Blog Assignment 3-Y2Wage

I have been hearing "facts" here and there on how the new plan for the minimum wage increase is going the ruin or make us.  I wasn't sure who to believe from one extreme to the other. Luckily the New York Times article "The Case for a Higher Minimum Wage", written by the qualified and educated editorial board, made a clear, skeptical, and factual statement on what the minimum wage will, more or less, create in our already poor economy. The article seems to be directed towards the blue collar general public and extreme right and left wing political affiliations. The only thing I felt this article was missing was the more emotional and personal symptoms the current minimum wage is creating with people and families in this current financial crisis. I think it could have been easier to relate to with more real life situations such as parents having to work more than one job in order to make ends meet and the time they are missing with children and other family members. Despite this lack of emotion, I think this article did a great job with putting the extreme right and left wing's assumptions to rest with unbiased evidence fabricated from experts and history.  

The minimum wage issue has been a political debacle from the beginning, with twisted facts and exaggerations. I think it was important for this kind of article to come out and clear things up so that people can see what this kind of situation this political move will produce for our country.  This article definitely shows that this was a good call to make from the Democratic stand point and dumps on the resistance of the Republican party. I think the argument to increase minimum wage is a benefit to the economy comes across very clear and believable. I’m completely convinced that all this information is accurate and actually changed my mind on whether the minimum wage was a smart move or not. It made me reconsider and question what I heard and read previously and opened my eyes to being more skeptical in the future.

Blog Assignment 2-Changing the world one post at a time

Everywhere I go I see people trying to be “green” to help the environment, but I believe there needs to be a bigger wave of concern and change in order to fix all the damages that have been inflicted upon our beautiful planet. Though many people may not put government and saving the planet in the same category it really goes hand in hand. The news and government like to show the positive changes they are making, but there are still many limitations put up against environmental change because of political and personal views and influence. This article is just a small example of what concerns need to be voiced and problems that need to be addressed.

In "Diary of a Dying Country", William Rivers Pitt voices the problem he is seeing with drinking water in populated areas being polluted. He talks about how lax the issue is to the companies that are polluting and how serious the problem really is. 

This is an incredibly informative and easy read I hope you enjoy.