My response to "Over 573,000 new US employees in four months"

It is hard to say after reading this if it is encouraging or not. I mean it was really good to read at the begining that so many people are getting new jobs recently, but on the other end, if the unemplyment rate is actually raising, there can be confusion in that. I guess there are so many people who lost their jobs a long time aho have been living by the government for too long now and are realizing now that they need to get off their butts and get a job and once out, they realize they can't find one and live yet again by the government in a different form. But at the same time, we need to just be happy with the small progress we have made this far. We have been having economic problems and unemployment problems for years now so the change is not going to happen overnight. It is going to take time and as unfortunate as it is, we just have to hang on for the ride and make the best of the hard timehttp://derekrider.blogspot.com/2010/05/over-573000-new-us-employees-in-four.html#commentss.

Healthcare bill- good or not?

There has been so much hype lately about the "Obamacare" bill that has been in circulation. I had heard some of the main points, but I didn't quit get why everyone was freaking out about it, so I did a little research. There are definitely some bad points to be made about the bill, but there are suprisingly some good points as well. One of the good is that he is going to put a ban on insurance companies from being able to deny someone because of a pre-existing medical condition. I don't believe anyone should be denied insurance just because they had a condition they couldn't do anything about. He also is going to be closing a gap called the "donut hole" which is described by Joseph Schuman as "The Medicare perscription drug benifit currently stops reimbersing patients after $2,380 is spent and doesn't resume until out of pocket spending tops $4,550." The plan will also ban drug companies from keeping gneric drugs off the market.

There is still a bad side to this bill remember. America has been made up of diferent classes since it began. This bill would eliminate all classes, as far as medical care goes at least. The people that work hard to make their money deserve to have the kind of high grade medical care that they can afford. They shouldn't be forced to have the same type of coverage that someone making a fraction of the income they make. Not only would they have to have the same coverage, they would also have to pay more. This bill will force people making over $200,00 a year to pay medicare taxes on unearned income, interest, dividends, and anuities. So they pay more but still have the same healthcare?! What kind of sense does that make? This plan would slowly turn the country into a socialist country where we are basically forced to all have this united healthcare. We are Americans and we should have the right to choose which healthcare we want. Not all be forced to have the same one.

So while there are good points about it, I still am against the Obama plan after digging deeper into it. The points that are in it that I found to be good or helpful, could easily be made into their own bills, without having to add the united healthcare into it. They are things that should just morally be illegal to do anyways.