The Changing Function of The National Government

This is something that I can get excited about. What I am speaking of is the history of the National Government and the question that was principle in 1776 in this country, what is the role of Government. Well, this will be UNOWHO's topic for the next few months, and I will start this, possibly depressing, but non the less interesting topic today. The National Government really should be called the National Budget and this Budget should really be called DEBT. We shall begin our search with a simple graph that I will tweeze from The Economist. I do apologize for any persons who are hurt by this issue due the current state of things, or the bond to entitlement programs. I will be trying to take a simply economic/logical approach to this issue throughout my fallowing research. I welcome opposition, because without it, a person can not learn. Thank You.

Senator Tom Harkin

One Democratic Senators views on the Bush Tax cuts. Here, what I found most interesting was the word "Hostage". This is a serious word, and it was used in the form of politics. This is terminology that shreds any dream bubble one may have of a bi-partisan movement, effort or perspective within Washington. This not only sounds bells of a reacquiring problem that the current Administration, and Obama specifically, has dealt with these past two years. Additionally, there are also signals of stress, and  even the possible inability of the Democratic caucus to hold the line. The first bell is the "sales" of the Democratic accomplishments that are historic in nature. The second bell rings loud with the politics of the Republican party out maneuvering the Democrats in the recent lame duck session: people-press.org/reports/graphs/681.gif
This brings me to my point on the hostile atmosphere between party's right now, that is spilling over to a public that doesn't know or care where to aim their arrows. The public and political rhetoric of the country is changing, emphasized by the TEA Party movement. The national deficit is looming among a unstable global economy. The recession and the methods to fix it seem intangible. The domestic unemployment, and more notably the unemployment of persons with a Bachelors degree or higher has increased with the latest figures. This all alongside a "war of choice" as Tom Harkin puts it, playing on a chess board where foreign players are becoming more aggressive. These figures give no hope, no optimism, these are facts of the day. In times like these, many of which are more frequent throughout time than one would desire, a common goal, a similar and positive rhetoric, a sacrifice among political agendas on both sides is essential for stabilization. This is not the time for political "Hostage" or backyard playschool tricks. This is a time that not only a Nation needs to have a omniscient purpose (and agreement on engaging it), but the worlds Nations as well. The U.S.A., as the still top but not prospicient power with it's (and China's) current direction, needs to pave the way for a more euphoric and prosperous future. Here is one side of the "Washington Coin" that I think explains the attitude of the politicians as well as the people in their frustration to get along on issues and solutions.My thoughts are that in a totally political world, where as Sen. Harkin explains (& where he too is a Political machine and should not be believed or praised without question), when one side on the issue threatens the life of another, separate issue over the progress of one being discussed, progress is dead. I don't believe there is a specific individual or group to blame. Although, it is a crisis, there does need to be some plays under pressure right now. There is so much fighting between teams that the game, and the fans are being hurt. Sometimes, I believe, that people don't believe in history to tell an unbiased story, but history is not Political. And the sustainability of our Politics today, is history tomorrow. My predicted tomorrow holds themes of no change, recurring mistakes, and continuous political stagnation. With this model, at best, were in the same boat, and were praying on it to hold up to treacherous seas, as the visibility of the horizon seems further and further away. How long will it take for us to stop all frantically scooping out the water, before at least one of us starts mending the holes in the boat???

The Hand Faster Than the Eye?

Nowadays, the same as yesterday, the perception of technology, and magic tricks, forces masses of people to question what they see, or, to blindly believe what they see. This has always been. The difference now is in part that the masses are bigger, and the scientists, as well as the magicians who mask them with smoke, are working faster, harder, and smarter than ever before. We don't have many forms of honestly reliable mass media. This creates a confused public where no one has enough spare time in the day, or the month rather, to validate the information, or even the source of the "knowledge" that every individual is bombarded with on a casual day. The solution is this, listen closely, someone has to find a solution for it! A very political solution indeed. I can't be here to offer cure all treatments to these complicated issues, but I do have the resources of point out some of the bleeding. This is all that I have for today's comment on a survey that someone found, which I then found, and I'm hope your glad that you found it here. I encourage you to fallow the links, especially the first which is a short article on the matter of sampling error for the fallowing graph that was used in the Wall Street Journal, "California's Distructive Green Jobs Lobby" where in it reads, "Co-sponsoring a disgraceful bill introduced in September to force utilities to expand their use of "renewable energy" to 15% by 2021 are Republican Sens. Sam Brownback and Susan Collins. Republican politicians are apparently lower in climate skepticism than readers of Scientific American, which recently discovered to its horror that some 80% of its subscribers, mostly American scientists, reject man-made global warming catastrophe fears. as evidence against climate change." Here are more facts. Graph

This from "How One Online Global Warming Poll Could Influence US Policy" at The Freedomist. It explains what sources the samples came from, and why the data is skewed as a result. I have also Included is the The Finnish Environment 644 which is a document found in the IPCC's database that states that "In its Third Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
concluded that the global average surface air temperature has increased by 0.6 ±
0.2 °C during the 20th century, which is likely to be the largest rise of any century
during the past 1000 years (IPCC, 2001a). Moreover, it presented convincing new
evidence that most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is attributable
to increases in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations." On p.7 the first paragraph of the Introduction.
Apparently, the hand, and the mouth, are faster than the eye.

To the Issues

I thought that I would  make it easier for my loyal fallowing this time with a copied chart from Gallup, unfortunately, it's not in a nice graph. Just in case http://sas-origin.onstreammedia.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Production/Cms/POLL/ztybao6qoegc_-aam95srw.gif Here a sample of America's feelings on the issues is shown, enjoy.

Here we see some startling trends. On a lot of issues, America is divided in nearly half. Lovely how we all get along. No shock there, what is surprising is the that there is a consensus on some issues. On this list, polygamy and affairs are the only things less accepted as morally right than cloning humans. For cloning humans, that is a very open minded 9%. May I also add, good for you 7% of guys who grove to polygamy. Maybe they feel it's okay if the the wives are all clones.

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UNOWHO

From the White House

These are figures for Net Job Gain/Loss per Month.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/graphs/job-growth-numbers

This bar graph shows that the first positive growth for unemployment, was in November of '09, since the start of the graph at January of '08. What is also nice about the graph is that it shows the different administrations by color. I find this data interesting shadowing the Mid-Term election results, where many Political Scientists say that there was a referendum against the Obama administration. This graph must add to the Democratic party, and especially their campaign communities chagrin.

Okay, we'll keep it simple.

Here, from Pew, are preemptive results to the election.

http://pewresearch.org/assets/publications/1787-1.png

Here we can see that, while there is a skew in the results, taking the average of these polls would lead one to assume that there will be a victory for the Republicans. However, I may add that there are so many toss-ups between both houses, that this surely will be an interesting election. Who knows whether or not voters have even made up their minds yet.

Wisconsin's 2 cents

Here is the job approval rating that Wisconsinites have for our President.

http://huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/23/jobapproval-presobama_n_725956.html?xml=http://pollster.com/flashcharts/content/xml/WIObamaJobPres.xml&choices=Disapprove,Approve&phone=&ivr=&internet=&mail=&smoothing=&from_date=&to_date=&min_pct=&max_pct=&grid=&points=&trends=&lines=

How does this bode for republicans here, political science would tell us not well.The switch in favor happened between February and March of this year.The trend is continuing to decline with respect to Obama's favor, so nothing different is expected to change among the overall feeling for Democrats by mid-term time. I think the five point spread; Approve: 44.9% Disprove: 50.9 %, where it is now, is significant for Wisconsin Republicans on the ballot.