Political Ads

Political ads are probably one of the most annoying things a person can see while watching television. The candidates are either trying to bash each other or trying to show what they have to become a part of whatever they are running for in the political field. There should be no room for these ads and they should never be shown.

                Do any of these ads actually work on normal people watching TV? For some, yes, and others, absolutely not. Most of these ads are false anyway and never really show the true problem at hand. They are more about trying to overshadow somebody than tell the people what they could do to actually help this country in some type of way. These never really do anything to persuade people to one side or the other.

                The other problem is about these advertisements is how far in advance they show them. Some are even coming out today and we are still a year and a half away from Election Day. These issues that some of these politicians bring up now will not be relevant when their time comes to be either elected or not.

                All-in-all none of these ads are helpful for society. Whether they are arguing over stupid issues are trying to show how family oriented they are they really never help. The thing they should really focus on is their political stance and debates to win over people instead of trying to hinder another person campaign along the way.  

Olympians Must Pay

With the twenty second Winter Olympics under way hundreds of athletes are going for gold in their respected sport. Many will try but only a few will succeed. With the United States a top competitor in every Olympic Games over the past century. The U.S Olympic Commission gives compensation for athletes who receive a gold, silver, or bronze medal in the coveted Games. But do these athletes get to keep all of those earnings or do they have to give some of it back up to the federal government?

                Winning any Olympic medal is second to none in any sport and these athletes deserve to be paid for their accomplishments. For every gold medal that an American wins at any Olympic event gets rewarded with $25,000, silver get $15,000, and bronze get $10,000. This is highly earned and they should be able to keep it all right? Well this isn't always the case. According to FOX News, the United States Government can take up to 40% of those earnings just like a normal working person would. This is because that money they receive is considered a normal income check, so that means income tax can be taken out of that check they might receive. That means that if Shaun White wins another gold medal in the Snowboarding Half Pipe event and receives $25,000 he could have to give up almost $10,000 to the federal government!

                This might seem like the government is ripping these athletes off but this actually make sense. People who win the lottery and supposedly win let’s say $235 million dollars really only win $200 million after taxes. So it is not like these athletes are being singled out. This is in retrospect the same as getting a paycheck from your own employer the Olympic Commission would be the employer and the athletes would be the employee and with each paycheck there is always tax reductions.

                The real huge debate about this is that people are saying other countries are not taking taxes out of other athletes reward money. But the thing is we are not other countries. We have guidelines and these people should not have to be waived out of this clause. That is their job and that means they should be treated just like everybody else who has a normal job working as a teacher or even as a fast food worker.

                No matter what job you may have you are always going to be taxed. That is sadly just how things work out. I bet if any person was about to receive $15,000 even after taxes they would be pretty darn happy. Just getting the gold medal is a huge accomplishment and this is just one other reward for all of their hard work that they put into their job to be the best athlete that they can be no matter what the case may be.  

Losing Jobs

ObamaCare is in the news once more and it has just gotten worse and worse for President Obama and his administration. This could lead to the economy to go down and the stock market to keep heading down over the next few months. Jobs might be going up but it does not mean that employees will get everything they want from their employers.

            According to several reports from economical experts, the ObamaCare health care law could cost America almost two million full time jobs in the end. You might ask, what would a health care law have to do with jobs? The answer is that health insurance cost a lot! Even before the ObamaCare law went into effect health insurance costs cost companies millions a year to give their employees full health care coverage. With premiums being at the highest rate ever more companies are not hiring full time employees or will downgrade their own employees to part time instead. This is the result of the raising health insurances prices.

            Companies who once gave their full time employees health insurance have decided that the financial hit for them paying for all of that has gotten too high. This could lead to drastic changes in our own economy and could lead to another mini depression. Job growth will go down and welfare for the unemployed will go up and it will just get worse from here. Health insurance policies have either doubled or tripled under President Obama’s health care. This just shows that this will never work. No matter how much money we do put into this issue it will never become good enough to help out America.

