In Wisconsin, the sate government is trying to minimize the debt by charging it to the working class. After all of the financial gain that the union has accomplished over the years, the state is trying to take back collective bargaining, trying to make the workers pay more money for their health insurance, and getting rid of some teachers in which they feel are not 'best fit' for their job. They are doing anything they can think of, or anything possible to minimize the deficit. This is falling back on the working class citizens. It is to be said that the union has the pay scale so high for the government employees, that the state cannot afford to pay them, but the union workers believe that the government can cut back on some entities to continue to pay them. The state says that the government employees are making way more money than anyone in the private sector. Basically, they just want it to be a fair playing field for the the government workers, versus private employees. The state is trying to break the union. The Democrats feud the union, and by Wisconsin having a Republican controlled house, they are ultimately trying to minimize the union power. Wisconsin's issue has gone nationwide...Columbus, Ohio had angry protesters, protesting about a senate bill that would limit collective bargaining rights. Ohio faces an $8,000,000,000 short fall. If other states see that protesting is indeed effective, then this will continue to go nationwide.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
State Workers Angry About a Proposed Change to Their Union Rights
In Wisconsin, the sate government is trying to minimize the debt by charging it to the working class. After all of the financial gain that the union has accomplished over the years, the state is trying to take back collective bargaining, trying to make the workers pay more money for their health insurance, and getting rid of some teachers in which they feel are not 'best fit' for their job. They are doing anything they can think of, or anything possible to minimize the deficit. This is falling back on the working class citizens. It is to be said that the union has the pay scale so high for the government employees, that the state cannot afford to pay them, but the union workers believe that the government can cut back on some entities to continue to pay them. The state says that the government employees are making way more money than anyone in the private sector. Basically, they just want it to be a fair playing field for the the government workers, versus private employees. The state is trying to break the union. The Democrats feud the union, and by Wisconsin having a Republican controlled house, they are ultimately trying to minimize the union power. Wisconsin's issue has gone nationwide...Columbus, Ohio had angry protesters, protesting about a senate bill that would limit collective bargaining rights. Ohio faces an $8,000,000,000 short fall. If other states see that protesting is indeed effective, then this will continue to go nationwide.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
What's Goin' on in the Middle East
Egypt is one of the largest countries in the Middle East. The Egyptians' were able to have an influence on making their long-term president step down. With that being said, other smaller countries will feed off of what the Egyptians did to better their country if they feel it is necessary to do so; this will cause a domino effect. Other countries will look at Egypt's situation and see what all they can learn from it and what all they might need to modify to make it more effective for their desired goal. Countries will begin to feed off of other countries energy and try to accomplish what they have if they do not like what's going on in their own country. I refuse to believe that everything that is going on in the Middle East is "just happening". I believe that people analyze other countries situations and see what they could do, or do differently to make a difference within their own country. The media is also adding fuel to the fire because other countries can actually see what's going on by watching the news, reading about it, hearing about it on the radio, or just by seeing it when they get on the internet. Everything that is delivered via media can encourage and or influence other countries to make the decisions that they make. I do agree with Glenn Beck when he said that the US are hypocrites and that's why the Middle East hates us. The States say that we believe in freedom, but yet we supported Mubarak in his dictatorship to a certain extent.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
What's Really Goin' on in Egypt?
I think that the U.S role is to stay out of Egypt's political affairs. The media seems as if they are following all of the protestors and all the commotion that the protestors are stirring up. The media to me, seems as if they are not focusing a lot on President Mubarak, but they are focusing on the protestors that are fighting to get Mubarak out of office now and not on Mubarak's terms. The Egyptians do not want the U.S to get involved and they have asked the U.S government to stay out of it and that they can handle their issues without the U.S.
At this point in the rebellion, Mubarak and his supporters have been quite civil. There has also been no proof that says Mubarak has injured anyone. He appears to be rather sincere in my opinion. In his public speech he said that he will die in Egypt, "his home". Mubarak knows that today's technology is too advanced to where it will be almost impossible to hide any of alleged abuse of his citizens. It is also known that other fractions are creating problems on the streets of Egypt.
It appears that the media networks that favor President Obama, shows Egypt's cries in a good light. The anti-Obama media shows the Egyptian's cries in a bad light and as something horrible. Obama respects the will of the Egyptian government and its people. The U.S media feeds off of drama. They might hype it up by to boost their ratings and magazines and newspapers use it as well in a sense of "juicy, yet informative gossip".
At this point in the rebellion, Mubarak and his supporters have been quite civil. There has also been no proof that says Mubarak has injured anyone. He appears to be rather sincere in my opinion. In his public speech he said that he will die in Egypt, "his home". Mubarak knows that today's technology is too advanced to where it will be almost impossible to hide any of alleged abuse of his citizens. It is also known that other fractions are creating problems on the streets of Egypt.
It appears that the media networks that favor President Obama, shows Egypt's cries in a good light. The anti-Obama media shows the Egyptian's cries in a bad light and as something horrible. Obama respects the will of the Egyptian government and its people. The U.S media feeds off of drama. They might hype it up by to boost their ratings and magazines and newspapers use it as well in a sense of "juicy, yet informative gossip".
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