Friday, April 25, 2014

     Affordable care act- The affordable care act may have a negative effect for Democrats in the Senate race. The affordable care act has been in affect for four years now. But since the deadline this year, American's are finally feeling the pain of the act. 54% of American's say that the act is an important factor on how they vote. The care act could be a defining factor in the midterm elections for the senate.
     This many not be good for the Democrats. Depending on how the people feel this act alone could give up to six seats in the Senate for the Republicans. This could be vey important since we are half way through the Presidents term. This would mean that Republicans would run the house and have an upper hand in the senate. This would not be good for a Democrat President.
     Maybe the Representatives should have thought about how the affordable care act with going to affect the people. The act isn't as affordable to the public as they thought. It is making American's lives harder and now will be the time for American's to show Congress. If nothing else but with their votes. Hopefully this well help Congress understand that the people vote them into Congress, but they can also help remove them.

Friday, April 11, 2014

Food for Thought. I completely agree with this blog. I agree that Military spending should not be cut. We do need to look at how we spend our money. Making open purchases with government credit cards over spending through contracts would save the government tons of money. We would save so much money if we bought things at "Walmart". We could spend Ten dollars on a toilet seat at Walmart, but instead we buy through contracts and spend Four hundred dollars. This is waste full spending.


     Maybe we should reward programs who don't spend their entire budget; instead of punishing them. Maybe if they didn't spend all of their money we could roll it into the next fiscal year, or even reward them. This is why military spending to a civilian looks ridiculous. The reason why the Government puts money into all of these crazy research programs is because if they don't spend all of the budget next year they will lose it. So they make sure by the end of every quarter all the money is gone. Weather they need to spend it or not. Now where does this seem logic. As parents we tell our children to save their money and "Not spend it all in one place.". But as a Government we can hardly let the ink dry before we blow all the money we have. As my mom always used to say "You act like your money is going to burn a hole in your pocket."


    We need to focus our spending on making sure that our troops have the equipment that they really need. If we focused our spending on the equipment that our troops needed, we might not have as many injured vets or deaths. We are now spending more money taking care of our disabled vets and paying the families of the service members who have passed than in any other war.