Same-Sex Marriage

My fellow classmate decided to talk about same sex marriage in blog stage 7, and I would like to say that I’m not a supporter of gay marriage but I don’t believe their reasons are correct. They start off by saying “I believe that everyone has the same rights, but I don’t agree with same-sex marriage”, and completely contradicts themselves but then says because this country was founded under a god making same sex marriage legal contradicts the founding of America? I don’t believe the need for two long bible verses for a discussion of equal rights is really needed, not every decision made in government is based off the bible and yes it’s sad that the world we live in is so different from where it used to be but times have changed and I would rather hear reasons other than god and “I wouldn't like for my kid to be around something like that because seeing it everywhere makes kids think its okay and normal and it's not.”

Bias Facebook

In A recent article on CNN, the address the accusations that have been put on Facebook by a former Facebook contractor saying he witness other Facebook employees suppress the news about popular conservation topics from the trending sections and have more liberal viewpoints picked for the trending section. “The anonymous quotes in the report contributed to a long-held view among some prominent conservatives that Facebook, Twitter and other technology companies are infected by liberal bias.” Now no one really knows for sure if these accusations are true but Facebook is not really denying the suppression claims, this is a huge problem for the world especially during an election. More than one billion people are active on Facebook and use their features such as their “trending” section to see a lot of interesting articles and what is really going on in the world, which is a great resource, but when the articles that are being actually shown are bias towards one way it can really alter peoples views on a topic. Not knowing whether or not the information that your reading is bias or not from a website billions of people use is a major problem, “Humans, unlike algorithms, have hearts. And the company can't know for sure what was in the hearts of the workers who were selecting certain stories while rejecting others.”

http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/09/media/facebook-trending-conservative-news/index.html

Drug Problems

After reading Sam Herriage's post on Medical spending I found it to be an important topic that he explained very well. He explains the facts of Obama trying everything he can to putting a stop of the abuse of opioid epidemics, after looking at the unintentional percentage raise from these drugs, which is 14% from 2013 to 2014, its obvious that this is a problem that needs to be controlled. With other drugs options besides these ones that are often abused the choice is easy and Obama realizes that, with raising the law to being able to prescribe 200 can cause a huge change as well with the particular doctors Obama has chosen. With the White Houses adding 11 million dollars to this problem I believe such as Sam Herriage that we can start to get this problem under control.

Gun Control

Gun control is a large controversial topic in The United States, with facts to back up both reasons for raising gun control and not raising gun control. With Obamas trials to strengthen gun control through the years of being in office this has caused a booming growth in the gun industry creating many jobs for the American people. When looking at the gun industry and the constant jobs it’s bringing to America it makes gun control look impossible, since 2008 jobs in the gun industry raised from 166,000 to 288,000, which is a 73% increase, as well as in only 2015 creating 25,000 jobs. “The NSSF estimates that the gun industry currently has a total economic impact of nearly $50 billion. That’s up 158 percent from $19.1 billion in 2008. Wages in the industry rose 126 percent over the same time period. The average industry worker now receives $50,180 between wages and benefits.” “In 2015, the federal government collected $3.7 billion in tax revenue, an increase of 144 percent since 2008. State governments saw nearly double the tax revenue over the same period. Excise taxes are also up 92 percent.” When looking at those numbers of created jobs for people, while protecting our 2^nd amendment and helping our struggling economy heightening gun control should be out of the question.




http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/04/19/report-gun-industry-jobs-up-almost-75-percent-under-obama.html?intcmp=hpbt3

Big Money Dominance Has to Be Controlled

You often hear the term “It takes money to make money”, in recent cases with election spending it can get out of hand and cause a dominance of the election. Robert Wiessman writes for the Huffingtonpost on the topic in his article titled, “Big Money Dominance: It Will Get Worse — Much Worse — Unless We Stop It” where he states that big corperation’s and the super rich have a overwhelming advantage to an election and eighty-four percent of Americans agree. With big corporations being able to have such a great influence on funding elections it completely is a problem and can easily get worse if it is not stopped, when you look at the numbers Robert Wiessman provided in his article, “Cost of 2012 federal elections: $6.3 billion.

Projected cost of 2016 federal elections: $10 billion.

Total net worth of the Forbes 400 richest people in 2015: $2.34 trillion.

2015 profits — profits, not revenue! — of Fortune 500 companies: $945 billion” you can start to see how the major companies and super rich individuals can play a role in funding an election. These numbers are very scary when you think about it, all that money owned by big business companies can be used for better or worse when it comes to campaigning an election, which is why something needs to be done now before it gets worse to put a stop to basically monopolizing our elections.

Apple Vs Government

A constant worry with modern technology is our security with everyday objects such as the iPhone withholding so much of our information. Modern in apple products have worried people because of the inventions of touch ID, therefor giving out your finger prints, as well as apple pay which is a mobile wallet that has your debit or credit card information. Apple has been put to the test with what they will do to help the government recently, with the request to unlock a encrypted iPhone owned by a man connected to the San Bernardino murders who also had connections to ISIS who brings a national threat to our country. Apple immediately did not comply with the FBI’s request to build new software to be allowed to guess passwords to a iPhone unlimited times and because of that they have been in numerous law suits with the FBI. Apples CEO Tim Cook simply puts it "We do these because these are the right things to do". This decision to not comply with the FBI’s request is also because of the chance of that software that the FBI wants apple to build getting hacked and falling into the wrong hands. These law suits that have been forced on apple have caused other major companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter to completely agree with Apple within the law suit. Apple is making advances to make their security harder for the government to get access but with the upcoming hearings within the law suits we will have to wait to see what is decided.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ceo-tim-cook-defends-apples-resistance-in-fbi-iphone-case/