Who Am I 2

Who I am today hasn't changed much from who I was from my first blog. My goals in life are still the same, but I may have added a few. I want to be the best I can be at what ever they may be. I feel if you are asked to do something and you accept then you should do the best job you can. Just by doing that you will most likely have few enemies. Life is short so I try to make the best out of what ever I have, sometimes it may not be much but you just have to do what you need to do. By making the best out of what you have it allows for a long happy life... hopefully!

Winners and Losers

I agree with the fact that our system depends on losers. Without the losers we would indeed fail. However what if it was possible for there to not be as many losers in this same system? For there to be fewer losers the “winners” would have to sacrifice some of what they have. The simple answer to this question is no one, no day everyone takes what that have and they don’t give. For someone to become the winner they have to be the greedy one, they take everything they can and give back little to none. It’s like Lawrence says “employees are the losers.” Employers will take every opportunity to pay their employees as little as possible, but just enough to stick around. Every employer knows that if they don’t pay enough they won’t get any help, but if they pay to much they will have too much flocking to them. This is exactly why they’re so many Americans that are paid in the $10 an hour range. If we were to try and fix the problem of there being so many losers we would most likely fail, unless it started from the top. If all of the winners gave the losers a break and let them win then it could give them a shot. It could only take the winners a small amount of their own profits to allow for a number of the losers to become their own winner. All it really takes to be the winner is to in some way have power over others. When Lawrence says “what would happen if all the people making $10 an hour or less quit working for a month”? The reason there would be such chaos is because almost everyone who does something works for that amount of money. Why should you get paid so little to do hard physical labor? It’s because the winners take for granted everything they have, and they know if their employees stop working, they have many more people who would love to work for them.

Flat Tax or Fair Tax

I believe that progressive tax is the way it should stay. With a progressive tax everyone pays in the same percent of the money they make. “If one person earned $50,000 a year and another earned $300,000 a year, both would pay 17 percent of their income to the federal government.” I one is making more money they should have to pay more taxes on that money. If someone making more money they shouldn’t get to pay less tax due to making more money. If we had a flat tax the people who get paid less could end up paying more taxes on less money. In a flat tax you would always pay the same amount so this means no deductions if you would qualify for one. The idea of changing the way we do taxes is so it could possibly be fairer for everyone. Honestly I don’t think a flat tax could be very fair. If you are making millions why should you have to pay the same amount of tax as someone making fewer than fifty thousand a year? If anything a flat tax is more unfair, especially to the many of people who don’t make very much money. If the government was to institute a flat tax they would have to find a way to make it fair for everyone. One way this would be possible is to split everyone in to different classes. Each class would have to be split into a group close to the next one. It could be split into groups by the tens of thousands. This would allow it to be me as fair as possible for everyone. Even with this some people would always get away with a little bit of an unfair amount of money compared to someone else in that bracket or class.

Catfish

A Catfish is someone who uses fake profiles or profile pictures to lead others to believe they are someone they are not. I believe it is necessary to have Catfish who live among the rest of the population. Although I don't believe everyone needs a Catfish some people need a little extra help to stay on their toes. I think not everyone has a one of theses people in there life but at some point in time you will run across one of them. Two things can happen from there: either you notice they are face right away, or you will talk and converse with them until something happens to you or you figure it out. At this point in time in my own life I feel as if I do not have a Catfish. There are a few people that have Catfish that is probably fairly common. The people I believe would have a Catfish are the ones that are active on many social networking sites. Those are the people who will always have a Catfish. Just due to there popularity and influence on other humans. The Catfish of the world will always be around its just a matter of when or where they will show up in your own life.

Basketball

Not everyone can be good at everything, especially basketball. Basketball takes skills, theses skills don't depend on your race, religion, or where you grew up. I believe if you work hard enough and set your mind to it you can be good at anything. In the NBA you will find some of the best basketball players in the US and even the world. In the early 1900s the NBA was dominated by the Jews, but now it is mainly dominated by African Americans. The difference between now and then is only a couple differences, speed and height. The Jews were thought to be good because of there speed, and the African Americans are thought to be good due to there height. In the early 1900s it was thought to be an advantage to be short and fast, but now its an advantage to be tall. My personal opinion is if you are good at something it doesn't matter if you are tall or short, but looking if you look at it, it does matter. If you look at the players in the NBA most of the players are tall, but there are a few players that are on the shorter side. If you are one of the "short people" you just have to work that much harder to out play the ones who are taller. By having the short people amongst the tall it goes to prove that if you work hard enough you can achieve your goals.

Alien Commute

I think that it is a good thing they are willing to come over here and work the jobs most Americans wouldn't. They are willing to travel across the border and work for less then minimum wage. Most of them will spend three to four hours standing in line just so they can get a job for the day. Once in line they cannot leave or their spot will be taken. If they need to use the restroom the have to go where they stand. Women that stand in line are often touched and even raped. They go through all this for jobs such as picking lettuce and other foods. Many people may say they are against the Mexicans coming and working in the United States but they are the ones doing the jobs no one else will do. I think they should have safer trips through the tunnels that bring then to the US. With women getting raped there should be higher security and even better sanitation. Most of theses men and women are touching our food so the least we could do is make sure they have proper sanitation.  I also think they should be allowed to get visas that allow them to get another job once there current job is over.

Animal Farm

I believe that the bourgeoisie is the farmer in the beginning of the book. He was in control of all the animals and they had to do as he said. In the end of the book the bourgeoisie was the pigs. They acted like men and forced the animals to listen to everything they had told them to do. The proletariats were all of the animals who had to follow the orders of someone else. In the beginning it was all of the animals including the pigs, but in the end it was all of the animals besides the pigs. In the end of the book the pigs ended up winning the struggle for power. This all follows the conflict theory. There was conflict over who could have the power of the farm. Without the conflict no power would have been gained.
Someone needs to have a small amount of control over the rest of the people, that is one role that needs to be carried out. If someone has a little more power over the rest of the people they will be able to make a deciding vote if there is a tie. This also allows them to stop arguments and other disagreements that take place. The people that carried this out in the book were the pigs. If you risked your life for another you were rewarded. Animals that saved someone in a battle were rewarded a metal. I believe at the end of the book the animals were not at a healthy balance. The pigs abused there powers, controlled everything that happened, and started acting as humans do. Do to them all of the animals were miserable once again. Having the pigs control everything was just as bad as having the farmer control it all.