Pros and Cons of Democrats

Pros
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Democrats are more active than Republicans from my view. They want the government to take more control over the economy and put limitations on those powerful corporations. Which is a good thing or else how would we get out of the 2009 financial crisis without the help of the government? However some companies grew way too powerful for the government to handle with like the oil companies. Though they won't be here very long for a relatively short amount of time. Another good characteristic is that they want to change America whether it's economically or environmentally. One obvious change was the health care plan that was passed not too long ago, though there are some issues with it like how we don't have a choice but to buy health insurance. Finally, they are more focused on helping the people rather than the corporations.

Cons
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When it comes to achieving your goals, sometimes you have to contradict your beliefs and interests. That's what Obama did when a lobbyist from the health insurance corporation when he made a deal with him by not raising the prices of medicine, they will support this bill. Right there, they were helping the corporations instead of the people of the USA. They also want to raise taxes on the people and the companies, which is actually a good thing for the economy. However they will lose their good reputation, so that's one more thing the US citizens don't like about the democrats.

Community Service Essay

The Race to Help the Hungry

Part I

I have decided to talk about hunger, instead of the need to provide animals with enrichment objects, since it makes up more than half of my community service hours. Right now, there are probably one billion people in hunger, particularly in developing countries in Africa, Middle East, India, and more. The main problem is not that we do not have the ability to produce enough food for all the people in the world, it’s the word called distribution. It takes time, money, and effort to send food like rice, corn, and bread to the people in need. That's why my sister, including her friends, and I decided to help distributing these food items like rice, cans of mixed fruits, and mandarin tangerines in the San Francisco Food Bank. Not also we had fun, but we made a difference by helping the homeless people and low-income families in San Francisco. Without them, we would lose jobs and the support we need to keep operating the soup kitchens and other food banks. As for the public’s opinion, some countries are doing something about food security like Costa Rica. Yes, I know it’s a communist country, but you got to give them props for having a high level of food security by taking care of the soil and reducing the usage of conventional pesticides. In addition, China is building barriers out of inexpensive material to block the fertile soil from being consumed by the wide murky rivers. However in some poor developing countries, they just want to survive, so they have to increase the speed of soil erosion by cutting down trees and not giving proper care to the soil. Remember no soil equals zero number of crops, which means no food for your family and perhaps your neighborhood and friends. Oh and don't forget, if you don't take care of the soil, another dust bowl just like the one in the Great Depression will strike back and cause severe amounts of damage. In America, about 1/6 of the people in America are facing insecure levels of food security, because of certain events or low income. That's one of the reasons why in one poll from the Pew Research Center that about half of the Americans who took the survey think that helping the poor should be Obama's top priority. People are helping them by giving them donations from cash to teddy bears to nonprofit organizations like Goodwill. Oh and relating to the strawberry farmers in Florida, people got really upset when they decided to dispose some or all of their sweet delicious strawberries. The residents in Florida thinks they should have been donated to the soup kitchens or let the strawberries be picked for free. Also their opinion on this action was probably because their greedy jerks that wanted to jack up the prices of their own fruits.

Part II

Soup kitchens, along with the help of refilling their supplies from the food banks, feed millions of people in America every year. To make food even more affordable, there are no taxes placed on groceries, well at least around this place. Otherwise, I don't think the government is doing too much about helping the poor other than making generous donations to their own people and to other nations like Haiti. Because they can't stop Monsanto from growing genetically modified soybeans or stop the slaughter houses from becoming a hazardous place for employees to work in. They’re just too powerful for the government to negotiate with them from the looks of it and they also have other gigantic issues to worry about like that 12+ trillion dollar deficit. The planet Earth can only provide so much resource for ourselves and the plants and animals around us and as the global human population approaches seven billion people; that’s why one government official said we pretty much have no choice but to continue the use of GMF (Genetically Modified Food) to sharply increase the yield of crops. Obviously, the public favors organic food as it's safer to eat in general and the parents don't want their kids to be exposed to them for safety and health reasons. Moving on, water bottles are a big part of saving Haiti from being dragged down by massive dehydration. However, the plastic in the water bottles does increase the rate of CO2 emissions and plus they are way overpriced in America.

