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Progressive era reforms

Is it time to continue progressive era reforms in this and other countries or should we repeal many to create a better economic/business climate?

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We still need to have a progressive atitude so we don't lose the progress we have made.

Civil rights need to be protected and expanded to immigrants, both legal and illegal, because it is unfair to withold certain opportunities from someone just because they were born on the wrong side of a man-made line. We should allow free movement to this "free"country.

Also, th environmnt needs to be protected more than ever. Creation of jobs doesn't really matter if the earth is ruined and we don't have a place to work.

I think we should legalize marijuana because we allow smoking and alcohol, which both have certain dangers

Other countries need to have progressive movements too.

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I agree. We can't just start "paving" the swamps and natural envirnments. We need to keep protecting the Earth but still produce jobs.

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People need to protect the nature on earth from the people who want to destroy people.

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I agree with all parts, exepct the legallization of marijuana. It is point less and then people would not be able to be arrested for it. It would also be very hard to control for the government.

Mckenna(28) Disputed
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I do not agree that people should be able to do drugs legally, it poses a greater risk than alcohol to peoples safety.

But I agree with everything else

Drugs cause less of death than alcohol. Drugs give people more jobs in a weird way.

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I agree with you that we need to keep moving forward. If we dont keep moving forward we will not keep up with countries like china and brazil. I also agree with you that we need to protect the enviroment because we need the earth to stay alive. I think we should legalize marijuana too because the goverment could tax it heavily and make money off of it.

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i agree that we need to keep moving forward. If we dont not keep moving forward our economy will go down the drain. I think that we should make drugs leagal so we can pay off our debt. We would not be in debt if drugs we taxed. People need it so they will pay alot for it.

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I belive that we can start to repeal some progressive era reforms to start getting jobs for more people but at the same time i think that we need to protect certain things like civil rights and the environment. We can gain many more jobs by taking away some small reforms and we need to gain jobs in the world. It doesnt help that there is an overwhelming population in the world to fill with jobs.

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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.

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The progessive era reforms should reforms some things but other you should repeal them. The things that we should put reforms on are the environment and civil right. The things that we should repeal are the things that are stopping jobs that could be created.

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I think we should keep moving forward. There is always room for improvements. We can't go back and we can't stop here.

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I agree with you technologically and in the need for knowledge. Philosophically we need to move back to a time where people trust other people and nobody needs to be bitter or greedy.

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Devin that is true we can have technology but i think that people don't need to be on the internet 24/7

I guess that America needs to move forward with new technology.

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Prostitution should be allowed, but protected by laws similar to factory laws, for safety of the workers.

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Let women do for what ever they want to do their bodies. I so agree.

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i agree prostitution should be allowed but yes laws should be put in place so things don't get out of control

Devin(42) Disputed
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Prostitution should be a freedom. It happens anyway and it would be safer if they put laws in place to protect it rather than stop it. There is less cost in adding safety laws than chasing down people.

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This was America last time I checked not dicating country.

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I think the USA have still to improve something. You must make some reforms to solve the problem of the unemployed. I disagree with the legalization of the guns so I hope that will change something about it.

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I think we should still be progressing, but we should still keep a few things the same. We should still protect the enviroment and still keep costumer protection, even if it means less jobs are being created and less bussinesses are growing.

Civil rights should be expanded so all citizens and immigrants of the US are protected since this country is viewed as a free country by others. There are more rights in our country than in others and if we have less civil rights for eveyone here, problems would arise.

Also, for moral crimes like casual drug use and prostitution, it is those people's choice to do those things and even though the "crimes" are illegal, people still will continue to do them. So what is the point of keeping those "crimes" illegal?

