Blog Stage 7: Affordable Care Act Delay

   On MSNBC there is a video about the Affordable Care Act being delayed. In my belief, the Affordable Care Act will have a lot of problems before it actually starts to work. The republicans won't except the fact that we have a democratic president. The shut down was because they didn't want to settle with the Obama Care Act. Therefore, Obama settled after they found flaws in his act that were minor in could be fixed. So the republicans pressed for a new act, and now they aren't even prepared to delivery what they offered with their new act.

   I believe they tried to make are president look incompetent, so he would be disliked by his voters. But; their planned wasn't well thought through. In the act they have problems with matching the promises the Obama Care had to offer. Some have stated that the insurance until your twenty-sic will no longer be, and insurance will be more expensive. It's kind of like the whole Mitt Romney insurance plan. He had the same things to offer as he would say, but never had any proof. Also the same things he had to offer were either the same as President Obama or less effective. I wonder how long the Act would last after or even if it would make it through the beginning stages.
 

Blog Stage 6: "This Is A Commentary": NO BULL IN AMERICA (Cut In Food Stamps)

     A lot of American's are on "Food Stamps", some who don't really need it. Which irritates those who are having to pay for people who are to stupid to get a good job because they were to stupid to finish school. Yes, shit happens but I seem to agree with NO BULL IN AMERICA when they say that there should be limits and restrictions to food stamps. Some of the most wealthy looking families are the main ones mooching off all the honest tax payers. There should be a cut off point from food stamps, by if you have completed some high school, your work history, and creditability. Also, when he stated that having a budget would make saving money easier is true, but some moochers would rather drive Cadillac's and have free money for food.

Blog Stage 5: Obama's Apologies

An article written by Mary Bruce on ABC News, quotes President Obama's apologies. Obama apologizes about the promises he made for "Obamacare". Now that the Affordable Care Act has been passed many insurance companies has to change their policies to accommodate to the new rules. I believe it is partially Obama's fault for not being prepared for change, but also those who fought for the new law. It was said on NBC, “I regret very much that what we intended to do, which is to make sure that everybody is moving into better plans because they want them, as opposed to because they’re forced into it.  That, you know, we weren’t as clear as we needed to be in terms of the changes that were taking place,”. The fact that Obama didn't hesitate to apologize and he fought so much on the law, I believe he would be forgiven. Obama also promised that everyone would be taking care in ways of cheaper insurance, or match pricing, “Most of the folks who are going to– who got these  cancellation letters, they’ll be able to get better care at the same cost or cheaper in these new marketplaces.  Because they’ll have more choice.  They’ll have more competition". Therefore; people will soon be back insured and Obama would be back to business.

Blog Stage 4: Political Cartoons

Andy Marlette from Pensacola, Florida created this hilarious picture about what's going on with congress right now. This political cartoon was placed on the opinion page of USA Today, like many others. This picture is a replica of Miley Cyrus's new video for her song, "Wreck it Ball".

 

Many have much to say about the "new" Miley Cyrus and how she is wreck-less and irresponsible. Sounds familiar. The government right now sucks, and I know that's a crappy way to explain it but many can agree. When looking at both pictures you can obviously see the comparison. Marlette is making a statement that the elephant (republicans) are equivalent to the "irresponsible" Miley.  

The wrecking ball is the shutdown threat, which came and crashed the government unexpectedly to many, but we can clearly see who has been riding the shutdown all the way through.

 

Through out this process the politicians can't be trusted on respected. My personal opinion is many aren't going to take the government serious after the aftermath of this nonsense, or trust many more politicians'. Not even our president.

 

 

 

Even though, the republicans are in the hot seat doesn't justify that the president is still making the calls. People already believe he is lazy, how long will he sit back ad let this go on? I believe there is still some more fighting he can be doing. But, I can also argue that there is not much he can do when there are stubborn people fighting against him and they are also fighting against their own team (republicans).



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Blog Stage 3: To Stop the Craziness in Washington, Fund the Census

Taking Note, one of the blogs placed on The New York Times opinion page expresses how the U. S government shut down was stupid, and also if the shut down was to the end the government would still have many problems other than debt. Teresa Tritch stated in her blog post that the Republicans don't have a problem with the shut down, because they believe that their voters in their district won't vote against them. Teresa believes that the Republicans only have that reassurance because they have been "fixing" the census over the years. She stated that the republican party had, "...numerous attempts to derail the 2010 count by the Bush administration". She claims that if the Census Bureau had more funds the vote counting would be more advance and there would be a stop to the "fixing" of the vote. Therefore; the Republicans would fight for the shut down to be over, because if they didn't they would have to fight to keep their voters. Tritch believes that if the census had more funding it might be a solution to the government shut down, because the Republican party wouldn't put up such a fight. Tritch's  blog reached out to the perfect audience of the people who get government funding. She could probably get more people to vote to show that the Republican party don't have control and its also been said that Texas might be turning back into a "Blue" state. So I agree with her statement that we should offer more funding to the Census Bureau so that they can find a more efficient way to calculate the votes, and maybe that would solve some government troubles.

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Blog Stage 2: Navy Bases Shooter not a Threat?

When reading USA Today I saw a article, Navy base didn't consider Navy Yard shooter a threat; mentioning how the Navy base of Newport, R.I. didn't seem to find the alleged shooter a threat, but they fail to mention that he was insane. Some say that he mentioned people talking to him from the ceiling of his hotel room and when questioned by police officials back in August, he told them that unknown people were trying to prevent him from sleeping and were sending "vibrations" through his body. If that doesn't sound insane what does? How can highly trained officials ignore the signs that they are training a insane man to kill (protect us). There is even a statement about how he went to the hospital in August "TWICE" for insomnia, because his work load was to heavy. Excuse me? Your work load is too heavy?, you knew what you were getting into before signing up. You weren't forced into the Navy, so if you thought you couldn't handle it why try. The main concern is why didn't the officials find him as a threat and what's going to happen to them after a partially insane man has killed twelve people?

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