Top 10 Places I Want to Visit

Traveling is something I love and want to keep doing for the rest of my life see below for my TOP 10 Places I want to visit!

1.) Bali, Indonesia 

2.) Barcelona, Spain

3. The Maldives

4.) New Zealand

5.) Dubai

6.) Southern France

7.) Australia

8.) Sweden

9.) Ireland

10.) Brazil

Prison baby

If the mother were to raise her child in the prison, I think that would not be acceptable. A better solution would be to either have someone in her family take care of her child while she was in prison or foster care. And as she does her time I think visitation rights would be appropriate.

Why are people poor?

People are poor because either they are born into a an poor family or some way or another they have put themselves into a poverty state. I believe it all depends on what choices people make when choosing a living and if they worked hard in school or not. Possessing a high school diploma is a necessary component for evolving in any kind of career, but if this is all a person is holding on to when there are higher levels of education such as associates, bachelors, masters, PhD degrees. For example say "Jenny" dreams of a career in the medical field, but comes from a very low income family. Her parents do not have enough money to send her to medical school. Hard work in school and clubs earns Jenny a scholarship and grants. Her hard work and determination pay off and she uses student financial aid to help her complete college and ends up with the career she dreamed of. This example shows that although a person may come from a not so wealthy family you can still persue a career like this one. Sometimes it doesn't work out like this, being an average student with average grades and little money makes it even more difficult to persue a high paying career.

$700 billion BAILOUT

According to Wikipedia.com, the $700 billion bailout plan was issued on Oct.1,2008. This plan was created for the United States Secretary of Treasury to purchase distressed assets, especially mortgage-backed securities from the nations banks of Wall Street. This act was proposed by President Bush and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Also the government spent $85 billion to bailout major insurance company AIG. So basically the nations banks were allowing people to receive loans and mortgages who they knew that could not afford the payments. The banks did not take responsibility for their actions and our tax money had to bail them out is that fair?, I don't think so, not at all.

The Presidential Elect

Hard work, pleasing the people, and months of campainging to become the next President of the United States has recently resulted in the victory of the democratic candidate Barack Obama. I don't think his victory is a good thing. Not only does Obama support and practice socialism he also does not support christian morals like pro-life (no abortions )and he is for gay marriage. I think our country in headed for distruction. Also he plans to tax citizens with higher incomes. Why should successful hardworking people have to basically give their hard earned money to the slackers who believe the government should take care of them. That brings up another issue, the government is not supposed to take care of you in that sense. The government is there to keep people and situations on track and enforce laws, not to baby America. Also new proposals have already been passed such as marijuana being leagal for medical and leisure use I don't think this is a good choice on behalf of the government.

the mates of state show

Thursday night my sister Ashlea, her friend Sarah, my friend Hannah and I, all went to the Mates of State show at Northern. A group of college students called First-Aid Productions put the show together. When we got into the theatre or place they were playing we all bought American Apparel band shirts which were really cute. It was a few minutes still before the first opening band came on stage. Then they did, they were called This is Deer Country it was a guy and a girl duo from Houghton and I really enjoyed their music. They sounded like another band I like, Eisley. Their music was super chill and the girls voice was really pretty and soothing. After they played a few songs the crowd applauded and they left the stage. you could tell every one's anticipation was growing for the feature band(mates of state), but there was still on more opening band. I can't really remember what they were called but it was a mix between screamo and ska it was actually pretty good. The singer was hilarious and a great performer. We also had a spot right in front of the speaker and barely a foot from the stage it was great. After numbers of sound checks and adjustments Mates of State started their first song Fraud in the 80s one after another they just kept playing my favorites. In the end it was a great show! And I really enjoyed it.

negative campaigning

Due to the presidential election nearing closer, the candidates are becoming more and more competitive. Recently television ads regarding the candidates campaigns have been popping up regularly. Ads for the NRA ending with "defeat Obama" have made their appearance. And both McCain and Obama campaigns ads always announce something negative about the other candidate's plan of action and glamorize what they have planned for their future term, end with.."I'm _________ and I approve this message". I don't think this kind of campaigning is necessarily good..or bad I'm sort of on the fence in this situation.