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Lowering the cost of education"

Lowering the cost of education is something many desire. The government has the chance to make this country better, yet it seems that this country makes it worst. Many students nowadays struggle just to pay for tuition, it is increasing dramatically. Why is the government making it harder for us to get education? If the government just stops spending it on bullshit, we can have a better country. Student are struggling to just live, having to worry about paying the high cost of tuition just puts students in more stress which leads to failure in classes. If the government takes the time to help in lowering the cost of education, students can focus more on making good grades and become what they have dreamed about all their lives. Instead, the government has been spending money on weapons and things that only benefit those that are rich. If the government just take a portion from our taxes, this would help dramatically. Many more successful people would rise, and in turn advancement would take place. Making this country, not only the best, but the smartest country in the world would make America a place where everyone would want to be. When everyone comes here for our advancement, our economy would also increase due to the spending of the people that migrates. Lowering the cost of education would indeed make the United States of America the greatest country in the world.

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Education, does it have a happy hour?"

I totally agree with what you're saying. I believe that education should be something that is provided free of charge, or at the very least, at an affordable cost. Education is what shapes the country, without education a country can become very stupid when it comes to politics, economy, daily lives, jobs, and more. The government should increase tax by just a little bit to be able to provide education at a low cost. Education will help the country become more advanced. From technology to medical advances, and much more that could help us build the greatest country in the world. Many students today struggle to pay for education and this not something we need. We need to be able to offer education at low cost to help students have less stress and be more successful in school. This is of utmost importance, many countries are more advanced than the United States of America. Do we want to be beaten by other countries? Or do we want to be the best country we perceived to be? 

Same sex marriage.

Same sex marriage is one of the most common issues today. Crosser, Andrea wrote a blog concerning this issue few weeks ago. Same sex marriage is a very interesting topic since we have a mixture of all different cultures and races. In the blog post, Andrea said that a lot of religious people believe that homosexuality is a sin, we all base our lives according to some kind of religion and base our thoughts depending on the religion.   Our Constitution clearly says that every person has freedom for their religious views. 

Americans have fought for independency and we always fight for the rights. We have always fought for women rights, privacy, slavery and limitation on voting.  We are a democratic nation and the majority rules in this Country and that's how we are identified. If we are denying marriage to homosexual couple, that is not any different from denying marriage to a Black or Hispanic couples. If we deny homo sexual marriage, we are just taking ourselves back to the past and fighting against discrimination again. 

The reason behind denying same sex marriage today is that it hurts the society. The truth is that marriage is a relationship between two people and if there are consequences, it should be between the couple and not the society. All the kids that lives in an orphanage will also have a chance live their with families like a normal kid. I think this will be a big step for the betterment of this nation. Letting gay couples get married will allow these little kids to have a family that will also decrease the criminal rate across the nation. I completely agree with Andrea Crosser on this issue and I think she also explained this situation very well in her blog post. 

Bills to Keep Graduates in U.S fails In the House

On Friday, September 20, 2012, The New York Times published an article " Bills to Keep Graduates in U.S fails In the House."
                          In this article “Bill to Keep Graduates in U.S Fails in the House”, Julie Preston talks about a Republican Bill to provide permanent resident visas to the foreign students getting higher degrees in science and technology. The bill was sponsored under Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Lamar Smith. Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee would have canceled the bill so the Republicans instead allocated a lottery of 55,000 visas for permanent residence for the students who got degrees in science, technology, engineering or medical.
                      I think it’s very important for our national government to make the best decision over this issue. There are a lot of foreign students in our country that come here to study and get there degrees in these tough fields and then have to go back to their homeland.  They could serve making a better and successful future of this country. This is one of the biggest flaws in the legal immigration system. After providing these foreign students with the best knowledge possible, these students should be allowed to have permanent resident visas so they can serve and pay back what they owe.
                     By reading this article it makes the reader and the public realize that what we are losing by sending back these students back who can do a lot for the country.

