On Monday, October 21, President Obama held an event to talk about the new health care program that has taken action. In this event president Obama would address the problems going on with the website and try to let people see why this plan is a positive thing. Cathleen Decker from Los Angeles Times published an article that explains what this event held by President Obama was for. In an attempt; in my opinion to inform people of what is currently going on with this new issue.
In her article Decker uses many polls taken by many other media sources that shows that the supporting and apposing percentages are very close together. This type of evidence is one tactic that i find to be very good because it gives people that haven not spoken out yet the courage to do so. And it allows people who are unsure about things to come to a decision. One of the statements that Decker uses is one by President Obama where the president states that this program is better that what the United States had before. Another interesting thing that I saw was the fact that Decker showed that President Obama is open to ideas. This let the audience ( the american people ) know that this program can be changed.
But despite this I agree with what President Obama is saying. Obama states that the people against the program are not helping out to make it better and that the only interest they have is simply to take it down. I think that this no longer should be about "Politics" but this needs to be about the American people. We are talking about the health of the people. This new found issue is one that both parties need to come to an agreement. Deckers article made me see many new things that i didn't see before, but like many other things in this government it will take much more time.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Monday, October 7, 2013
A government that can't govern?
A government that can't govern? A question that brings much debating. Fred Hiatt from The Washington Post wrote a very interesting article going into this very same question.
Fred Hiatt writes this article to let the american people see his view on the government. He starts off by stating how great and powerful the United States is. A country that is on top of many things. But he states that despite all this the United States government still cant solve problems. One of the examples that he uses is the current dilemma of the government shutdown. He uses this issue to show the fact that the government still can't do its job. Hiatt states that even though this is a big problem its still just another example showing the lack to govern by the government.
Hiatt then continues on by giving more examples of how the government can't seem to what its job is and this problem is only causing the american people to suffer. Although he does argue that the american people are suffering one of the most interesting things that he said was the american people are also to blame for the lack to govern by the government. The lack of knowledge and the very high standards that they have. This in a way is like adding wood to the fire.
I personally agree with some of the arguments that he makes to why the government is the way it is. And one of the things that this piece made me see was how can the country be so well known and be consider the greatest when they still can solve some of the solvable problems. Just like Hiatt said these kind of things are something that can be resolved with out to much of the drama. But in the end the one paying for the governments flaw is the american people.
Fred Hiatt writes this article to let the american people see his view on the government. He starts off by stating how great and powerful the United States is. A country that is on top of many things. But he states that despite all this the United States government still cant solve problems. One of the examples that he uses is the current dilemma of the government shutdown. He uses this issue to show the fact that the government still can't do its job. Hiatt states that even though this is a big problem its still just another example showing the lack to govern by the government.
Hiatt then continues on by giving more examples of how the government can't seem to what its job is and this problem is only causing the american people to suffer. Although he does argue that the american people are suffering one of the most interesting things that he said was the american people are also to blame for the lack to govern by the government. The lack of knowledge and the very high standards that they have. This in a way is like adding wood to the fire.
I personally agree with some of the arguments that he makes to why the government is the way it is. And one of the things that this piece made me see was how can the country be so well known and be consider the greatest when they still can solve some of the solvable problems. Just like Hiatt said these kind of things are something that can be resolved with out to much of the drama. But in the end the one paying for the governments flaw is the american people.
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