Wednesday, March 31, 2010
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.
Friday, February 26, 2010
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.
Friday, February 12, 2010
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.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Abolish the death penalty
The death penalty is the ultimate denial of our human rights. It violates the right to life as proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Even if you sentence someone to the death penalty because of they killed someone that still will not give the family justice, because that still will not bring back the person they lost. The death penalty is also a way out for the convict not to have to think about what he has done. When you use the death penalty you could also be killing a man or women who has been wrongly accused.
Amnesty International recorded that at least 2390 people were executed and at least 8864 sentence to death around the world in 2008.
The death penalty is something that millions of people across the world are protesting to abolish the death penalty and it should be something that the Government is looking into and take the Capitol punishment law out.
Even if you sentence someone to the death penalty because of they killed someone that still will not give the family justice, because that still will not bring back the person they lost. The death penalty is also a way out for the convict not to have to think about what he has done. When you use the death penalty you could also be killing a man or women who has been wrongly accused.
Amnesty International recorded that at least 2390 people were executed and at least 8864 sentence to death around the world in 2008.
The death penalty is something that millions of people across the world are protesting to abolish the death penalty and it should be something that the Government is looking into and take the Capitol punishment law out.
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