'Higher Education for Undocumented Immigrants'

So recently I've stumbled accross a blog one of my classmates have done:
'Higher Education for Undocumented Immigrants'

            I couldn’t agree more with your article. Mexican Americans are among the fastest growing minorities in the United States, especially in Texas. They come over poor and because of the lack of resources that the states give them (such as equal job opportunities or education) they live their lives dirt poor. It is a cycle that should, and could with the DREAM Act, be broken.

            I believe that the states do not offer enough help for families that are undocumented immigrants. There are scholarships for Native Americans who live on reservations but we do not have any scholarships for undocumented immigrants? I find this hard to digest. It seems unfair and just plain wrong.

            The act allows for undocumented immigrants to gain citizenship by attending college and paying in-state tuition rates as long as they have no criminal record I think that the DREAM Act is a wonderful idea that could help actually clean up our citizens.

            It also helps pave the road for those undocumented immigrants that work hard to achieve their goals, those who deserve a chance to reach for their dreams and seize the moment!

            In short I do believe in this act and do hope it passes congress.

New Budget Plan

            Now I know I have talked with you all about the budget crisis the government is having already. There is however a recent development called the Cut, Cap, and Balance plan thought up by the republicans.

This new budget plan has three main parts. The first part is the cutting, where the government will be cutting $111 billon out of the 2012 budget plan. The second part is the capping where the government will put a cap on spending at about 20% gross domestic product, or GDP for short. And finally the third part is balancing the budget to make it harder to raise taxes.

Doug Elmendorf presented the new idea to congress during a meeting called by Jason Furman, the Deputy Director of the national Economic Council, on June 23.

Right now the economy is at $15 trillion so we would be cutting about two thirds out of next years budget.

Personally I believe this could work. Now I know I have said this about other budget options, but the cutting back and capping off may work if it passes congress and help turn our economy around.

The other option is to barrow another $2.4 trillion dollars. Now this option I strongly disagree with. You do not help a situation like this by going further into debt. No a situation like ours can only be helped if we tighten America’s belt, so to speak.

Sadly it seems that nobody wishes to pass this new plan. Therefore it may not make it pass Congress. This is unfortunate for I believe this plan may work out for the better.

The McConnell's Plan

So recently I’ve been reading a few political blogs, I’ve mostly been keeping up about the whole budget crisis. So we all know that the government has not adopted a budget yet. Well did you know that during the debt limit meeting between the President and Congressional leaders that took place at 4 PM ET on July 13th, Senator Mitch McConnell proposed a solution to our spending problems? This is true. It seems, however, that the meeting has upset the very people who support Sen. McConnell. The tea party group have dubbed McConnell’s new plan the “Great Sellout of 2011”.

In a recent blog complaints were noted about Sen. Mitch McConnell's new budget plan that is to keep a cap on the excess spending problems the government has been having. His new plan is to eliminate "Congress’ authority and responsibility for the federal budget" leaving the people in the fog about whether or not the budget changes are really happening. Then the plan is to cut on our defenses "while Obamacare and stimulus projects continued" to be completely provided for.

The blog quotes another source called The Hill that says that the new budget plan “would benefit [the] Republicans politically by placing the responsibility for raising the debt limit almost entirely with Obama.” It goes on to say how it would allow the Republicans “in both chambers to vote en masse against it without causing a national economic catastrophe.”

However, it could also not be so good for the Senate Democrats for it may force them to support “several hikes to the debt ceiling ahead of an election in which they must defend 23 seats”.

Frankly I must say I disagree with the tea party group. I think the new budget proposal may work in favor of the people. It would grant more money to the Obamacare plan and other health plans and other stimulus projects that people in our country rely on to live off of.

Their Opinion: USA TODAY Anthony and Strauss-Kahn

We all have our right to our own opinion. It is our right via the US Constitution to have the right to freedom of speech. We don't however have to agree to other's opinion.
The other day I was reading this article (Our view: Anthony, Strauss-Khn escape rush of judgment) about the way people judge others too quickly. How it is isn't how the justice system should work. That convection should be solely based off of the facts and whether or not these facts add up to produce a case that the defendant is without a doubt guilty. I do agree with this part, that a courtroom isn't where popularity contests are held. A courtroom is a place of pure business.
Admittedly the only reason this article caught my attention is because it had the results of the Casey Anthony trial, which thanks to my Aunt I’ve been following it very heartedly. Being part of the author’s audience, I feel I must blog about his article.
The author puts up a nice fight with his claims and logic. He points out some cases from the past such as the Steven Hatfill case in which a governmental scientist’s career was “smeared” when he became a “person of interest” in the 2001 anthrax mailings, but was cleared when a judge found that there wasn’t any evidence linking him to it.
Or the other hundreds of cases that were convicted in courts all over the United States since 1973.
Or Richard Jewell, an innocent security guard who save countless lives after a bomb exploded at the 1996 Summer Olympics, only to find himself to be a person of interest in the case by the FBI for months.
What the author fails to do is give an example of cases in which all signs point to the defendant but they still get to walk away scot free. Such as the Casey Anthony case, were a single mother murdered her little girl, wrapped her in duck tape, and kept her in the trunk of her car for weeks before disposing of her body. And yet this horrid mother gets to walk away from this catastrophe.

New York Passes Marriage Equality Act!

I am not a political person. Its true. Its not that I don't like politics it is just that I have never had a reason to be involved in it. However, recently this has changed all because of one head line:
After New York: The (Near) Future of Gay Marriage
Just on little article that contained a world of meaning for many people everywhere.
The article talks about the recent passing of the Marriage Equality Act by the New York state legislators, putting New York in the sixth state have also made gay marriages legal.(Yes, finally after years and years of hard work and long office hours that was put into the creation of the bill, it has really finally been passed.) Other states to have passed the bill are Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, as well as Washington, D.C.
California is no longer apart of this list a few months after making gay marriages legal due to it being thrown out by Prop 8. However, a case is pending in the courts that challenge this ruling and that is said to be resolved within the year.
The article goes on the discuss how excited the people of New York were when the bill was passed as well as how they celebrated it's passing in the streets of NY. This new act has made headway in the fight for equal rights among the gay community and has opened the doors for people in the state!
I strongly recommend that one reads this article for the sake of becoming more informed of the changes that are happening all around them. It should be know that the passing of these laws are but history happening in front of our faces. It is relevant to us in that it is our future that is being changed for the better and should be paid close attention to.
You may be wondering why I chose to blog about this article when I could have blogged about literary anything else, the answer is, as I have already stated in the paragraph above, because the passing of these gay rights laws are history in the making and they are making right in front of us here and now. It is important to not only our nations people but to the future of our government and nation. It is important to me.