A reply for the Occupy Movement

   It's things like this that make me see hope that there are people out there who are willing to fight for a change in our government. When things like these protests happen and then create a spark that engulfs all parts of the nation, it shows me that people are using their power that were given to them by their fore fathers. When we see that the government is failing at keeping our interests in safety, then it is our job to say enough and fight back. 
Too many people are afraid to fight back because of the possibilities in which they will get hurt or caught, but what kind of message is sent out when the government hurts its own people during a peaceful protest? The message is that something should be done. I always wondered what it was like to see all those people during the Vietnam protest, and now i have a greater understanding of why they wanted, no, needed to do what they did. Nothing is ever gained while standing idly by and merely observing the injustice. One must go outside of their comfort zone to be know as a serious combatant for the cause. I loved this article and post, things revolving around the way we as the citizens can influence the government is always fascinating. Devin did a great job of giving an deeper look to the occupy movement, from which i haven't gotten a chance to hear about. I very much enjoyed this post. Thank you.

Loss of Funds for National Parks

I find it hard to find a good reason to cutback on funds that go towards such beauty like our national parks. The wonder that is yellowstone park is falling on hard times and the government is doing very little to help preserve the park and many like it throughout the states, and if we can't preserve the land that we live on then how do we expect to try and fix anything else? So many plants and animals will start to disappear if these parks continue to be ignored by our government, and that simply cannot happen. These parks hold vast amounts history and splendor that every person in America should have the opportunity to enjoy. If these politicians would try to focus fixing these great parks that their forefathers built to keep this land preserved and pure in nature, instead of trying to fill their pockets with cash and the american mind full of distrust.

     The article from Huffington post explains how our national parks are becoming polluted and destroyed year after year, and if nothing is done to try and keep them alive then we will lose them forever, but our politicians in office only care about the financial aspect of our country and not the land that helped to start it. So much money gets spent every year on things like war, and how to stay alive longer, but what is all that worth if we can't live in our country and take in the vast beauty that nature has given us. Yes, i do understand that we must protect our country, but when we use our funds to build a $145,000,000 missile that is only used once it makes me pissed off that we didn't use that money to fix the problems that we have in our oceans, parks and nature overall. Nearly Trillions of dollars are spent on war and security and only a couple of million is used for thousands of projects that are in nature and some of the only times that we ever put more in is if there is a crisis like the oil spill that recently happened, and even then we needed foreign help to find a solution and clean it up. We have all gotten so corrupt that everything that our land stood for is now under a thick layer of filth that our shit covered souls had produced. How can we ever hope to live in a country that we love if the purest side of it is destroyed by fucked up politicians, people who never give a shit, and ignorance that flows as thick as the sludge that we dump into the very waters we swore to protect? I really hope that something is done about this before all of this is too late.      

Business cyber security

I was reading a post that my classmate Shannon made on small businesses and how they are getting attacked by these cyber criminals and I was very surprised to find out some of these facts myself, considering that I plan to enter the business world soon i found some if these things distressing, but at the same time comforting since the Obama administration was on board for helping to stop this from happening. I found this post to be very eye opening especially for anyone that has ever been in a small business or knows how hard it is for these small business to operate and stay alive, and I for one am also glad that the government is trying to help with this situation since smaller business and Entrepreneurs are what keeps america alive and running. I also agree with Shannon on the grounds that it's important to keep everyone in a business protected, considering that without any business (big or small) we wouldn't have any kind of innovation on designs for products, or new ideas for companies, or even competition that drives each and every business to strive to be the best it can possibly be. I would say that I am pretty tech savvy, but i had no idea that small business were being victims of these cyber attacks before i read Shannon's post, so i would like to say thank you for a very interesting and informative post that you have provided.

Quality over showboating

   Now I know that the topic of elections and campaigning aren't the most interesting topics to discuss, but knowing what might happen if the wrong person is put into power is a little more intriguing. I decided to bring this up because in my opinion the way that politicians run their campaigning is way out of line and costs extreme amounts of money, and all of this is done to win what essentially is a popularity contest that displays only the faults of the other opponents (usually just the main opponent of the candidate) without saying anything in which they would do to try and win votes. There is really no way in stopping any of this at the moment, but in my honest opinion there really should be considering the millions of dollars that these candidates get for creating a campaign and then making commercials and advertisements that mainly point out very small and insignificant things that they promise to do (i.e. cut taxes, drop the unemployment rate, and make more jobs) and attack their opponents' flaws. What was once a pure poll of who is the better leader all we have now is a hesaid shesaid  war that only uses political slander, and from this we only get what we could consider to be a pick the person who can point out the best flaws.
   What needs to be done first is that strict lines as to what can be said during debates needs to be placed so that politicians will only say what they will be willing to do and propose so that they can help our country better, and not say that their opponent isn't going to do something or that they will go on to do something that is dangerous and my cause a risk to our country. Second for campaigning, candidates can only spend a set amount of funds to get their points across and show that they have what it takes to be the best leader that this country has ever seen. What is currently being done today is that, the person who has the most money will have the most supporters, and if they have the most supporters then they can send out any message that they want and their supporters will still be on their side. This can't continue to be a trend, because our country is going nowhere fast and if we can't find a way out with a leader who won't only use slander, then we'll be stuck here for a good long while.          

