Tuesday, May 24, 2011

The Blog Continues Despite the End of the World As We Know It...

If you are reading this then the world did not end on Saturday…no…instead it is going to end on October 21, 2011!  I personally was at my grandparent’s house eating a cookie when the “world ended”.  Oh well, I guess we have to wait another 5 months to find out what is really going to happen.  The next time Harold Camping isn’t going to have anything to bail him out of being wrong about the end of the world.  Anyway, that has nothing to do with politics (I just find it fascinating and just plain funny).  Moving on…

So, my main man, the great T-Paw of Minnesota has declared his candidacy for the 2012 election.  Seriously, any person who is willing and accepting towards the nickname T-Paw is pretty darn awesome.  Anyway, Tim Pawlenty is the former Minnesota governor and believes in things like smaller government, tax cuts, and finding a better solution to the national debt problem by a means other than raising the debt ceiling.  Now when talking to someone about this candidate, he said to me, “I don’t even know who that is”.  However, I was totally under the impression that he was pretty darned popular in the mid-west.  I have also heard people saying that there essentially is no 2012 race because the Republican Party doesn’t stand a chance against Obama.  They see the idiocy of potential candidates like Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, and (of course…) Donald Trump.  Nonetheless, I really believe that Tim Pawlenty could be the Republican Party’s Obama.  He could make this race really interesting.  According to the New York Times, Pawlenty has the desire to take radical action on the Social Security and Medicare programs.  He said, “[they] are on an unsustainable path and that inaction is no longer an option”.  Just like Obama’s novel idea to have Republicans and Democrats work together to solve the nation’s problems, Pawlenty is stepping up and has the desire to make a difference in America.

Not only have the candidates been busy, but the Supreme Court has settled yet another landmark decision.  According to USA Today, this morning the Supreme Court deemed it unconstitutional to overcrowd prisons in a 5-4 decision.  This goes under everyone’s rights under the Eighth Amendment, an amendment that protects all of us from cruel and unusual punishment.  Therefore, over the course of the next two years over 300,000 convicted felons will have to be transferred or released.  Ok, well, it’s only natural that the prisons are becoming slowly more crowded considering these two facts: the population count is ever increasing, and the ability to collect and process evidence is getting better all the time.  However, isn’t it really dangerous to have a ton of criminals smashed together in a limited amount of space? I’m not a fan of releasing criminals in the streets, so isn’t it about time that the criminal justice system focus more on rehabilitation of felons, at least the ones who show some kind of rehabilitative hope?  This could be a really good thing for the United States.

Now, I leave you with one wonderful thought for the upcoming year; your taxes will not go up because of the approved increase in disaster relief for the South.  Yes, as a brand new tax-payer who filed her first tax-return this year, I am very happy about this.  According to news sources at The Huffington Post, the House approved a $1 billion raise in the relief fund for the United States.  This money will be coming from a cut made in a fund to promote the manufacturing of economically friendly vehicles.  So it looks like the environment may take a small hit; however, (on the up side) not only are tax-payers getting a break, but it looks like Congress is finally making some progress on solving the debt-ceiling issue.  They are cutting funding from programs and not making it harder for the rest of us citizens of the United States.

Well, I hope that last tidbit of information made you happy because that is all I have for you tonight!  Oh, and everybody…keep ticking and stay informed!!!!



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