Blog 7

This is not normal between all the violence in the country to the fact the nationals grandpa still has access to his smartphone and the able to connect the hateful parts of the internet. To the fact that we all going to die by nuclear fire because he call an angry short guy a "fat, angry little man." Everyone in this world is going to die, with or without our president. With our president someone is bound to bomb us, and without....let's be real, we will bomb us. For example, the countries that view our way of governing and the way we economize our citizens, they will take the opportunity to attack. It may be physical or it may be through technological warfare. Either way, our government is corrupt and bound to picked on by neighboring countries. As I mentioned before, our country and certain states are led by the worst people and teaching an economy that is going to fall from unimaginable heights that we won’t be able to come back from. Our people are developing the initial step to commit suicide once the most powerful monopoly took the role in running our country to so called “Make America great again.”   

Blog 5

The current state of the U.S government is one of disarray. Both Democratic and Republican parties are in constant disagreement, which causes conflict on almost any topic that is being discussed. Each party is trying to make the other party seem as if they are unintelligent on the matter they are discussing.

While this is nothing new to our government, it has gotten substantially worse surrounding the most recent election. All this disagreement can be problematic because it creates a weak form of government. The disagreement divides people into two different parties or causes people to become inactive in government all together because they don't want to bother with all the disagreement.
I believe that the inflation in disagreement can be attributed to the use of social media. Representatives now have a very easy platform to reach other representatives as well as the people very easily. Many times representatives can say hurtful things on social media without proof reading their statements thoroughly, so it in turn offends many people.

I also believe that we have lost a substantial amount of trust within the government because of the rise of technology. We are now able to access tons of information, much of which has not been fact checked or is a very biased opinion. While it is important that people have access to tons of information, the fact that it is not regulation more thoroughly can be discerning in regard to formulating trust.

In short, trust and disagreement are the two main issues that are making government much harder to follow or trust. Once the government solves these two issues I believe we will be able to progress at a much faster rate as a nation.

Journal Four

The author of this Houston Chronicle is mostly trying to target the more alt left, younger readers. He was trying to rally them to let the this alt right, conservative speaker to give a guest lecture at Texas Southern University . Some student protester began it chat and "boo" him. The author was trying to show that the this speaker's right to free speech was being worked all over. This is the second time that I can remember when a public figures rights were trashed. The other time it happened at a college California this past year.the author was trying to just show that these protestors were doing the thing they hate most shutting down conversation.   

Stop Running Your Mouth And Do Something

In the article titled "Gun Control Now!" published in The Houston Chronicle the author is writing pretty much writing a letter to his elected officials making his angry of the tragic mass shooting at happen in Las Vegas this past week. The article is make his angry known to all who dare to read but it's also a call to arms. A call to everyone who is tried of hearing about more 500 mass shootings that have happened in the eighteen months. Tired of anyone saying "our thoughts and prayers are with friends, family and victims of this horrific event." The author makes a point to bring up exactly who are the parties responsible for the inaction. People like Senate Major Leader Mitch McConnell, Speaker Of The House Paul Ryan, Senators Pete Olson, Ted Poe and John Culberson. He bring to attention the fact that other well developed countries like Canada, Japan and Australia with better gun control have seen the number of times they have to get on television and reassure there citizens that they are safe; that the threat was neutralized. Honestly though the main theme of this article is just to see if anyone else has gotten tired of hearing "I'm Sorry for your lose" from elected officials while they get sit on there butts and look at there bank accounts grow. 

Too Expensive to take a Bullet

The article published by CNN brings to light a topic I've rarely think about. Protection for the government agencies that aren't very exciting. More specifically how much we are projected to spend on protection for government officials. The figures are mind blowing when you see who we are protecting around the clock.  The Department Of Homeland Security's inspector general filed stating that many members of the executive branch have protection details who only should them when they can establish a creditable treat. People like Secretary Of Education Betsy DeVos and Administrator Of the Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt.

Having these members of the cabinet with around the clock security is a very expensive practice not mention unauthorized. The inspector general's report estimates that just the Custom and Border Protection chief's personal costs would be close to $700,000. Add that to the projected cost of President Trump's large family and frequent travel the new president does. It's no wonder more then 1,000 Secret Service agents will has hit the salary cap.

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