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I agree, Gerrymandering or “Redistricting” is a very serious matter that we need to pay attention to. The way they redraw these lines baffles me, I cannot believe that they would allow this based on the way the district lines end up looking like. They obviously do not look like they did it “fairly” but of course the government still allows this. Probably because if the representatives stay in power in every state every time then they get to vote for whoever is on top of them and so on. Everyone gets to keep their power, so why would the government want to change anything. This ends up ruining our country, we cannot function as a representative democracy because we are not one. We are not fairly represented by the people we choose, because today I could be in one district and next time they will draw a line around my house, that is allowed by the way, which I don’t think is fair. What needs to be done is that they need to get rid of this process, not the whole redistricting process but the way they do it, if they use the census then that’s what they should use to draw the lines not let some draw lines around the people they want to vote for them, that is not fair at all and this country needs to be represented fairly in order for it to function properly.

Nuclear War

The battle on nuclear weapons is increasing. The article As North Korea Speeds Its Nuclear Programs, US Fears Time Will Run Out. The article describes how North Korea is on the road to creating one of, if not the world’s greatest bomb. The goal for North Korea is to create a Hydrogen Bomb, this is the United States fear that they will accomplish this if they don’t stop it in time. The Trump administration has done very little to try and stop the north from testing again. The North Koreans almost mock the US by showing off their weapons in there parade. It is unclear how Trump will react to a test by North Korea but the goal is to prevent them from testing again, the more they test the closer they get to build their dream weapon. Clinton had put a freeze to their testing, but soon after during the George W. Bush they launched another one and a second just months into the Obama administration. Obama noted that even failures bring the North Koreans good opportunities for them to learn even more. Now it is up to the Trump administration to stop the North Koreans from testing again. Their take on it is to apply overwhelming pressure on the North, both military and economic, to freeze its testing and reduce its stockpile. Then use that against them and if possible make North Korea give up all its weapons. The freeze may stop them for a while but the North still has a very powerful arsenal in stock. The Trump administration needs to come up with something fast before they test again, if not the will be more powerful than us when it comes to Nuclear weapons.

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In my class mate's post "Welfare Drug Testing, Worth the Dollar?" Paige discusses how we should hold welfare recipients accountable for the testing of drugs. I totally agree, anyone who receives welfare checks should be using the money for the reasons they are intended for. By insuring that these individuals are using the money for the right reason that will help them on their way to being able to get a job and get off welfare checks. However i believe if an individual is not progressing then they should be terminated from the welfare program , anyone not using the government help for the right reasons does not deserve it and i don't think tax payers would be too happy with that. Overall i believe this will help many individuals by leading them into the right path and helping them get off welfare checks thus saving tax payers more money.

Is Trump Vulnurable?

President Donald Trump is vulnerable to blackmail. The article on the Huffington Post “Is President Trump Vulnerable To Russian Blackmail’ describes how the Russians might have total control over the President of the United States and its campaign. Trump has been accused of having Russian ties since the start of his campaign and now that the FBI as well as House and Senate Intelligence Committees are looking are into investigating they might find something. Trump is not the only one, high level members of his campaign staff have also been accused of ties with the Russian ambassador and Russian agents. One question is did Trump make a deal with Russia in which he would run in their favor and in exchange Russia would dump hack emails or other material that would affect Hillary Clinton? Another question is if his campaign did come in contact with Russian leaders is did President Trump know about these contacts or was he aware this was happening? Trump is certainly being blackmailed by the Russians, the Russians must have something on Donald Trump that is causing him to go in their favor. All throughout his campaign Donald Trump suggested we should align with Russian something no other president in history would have done before him. The Russians have so much power on Trump now if they want to weaken him they can easily say someone from the United States contacted the Russians and everyone here would believe it, with everything that is going on even if it was not true Trump would not be able to prove otherwise. Trump is without a doubt being controlled by the Russians to do anything in their favor and if the Russians choose to they can destroy him at any time.

Comment on a Blog

Laura Clawson has a Blog for the Daily Kos, she has been a contributing editor since December 2006. Laura Clawson also belongs to many other groups like the Daily Kos Elections, Educator Voices, In Support of Labor and Unions and many more. In her post Trumpcareis going to be a killer—literally—for Trump's white working-class base. She informs the citizens how Trump’s new care act is basically going to screw everyone over, except for certain people, which are his rich friends they will get giant tax cuts. She uses the study found by Harvard health economist David Cutler estimates those increased costs will total an average of $2,409 in 2020. He also found that enrolled people 55 to 64 will face a higher cost average as well by 2020. Laura Clawson is right about her post and I agree with her the new healthcare act that is said to be put out by trump is going to suck. The new Healthcare Act would phase out Medicaid expansion, gets rid of the individual mandate, charges a 30 percent premium surcharge to people without continuous coverage in the individual market, and defunds Planned Parenthood. Those do not sound like benefits to me.  The people that are most affected by this are low income people, the elderly and women. “Trump care” is going to be a killer, it will not make things better it will make them worse, and for the people that voted for Trump not only did they screw themselves but ruined everything for the rest of us that did not want this to happen.