Advancing gay rights.

A major event has happened in gay rights today. A federal judge has giving the 'Green light' on gay marriage in California. This is a major victory for all gay rights activists and will be marked down in history as a major change within our society. I fell that this event is important to the advancement of our country's culture and the fulfillment of America's image of a truly equal nation. For this reason, students should read this article; because one day our children will be learning about this very event within our lifetime. This article is worth reading for these reasons.

Educational Aid

Juliana Boswell has a good argument concerning the recent aid given to the education system of the United States. This money could be extremely beneficial towards our education system. This post also opened my eyes to the bills assistence of other governemt employees and emergency workers. I feel that Juliana is correct in saying people in our government are too concerned with disagreeing with the opposing side; therefore opposing any bills from the other side that could possibly help out the country. The education student like myself receive is the future of our great nation; This should be one of the top priority in our country. It is for these reasons, I agree with Juliana's statements.

Obama signs bill to prevent teacher layoffs

The recent bill signed tuesday by president Obama will help out our education system alot. With the Economy in shambles, many teahcers, including alot that have extensive experience in the field, are in danger of layoffs. The bill will give government capital to the federally ran school systems decreasing the danger of good teachers losing their jobs. The future of our nation will depend on young citizens to recieve a good education to run our country. The way our education system is looking we are getting left in the dust by other industrialized countries; the danger toward these teachers does not ease this gap between our nation either. The 26 billion dollars the government is now going to invest into our education system will not be spent in vien. Many opposers feel that this is an unneeded use of our federal tax dollars; however, how could helpng our children recieve a better education,from a larger more experienced teacher pool, unneeded. Republicans feel this is just a give away that will effect our nations long term recovery wrongly; but this is the exact thought that put our country into the first major economic depression. President Hoover felt that if the government did not spend anything, the economy would be fixed in time; this led to an even greater unemployment and inflation that the event is know as the great depression. If our country learned anything from the hardest time in our history, it would be that to end an economic issue, the governent needs to spend capital, to generate capital. This is basic modern economics that often get over looked.

Drews post

Although you come up with a good point in self-defense; consider that if guns were not so easy to get, would they be as necessary in defending one's self? In Texas, an 18 year old person can go to a gun store and walk out with a rifle or a shotgun the same day. Does that not put an unnecessary risk on highschool and college students?

Benefits of Marijuana Reform

The view Americans have on Marijuana have been lead astray ever since the large anti-marijuana campaigns of the 1930's. These campaigns made Americans believe that marijuana causes harsh lung damage, aggressive actions, hallucinations and other radical symptoms. Although many people see marijuana as a horrible drug, modern research speaks other wise. With that aside, what about economically? If the United states were to legalize marijuana for use by adults; would it help out our country? The answer may be clear within our life time.

With the taxes that could be set on marijuana-similarly to the tobacco taxes- the national government is predicted to gain over 778,000,000 dollars in revenue. This money alone would help bump our economy back up the totem pole. The government would also save money by not having to pay for thousands of people imprisoned on marijuana charges. In 2004 it was roughly $64 a day to keep someone incarcerated. Therefore, the government would profit by these people not being supported while in prison. Marijuana being legalized would offer the drug on the open market opening up new jobs for sales and production; also causing drug kingpins operating the black market to lose power. This would also cause the federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to focus more on hard drugs like Heroine and cocaine. The federal government monitoring the production of this drug would also result in safer products for habitual uses and peace of mind knowing your marijuana has not been lased with a hard drug or other harmful chemicals.

Overall, I believe the legalization of marijuana would be good for our country. The predicted tax revenue and decrease in the black market both seem like major selling points. Until people open up their eyes and research the effects of this legalization this will never happen. One day when the propaganda wears out, this country may finally make a decision that could make our country prosperous once more.

Our view on balancing the budget: To help control the deficit, let the Bush tax cuts expire

This article, from USA Today(USA Today 7/21/10), argues against extending the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts set into place by president Bush and his administration. The author of this article seems to be directing his opinion toward the general public; not showing signs of bias toward conservative or liberal parties. He feels that the tax cuts set into action between 2001 and 2003 should be allowed to expire.

With the American economy falling and the country in a large amount of debt; the author believes that extending these tax cuts will be a waste of good tax dollars the government needs. Although many feel otherwise due to the shape of middle and lower class families in the post Bush economy; the artical offers ending the tax cuts for the upper class first, as a option. This would allow the government to receive better tax revenue until the economy levels out, and the middle and lower classes can better support themselves financially.

The author lays down a good argument that was successful in persuading this reader towards his point of view. The tax money that would be generated by the expiration of these taxes would help our government with its debt. Although citizens would feel the effects of a larger tax imposed on them; the plan, outlined by the author of this article, seems to be fruitful in putting off the tax increase for the economically unstable classes. This would give the lower classes time untill the taxes effect them. The effects of these bills expiring would help our country emerge from economic repression.

TARP, Roy, Robin and the Republicans

This is a post from the conservative blog called Redstate. In this posting Bill argues for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). In his argument he explains the financial standing of the country in 2008. He claims that during this time he read allot of articles and recieved E-mails that fore told the collapse of allot of financial institutions. Bill goes on to talk about senators from MO that are using the TARP programs as a part of their campain for re-election in November. In this he bashes Democratic candidate Robin Carnahan saying she "basically" stated she would have supported the program, but she opposed them due to support by the opposition. This statement shows bias toward the Conservative party and some-what ignorance due to the fact that many right winged representatives pull that very same trick in not supporting anything the opposing side supports. Although Bill seems to create a good argument toward the good that has come out of the passing of the TARP bill, he does not, however, bring up any of the down sides to the bills passing. For example, the bank bailout that was intended for the banks to use rebuilding their companies; Many of these companies, due to the government not tracking what these businesses were doing with the money, gave big bonuses to their CEO's as a gift for failing epically. This is just one example of how our tax money has been wasted by these government programs because the federal government does not intervene with these large corporate power houses.