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This article reminds me a lot of Clinton's speech from the Democratic National Convention. The article emphasizes the growing gap in the middle class, which is a big issue and debate between both parties. What stood out to me most was: “People are not like machines. They have to be motivated to work hard. If they feel they are being treated unfairly, it can be hard to motivate them.” This is one of the main points of Clinton's speech and I couldn't agree more. People need to be motivated in order to be successful, but I think the negativity coming from both parties and the terrible economy are making motivation difficult. Another point that I really liked was: “When one interest group holds too much power, it succeeds in getting policies that benefit itself, rather than policies that would benefit society as a whole.” I think that the Democratic party is way more focused on social justice and working on equality. But the Republican party is more focused on pointing fingers and being vague about what their actual plan is. If both parties would work together and cooperate-like Clinton said-I think that the government and economy would be a lot easier to manage and be back on it's way to recovery.
In essence, compromise should not been seen as a total sign of weakness - constant confrontational politics is not, from the foregoing in the best interest of the nation.
I believe that is is wrong there is such a gap in the wealth of people in the U.S. I also believe that if someone works for something hard enough, they deserve it. These thoughts also make me consider,what job actually constitutes being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars/ millions of dollars? What makes a certain job so "special" that people can be paid astronomical amounts of money? Sometimes companies should take a look at the salaries of their workers and see how they can spread the wealth, not the government. For example a company should consider it's wages upon job duties,cost of living and what is fair. So maybe it's not the governments job to insure financial equality, it might just be the employers job. As far as the economy goes, if the wealth among companies is spread to it's employees, the more money can be spent, thus helping the U.S. out of the economic down turn.
To look at two different views of what authors believe is inequality open my eyes a little more to seeing it. I know of inequality and how the gap between the rich and the poor seems to be getting wider and it is not a good thing for the poor. As one author says we don't do anything about it but make passive statements like it's not fair or it's not right, another author tells us where working Americans money is going. Why do we work to give them a better life, why do they take our jobs? The american dream is not what it use to be, now you work for what you want and you are not guaranteed to live happily ever after. For the rich this is not a problem but for anyone under them that is slowly falling it is one.
This article reminds me a lot of Clinton's speech from the Democratic National Convention. The article emphasizes the growing gap in the middle class, which is a big issue and debate between both parties.
ReplyDeleteWhat stood out to me most was: “People are not like machines. They have to be motivated to work hard. If they feel they are being treated unfairly, it can be hard to motivate them.”
This is one of the main points of Clinton's speech and I couldn't agree more. People need to be motivated in order to be successful, but I think the negativity coming from both parties and the terrible economy are making motivation difficult.
Another point that I really liked was: “When one interest group holds too much power, it succeeds in getting policies that benefit itself, rather than policies that would benefit society as a whole.”
I think that the Democratic party is way more focused on social justice and working on equality. But the Republican party is more focused on pointing fingers and being vague about what their actual plan is. If both parties would work together and cooperate-like Clinton said-I think that the government and economy would be a lot easier to manage and be back on it's way to recovery.
In essence, compromise should not been seen as a total sign of weakness - constant confrontational politics is not, from the foregoing in the best interest of the nation.
ReplyDeleteI believe that is is wrong there is such a gap in the wealth of people in the U.S. I also believe that if someone works for something hard enough, they deserve it. These thoughts also make me consider,what job actually constitutes being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars/ millions of dollars? What makes a certain job so "special" that people can be paid astronomical amounts of money? Sometimes companies should take a look at the salaries of their workers and see how they can spread the wealth, not the government. For example a company should consider it's wages upon job duties,cost of living and what is fair. So maybe it's not the governments job to insure financial equality, it might just be the employers job. As far as the economy goes, if the wealth among companies is spread to it's employees, the more money can be spent, thus helping the U.S. out of the economic down turn.
ReplyDeleteTo look at two different views of what authors believe is inequality open my eyes a little more to seeing it. I know of inequality and how the gap between the rich and the poor seems to be getting wider and it is not a good thing for the poor. As one author says we don't do anything about it but make passive statements like it's not fair or it's not right, another author tells us where working Americans money is going. Why do we work to give them a better life, why do they take our jobs? The american dream is not what it use to be, now you work for what you want and you are not guaranteed to live happily ever after. For the rich this is not a problem but for anyone under them that is slowly falling it is one.
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