Problem | Democrats | Republicans | Socialists | Economy | * Helping small businesses. * Spurring Manufacturing job creation. * Cut taxes for 95% of working families. | * Believe in the power and opportunity of America’s free-market economy. * Believe in the importance of sensible business regulations that promote confidence in economy among consumers | * Minimum wage of $15 per hour indexed to the cost of living. * Call for a national pension authority to hold the assets of private funds | Health Care | * Helping stabilize the economy and reduce the deficit. * Cutting health care taxes for families and small business. * Creating greater health care competition and accountability. | * Support common-sense health care reforms. * Their reforms would lower costs preserve quality, end lawsuit abuse, and maintain the healthcare that Americans deserve. | * Full funding for AIDS research, prevention, and treatment. Demand full civil rights for people living with AIDS. * Support the right to choose or refuse medical treatment, the right to die, and the right to assisted suicide. | Education | * Reforming the federal student loan program and making college more affordable. * Promoting community service and civic engament. * Investing in early childhood education. | * Believe that maintaining a world-class system of primary and secondary education. * Believe in the power of schools choice, that giving parents the ability to send their children to better schools not to keep them trapped in failing schools. | * Recognizes the right of students of all ages to a free, quality education in a safe and supportive environment, and of all school employees to good wages, benefits, and working conditions. * Call for a maximum of 15 students per teacher for grades K-12. | NationalSecurity | * Ending war in Iraq * Securing America’s borders * Reducing the threat of nuclear weapons. * President Obama is focused on preventing terrorism across the globe. | * Defending America’s homeland, including remaining vigilant in confronting global terrorism,