every day since I’m in sales. And healthcare because my healthcare costs are spinning out of control.”
(Dan Bush, 59, of Manlius, works in key account management and sales at Schenker Inc., Democrat)

“Healthcare, that’s huge. Definitely education – you got kids that aren’t, you know, can’t get through school. Then you got kids that want to go to school and people that want to go back, and tuition’s so high, you can’t. It’s like, no! And let me think of the other one. Probably, I would say more like, elder services, because they seem to be wanting to cut those too.”
(Stacy Finerson, 37, of Syracuse, works in the adoption center of PetSmart, unaffiliated with a political party)

“Our taxes are too high.  I mean on a local level, like property taxes.  We have too many layers of government, you know – county, town, state. And  when you add in all that, the cost for the pension cost or whatever, it sort of goes back to the first question. And the third one would be — I I would say defense. We’ve got to, on a national level, we’ve got to get out of the wars and massively slash defense.”
(Fred Kalenack, 51, of DeWitt, designer at Pall Corporation, Republican)

“The big one I’ve been worried about lately is the raising of taxes without doing anything with them. And I feel like all the politicians are really benefitting from that more than anybody. I’d like that to be addressed. Maybe there’s like a conspiracy theory there or something. The overly high prices on healthcare and how they can deny people claims, period. Probably minimum wage, because I know a lot of girls that work really hard but don’t get paid a lot. Or even like, more lucrative jobs for people that aren’t educated. Or maybe like, education for those people. A lot of these people don’t feel like they can afford it. They make too much money or their parents make too much money. So it puts them in a bind.”
(Joni Brown, 26, of Minoa, master stylist at Joseph Anthony & Co., Democrat)

(Stephanie Bouvia is a senior newspaper journalism major.)

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