Death Penalty

The death penalty. Should people be put to death by another human being legally? This is a very controversial issue/topic. It seems that in most studies and surveys, the results are very close. This is a topic that I think will never be resolved because it involves people getting killed. My viewpoint on this is in the middle. I feel that people should get the death penalty if they have created such of a horrendous crime. The thing about the death penalty though is that if the wrong person gets convicted of a crime and then gets the death penalty and gets executed then what? The judge convicted the wrong person and the wrong person got killed by the state. That is wrong but people have to be 100 percent before convicting a person and giving them the death penalty.  As I was reading an article in the New York Times, I read that for every inmate put to death, 3 to 18 murders are prevented. When it comes to the death penalty, the issue is differerent for the Democrats and Republicans. But going more into it, the death penalty is different for every single, individual person in these two parties it does not matter what party they belong to, everyone will have a different opinion on the death penalty.
There are 32 states that allow the death penalty but it seems that the death penalty is not used too often which could be a good thing or a bad thing.
In the end though it just depends on the individual although to me it is a huge controversy.    

Gay Marrige

Religion over mind-set what is the real reason people don't approve of gay marriage?

One of the most controversial topics involves who should be able to love who and who should be able to marry who.

Some people, such as religious people, feel that it is a sin to be gay.There are some political people that are religious in a way where being super religious interferes with the views of what is important. For example, Rick Santorum, former Republican presidential candidate strongly disagrees with gay marriage. In December of 2011, he blamed gay marriage for plummeting rates of marriage across America. Is this the reason why the rate of marriage is going down? Because of gay people. That is not true. I have learned that in the past that the reason for marriage is because women and men don't feel the need to get married, also because women are more independent and don't feel the need to have a guy/husband in their life to do things. So marriage rates are not going down because of gay people it is going down because people just choose to live that way and not get married whether gay or not.
MY point of view on gay marriage is that all people should be able to marry any gender that they want. It does not effect anyone. Anti-gay marriage politicians are only effecting the people that actually want to get married to the same sex and to me that is inequality. Let these people marry whatever gender they like!

The New Health Care Reform Act of 2014

The year we are required to have health insurance.

The health care reform act of 2014, this is one topic that has recently come to my attention. I was asked to take a 30 minute survey regarding this new health reform act of 2014. During this survey I learned lots of things that I did not know before. In 2014, a new health care reform act is going to come into play. We ALL are required to have health insurance. Or else.... What is this "or else?" This "or else" means that if you don't have health insurance, you are going to have to pay a tax penalty.  It is ridiculous. Since when are humans like cars?! The government is just looking for more and more ways to make the American people pay for things! I am one of those people who would be affected. Although this new reform act will give "tax credits" to those who cannot afford it, it does not help at all. I do not have money to pay health insurance of at least $200 a month! I am a college student that goes to school part-time and has two jobs, I still cannot even afford to buy a car, how else am I supposed to pay for health insurance. This will also be a problem for many people. There is a discount program (not exactly health insurance) that helps poor people out with visits to the hospitals and clinics but it is not considered health insurance. How are these people supposed to pay for their health insurance? This just makes me angry. I don't see why we can't be like other countries that give free health insurance. Sometimes I think that the United States is too greedy with money, because I know that some medicine is not expensive to produce. I thought Obama was going to help with health insurance!