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I feel that we also, as a working mother, need to moe forward. We can't just stay in the past. I can just see the bright and hopefull future for us. Better equipment, working wages, homes, communication, transportation, you name it. The end of this broken road will one day be rebuild and restored. But there will still be conflict within our exsistance. We have to look for better alternitives and see the otherside of the world. If not, its ok. We all have to die at some point. I also will say that we have made it far enough to make a living and go against the odds of the business owners. We try, and yet fail each and everyday. Most days though, we fight for our lives. If we didn't fight for ourselves in this life, then why are we still here? People, we have to look into our faith, hopes, dreams, and lives. Take away the bad and conclude the good we all have done. Let's help each other so we can be a better world.

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Casual drug use should be allowed, but discouraged, for people as it can hurt you to use some drugs.

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We still need consumer protection so people aren't put into the poor house by greedy business owners.

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You have a good point. There is like a weight scale of rich and poor people and the rich weigh more than the poor.

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No because some of those things should be kept safe. We should also move forward not backward. We should also keep the environment safe, and should not have the swamps and marshes paved over. I also think the president should make public jobs not government jobs. I also think that we should make the giant electrical fence on the Mexico border, so they have to go through the border portal.

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That depends on a person's point of view there, Benti. I agree that some things need to be safe, but it should be only the environment.

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We need to keep the laws protecting the envirnment so we don't destroy our Earth

We need to keep consumer protections because it's not right if business owner abuse the consumers.

We should legalize marijawana and prostitution because it produces business and profits and its the peopels decision if they want to do that to their body. Smoking cigaretts is already legal and it also damages your body.

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i agree with you in protecting the earth. we live on it and it needs all the protection and care that she needs

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Progressives are taking are rights away. I think that they are taking jobs away by trying to outlaw the sale of alcohol and other products. I think that we need to make more jobs because the unemployment rate is a lot lower than it should be.

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We should keep going with the progressive era to make more jobs for the unemployed people. On the other hand we shouldn't keep going because it will wreck the environment and kill out animal species.

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The progressive movement creates more jobs for people. We need to keep moving forward so we don't lose the progress we have made. On the other hand we also need to help the enviroment because we need it in order to survive.

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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

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In somethings we need to move forward and somethings need to say what they are right now. We should keep the national park. We need to find other was to make more jobs. I still think that we need unions so, we can't get fired for no reason.

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We still need the progressive era. The progressive era gives us jobs and allows people to get the items that are need to survive

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dayton121394(38) Disputed
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Name two things that Amreica needs to have the progressive era. Only name two things.

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i think we need to keep the progressive movement going because we have a lot of progress made and we cant afford to get pushed back.

i also think the environment needs to be protected because if we keep going how were going we wont have an environment in a while.

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Unions are for people's protection and business protection. Labor unions allow for civilized negotiations.

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WIthout Unions, workers would be so screwed and it would be like the 1900's.

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I think we should still be moving forward, we can always come back and improve. By stopping now it'll just get us behind. The civil rights should be further expanded so that citizens and everybody of the United States are safe.

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Unions are still needed so that workers have the rights that will keep them safe and treated fairly.

The enviorment is important because of the food chain. Every animal is important to the food chain and if some animals are gone then other animals would have anything to eat.

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I believe that there are certain parts that need to be repealed but other parts do not. Unions are still needed today because they help keep people from losing their jobs, no matter if they are in the unions or not. Civil rights need to be progressed because as time goes on, more groups of people move to the U.S but are not given the same rights as everything else, which should be changed. As a country we need to protect our enviornment because people need animal's meat to survive but without a stable enviornemt the animals will die causing a horrible ripple effect on the rest of the nation. We still need consumer protection because without that, people will not worry about the quality of the products that go out, and wether they will be safe for people to use or not. We should not legalize prostutution or drugs, they are harmful to people, and prostitution is not moral.

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I believe that we need to be progressive. for one marijuana is a plant with herbal characteristics and like many herbs they all have different ways to get rid of illness, stress relief and tons of other things. its the hemp thing all over again. i can understand it being a medical herb but not an illegal drug. and for 2 the environment should be taken care of! the earth is a living organism like all of us and she needs as much attention as all of us when we're sick and such (yes i called earth a her dont judge). every living creature has a role they play in this world and if that creature is extinct the eco system will slowly go down hill. we need to pay attention the unbalanced global problems and make them balanced!

