Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Political parties

The political parties graphic shows that republicans and democrats both support unmarried sex, according to the graphic where it is shown in the support bubble on either side of the page. They both want strong communities built from their values, morals, and beliefs-which are all very different, and they also want the people in those communities to be strong economically, still in very vastly different ways. This insight can be clarified by viewing the graphic that they want economic freedom and free trade in America and they both appreciate a well defined home life and community to be based on  morals. Both parties wish for their voters and the population in general to grow into working adults so that the great A-train that is America can keep chugging along; this is proven when you look at the graphic because while both parties want their children to know different morals they all want those children to grow up and eventually become cash cows. And the most influential similarity I saw was in their choices of freedom or equality, they had varied definitions for each democrats like a level playing field and republicans like giving people a chance to succeed, and both of those reasons boil down to the same thing.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Budget Balancing

Why is it so hard to balance the budget? Think about trying to spin plates on sticks, now imagine having to juggle all of them stick and all, now imagine that the plates are sentient somehow and are able to heckle your spinning and juggling skills. To balance the budget you have to first understand how the economy works concerning small businesses and large corporations, also you'd have to know how passing a law saying company A can grow into a monopoly will affect all businesses in the same market in the first year and many years later. Finally you'd have to take into account moral devices and the effect balancing decisions will affect the different economic and social classes. Three examples of these problems that I personally ran into included: the cutting of certain military taxes that would box out my ability to cut other military programs down the road, second finding out that tax cuts for small businesses help out in many other departments cutting down the budget, while providing tax cuts or abolishing programs for large corporations gave a lot of economic support in the for a few giant problem areas in the short run. Lastly, it was insanely difficult to make the decisions like cutting school funding or federal green contracts even though it helped to save the economy and America as a whole.

Friday, May 25, 2012

Constitution: Most important principle

The U.S. Constitution has four main principles; federalism, checks and balances, limited government, and separation of powers and out of those four I think that limited government is the most important because it limits the government. Firstly it keeps the government from stepping all over their citizens, secondly it would work even without checks and balances and separation of powers already doing their parts to limit the government. Finally, without this monopolies would still be around and the economy would come to an even more horrible crash than it already has, and nobody really wants that.

Is the interweb good for people

The most common way to find and read information is from a news station powered internet site, not only that but it's easy to navigate and is a simple way for the populous to keep in the loop, so yes the Internet is good for people especially news on the internet. Without the internet I;m sure that most of America, scratch that most of the world, wouldn't know half the things they know today about what is happening thousands of miles away in the world. As an example I would have had no inkling of a notion as to what was going on in Egypt last year without the internet media there to notify me. The ever-growing news  and media outlets on the internet are great for america because they keep us with the title of global powerhouse, because as a country we are able to know what is going on and can decide as a country if something is right or wrong. Seriously how many riots or protests have there been in opposition to or of the things the government does, in the end the internet media is jsut what america needs and it should keep growing further for the US population to have prosperity.

Too many or too few rights

Through the subjects covered in my government class I have come to realize that as Americans, we have entirely too few rights. Sure the constitution and all the amendments cover us or catch us like the safety net it's supposed to be, but reviewing many cases the supreme court makes so many ruling around the amendments just to protect the public. This means that we are horribly overwhelmed by the chinks in our proverbial armor, letting us be subjugated to illegal searches or false accusations. Like the probable cause cases where the man was falsely accused and then illegally searched because the police dog smelt drugs, Americans should have the right to defend themselves on the spot. Also the case where the group of youths were smoking some pot and could be charged for that but they should not have had their vehicle searched, the government run juggernauts meant to protect are at play shoving their superiority in our powerless faces. The US population needs more rights or these atrocities will continue, I'm not saying smoking weed is okay, I'm saying that we should be able to say if something is right or wrong.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Advisering Romney

If I were a campaign adviser for Mr. Mitt Romney I would steer him toward addressing three major topics

Electoral college

The electoral college should be kept because by taking votes from big states and giving them to smaller states they level the playing field and give those small states a chance to have a say in what goes on in an election. Not only does it level the playing field for states they also do so for the candidates because they are forced to run and grab the majority electoral vote of 270, a 3/4 majority, in only about half the states. Finally the main reason is because it save the planet, by taking many states out of the campaign trail they are saving candidates the trouble of wasting gas to travel out west and by doing so saving the planet from harmful greenhouse gases. But seriously the main reason is because the Electoral College is constitutional and has been for maybe the past two centuries, so the amount of resistance that would need to be adhered to would be immeasurable and in the end would not be worth all the time and money it would take to get rid of the electoral college.

Improved elections

The election process in the united states is broken and inefficient in the way it elects the president and I'm absolutely sure that there are at least three legit ways to improve  this system. First off the obvious problem is the electoral college so the three changes will  be made to the electoral college. The way to give equality to small states is not to give all the votes from the big states to the small states but to divide the US into voting sectors so that bigger and smaller states are grouped togetherThe candidates would have to campaign in all the states and win over the majority of each sector to gain the electoral votes from that sector, this solves the whole issue of candidates only campaigning in the rare states where they are able to control the most electoral votes. The final change that should be made to the electoral college so that voting can be fixed is, to provide two voting coexisting voting options. The voters would have to provide their votes for the electoral college, which would work better, but would also have to provide their vote into the popular vote which would be stacked up against the electoral college findings. That way people will see that voting has improved with the electoral college and they should stop whining about it.

Here is an example of what the divisions might look like, probably would have to be a little more split in some places but pretty much what i was talking about.