Thoughts on killing the economy

In a blog from the Smirking Chimp,  Bob Burnett conveys his thoughts on how accountants or (parasites as he calls them) have been killing our economy from their positions in modern corporations. For instance at one point he said that one of dell's accountants had caused Dell to give itself away to a Taiwanese supplier, and because of this the number crunchers had now predicted that because of the out-sourcing Dell can't create any new innovative technology which is needed to help rebuild the economy. Now this article had caught my attention because i was curious to see what the author had to say about this issue, and from what i read in his article it was pretty hard hitting against the big industries. As for his credibility on this subject i would say that he has some background in being in a big corporation in Cisco where he was a technologist and a founding executive, so in other words i think that he could support his argument. I would have to agree with his statements on the outsourcing considering that if we didn't have all of our major corporations partly managed in foreign countries then we could accomplish so much more and create a much smaller dependence on outsourcing keeping the american citizens employed and circulating the economy more than it is at the moment. Now as for the way Bob Burnett adresess the accountants in many of the big American corporations  , he makes them seem as if they are all heartless criminals that are souly bent on trying to maximize numbers, and the way they achieve this is at any cost that involves workers jobs, benefits, and profitability. I don't agree with the way that he attacks the these accountants, i mean yes they do report fiscal profit and try to manage the economic aspect of the company that they work at, but what he fails to remember is that they aren't at the top of the corporate latter. The head of the corporation is still the CEO and any and all changes or ideas must be passed by the head before anything is finalized, much like our justice system when someone tries to pass a bill. Other than the cruel attacks on the accountants, Bob does an impressive job on proposing where the problem lies in these corporations, which he says is the lack of entrepreneurs and full employment that was caused by the accountants. I believe that he has a valid point about the entrepreneurs being removed from the equation because without any real innovation in the states we don't have much to make that can help us back home when we are having to rely on foreign tech from Japan or Korea. I believe that Bob's audience is all of the small business's and hard workers that have been effected by this attack on our economy and if there was any way to help bring the economy back we have to fix the inequality issue.

Protest on wall street

    In this editorial by the New York Times talks about the protest that took place on Wall Street a while back, saying things that point out how poor of a job that the economy has been doing and that the government is just ignoring the fact that anything has been happening. They were also talking about how the middle class has been getting the front of all this ignorance from the government while the upper class is barely effected by this entire fiasco. They also mentioned that the inequality that's present is only there to bring down the middle class so far out of recovery and bring the upper class steadily higher and higher so that there can be a constant lower class. Now this is obvious that the person who wrote this is a very liberal person in which the way that they support individual rights and how the government needs to take more control of the economics. This person also tries to get the point across to the public by showing everyone that the younger generation is getting forced into the lower portion of the public by having low employment rates that cause the younger generation to be stuck in low paying jobs that do not require degrees or a higher education, which will set them for a life of low paying jobs that they will never get out of by the way that the government is currently running. The editorial mainly focus on how the government is showing favoritism towards the elites of society in which they almost never show any respect to the middle class.  

A Proposal for new methods of security and health payments

 In a recent article from USA Today (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/09/newt-gingrich-contract-with-america-presidential-race-/1) politician Newt Gingrich had proposed a set of new ideas for which the public can pay for things such as: Social security, Taxes, and Health insurance. His proposal also touched ground  on a few other governmental processes, including: illegal immigration, energy production and national security. This proposition of Gingrich could have a positive effect on the way we Americans operate in these situations, for instance on Gingrich's proposal for health care, he would give more options to the elderly which consist of staying with the federal government medicare program or choose to get financial aid to get coverage from a plan of their choosing. I think that having the option of choice is always a great thing to have, but now whether the choices are of any good is a different story. For me the one of the best ideas that Gingrich had was a proposal for a new system that allows younger people to have the option to pay into personal savings accounts, although the only thing that i was curious about was at what age did he have in mind, other than that the idea sounds good because it's giving the younger generation (such as myself) more options, and in my opinion the these options are trying to give us some leeway for the future so in some way, shape, or form the US citizens can have something to look forward too.