On November 30^th one of my class mates; Andrea Crosser wrote a blog regarding Same sex marriage.

This is a very delicate topic to agree on a conclusion, since we are a nation “known” to have a mixture and acceptance of different cultures and race diversity.

As Andrea mentioned some religious people believe that homosexuality is a sin, unfortunately most of the human beings base their lives around some type of religion or believes, and with that they think they are allowed to judge people. The First Amendment of the Constitution clearly states  freedom in a  person's religious views or lack thereof must be protected.

I believe as American citizens we have the image of fighting for “independency” since back in the days we always fight for our rights. We have a history of fighting against slavery, women’s rights, privacy and even voting.

America was founded on the concept that the majority should rule and this identifies us from other nations, “democracy.” It is the main reason we have a Bill of Rights as well as anti-slavery and equal protection amendments. Denying marriage to a homosexual couple is no different than denying marriage to Hispanic or black couples. This would be like taking a step back and starting the fight against discrimination once again.

A marriage is a relationship between two people. How does it hurt society or people not involved in the marriage?

Since gay couples cannot have kids naturally, this will likely increase the desire to adopt. Since there are so many kids around the country in need of adoption. This could possible decrease the criminal rate in the USA since some kids who are destined to grow with no love would have a change of life.  I am not against gay marriage but I do agree with “ Live and let Live.”

After reading some general topics on the U.S government I realized that we have to address the issue that the country is facing a high percentage of unemployed citizens.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics five million Americans are on a long term unemployment, which mean they have been jobless for 27 weeks or more,and another 7.3 million are out there looking for a job. With so much people unemployed we are at a 7.9% as a nation. You might be thinking “wow that’s not much” but if we look into how it’s affecting us as a nation, it makes a difference. What is really surprising is that among the Statistics, there were 813,000 discouraged workers in October. You ask “What are discouraged workers?”Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them. Honestllyy????

How is it possible that people that have degrees are struggling with finding jobs, many employers prefer to train and pay cheap rather than hiring people who they believe will require more of a pay. (1)

So as I read more regarding unemployment in our current nation it is disappointing to see that Democrats and Republicans can’t agree on cutting taxes to upper income earners or not . With president Obama re-elected I believe this is not going to be an issue any more since he is all for increasing tax rate for rich/middle class people, since he always mentioned that those people should pay their fare share.

But why impose more taxes on middle class people it’s already hard to support a family. While there is people out there not even attempting to find a job, and with all these new laws and consideration of legalizing weed I believe we should drug test anyone who is receiving free assistance. That just our fare share.

 (1) http://news.yahoo.com/first-person-high-tech-training-years-experience-no-180800558--finance.html