Also in shock

          The editorial; No Excuse for U.S. Infant Mortality Ranking by Katherine Boccieri is very similar to the way I think about this Infant mortality rank. We really should be among the higher rankings considering how developed our country is as far as technology and medical knowledge compared to other countries. I also agree that this is mostly our fault seeing as we spend so much as a country on healthcare but dont care enough to caution and educate infant parents. This is definately something we should work on as a country in order to improve this lack of informed and educated guardians of the infants.
          On the other hand the increase in minorities and low income people with worse living conditions who account for most of the infant mortalities can't always have the best healthcare available which causes our decrease in infant mortality rank. Also while our minority population is increasing our rank, less developed countries are adopting our technology and medical knowledge in addition to their traditions which in a way could or is evening out the playing field in the infant mortality ranks. Regardless i completely agree that the United States Infant mortality rank should be alot better and improving, as well as educating and informing our infant's guardians or caretakers.

What has the economy done now

The current economy has got american people frozen in place and in fear. People are not only struggling to sell their homes: they are in fear of selling their homes and not being able to find jobs in thier new location. The economy has really outdone itself this time as shown in the Census Bureau and International Revenue service: over the decade people have slowly started moving from north to south and there has been a domestic migration loss of ninty percent. The senoir demographer at the carsey institute said, "When times get really hard it gets really hard for people to up and move". This is why the housing market and realtor's are also affected by the depression and people decide to wait it out till the economy picks back up. An economic depression today and in the past has lead to a migratory depression in several ways. The first way to lead to a migratory depression is the feeling pressure or stress of financial insecurity. When your not in such a position that you have a job waiting for you, have plenty of money and have offers for your property to be bought, you will end up in debt and have to scratch by till your house sells if it ever does. This alone makes people think twice about moving and the economy being the way it is doubles that stress and pressure of deciding weather to risk it in the current situation. Therefore, thanks to the economy, most people on the fence about moving have just fallen off back into there same place till they can feel more secure and confident in the economy and migrate freely with less to worry about. Migration patterns for now are more from north to south from some of the major cities and are reduced by 90 percent all thanks to something we brought upon ourselves: the depression.

Democratic rally for Obama's jobs bill

The Domecratic party is hoping to put pressure on the republicans to pass Obama's Jobs Bill by hosting a rally. To me the Jobs Bill is a great idea because the enemployment rate is increasing in some of the essential jobs in america like first responders such as police and firemen, and educators or teachers. This bill is going to provide money to help pay for positions in those essential jobs, which could give some of them their jobs back atleast and bring the unemployment rate back down. The author's intended audience is not only the american people but in specific the people who were laid off these jobs. This commentary is trying to inform and convince the intended audience to support this passing of the Jobs Bill by helping put pressure on the republicans and making them feel sympathetic. The author states that this rally aims to put a human pace on a legislative effort that would spend $30 billion on education-related jobs and $5 billion on first responder's jobs by placing an income tax. This I would have to say alot of people would object to as far as increasing the taxes, but it is necessary to support more jobs in these fields. The author has credebility in this commentary from the original facts of this bills goal as far as what the job bill is going to accomplish and what people are doing to make sure the bill is passed through news. I agree with the author completely in that jobs in those important fields such as education and first responders are worth the little increase in our income taxes.

Feeling Poorer Indeed (editorial critique)

The Author of the editorial "Feeling Poorer? You have plenty of company", lists some pretty interesting facts about the decrease of income in higher and lower classes.  Infact, people all over the economic ladder have lost some percentage of their income and it is not going unnoticed. The author is not surprised that, as a result of this, political uprisings such as the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street protests have happened or happening. The Author seems to be trying to convince people that first of all, this economic problem is real. That is the purpose of all the depressing facts about our decreasing income and increasing poverty rate, which, to the people affected by the economy who are now part of the poverty statistic and even who just lost a little bit of money, makes perfect sense. The author, after bringing home the reality of our stuggling and depleating economy, then aims his or her focus on the governments actions.  The author says that these economic problems can't be fixed, however our government isn't helping their case or making it any better because of the bad public policy. The government in his or her opinion spends money in two different currencies; U.S. Dollars and open-ended promises. For example the governments spending on healthcare went up by 15% bringing the total of federal spending on healthcare and social security up to 45% . In regards to most of this i agree; to me the government doesn't seem to be doing much to solve our economic problems considering we are still in a recession and i myself realize my parents frustration with budget cuts and layoffs at their jobs. As far as what the government spends our taxes on i have no real idea but healthcare seems to be a distraction in the means of the government trying to help stimulate the economy.I also agree with her idea that our economy and culture worships consumerism which often leads to debt rather than saving or investing is a problem. Overall I think the author has a valid point on the economic struggles affect on most of the populations income and what factors it is a result of and has good credibility to his or her facts and opinions listed.

Millionair fair share

 If Reagan thinks the U.S. should tax millionairs more, I completely agree with him. Millionaires are called Millionaires basically because they have a couple more extra millions to spend than the average American would have in his life time and if the average american is spending a large portion on taxes the to me, why shouldn't the millionaires pay an even larger portion. This way the government makes more money and the millionaires are left barely harmed at all instead of the millionaires contributing the same as the lower class people who are actually struggling to get by.

 http://thelastword.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/03/8130167-reagan-on-taxing-millionaires-more

My Political Background

  As far as politics go, I am not very experienced just like most of my family with the exception of my grandpa and uncle who happen to be all the way in Iowa. So far, my only real knowledge of politics is my 3 years of high school history and what I've read so far in the American Government book which is, as you may have noticed, why i named my blog name "natethepoliticalnovice".