Talking about Classmates blog

Derek did a good job on his blog. It is nice to now that people are stating to get jobs again and knowing it such a big number of people who are getting jobs makes you know that you can get a job also. It was well written with good and key information an example is how many people received jobs over the last four months. Even though it wasn't long it still got its point across on what he wanted to talk about. Overall it was a good blog and wasn't boring.

Immigration Law In Arizona Is No Good

In 2006 former president, George Bush, supported a proposal that would've required undocumented immigrants to take English classes and pay fines and back taxes in exchange for guest worker status and, eventually, citizenship.

"I know this is an emotional debate," said Bush. "But one thing we cannot lose sight of is that we're talking about human beings, decent human beings that need to be treated with respect."

But Bush was shouted down by angry people carrying "Go back to Mexico!" sings. Their counter proposal? To somehow round up and bus an estimated 11 million people to the border, an idea that was to pragmatism and practicality as Lady Gaga is to modesty and restraint. Similar thinking if you want to call it that, is evident in the bill recently signed into law by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, of Arizona, that has vaulted that state into a raging controversy.

The so-called Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act includes a provision empowering police officers to ask people they encounter for proof they are in this country legally if the officers have "reasonable suspicion" they are not. Which quite naturally raises the question of what constitutes reasonable suspicion; what cues might a person give that would make police think he/she is illegal?

Only three suggest themselves: dark features, accented English or "hablando en espanol." Given that any number of native and naturalized Americans also fit that description, we face the troubling prospect of police approaching Hispanic citizens and demanding their papers, an image you'd think belongs more to some totalitarian regime than to the US.

Predictably, the new law has galvanized protesters throughout the country. Incredibly, one of the state's own congressmen, Democrat Raul Grijalva, has even called for a boycott. He told Politico.com, "If state lawmakers don't realize or don't care how detrimental this will be, we need to make them understand somehow."

You know something is haywire when a congressman campaigns against his own stat. But Grijalva is right. Until this shameful law is rescinded, Arizona is a great place not to be.

Comment on classmate article

I'm going to comment on the post by Derek Rider called Healthcare reform takes a turn for the worse in congress. I think Derek did a good job on this article. In the article he gave a lot of information and quoted key things from the people who had something to do with what the article is talking about. If was things in the article that I didn't even know about and it brought it to my attention on what is going on in the United States by doing this I think his article gets its point across to the readers. He also gave statics on how many threats there have been instead of just saying that there were some threats. I also agree with Derek on the comment on how one threat said how snipers will target health care supporters children, that is just crazy and I do not see how anybody could put that it their mind and make a threat like that to kill little children, it also shows the crazy people that live in the US. Overall this was a very good article by Derek Rider.

Obama still faces health care reform traps

Health care reform is in the same political realm as climate change, with the country divided among those who believe it is settled, those who doubt everything about it and those waiting for more evidence.

Passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act hasn't settled the issue or calmed the politics before this year's congressional elections. Instead, it has raised the stakes for President Obama and his party to assure millions of doubters that this is the right public course on an intensely personal issue.

But it also has created treacherous ground for Republicans, many of whom are preparing to run for office this fall on a promise to repeal the measure. Without a solid, specific alternative that looks both politically possible and addresses real concerns about the health care system, Republicans risk looking like defenders of a discredited status quo.

So far, Obama hasn't gotten the public opinion bump many Democrats had hoped for. His job approval rating in the first major USA Today-Gallup poll taken after the bill's passage fell 47%, and his disapproval rating hit 50% for the first time in his presidency.

More importantly, 50% of respondents called the reforms a "bad thing," while 47% called them a "good thing." By 2-1, respondents thought the law would make their personal health care situations worse, not better. The "bad thing" rating rose by 10 points over a Gallup survey taken right after the bill's passage.

One possible explanation for the spike is in the days after passage, big companies came out with statements predicting how much more the reforms eventually would cost them. Obama and congressional Democrats pushed back, saying they will be phased in and benefits eventually will outweigh costs in both coverage and deficit reduction.

What Abolish Social Security????

I'm going to evaluate the story that was on Think Progress. About former Bush officials rip Tea Parties. The story is intended for the Republican Party and why they are seeking to abolish Social Security. The author of the article is Lee Fang which also has a video clip and the statements from David Frum a former speech writer in the Bush White House and Scott McClellan a former press secretary to Bush. They are talking about the Tea Parties for their very extreme ideas like abolishing Social Security. Saying that this "plays too much to people's fears and hatred." David Frum talks about how not even two percent of the members in the Republican Party would agree to abolishing Social Security. Scott McClellan went a different route on talking about the people in the Tea Parties by stating what one person in the Tea Party said about President Obama saying that Obama is a terrorist. Scott McClellan also says he thinks that their could even be people in the Tea Parties that have concerns and do not want to abolish Social Security. McClellan finish by saying that the Tea Parties "hasn't shown itself to be a strong, powerful force, even within the Republican Party." I agree with both of the men, David Frum and Scott McClellan and I don't think we should abolish Social Security, this idea just has to be in the top ten of the stupidest ideas ever in America. Even though it was only about two minutes. they talk about good things that could make people who want to abolish Social Security not want to abolish it after they see this.

Electric Voting System

The article "The Voters Will Pay" in the nytimes is a great article for the people who do not want the Electric Voting System. It is also for the people who are on the fence about if they would or wouldn't like to go to an Electric Voting System. The author of the article is unknown so he doesn't have much credibility because nobody knows who he or she is. The argument in this article is trying to get people not to switch to the Electric Voting System. They use evidence from the 2000 presidential election when the state of Florida had a lot of uncounted votes which highlighted the deep flaws in the Electric Voting System. The article talks about good things why we shouldn't have an Electric Voting System by stating that some studies have already showed that the Electric Voting System is vulnerable to software glicthes, intentional vote theft or sabotage. Since the Electric Voting System would all be connect to one company it makes it that much more vulnerable. This article gives a good argument for the people who are going against the Electric Voting System. This is also a good argument to give people insight on why we shouldn't go the the Electric Voting System. It has good evidence and it states a lot of facts about the vulnerability of the Electric Voting System. This is would be an all-around great article if we knew who wrote it, that way we could know what party they are in and some more of their work to show how much we really can trust them but other than that this is a good argumentative article.

Louisiana Museum Stops Segragation

The difference between race is something America has always been dealing with. Trying its best for everybody of every race to see eye to eye. The Museum in Baton Rouge, Louisiana they are taking the next step. The article call "New Louisiana Museum Confronts Segregation" at (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/us/13grambling.html?ref=us) talks about how the museum pays tribute to Grambling football coach Eddie Robinson who came to at that time a segregated Grambling school. The white crowd was very hostile just a couple of years before Mr. Robinson came to Grambling a black man was rape with a hot poker and then hung. Mr. Robinson turned the crowd to his side quickly as he had over 408 victories and sent more then 200 players to the pros. Now after the three year death of Mr. Robinson the place that once hated black people have used their money and made an entire museum on Mr. Robinson life and legacy. While America is not perfect and their is still some segregation going on, This museum is showing we are taking a step in the right direction.