            I think we need to abandon this plan (even though it won’t happen under Obama). Instead of having other people pay for others health insurance why doesn’t the United States fund a law that makes college for students more affordable or even free. If we can educate people better and get these people well paid jobs they would be able to afford the health insurance that they can’t afford now. I have said this before, this is a socialist idea that can never work. It is said to say we are a country made for middle and higher class. But over the past decade America has turned into a place where a person is either rich or very poor. The middle class is disappearing and that is who President Obama is expecting to pay for these other people’s health insurance plans who are in the lower class of America.

            I don’t know how the democrats have gone on with this plan for universal health care for so long. What good has it done? We can’t even get the website running let alone the entire plan as a whole. This country’s economy needs to stabilize before we do anything drastic and this is the thing that could sink America again and is hurting the credibility of the United States of America. 

Syria is falling behind

President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have said that the country of Syria is way behind schedule on delivering all of its chemical weapons it promised to give up late last year. What could this mean? Could the United States threaten another attack? Or will we just let them be and let the United Nations take over once and for all?

                Syria has been under fire for allegedly using chemical weapons against its own people who are fighting in a civil war for freedom. This has led to backlash from the United States and the UN. After the U.S threatened to attack Syria they decided to give up all of its weapons to the United States. Ever since they made this promise they have only shipped out five percent of their weapons (FOX News). This has led to backlash from other countries and might lead to more action taken by countries around the world.

                I would not be surprised that if Syria does not give up most or all of their chemical weapons in the next month or two the United States will start talking about the chances of attacking the Middle Eastern country. This should never happen. This will just lead to more chaos and might start another war that we do not need to get into. As long as the weapons are destroyed in a good fashion we should just stay out of their affairs. We never helped Sudan when they were struggling with their civil war. Sudanese officials were killing thousands of its people there was a huge genocide of people. That was much worse than this and we should just stay out of this conflict.

                This is a mess that will not be cleaned up easily. With a crazy President in Syria and the entire country in flames this will take several years to sort out. And I think that we should stay out of other countries domestic affairs just for the sake of our own good.  

Illegal Immigration in America

Immigration in America has been a huge conflict and issue for the past couple of decades. To this day in the United States there are over 11 million illegal immigrants that call the U.S. home (FOX News). Some of these people are taking some jobs from fellow Americans and some are even gaining citizenship. This is what the Republican Party is trying to tackle and it will not come easy to as time goes on.

                Paul Ryan is a head spokesperson for this movement to secure the nation’s borders from illegal immigrants. He has said that the United States needs to worry about, “Security first, no amnesty, then we might be able to get somewhere” (FOX News). He is exactly right until we actually bring up our control on the borders we will never get anywhere with this problem. Border Patrol needs to be heightened to strengthen the border running along Mexico and even up on the American-Canadian border. Once we start controlling those aspects of America we can start looking at and solving problems inside of our nation.

                No matter how you look at the situation illegal immigration is a huge problem in America. People from other countries are trying to get into the United States to make a better life for themselves, but they will never really live the “American Dream” unless they do it the right way. Becoming a citizen might be a difficult thing to do but it is definitely possible. After a couple years a person can apply to become a citizen and after a test they will become a United States citizen. This makes their lives even better because they never have to hide behind a curtain and be scared of being deported ever again. It just makes life easier for them and for our government.

                Another thing we need to stop doing is giving these illegal immigrants chances to come to the United States. Just last year our own government was giving young illegal immigrants who were going to college free tuition to attend their school. If the United States government cannot even give money to legal residents of this country for schooling why in the heck would they give it to someone who isn’t even here on a visa? Maybe if we can start limiting their opportunities this would not be such a big problem.

                This country has the technology and resources to fight this problem. With a little time and effort we can finally start tracking down and eliminating the number of people crossing our borders illegally. If we can do this we should be able to restore the United States back to where it was beforehand. There will always illegal immigrants crossing the border some way or another. But if we can reduce the number drastically over the next decade or so it will help America out tremendously.