Avoiding Student Loan Default

In New York Times an article was publish on September 22nd, "Avoiding Student Loan Default". Just looking at the title made me think that this is something I should be worried about as a student. This article seems to attack all the people who are still in process of paying off their loans and people who are planning on getting loans to pay for college and other needs. Students nowadays make loans a priority and that its easy money to get that they don't have to worry about paying for a long time, but that's not the case.
Loans can be a lot more painful when it's time to pay them off than it looks. It has ruined credit histories of a lot of people and it seems like that the rate is just growing. I completely agree with Andrew Martin who puts pressure on government to put some more effort to aware students about loans and the negative side of it as well. He said that people who have fallen 12 months or more behind in making payments have been put in default.
Now the people who have been put in default, Are they 100% at fault? I completely agree with the author over this that no the payers aren't completely responsible for this. He states " they often fail to explain that the borrowers can avoid default by signing up for more affordable payment plans" which leads the borrowers to bad credit histories, even higher loan balances through penalties, and debt collectors who garnish their wages for the overdue amounts.
The borrowers are mostly terrified by paying the most they can as quickly as possible. They are not provided with better payment plans that could help them pay off their debts easier and quicker and help them stay away from being put in default.
Loans are there for students to start college and have a great future but if they are not provided with enough methods of paying their debts, they are automatically in a lot of trouble and all the hard work just goes to waste and they are end up with bad credit histories which ruins their whole career.

New Marijuana Law in Colorado

This article “In Colorado, NoPlaybook for New Marijuana Law” posted in New York Times by Jack Healy talks about the wake of marijuana in Colorado. It starts with focusing on a story of a 19 –year old community college student who is struggling with criminal charges for something that is soon going to be legal across the state. There are a lot of people with misdemeanors and are in prison due to something that more than half of their state voted to be legal. 55% of the citizens in Colorado voted for Marijuana to be legal in their state for recreational use. The question is if he is really a criminal? Does he deserve to spend all this time in prison when very soon marijuana is going to be legal? The state is still waiting on final orders to start the marijuana business in the state.  

Citizens in Colorado are still going to be charged on marijuana cases and are still citing people for possession. Some town from the Denver suburbs to the Western mountains are against this marijuana becoming legal and they are voting against blocking the state-licensed retail marijuana shops from opening in their cities. Ken Buck who arrested a citizen for possession of marijuana was recently interviewed and questioned if he is wasting his time enforcing the law about marijuana. His response to the media was “ Our office has an obligation to prosecute offenses that were crimes at the time they occurred”.

The state is still waiting for the federal order about allowing citizen 21-year and old possess up to 2 ounces of Marijuana for recreational purposes.  Bring Marijuana on a legal system was never going to be simple, but 55 percent of Colorado voters supported and made a big difference.  Colorado and Washington have official plans for legalized sales, and they deliberately waiting for the federal government with their decision, which still claims anything related to marijuana as a federal crime.

A city council member Bob Nicholson stated that he doesn’t want to be in a situation where they license somebody and then have a big federal issue. In my personal opinions, I am very much in favor of legalizing marijuana, but I am a lot concerned with federal government to get the job done instead of leaving it half way and postpone it.

Failure graduates in United States

On Friday, September 20, 2012, The New York Times published an article " Bills to Keep Graduates in U.S fails In the House."

                          In this article “Bill to Keep Graduates in U.S Fails in the House”, Julie Preston talks about a Republican Bill to provide permanent resident visas to the foreign students getting higher degrees in science and technology. The bill was sponsored under Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Lamar Smith. Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee would have canceled the bill so the Republicans instead allocated a lottery of 55,000 visas for permanent residence for the students who got degrees in science, technology, engineering or medical.

                      I think it’s very important for our national government to make the best decision over this issue. There are a lot of foreign students in our country that come here to study and get there degrees in these tough fields and then have to go back to their homeland.  They could serve making a better and successful future of this country. This is one of the biggest flaws in the legal immigration system. After providing these foreign students with the best knowledge possible, these students should be allowed to have permanent resident visas so they can serve and pay back what they owe.

                     By reading this article it makes the reader and the public realize that what we are losing by sending back these students back who can do a lot for the country.