Comment on a colleague’s work #1

Monday, November 4, 2013

A nation's mistake

I feel that the new cuts on foods stamps made by the government is a complete mistake. The amount of money taken away from each family or individual varies, but no matter the amount, the cut is still to much. “For a family of four receiving the maximum amount, monthly benefits will fall to $632 from $668, or a decline of $36.…” This might not seem like a big deal but to a family of four depending on this money that can mean that they will have one or two less meals than they would’ve before. I don’t understand what taking away this money from the people is going to help. The government is taking away from the lowest income where they are dependent on this money to not only feed themselves but their families. How can a country claim to be the best country in the world when they are taking away money from the poorest of the poor. Another thing that goes along with this cut is that the emergency unemployment compensation that is offered to certain states with a high enough unemployment rate will also be ending on January first of 2014. I feel that even though the government made these cuts for an economic improvement, in the long run they will have made nothing but a negative impact on the country. Just imagine the people who have lost their jobs to the recession or for the time being are dependent on the money being provided to them. This money can help them pay for whatever they need from clothing their children to making a payment on their rent. Over all I feel that the government should have put more thought into how this is going to effect the country. I am sure that there are less important things that can manage with a couple less million dollars that won’t hurt millions of people the way this cut is going to.

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Didn't your mother teach you eavesdropping is not polite?

                I fear we are going to war alone and broke. What are we doing spying on our own ally’s? Unhealthy obsession with public safety has lead this nation to paranoia, which will leave as with no ally’s; unless we stop spying on our friends. We should work on a mutual trust and leave the other countries be. That will make us the greatest country once again.
                The NSA collected 70.3 million pieces of French telephone data in the span of a month. The questing is why? Instead of listening to some old lead ordering a pizza; the government could have used the money NSA is spending to listen to an old French lady ordering on what she is going to eat for dinner. It is not just about the money it also about something much more powerful and hard to come by; a powerful ally. If you show a friend that you don’t trust them they start to not trust you as well, which will cause you and your friend to drift apart. Finally they will walk away singing “we are never, ever getting back together”. The same situation goes for spying on Brazil, and Germany.
                The United State is currently $17,116,590,825,120.15 in debt right now. The estimated population of the United States is 316,981,640, so each citizen’s share of this debt is $53,998.68. The National Debt has continued to increase and average of $2.63 billion per day, and yet we spend billions on spying on countries that are irrelevant. Congress stop the spying and pay your bills. If there was a war to break out; we would not have any money to fund our military operations and we would not have any ally’s to relay on. So stop the spying and keep the NSA under control.