Thursday, April 11, 2013
Chapter 11
1. Who are your Senators and your Congressman?
The Senators of Tennessee are Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker. The Congressman are Phil Roe, John J. Duncan, Jr., Chuck Fleischmann, Scott DesJarlais, Jim Cooper, Diane Black, Marsha Blackburn, Stephan Fincher, and Steve Cohen.
2. Reserach the areas they champion and find one you support. What is it and why do you also support it?
I support Bob Corker on improving health care in America. Because all Americans deserve to have access to high-quality private health insurance that is both affordable and transferable between jobs. A lot of Americans cannot afford health, therefore many lack the health insurance they need to keep their family healthy and protected. Corker wants to improve health care by joining Senate colleagues in in authoring the Every American Insured Health Act, which is a bill to provide all individuals access to health insurance that is both affordable and portable, and deeply rooted in the private market.
3. Find an issue one of your Senators or Congressman champions that you disagree with. Why do you disagree?
I disagree with Ron Paul on how he voted no to the amber alert. He did not want to make it a federal alert. The amber alert helps missing children be found. Amber alerts is an alert system for missing children, make available additional protections for children and set stricter punishments for sex offenders. It would help a lot of children make it back home it everyone adopted it. I do not quite understand why he even voted against it.
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I completely with you on the amber alert, I cannot understand why anybody in there right mind is against an alert that would help protect kids and may help reunite kids back to thier legal guardian. We as the American public without a doubt out number our law inforcement, so we have a lot more eyes on the street and can help a lot faster sometimes. I also believe that all of the public need to have an affordable way of having some type of insurance. Insurance rates have gone ridiculously high, and it is very hard for a lot of people to afford anything let alone insurance.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on Bob Corkers stand on the Health Care Act. I think that Health Care could use some serious revisions as far as affordability and availability for Americans that can not afford it, which is the majority. It's sad, but true and I feel that the Government should cater to the Majority.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the amber alert system is important, it informs people about missing children or even violent storms that are moving through. Just recently I received a text, like last weekend or something, about child/children that had been abducted by the parents of the child. I also received an amber alert on my Kindle as well. Image my surprise when ever electronic device in my house was going off, if everyone is like me and everything even remotely electronic started going off then I am sure the child/children were found rather quickly. I think that the amber alert system is a necessity, personally.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with the fact that healthcare needs to be improved in America. However, keeping healthcare in a private market only would do anything BUT make the cost of insurance affordable. As a matter of fact, it would lead to private companies being able to make their rates as high as they wanted, and no one would have a choice but to either pay or do without. Many more people would be without access to insurance of any kind. Compare it to cable companies. Each area has only one provider, so consumers have no choice but to pay whatever that provider chooses to charge if they want cable. Sure, there are a couple of choices for satellite, but even those have all sorts of fees and charges. Consumer choices are so limited that they have to pay ridiculous amounts or else do without. Countries like Canada that have national healthcare not only have an overall happier and healthier population, they also have less crime and war.
ReplyDeleteI need to agree with your point regarding Amber Alert. It doesn't really make sense of why someone would vote no on this, unless perhaps it would require a large fiscal budget that would push the United States further into debt. Of course we could easily cut other programs and cull the support into Amber Alert. I also agree that there needs to be stricter punishment for sexual predators because they can cause irreparable damage to children or young adults. It would be great if every child could make it back home. Maybe we'll get that through to a law someday.
ReplyDeleteIn regards to the representative that you disaagreed with, I think that he meant a current Senator or Congressman. With that being said, I must also agree with you on Paul's seemingly senseless voting against making the AMBER Alert a federal alert. Indeed, it it probably one of the best known alerts in the country now, and everytime that it goes off and the description of the missing child or children is given, it keeps people in the area on the lookout for the children. it helps spread the information around faster, and with pushes from newscasters and radio hosts, the AMBER alert can go to the forefront of everyone's mind.
ReplyDeleteI also agree that the amber alert was a great thing to have. I think that Amber alerts have saved many children’s lives and without them something horrible could have happened to those rescued children. I also think that without Amber alerts that more children could possibly have been taken by the abductors of those found children. You never know what could have happened to those found children. Those children found by Amber alerts could have never been found or even worse been found dead. I think that Amber alerts are one of the greatest things that our country has.
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