Lets say that the government decides to legalize pot. now people no longer have the need to be in possession of ridiculous amounts of the once illegal substance, they can just grow a small amount of their own, because it is no longer necessary to hide pot farms. You might be wondering why im such an advocate of legalizing pot, but its because the only reason it is now illegal is because tobacco companies didnt want people smoking something other than tobacco. And to me, tobacco is much more disgusting than pot.
its true, drugs ruin your body and your mind, but its nothing thats threat to the government or the general public. if someone thinks its worth it to do drugs (provided that it doesnt harm other people) they should be legally allowed to do that to themself.
I think that the guy is a jackhole. I think right now he's trying to set things up to make it easier for large businesses and fat cats to make more money, taking advantage of the middle class. You may know more than me at this point, but I challenge you to explain one good thing he has done and how it is good for the state.
A lot of modern nations, china is a good example, have not had a progressive movement. Their government is not oriented on the well being of middle and lower classes as the united states. That being said, our government is starting to revert and begin to favor the upper class citizens.
The renaissance was when people came out of the dark ages, and finally started to ask what was over the hedge, in more than just a geographical way. The age of exploration started to happen when people decided that it wasn’t really possible for you to fall off the edge of the earth. If this had never happened, it might have been quite a bit longer before people discovered that there was an entire continent on the other half of the world. And this would mean that Americans might not have been angered by unfair tax policies, and we might still be a colony of a European nation today, provided that things went better than they actually did in history.
When the USS Maine blew up, yellow journalists used propaganda to turn Americans on the Spanish. In reality, the explosion was an accident, and if the journalists had not influenced readers’ opinions just to sell papers, then the Spanish-American War never would happened. We really had no other reason to go to war. Any challengers? http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/
Read part of this article and elaborate how roosevelt influenced the progressive movement
The Jungle was a 1906 novel written by the muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair, to expose the crimes of the meat packing industry to the general public, who were also considered lower class. The novel discussed that meat packing industries did absolutely disgusting things to the meat to maximize profits, while paying off inspectors to “not notice”. They were pretty much taking advantage of the lower class by having bad working conditions, and then selling them crappy meat. Sinclair’s work influenced President Roosevelt to start the FDA, and was a major milestone in the progressive movement.
I agree with your statement that we need to focus on ourselves more, and not things we are not involved in. However, I think it is important to maintain a certain level of involvement in world affairs, and take action when things get out of hand and may affect us in the future.
All Quiet on the Western Front was that movie about WWI. The movie communicates to the audience on an emotional level the hardships of the soldiers on all sides. The soldiers were basically thrown into a war, fighting people they had no beef with. Most of them didn’t even know what the fighting was all about, the Germans especially. It was this, along with the screwing over of the Germans at Versailles, that fueled their hunger for revenge, allowing Adolf to rise.
The pinkertons are only used for doing what public police fail to do: keep order in the workplace. Workers should not be allowed to strike, and the pinkertons are simply a tool we use to suppress activities that are not allowed by employers.
Us business owners need a set of pinkertons to keep good order in our workplaces, and to keep workers from committing mischievous acts such as striking, sit down striking, or walk offs. I feel these things are not properly taken care of by public police, and so I should be able to use my pinkertons to restore order in the workplace. Workers have no right to refuse working.
Unions could still be needed for factory and manufacturing jobs, where people work with their hands and really depend on the right working conditions and benefits. These people could sustain injuries from faulty machinery, for example, and the employer might not provide compensation or fix the machine if there were no unions supporting strikes and better conditions. But I also think that unions should divide their members into groups based on things like productivity, skill, merit, and seniority, and advocate the right conditions for those groups.
In general, I don't think unions are still completely necessary. There are a lot of companies that are viewed as ridiculously wealthy, and if these companies didn't give their workers good benefits and rights and stuff, people would just think the companies are stingy. Nobody wants to do business with a cheap-at-the-money company. Kohler, for example provides excellent conditions for all workers, and it's mostly because of Mr. Kohler, not unions.
However, if you think your employer forces you to work more hours than you are able, you can always quit and work for a different employer. Also, the 40 hour limit would also limit your ability to financially take care of your family, and if you encountered a sudden expense, you would be able to cover it by working more hours.
There should be no regulation on how many hours a worker works every week. You see, I am the business owner, and therefore, I get to make crucial decisions. I don't think my workers work too much now anyway. And even if they did, they always have the option to quit and go to a different employer. The option to work an unlimited number of hours a week also gives workers an opportunity to earn more for themselves and their families every week. Yes, I am saying that making employees work over 40 hours a week will save poor families.
The minimum wage idea doesn't even make any sense. I'm the business owner, and I think I should decide how much to pay the workers based on how much work they do. And I believe that I give good wages to my workers even without a minimum wage requirement. Even so, if my wages should become too small for the workers to deal with, I say "that sucks" because they can always quit working and go work for a higher paying employer. Like I said, I make the decisions for my own business. It is an American truth.