Obamacare

On October 23rd 2015 the Republican House of Representatives decided to vote against Obamacare with a "reconciliation bill". This is not fair to the American people. Obamacare is a law to help those in need of health insurance. It helps Americans to find affordable health insurance and also improve the quality of overall health care in the United States. Part of Obamacare in the Health Insurance Marketplace. This allows Americans to find and enroll in the best affordable insurance for their families or companies. Also thanks to Obamacare, insurance companies can no longer reject you or your family if someone has an underlying or sudden illness. Obamacare also allows specific savings in Medicare without affecting the coverage and quality of the health insurance.

According to the Republican House of Representatives Obamacare is " an attack on our constitution". They believe that Obamacare is just another reason for the government to get involved where they don't belong.  As a Republican House of Representative believes that health care should remain private. On October 23rd the House of Representatives voted on a "Reconciliation bill" to get rid of a main part of Obamacare. The bill wants to get rid of the "independent Payment Advisory Board". The board helps handling the savings in Medicare without affecting coverage and quality. Well the Republicans believe that the government should control trillions of dollars of federal money. This bill is considered considered a fast track bill which means in can pass the U.S Senate vote with only 51 votes instead of 60. Currently the U.S Senate has a 54-64 Majority towards the Republicans.

When it comes to Obamacare I believe this is one of the best outcomes from President Obama's terms. Obamacare helps American citizens. Yes the government is involved a lot more then some would like in this issue but it is for the better. The government is helping the economy become more affordable when it comes to things that we need, like health insurance. Obamacare helps the citizens of American finally get afforadable and reasonable health care.

The Post 9/11 World and How we Live It

President Bush after receiving the news that "America
Is under attack"

The terrorist attacks that took place on September 11, 2001 in America will forever change the way the citizens live their lives socially and economically. 19 Members of Al-Qaeda hi-jacked four planes. Two out of the four planes crashed purposely into the Twin Towers in New York City, New York. The third plane had crashed purposely into the Pentagon and the fourth plane was taken over by civilians and crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. The after math of 9/11 was devastation and destruction around America. 9/11 Caused so many people to be afraid of flying and caused a lot of damaged in property in the areas where the planes had hit. The after math of 9/11 caused US troops to invade Iraq to find Saddam Hussein, the face of Al-Qaeda. This lead to the longest war the United States of America has ever been involved. It led to $6.4 Billion of American money being spent every month in Afghanistan and over 1,800 US Fatalities. As the post 9/11 war is over we still have troops over in Iraq and Afghanistan to this very day. In order to help keep the citizens of the US safe the Bush administration created the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act allows federal and local agencies to search any personal records such as emails and phone records without a court approved search warrant. Some people may say that all of this post 9/11 solutions is uncalled for and against the liberty of the people.

In the post 9/11 world some people believe that Bush's administration did it all wrong. According to Ron Paul he believes that the Patriot Act is considered " Unpatriotic and undermines our liberty". People also believe that no matter what you do, the threat of a terrorist attack is never going to go away. Even after 9/11 there were many threats of people running around with poisonous pens like in the James Bond movies. Even now in 2015 in Boston after the Boston Marathon Bombing there were threats of another bombing going to happen around the fourth of July celebration. This Patiort Act doesn't help stop these threats so therefore it is useless and against our liberty.

Growing up in a post 9/11 world I will never know what it is like to not be under a terrorist attack threat. I was only in kindergarten when those to planes hit the towers. What I do know is that nothing extreme like 9/11 will ever happen again because of the precautions George W. Bush took to keep this Country safe. However I am not for the war in Iraq or president Bush. When it comes to the post 9/11 world I find myself on the liberal side of the patriot act and the war. America is safer to
day because of the patriot act. It allows the government to look into any suspicious activity without alarming the person they are looking at. When it comes to winning the "war on terror" I believe that as for America we look strong and we disrupted the Al-Qaeda network by killing Osama Bin Laden. But the threat of a terror attack will always be around and the "war on terror" will always be alive because Al-Qaeda is not dead. 

Citizens United Act Changing Campaigns Since 2008

 Citizens United was an act passed by the Supreme Court in 2008. This act gave big corporations and organizations the free speech to say and do whatever they want just like the general public when regarding political campaigns. This act allows billionaire corporations and people to donate to non-affiliated political campaigns as much as they like. This act also allows Super PACS, Political Action Committees, to spend as much money as they want on campaigns either  for good or bad. Corporations and people with billions of dollars should not be able to control the entire political campaign. Just because they have money to wave around and need to get rid of it because it’s burning a hole in their pocket. Greed and Money with power is not what America is about.

The power of money causes Super PACs to produce whatever campaign ads they like. Most of these ads tend to be hateful and unrealistic ads against their opponent. While the citizen united act does state that Super PACs should not coordinate with the donors about the campaigns they still do. In 2012 pro Romney PACs were putting out anti Gingrich ads in Iowa. This led to Gingrich’s polls to drop dramatically because of these attack ads. Sometimes the power of the money can also be from people that may want favors in return. As Gingrich and Romney made their way to South Carolina, there were many pro Gingrich ads. These ads were created by Gingrich’s Super PAC. These were funded by Sheldon Adelson with the $10 million he gave to this PAC. Adelson spent so much money on Gingrich’s campaign there is a very high and likely chance he would like to have a say once Gingrich becomes president.  More republicans also tend to spend a lot of money on the Super PACs of their choosing. In 2012 $38 Million dollars was spent on republican campaigns alone. While in Florida pro Romney there were 12,768 TV commercials being shown. Pro Gingrich ads were only at 210 TV commercials being show.

Some will argue that Super PACs are great for democracy and we need them. They will say Super PACs are transparent. By being transparent they mean that all of the Super PACs information is public information, due to free speech and all. This allows you to understand and learn about the donors past and present. Those who believe super PACs are great say that they help remind us how corrupt the government really is. Super PACs show us that individual donors are 80% of their money raised. Those for Citizens United that it is great for educating voters and helps spread awareness.

            I found myself continuing to flip flop between the liberal and conservative viewpoint on the topic of Super PACs. As I continued reading on about the PACs and watching the videos about the big corporations and organizations I found myself slightly leaning towards the liberal viewpoint of these issues. I see the hateful Super PAC ads and I cannot help but say to myself that cannot be legal. Unfortunality it is true, the United Citizens act allowed these giant corporations and organizations to put out these hate ads and most of it is not true. What I find even worse about these hate ads, most people end up believing what the ads are saying. I do not think these hate ads are fair. Just because you have all the money in the world so to speak, that does not mean you can create hurtful and untruthful campaign ads to win. I strongly believe you need to have a clean and fair campaign to win. How could you vote for someone who can create untruthful ads and not have remorse? Would you want a president who could lie to you so easily?