U.S Government Welfare Payment to Walmart.

Walmart recieves $2.66 billion from the government each year, about 420,000 per store and $5,815 per worker. Their full time employees seek public assistance in result from their low wages. The middle class is being destroyed because of companies like Walmart that do not provide livable wages when they easily could. When the middle class jobs disappear, their is no middle class. More compaines are giving the same treatment to benefit themseleves. Customers continue to reward the companies behavior because of their cheap prices. The Federal government has to take care of their employees through medicaid, food stamps, and other social welfare programs. The author believes the "pro-business" voices of our country are in reality "closet communists". They want everything to be made in China and Americans workers to be paid like the Chinese workers. 

The issue is that Americans feed into cheap prices of Walmart and are not taking any consideration of how their employees are treated. I do not agree with Wal-Mart's poor treatment to make larger profits.  "Today, Wal-Mart employs approximately 1.2 million people in the United States, and it makes a yearly profit of about 17 billlion dollars."  In addition, "Walmart is the leading food company in the U.S (taking a one of every four dollars spent on food in the U.S)". The author adds more evidence of Wal-Mart's business success, they have the largest fleet of trucks, a larger global computer network than the pentagon, and twice the number of employees than the U.S Postal Service. The amoutn Americans alone spend $36 million dollars per hour in their stores.

The Federal government programs should only be to help people in need, and should not be needed for employed Americans especially large companyies like Wal-Mart where they have the funds to  provide a liveable paycheck to their workers. In addition these workers seek heath care, $1 billion in heath care is provided from the Federal government. The essential question of this article the author is providing is "what is the society going to look like as millions more Americans become dependent on the federal government each year?" I agree with his concern to the nation and economy as a whole. If this one business can have this much affect on the people and economy of  our country what will happen when mutliple  businesses follow in their footsteps. 

Article: http://michaelsnyder.mensnewsdaily.com/2014/12/the-2-6-billion-dollar-welfare-payment-that-the-u-s-government-gives-to-wal-mart/

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Electoral College

The Electoral College evolved from fear of factions. The people did not want the big government states maintaining their rights. The states handle the voting as they see fit and allow the Feds and States the conduct the election. The main reason for the creation is to protect the elite from the poor. Our forefathers feared large masses of poor. This system is fair, it contributes to the united of the country by requiring a distribution of popular support to be elected president. Electoral College contributes to the political stability of the nation by encouraging a two party system." Direct vote, popular sovereignty. Also enhances the status of minority interests."It is because of this "leverage effect" that the presidency, as an institution, tends to be more sensitive to ethnic minority and other special interest groups than does the Congress as an institution." 
In a direct popular election, incentives for a n excessive amount of minor parties to form in an attempt to prevent whatever popular majority might be necessary to elect a president. "The Electoral College has performed its function for over 200 years (and in over 50 presidential elections) by ensuring that the President of the United States has both sufficient popular support to govern and that his popular support is sufficiently distributed throughout the country to enable him to govern effectively." Maintains a federal system of government and representation.
In the George Bush vs. Albert Gore jr. Bush dominated the electoral college. Al Gore had state popularity, resulting in the electoral college succeeding.  

http://uselectionatlas.org/INFORMATION/INFORMATION/electcollege_procon.php

Head of state

Chris Rock who played the role of Mays Gilliam a presidential candidate in the movie Head of State who comically satirized the trivial nature of political parties. He was a typical average man living in the city so being chosen as a candidate came as a surprise and it was the first party to nominate a minority. When Gilliam was first chosen as a candidate his advisors put out an election commercial promoting him as a candidate, but the commercial did not include a clip of him. He did not agree with this due to the fact he had no say in the making or in the way it portrayed him in the video. The political party used Mays heroic act of saving an old women who went inside a burning building to find her cat to further him in the election. "Big business loves a hero". The party wanted to tell the people what they wanted to hear and they knew that is the only way he would have a chance of winning, just as they do today in every election. The people like a "hero" figure to look up to. As Mays tours the states he realizes that his beliefs can be heard. He comes to this realization because he discovers his advisers he thought were there for him were only in it for themselves and truly did not believe he could win. Mays's brother gives him that inspiration he needed and his campaign takes off .Gilliam also experienced opposing commercial campaigns towards him. He knew it wasn't right to put false information about someone else out to the people. During elections opposing party videos are made in hopes to persuade the votes.  

Political parties ways of lying and cheating in elections were shown through Gilliam's campaign. They are in it mainly for the money aspect. Gilliam let his advisors walk all over him in the beginning and let them be the dictator of his campaign, until he himself had the courage to defer that and take action and make the choices he believed in. Gilliam being confident at the end of the election and telling the people his true beliefs and opinions gave him the win. The movie mainly satirized the typical candidate who goes in public and on cameras and says nothing of what they are about and their beliefs to the people. 

In conclusion Mays Gilliam learned from his peers who was there for him, his brother and people like his advisors who did not stand by his side. His maturity that he grew from the election and the positive choice he made to put the campaign into his own hands brought him success. 

