Tracking On Our Phones? Let's See... (Blog 8)

In a way, I do agree with Ms. Ramos on the privacy of our everyday lives, but I have to say they would have to have a good reason to listen in on us. They're just trying to protect the country from being in danger or harm. Would they have to notify us? No because then there wouldn't be a point in secretly listening in. Once you know you're being listened in on, then you'd be more careful. The point is, I believe we can be listened in on or tracked but it would have to be a very good reason. For all we know, everyone who has a cell phone could have been listened in on at least once and not even know it. I agree that we need our privacy but I don't agree that we all need to be left alone.

The Technical Difficulties on the Health Insurance Website (Blog 7)

    Even though everyone is required to have health insurance, it's harder for people to get into the online website so that they can get to have health insurance.  This so called "network failure" seems to be causing quite some damage to the people that need health incurance.

    U.S. Health Insurance Website's Problems Continue Despite Improvements, which means that people that need to get health insurance, they can't get it until the website can be fully recovered.  This is a little bit of a setback for everyone that wants/needs to get health insurance, but it has to be done somehow so that they can get it.  Due to it being required to have health insurance, it's more critical to get it as soon as possible.

    Not everyone is happy about having to have the health insurance but could help people in case of anything happening to them.  Now, what will happen if they can't get the website up and running again?  It's going to be more difficult to get heath insurance.  There are maybe some other ways to get health insurance, but everything nowadays is online or through technology somehow.

    People that were trying to get on the website this past Monday (12/1/13), it would give them a message that said, "The system is down at the moment."  When this happens, they ty to get in touch directly with an insurer and try to tranfer from an insurer to the government website, but this way doesn't work.  Most end up "timing out" of the website and that can be quite frustrating.

    Despite attempted improvements, the website still seems to be having technical difficulties.  There's people that need to still get health insurance but can't because of this problem.  How can we get health insurance if we can't do it online?  Are they going to improve more to make it easier to access the health insurance website?

Impeaching Obama? Hmmm... (Blog 6)

    Christina Conditt's blog is about how Obama has done a lot of wrong things for everyone here in the U.S.A.  Obama hasn't been totally terrible, though, he has help some with money troubles with the extra unemployment help, even though it's costing us trillions of more dollars in debt.

    I do agree that Obama hasn't been great at his job, even if he's trying to make it better, he really isn't.  He's basically destroying this country from the inside out and he needs to be stopped at whatever the hell he's doing and needs to be put back in the crib.  He's like a young whipper snapper still trying to figure things out.  Obama needs his boundaries re-outlined for him so that he can learn better.

    According to Ms. Conditt's blog, she says that, "Our country is called the 'free' country and now Obama is trying to take that away from us."  Does Obama realize what he's doing to us?  Can we, the citizens of our  country, be in charge now?  Maybe we can show President Obama a thing or two...  Obama needs to be impeached.

Can Gay Marriage Really Be Legalized? Can't We Have That Right? (Blog 5)

    Why does something have to be limited because something isn't "natural" or "normal?"  I don't agree on the government having the power to control how two people are approved or not approved.  Discrimination towards people is wicked and makes you the bad guy.  Why discriminate on how people are and what they do with their lives?  Why would the government care anyways?

    There are different religions across the nation to understand that we have our own different beliefs.  One of them would be to shame on gay marriage, but it's a different type of situation when the government is involved.  I say that the government is getting "too personal" on the matter.  It's not like the world is going to end because two people of the same sex are able to have a marital relationship.

    Can our government really have the right to separate the same sex from being together?  Evidently, the government has been against the idea of two of the same sex type of relationships, yet I see those kinds of relationships at school, the grocery store, and basically any other public place.  Why should people have to hide who they are?  The 10^th amendment allows any other rights that are not already in the Constitution, up to the state, as in the state leaders.  This means that the government is choosing not to allow this to happen under their control.

    The states that are okay with gay marriage is 14 states plus the District of Columbia which is: California, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, New York, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, D.C., Rhode Island, Maryland, Colorado, and New Mexico.  Why not just officially make it okay to have same sex marriages rather than judge it critically to an extent that it’s just foolish to go against?

    Everyone lives their life in their own way.  The government can’t control EVERYTHING we do.  We know the basic boundaries but we don’t need to put up with extra limits that are stereotypical.  We should be able to spread our wings and take off to what we should be able to do.  We should/do have the power to make homogeneous relationships the same as heterogeneous relationships.  We need to fight what is right to all people, which would also mean having the right to marry the same sex.

    The more we act upon this issue to try and change it, the better the outcome will be so that everyone can be happy.  So what if most religions aren’t too fond of this act?  They just need to ignore it and move on with their lives and keep believing in what they believe.  We should support gay marriage.

