Comment on Classmates Blog #2

I took a read at my colleague Hyeseong An's blog post about free child care in the United States.
The article discusses a plan for a potential fix or alternative to the current child care system in the United States, it talk's about an organization called World Vision International, which helps children around the world, and a method of donating to this organization via donations at daycares and other similar factilities.

Link to Hyseong's article here.

The child care system in this country is a good topic to bring up, and the question of who will inevitably pay for it all is out there, the american taxpayers. The method you described which asks for donations at day cares and other similiar facilities is a good one, additional methods like maybe pamphlets or an outreach of the organization to the public would be a great idea to help kickstart such a process. But it's definitely something that can be thought up of and improved on if great minds were put to it. With this country's current situation and programs, it would be something I support.

Look at the gov't today

It's now  the 2nd of December, one month before the president-elect Trump gets sworn into office.

Recounts of 3 key states  have been demanded by Green Party member Jill Stein, as some of you may heard. I just wonder if these same people who supported the recount are also the same who criticized Trump for him voicing his desire of a recount as well before the primaries were decided.
(a bit on the story here, Click here). Protests are still going on over Trump's victory,  and tons of other things around the world, seems like very high times in history these days now more than ever.

With Trump becoming President next year, it's going to be very interesting and important to keep up with the changes that'll come. I found a good opinion article about how Trump should continue to tweet as he does on Twitter throughout his article.
  "Why Trump should keep tweeting when he is president"
It keeps up with the recurring topic of e-government, its a great way of reaching out to the masses easily and can further the learning of government and how people can interact and voice themselves.

Looking at past presidencies and history, I can say that our government is slowly evolving into something more developed and where citizens can participate in, or at least have more basic knowledge in. Now I am going to eat a sandwich, goodnight.

The Reopening of the Clinton Email Case

  

              Last month, the FBI decided to reopen the case on the investigation of Hillary Clinton's email scandal. Never a better time than any, one month before the national elections take place in deciding whether our nation's next president it Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.

This election has been a monumental one so far with the fact that our next president will either be the first woman or the first man with no history of public service or gov't service. If you are not aware of the exact story of Clinton's email scandal, it begins like this, Anthony Weiner, a husband of one of Hillary Clinton's aides has been under fire for allegations of sexting with a minor. The FBI had discovered a private email server and network run by Clinton and her most closest advisor, Huma Abedin. This server was used to communicate between Hillarys political allies and other world leaders. Classified government information, along with the names of protected CIA agents had been found on these private servers and networks.Thousands of emails and evidence had been wiped and deleted by Clinton and her subordinates. This is indeed very fishy, why go through so much effort with nothing to hide? An article with more details and a good summary of the case exists on this link 

here.

President Nixon was forced to resign from office in  August 9, 1974 because of less than an hour of deleted tapes surrounding the water gate scandal. Now in this internet age in 2016, thousands of emails have been deleted, and yet, we have an individual who is very close to becoming our nations next president. This is just some food for thought which is the greater of goods based upon all the actions done by our two candidates? This election seems more like an election based upon morals of good and evil more than any in history. Only time will tell.

Article found by clicking here.

This article can be found on the Smirkingchimp weblog site.

It is a commentary written by blogger William Rivers Pitt, in it, he discusses his thoughts and experiences while watching the 3rd Debate that was aired on 10/19/16.

I have not viewed the 3rd debate myself yet, I have watched some minutes on it from Youtube just now though, the comments he made about the debate, closely resemble some thoughts I had about the debate.

He described the whole debate as "a slow devolution into garbled nonsense". If I had continued to watch the entirety of it, that is likely what it would have turned into. Pitt also described some other things that happened within the day and week of the debate, including a wall of taco trucks surrounding the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, and a bit about President Obama's Kenyan half-brother accepting an invitation from the Trump to attend the debate event.  I found that to be nice to include in the blog article, a nice addition of more details and stories about politics. I one day wish my house to be surrounded by taco trucks just as Trump's Hotel was, sounds more like a blessing than a hindrance. 

The vocabulary and diction of the article was friendly, formal. Appropriate to any audience, whether a Trump or Hillary supporter. Though at times, it might have appeared to be leaning more on the side of an article supporting Hillary subtly. 

All in all, I think its an adequate article to read into, the blog itself has many similar articles and posts by other bloggers. Seems like a good place to get opinionated, unbiased (to a degree) information about political events in the country of the USA.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/opinion/campaign-stops/global-trade-war-trump-edition.html?ref=opinion

Link to the article shown above.

The article "Global Trade War, Trump Edition" featured on the New York Times is an opinion piece which critiques the Donald's free trade plan.

The articles audience seems to be intended to any voter that stumbles upon the piece, but mainly, for swing voters and Hillary voters, or perhaps to dismay some Trump voters.

The article itself though, does a well job of describing Trump's plans for free trade and shows it in a negative light. The writer cites historians, economists and a director of a "Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch" These knowledgeable individuals all agree that Trump's plan for free trade could be ruinous to the US economy. The author provides us with plenty of links to Trump's plans and sources of past news stories and political deals. He ties his whole argument neatly.

This article is very critical of Trump and his plan, and it's for a reason. Quoted data from world trade statistics and the various quotes and thoughts of different experts of World Trade are what I think make this article viable and presentable. If it did not have those 2 not much data and supporting information would be available and the article would not be of much use, only the authors own credibility would make the article stronger had he not the vital information (data, expert quotes, links, etc).

I do think that there might have been TOO many quotes from trade experts, I personally would have liked to know more about what the free trade policies would do exactly and how they would affect countries peronsally, but the link to Trump's own page about the policies were the only information I had available with the article.

Our Nation's Voters

On September 13, 2016. The New York Times posted an article which I find quite interesting and informative. I myself love data and numbers, especially graphs. The article describes and compares the different voting groups of America and the results of exactly who has been voting are pretty neat.

The link to the article can be found by clicking here. The article is rightfully entitled, "For Every 10 U.S Adults, Six Vote and Four Don't. What Separates Them?" 

And what was the group with the highest amount of non-voters? Middle-aged white citizens and a large group of younger citizens aged 18-29. 

So far from taking my government class in college, it's known that being more educated tends to lean towards being more involved in politics. The data from these graphs prove this to be true, as the largest amount of voters include educated citizens degrees above the Master's level and high-income households. 

The article also touches upon the different reasons of why many of these groups are unable to vote and  why such large gaps between voters and non-voters exist. Reasons such as voting laws, language barriers and basic priorities of the individual voter, after all, what's more important? Showing up to work everyday? Or taking the day off to visit the only available voting booths in town for that day?

In conclusion, I think articles like these, riddled with information and graphs are great, many people should see this, not just from our government class, but the public masses, if change is necessary, we need a lot more of those voters.

Hey classmates and professor and anyone else who reads this. Looking forward to reading everyone's blogs and learning, ^_^. See ya.