My vote for governor

Martha's Coakley's idea that everyone should have equal pay I strongly agree with. Coakley's focus on early childhood education sends a good message to parents that adults of the future should have equal opportunities. Pre-K wait lists put to an end will benefit children espcially in impoverished areas. Another goal of Martha's is  equal opportunity in community college also expanding finial aid. Sick time being available paid or unpaid is an additional aspect of Coakley's focus I agree with unlike Baker who only wants businesses with 50 plus workers sick time. Regulation on what welfare is used to buy is important due to the fact welfare is taken advantage of. In conclusion I would give my vote to Martha Coakley, she wants to give many opportunities to make the future better. 

Lincoln

The central difficulty involved with the proposal and ratification of the 13th Amendment was racism. There was already 4 million idle African Americans, the threat of them stealing jobs made it difficult also. The people thought that passing the Amendment would lead to
voting rights for African Americans. Most of the house wasn't republican, Lincoln needed two thirds for the majority. Democrats believed Lincoln was acting as a dictator, Lincoln needed their support. In order for the Amendment to pass Lincoln used Implied Powers which had been corrupt in a way. He bribed the Lame Duck Democrats with job positions such as post master, in attempt for their support in the ratification. Lincoln lied about the peace talks because he wanted peace to be contingent on the Amendment due to the fact he would lose leverage. The ratification was important to Lincoln mainly to benefit himself and his future plan to run for re-election. He would then have the many votes of the freed African Americans. Also Lincoln would have got rid of the Emancipation Proclamation. 

Amendment Memes

The sixth Amendment puts in place rights related to criminal prosecutions. If one was to stalk Channing Tatum for example, charges would be pressed. This meme is featuring the beautiful Carthomp<33

The restriction of quartering  soldiers in a private home is against the 3rd Amendment. Carthomp and I would want to let the cute soldier in if he was cute, so we would just pretend the 3rd Amendment did not exist.

Petoria

                         Petoria

Peter Griffin gets the news that his property located at 31 Spooner Quahog, Rhode Island is not technically part of the United States Petoria was created. Peter proclaim his government is an oligarchy and he declares himself president. According to dictionary.com, an oligarchy   government is"a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons orin a dominant class or clique; government by the few." Peter enjoys his new social standing. Peter breaks laws on United States property such as stepping on illegal grasses because he is no longer a citizen of the country. Another beneficial ability that Peter had while under the rule of Petoria was that he could annex his neighbors land, he mainly did this so he could now have pool to swim in. Downfalls to Peters plan was the United States shut down his houses electricity leading to his family suffering from  the lose. 

Chris: Dad, I tried to go to school but this guy won't let me.
Peter: Oh yeah? Him and what army?Chris: The U.S. Army.Peter: Oh, that's a good army

Other dilemmas the Griffin family faced was they could not leave their property due to the United States army surrounding their land. Also Peter's two kids Chris and Meg were affected due to them not being allowed to continue their education at public school, leading to Lois Peter's wife having to home school them both. In conclusion the Griffin family was missing out on the social aspect, the basic needs, and their kids education while being an oligarchy. 

Ratification of the Constitution

The ratification of the Constitution was difficult due to the fact some people didn't like the document in the first place. Conventions took place in each state in order to ratify the document. "Article VII stipulated that nine states had to ratify the constitution for it to go into effect". 

 

Did Americans keep calm? Anti federalists was the source of the opposing crowd. The social classes was a concern to some. Delegates of Philadelphia were accused of  being in favor of the higher class citizens. People argued that they had consequently designed a document that "served their special interests and reserved the franchise for the propertied classes".  Power of the central government was another controversy. They argued too much power was given to the central government. Also that it was at the expense of the states. "The most serious criticism was that the Constitutional Convention had failed to adopt a bill of rights proposed by George Mason". The Federalists fought back and was convinced that the rejection of the Constitution would affect the country, ending in anarchy and civil strife. Newspapers such as The Federalists responded to these anti federalists. 

    

How did they actually get to the ratification process with all that criticism and opposing views? Federalists cleared the air regarding the bill of rights arguments. "The the national government was so constrained by the Constitution that it posed no threat to the rights of citizens. Although this was said, during the ratification in Virginia Madison concluded that a bill of rights was needed. In conclusion, the adoption of a bill of rights was leading the country into a new government. 

The Articles of Confederation, Weak or Strong?

This is a highly controversial document on how much of an impact it had made in the country. The document effecting the national government but the state government as well. The Articles of Confederation was strong in way which gave the United States the ability to start foreign trade.  Borrowing money was another factor that was beneficial to the nation when this document was in place. The country was now given the opportunity to defend their selves if hard times stuck. The ability to declare of war came from the document. If needed to make peace, this was also given. We could being the operation of post offices throughout the country. Weaknesses always exist in documents, but in this case many exist. The nation and the states were beginning to clash due to lack of laws between the two. The National government did not have the power to make the states obey their laws, even though they are the higher power. Along with no system of national courts being excluded. This document did not provide any power on taxing or the ability to enforce the laws in place. A steady and strong leadership within the U.S congress was non-existing. In addition missing from this document that was supposed to help the country, no national army or navy was current.  In conclusion The Articles of Confederation had weaknesses within it that are major factors that make the country run as well as it does today.