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Without a progessive attitude and way of thinking, we would lose what we have made progress on already. It would be like starting a research project online and you find all these great websites and you ll of a sudden no longer feel like doing it. Now that you stopped your progressive outlook on the project and took a long break, you have lost most of what you already learned and must go back a find those websites and resources over agian. If we start losing track of what we have been doing and focus on other things like business or economy (which are equally important) we may lose sight of our morals and beliefs. As a conservative beliefs and tradition are very important to me. But, at the same time I do agree that we must not stick in the past and move forward but we cant leave our past entirely or again, we would lose sight of what we are looking for as a country

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I think that we need to keep progression going but go back and repeal at the same time to keep citizens form going insane because at this rate many things can fail and make the united states go down the drain and for having many countries control us.

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I think we should move forward with the progressive era. I think it's important to keep adding jobs for the unemployment. Even though it's hurting our environment, we are doing a good job trying to help it. We have to keep moving forward to be successful.

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i think that we need more jobs for more people in the US. and i think people should be able todo what they want.

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I think that we should remain Conservative. The way that people should think about being progressive, is that there is always people not abiding by the laws. Prostitution should have to go, because it is morally not right to make women do those kinds of things. Marijuana should be totally banned from this country, the way that people use it is just so wrong. The companies and factories were the worst thing because they were just so wrong to treat all of their workers like that.

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I believe we should still continue to progress, but we shouldn't reach a point where we think we have advanced ahead of other countries. Right now we need to think of helping those who don't have jobs and settling our debt. We need to fix the situatuion we are in now before we try to do anything else, otherwise we'll think we have made progress, but in reality we haven't.

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There is good good progession and there is bad. I think that progression should be towards what is suppose to be freedom not putting it more towards socialsim and communism. Many countries have had this and are socialist or communist, and they are not in very good standing right now. Don't try to change things that don't need to be changed. It should be towards our rights and not adding bills that make us all a country that is like a baby that is super dependent on its mother government.

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We need to keep progressing and moving forward so that we can continue having jobs and being employed, we need to be able to provide for families and ourselves, so this will keep benefiting us.

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So I am for the progressive era continuing, I want us to keep progressing so that we have jobs in the near future.

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The Progressive Era in the United States was a period of social activism and political reform that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s.[1] One main goal of the Progressive movement was purification of government

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America is fine as it is. There is now way that America needs to change about it's business/ economics or other things that need to be changed. Mexico needs to change because the country itself is pretty much abused of drugs or stolen army. Mexico has modern Rabor Barons and the workers are getting screwed by my point of view.

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majaholcomb(26) Disputed
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America doesnt need to change? You think that we need to stay in the current state we are in, with banks and business failing and national debt rising exponentially? Do not blame Mexico, they have their problems but we also have our own.

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mpellow(26) Disputed
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you think USA is ok??? our economie is screwed up beyond beleif. and what does mexico have anything to do with this??? they have their own issues and we have ours.

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I am leaning more toward the conservative side, although it is hard to go directly one way with such a controversial topic, conservative vs. liberal. The conservatives are for: Traditional family values and the sanctity of marriage, small non-invasive government, and a strong national defense focused on protection and the fight against terrorism. I agree with all of these, but the right of protection of every living human, which I believe we shouldn't protect illegal immigrants.

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I think we need to stop with some of the progressive era laws and start moving forward with new laws. For us to stay as a world power we need to move forward and get out of the progressive era.

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chadbenti(18) Disputed
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I agree, but we need some of these laws to keep the peace. If we just total took out the laws there would be no peace. Robbers barons would come up again and people would get ripped off and there would be a lot of crimes and more stuff that would be bad.

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The Progressive era reforms gets peopole jobs. We need to keep this up so our progress does not go down. So in order to survive we also need to help out our environment.

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