Wednesday, April 28, 2010

How things are unequal




The saying, "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer" holds alot more truth than the goverment wants to believe it does. Seriously, our taxation system favors those with a higher income. When the goverment collects taxes it takes only a small percent of what the rich make but a high percent of what the poor make. Some argue that the rich still pay the most money in taxes if you look at the ammount alone sent to the goverment. That is true but why do you think that is? It's because the money they send is nothing to them. They can afford that and laugh at those who cant. The gap between the wealthiest citizens and the poor is increasing to fast and things should start to even out sooner.



Our taxation system needs to be changed because the same people are having all the success every year and its like the poor doesn't even have a chance at recovery. There is a strong political movement across the nation known as Fairtax and it says that the taxation system should just be eliminated all together and everyone can take home their gross pay. I believe this is a great idea and I have thought of that for a long time now but now there's finally people who agree with me.



Thursday, April 1, 2010

New Mailing Plans.

There is a new plan for the postal service in America to decrease the national debt. Mailing is going to cut saturday from it's mailing days. They think itll save about $340 million dollars.
I think this is a good idea. But it does have one problem that could be major in my opinion. If you cut saturday then you cut more jobs for people who deliver on the weekend. I do like it however, because Saturday isn't really a good day for mail anyway. People don't get that much mail on Saturdays and they don't send that much on Saturdays. I think the postal service industry would make alot more profits without Saturday on the list for days to mail.
Joe Bidens slip up of, "It's a big f****** deal" to Obamas healthcare form is now goin to be printed on a shirt to celebrate the new healthcare bill. Anyone who donates at least $25 is going to get a shirt with the slogan "Health reform is a BFD".
I dont think you need a shirt to show opinion about the healthcare reform bill. And it promotes a little bit of bad language which isn't something the real young children should be knowing. Yeah, healthcare is a major deal but why would you put a slip of the tongue onto a shirt. It's not really a smart idea in my opinion.

Losing Jobs

In the past month America has lost over 67,000 jobs across the country. Unemployment rates are increasing and now president Obamas newest priority is to increase the job rate in the country.
This rate that America is losing jobs at is making me really nervous about finding a job after im done with college. I just got done goin through a two and a half month period with a drastic cut in hours at my part time job. I went from a usual thirty hours a week to being scheduled about twenty hours but to make up for that then id just stay later on almost all my shifts. I want to be able to find a job after college so im hoping president Obama figures things out soon about how to start providing new jobs again.

April Fools Day

Trying to get into the buzz of April Fools Day, Google has now changed the name of their page to Topeka. They wanted to trick many people and now they had a few people confused about the name.
What a dumb trick to do? It's easy to tell that it's false because all you have to do is type in www.google.com and it'll still take you to the same webpage. The only difference is that instead of having Google written across your screen, now you have Topeka written across the screen. The better joke would've been to change your homepage look and then see how many people get confused. What a stupid joke!

Pirate Attack

The USS Nicholas was attacked in the Indian Ocean today by some Pirates. The American ship fired back on the pirates and then sunk the attackers ship and captured the pirates.
It's been a long time since Ive heard about pirate attacks on American ships. It's a good thing the Americans are well stocked on artillery. They're prepared for anything like this. The American ship is goin to hold them prisoner until a good punishment is reached. It shouldn't take to long to decide on a fair punishment for these pirates. A long time in jail should be the proper punishment for these criminals.

Rhode Island

Rhode Island currently has 95% of its nation underwater. It's in a state of emergency right now and has a good chance of being completely flooded pretty soon.
I've never heard of anything like this in my entire life. A whole state may soon be completely submerged in water! How can you avoid something like this. its water. it's not like you can just make it go away. It's not like when theres a solution to a problem like global warming. This you really can't prevent. It's rain and it's not goin to stop until it's completely finished.