Government Open! But Is It The Same? (Blog 4)

    The government is finally open for business again, but is it back to the way it's supposed to be?  According to the Think Progress article Not Everything Is Back To Normal Now That The Shutdown Is Over by Bryce Covert and Alan Pyke, which was posted 10-17-13 (Thursday),  informs us that countless companies and people have lost tons of money and are quite upset about it.  I totally agree that the government made a poor choice of shutting down for a while.  Then we're told that they're only open until January 15, due to Obama's signing of a bill that will fund the government until that time.  What's the point in having a government when they're not doing their job correctly?

    Is this information in the article true or false?  I'd believe it to be true because the government has caused trouble for everyone.  Companies can't have people work overtime because the companies don't have the money to allow that to happen.  The government is at fault for all the money issues, companies struggling, and so on.  Lajuanna Russell, a small business owner, says in the article, "We're going to be paid late for everything," and, "based on everything that I have heard, the work should still come to us."  The article includes that the government could take up to six weeks or more to catch up on everything.  To me, I think that's just ridiculous.  You would think that they would at least put a lot of effort to getting "back in the game".
    Even if the government is up and running again, doesn't mean that processes are running smoothly.  Things are held up, or blocked, because the government needs to catch up to speed with everything.  This article has the knowledge about the government not doing so well right now, but it's the truth and they need to do something about it.  I believe the more open the government is to trying to fix things, the better everyone will get along.  Thinking rationally about what should or should not happen is the basics of following order.  Getting organized and playing along well with everyone is the best thing that we can do right now to get everything situated.  It's not going to be easy though.

Is the Government Really Settling Things? (Blog Stage 3)

            I researched about how the government is going to settle things with it shutting down and all due to disagreement of Obamacare.  President Obama wanted everyone to have this health care but others seemed to disagree with him due to people not possibly being able to afford it, or just being a little outrageous to force upon people.

          The argument seems to be about President Obama wanting to raise the debt ceiling but Congress won’t allow it unless they authorize him to do so.  The Article is called Our Outlaw President?,which was posted on September 30 of this year, basically argues about raising the debt.  This article .  If Congress won’t allow it to increase, then Obama might have to break a law.  The question is, which law would he have to break to be able to make it happen?

            Well, from what I can see is that if the president is willing to do something so extreme, what would be the catch?  Will it make us suffer more or will it actually help a little bit?  The article states, “In 2011, when Congress last flirted with not raising the debt ceiling, lawyers disagreed.”  The reason being was that some didn’t want to violate budget laws but others wanted him to honor budget legislation.  Both options weren’t good, but ignoring the debt ceiling was least bad from legal standpoints from lawyers.

            The author seems to agree with the lawyers decisions, but the consequences are so high that the president and courts shouldn’t ignore it.  So if the debt wouldn't increase, Obama should ignore it, and honor spending and tax legislation.  If we would’ve cut spending, we would have been hundreds of billions of dollars behind per year to come.  That’s money that we could have used for important/emergency needs, which would have been really bad to lose.

            Logically this would be terrible to raise debts by breaking some laws, but if the ideas aren’t getting the right result from the government, then evidently some things need to be done to get the right answer even if they aren’t on legal terms.

            Anyways, I believe that President Obama shouldn’t be worried about raising any debt ceiling because I believe the main focus here is basically getting things together and organizing certain programs with assignments to try and make the community better.  The government needs to be on the same page, concerning same results of events that are happening, or will happen in the future.

            There shouldn’t be too much conflict or disagreements to make the government to just completely shut down for several days.  That seems like a “give up” action to me.  Instead of trying to resolve with reasonable ideas of good conclusions, they just decide to shut down.  There could be good things to when they come back on.  It can be like starting new, and hopefully being more rational in their decisions this time.

Gun Safety (Blog Stage 2)

   

Gun Control is becoming a very big issue these days.  Recently there was a shooting that killed many people at the Washington Navy Yard.  Obama, knowing of this terrible incident, didn't even try to discuss the Gun-Control Debate.  Due to this issue, guns are being questioned more than ever about their significance and safety pros (good things) and cons (bad things) about them.  Guns are not only an item for “safety first” reasons, but they are an item of killing, which is a safety issue.  Discussing the safeties of this possible murder-like weapon should be brought to everyone's attention.  Conventional Wisdom And The (Latest) Death of Gun Safety is an important article because it tells us about the recent events of guns and has information about opinions on the gun control matter.  I highly encourage people to read this article and stay in touch with their ability to check what's happening now because knowing will help everyone understand better in the future.