You have noticed a lot of what I said has to do with science, data, and polls and such, but this matter of hunger around the world also has to do with economic principles. One of the illustrations of these principles would be supply and demand. Bees play a vital role in helping the flowers to pollinate and grow into fruits, while the bees gather the pollen to make honey. However with so many bees dying recently for unknown reasons at the moment, the fruit production is expected to decline. Therefore, the prices of fruits are bound to rise, which can cause people with tight finances to think twice before buying them. Of course, if the quantity of supply of this food source was to skyrocket, thanks to genetic engineering, then the price will go down because there's now less demand for this food item. That's one of the reasons why GMF cost less than their organic counterparts, but you do have to consider that organic food sticks to their true taste and nutritional value. In addition, there are several departments in the US government and one of them is the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) lead by Tom Vilsack (30th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture) who has worked to conserve the forests and private working lands and help the hungry, according to their site. Plus, they also help the helpless farmers and ranchers and provided food for 1/5 of the Americans during the huge economic recession in 2009. Nonprofit organizations like food banks, soup kitchens, and kitchens also help during that recession as their goal is to help others and not themselves.

Part III

As they say, there’s always room for improvement and that definitely holds true here. There are tons of ways you can do reduce the problem of hunger. One way would be helping out the non-profit organizations along, also known as NPOs, along with your friends and family just like I did not too long ago. Some of the corn should go to making food, instead of feeding it to the cows, so that way there’s more food in our hands and the cows are healthier by feeding on natural grass. Making donations to the poor and unfortunates is also another nice way to make this problem less of a hassle. Sure, one dollar doesn’t look like a whole lot, but sometimes some NPOs can that one dollar into six dollars of food and also if you commit into spreading the word. Then the amount of donations you and the people who agree with you can really pile up. Oh and we should knock some sense into Monsanto and other big food companies that hunger/poverty should come first and not money. This reminds me, we should also be careful of what we eat, because eating more fast food promotes them to grow more crops, kill more cows and so on. So when you buy what food you want, you’re making a vote on which food should be produced and which shouldn’t.

Bibliography

Food Security
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_security

Hunger in the US
http://www.frac.org/html/hunger_in_the_us/hunger_index.html#top

Global Warming as the Last Priority on Obama's To-Do-List According to This Poll
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/25/pew-poll-global-warming-dead-last-down-from-last-year/

USDA
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usdahome

Uhhhhh sorry, we can no longer serve fries with that.

Yep, soon our troops in Afghanistan can no longer have their hands on those tasty fast food meals from Burger King, Pizza Hut, and T.G.I. Friday's. The general said that the fast food restaurants are consuming our water and power supply and we also have to remind them that we're in a war zone, not an amusement park. Of course, that's kind of obvious as you can tell and some soldiers think this is a bad move, because they enjoy the food they're offering. However, the mission always comes first before fast food and entertainment like movies. Plus, the soldiers can order "Chef's Short Order", if fast food is their only answer to their stomachs. I also read one comment on how the fast food is overpriced and the burger tastes like camel meat. Yuck, that sounds disgusting!

Just like locust swarms, grasshopper swarms are huge and they destroy nearly any vegetation in their path.

Except this time, the federal officers say they might produce even more than any other year since 1985. They even eat the fences that were covered with paint. Okay then, why don't you just kill them all, so this will never happen again? Well first, that's basically impossible to do and second they're an important food source to birds and other animals as well. However, they want to limit the number of these guys like pesticides, so it's not going to be nearly as destructive as it could have potentially be. However these hungry critters can travel in long distances and some areas can have as many as 1000 baby grasshoppers. Yikes!!!

Nick Gillispie is here to tackle on Obama's statement that this health care plan will reduce the national deficit by 143 billion dollars over the next

He point out three good errors with this plan to reduce the national deficit, I'll admit that. However, if we do nothing, we are bound to increase more of our spending to health care.

Global warming used to be a considerable issue a few years ago, but now people are getting a little bit more skeptical about this matter.

Makes sense, since the american people are now more concern about our economy and the amount of snow that dropped on the mid-eastern states which somewhat convinced the people into thinking that global warming just drifted away from this planet. Now according to this graph, the poll stated that only 30%(which is less than a third) of the Americans believe that global warming is generally exaggerated. This time in 2010, it rose 18% jumping from 30% to 48%. In addition, more people are predicting that all the global warming effects that's going to take place is not going to happen in their lifetime or perhaps never also rose as well. You can see all the other graphs yourself, but all these graphs are telling us that the Americans are saying that we just don't have time to deal with this major potential global problem when our economy is in trouble and there's other world problems as well like terrorism or the health care bill that has just passed last week.

Because the strawberries are now 1/4 the price they were back then in Florida. Most farmers decided to just dispose them, so their prices will.

I smell a deja vu here, this definitely reminds of the time of the Great Depression when the farmers did the exact same method as these strawberry farmers are doing in Florida. Anyways, a lot of the residents there are angry about this action and says that these strawberries should be donated to soup kitchen and other local residents if they're not going to use them. I mean, man, how could you throw away these good strawberries? Some look so good, juicy, and delectable that you want to eat them right now!