Most people, when put under prohibition, will become desperate for the drugs once they are deprived of it and then they will use these drugs illegally. This in turn will increase the crime rate. This didn't work in the 1920s and it isn't working very well today, but that doesnt mean that there are good things about prohibition either. Alcohol and marijuana lead to bad choices made by the user and eventually death. So if using alcohol and marijuana alot is more important than life, then go ahead and use them.

I don't understand why people think it is okay today? How can you justify killing someone because of the color of their skin.

We were thinking, "What is the loss in this war?" but what we didn't realize is that we lost a possible ally in Spain with this war. No need to fight

Yes, Imperialism is us wanting to dominate them but the goods they provide are very valuable to us so why would we create conflict with them.

WW1 was a tough war to win and the casualties were very high. It's foolish of everyone in the world to continue to go to war. What is the gain? Death?

Yeah, eventually a world power like china will get fed up with us and attack. How do we defend ourselves with half the army posted around the world.

Migration was a huge part of the USA in our history and is partly the reason why we eventually got into the western half of the US

Imagine, you need to survive the fighting in the air and then land the plane with only 15 hours of training. The odds are definately not in your favor.

Trench warfare is one of the most brutal fighting tactics out there. Not just the fighting either, the living as well.

I am sooo glad we don't live in such bad times today. The Iraqi war is bad but think about a world war... Unbelievable.

The warfare was bad, yes but don't forget about the living conditions either. Trench foot and constant flooding of the trenches were awful

I would say the USS Maine was a great spark to a war that shouldn't have happened.

Most supplies would have to be found along the way through trading, hunting, etc. People would have to learn quick or die.

Trade is not the same as imperialism. Imperialism doesn't affect trade, it affects the governing power over a country. We trade with china but we aren't imperialistic toward china.

Yes, we could've let the Europeans figure out their problems on their own. We were on the outside looking in and decided to go in.

I agree. We didn't have any evidence of the Spanish blowing the ship up. The war was caused by our imperialistic minded government.

Maybe not a great nation but a greedy nation. What is the point of taking the carribean islands when we have one of the greatest countries in terms of square milage in the world?

Yes to a degree. We should still be feared as allies with smaller countries. Us becoming a world power through imperialism makes our allies less likely to get in a war because the opposing country will think twice about fighting us, thus creating peace.

Right, if other countries wanted help, they would ask for it. I know I don't like it if someone tries to help me when I don't need it.

I agree, sure we won the war but it was unnescessary for it to happen. We can show the world what we are made of when we are attacked later.

I believe that the US staged the Spanish American war with the USS Maine to create conflict for them to become a world power. It was unneccesary for the war to begin and for us to flex our muscles but we can't change the past.

I agree. Jobs keep our economy going strong and through the last 100 years we have worked very hard to get it to the level that it is on

I agree. The environment is our source of survival and we cant just put it off thinking it isnt needed. We do need more jobs because unemployment is much higher than it should be.

But if we don't make it an inconvenience to you, then you won't listen! We set up on your property to send a message, if we try to tell you then you won't listen anyway. Besides the Pinkertons are willing to use any means necessary to get us out of your way, and that is why other people will notice you trying to force us out and join our cause to help us win our argument.

The 40 hour work week might also be protecting the children. Think about it for a second, by not having us around as much, we wont be causing trouble and getting hurt all the time. Right? And Kenzie is right, by hiring another employee to serve the other hours, you arent losing anything.

This bill is all about protection and unfairness directed to the children in the workplace. We are willing to work but the governor has noticed that we, the children, are extremely underpaid for the work we do and we might get ourselves killed with one mistake at the machines. This is helping the childrens future.

It sounds like you really want us to be working. Well then i have a proposal: Clean up the environment and pay us fairly! Isnt this what it is all about, unfairness to the children so the governor decided to do something? I think that he is just protecting us from the dangers that are present everywhere in the workplace.

That isnt fair to us children. We cant withstand the same pressure and difficulties the adults around us can. Sure we chose to work here, but we have to. We need to live too you know. Also, by working us like this, you are just wrecking our future, a possibly productive future at that.

if you want us back in the factories working so badly, then you should listen to what we have to say. we have wants and needs too, but lately most of you big owners are overlooking that fact.

I agree. Us workers cannot just stand by and wait for things to get worse because business owners are too caught up in all the money they have. A strike is the only way business owners will listen to what we have to say.

If you bring in the pinkertons, more and more people will realize what you are doing and will join our cause. Pinkertons make us workers feel more rebellious towards you businessmen. I can garuntee that if you continue to use the pinkertons, more and more people will feel like rebelling.

I think that they would be good to have around but people are gaining rights as it is and for the most part i think that people won't be paid like that anymore because if you think about it, back then the companies that were unfairly treating their workers because the laws around them werent developed yet. now there are laws to stop this from happening.

I am a child and more workers means I am out of a job. Even though my hours would be less, my family wont be recieving the money that I make, hurting our chances for survival.

Okay we wouldnt have as many hours working, but we would go broke then. if the immigrants come over in force, my family starves.

I agree, they had no second thoughts about letting an employee die or become seriously ill. They could care less about letting poor people survive. All they want is to become more powerful and more wealthy.

I am a child and that sounds great, if you have a lot of money to begin with. Me, I don't have anything. You make the odds impossible for me to go somewhere with my life, if I can even survive on extremely low pay to begin with. If you are making so much money, why can't you help out those of us that are less fortunate?

But once again, you base your pay on those people, the people that don't work. Most big business owners overlook the fact that there are plenty of people underpaid that deserve more money. The minimum wage makes sure that those people that deserve more money are able to survive outside.

As a child, I am in work to make money for my family and the only way that my family will survive is by earning enough money. If the minimum wage goes down, my family will probably starve. On top of that, the work that we are doing deserves a pay that is more than the minimum wage as it is.

I agree with clay that children need to develop in a good environment so that they will fulfill their potential as a person. You big buisiness owners must not remember what it is like to be a child, your mind hasn't developed and your body physically has a lot of trouble handling this grueling work. Plus you don't care about our low level of income or the conditions in which we earn it.

The 40 hour week creates more time for a child to be a child. Too much work would create children that are very one dimensional, they will only know how to work. This doesn't create a dynamic environment in the US, it makes things very unenjoyable. Most people are working for their families but that doesn't mean that they should be completely disconnected from their family either.