America's Middle Class!

The question that has been asked throughout America, is the new minimum wage going to rise to $15? Well according to Chis Matthews, middle class of today's society barely make enough income to make a living. How Screwed is America's middle class, anyway? is clearly aiming a message and trying to make a point to upper class American's, Matthews goes into statistics of the average income for middle class Americans from the last 3 decades. Households clearly made more money in 1995 than they did in the year of 2014, and many people wonder why? Well the answer is inflation, along with several other components. Lets take a second to calculate the amount of money an individual makes earning minimum wage. In Texas, at $7.25 an hour, working 40 hours a week, one earns $290 before taxes. Now 4 weeks in a month, so with 1,160, someone is expected to pay rent, bills, groceries, as well as medical/car insurance. Clearly not impossible, although that is considering that this individual is living alone, but what about single parents? Realistically speaking, I don't think that minimum wage is going to double anytime soon, but surely raising it a few dollars would have a tremendous impact. While the idea of raising minimum wage is being thrown around, I would assume it's safe to say that people are forgetting other causes that have to be taken account for as well. Such as cost of living. The domino effect if you may. If cooperations have to pay their employees more, their source of income will have to increase also, meaning their merchandise. Let's take Walmart for example, to make up for their increase in payroll, one of two things will happen, either they will start to lay off their employees or their inventory prices will shoot out of the roofs. In my opinion, minimum wage should rise, although $15 dollars an hour sounds unreasonable.

Will there be draft?

It seems as if the people of todays society have a wider range of interest in the presidential elections, merely because of the infamous Donald Trump. A journalist from the New York times, Alan Rappeport, shined the spot light on Trump addressing the issue whether the U.S or Russia should take action in Syria, Shifting on Islamic State, Donald Trump Welcomes Russia's Moves In Syria. Personally, I am not a fan of Trump, and most of the non-sense that he speaks during press conferences is mainly for publicity. If this conflict between Russia and Syria goes south and requires that the united states has to step in, than a draft will be necessary. The U.S does not have enough military power to go against Russia's, although according to Trump's statement," we go in, we knock the hell out of' em, we take the oil." If nobody recalls the last attempts to go in to the Islamic Nation to bring order, it lasted well over 5 years, and brought a handful of negative effects with it. The U.S is  not in any position to enter this war, considering that our country is struggling financially, and is still recovering from the last war in Iraq. All of these thoughts are simply just being thrown out in the air, but let's take into consideration if a military draft really does happen.  How do you think the public is going to react to this decision? Going back to statistics, more than 3/4 of young Americans do not have a clue of what is going on in today's politics, so how can the government expect these individuals to fight for a cause that they are hearing about for the first time, and to make matters worse, if Trump is leading this conflict, it'll be the blind leading the blind. He claims that he wants to better our country at the end of the article, supposedly making the roads, schools and public a better place, although he makes naive remarks about how he's going to send in troops to take the oil and then send more to protect the oil. The best thing the U.S can do at this point is sit back and allow Russia and Syria to settle down with this confrontation, because as proven in the past, sometimes the U.S involvement can make situations worse.

On September 17, 2015 The Los Angeles Times posted an article, Mexico says the remains of the second 43 missing students have been identified.  Nearly a year ago, 43 students went missing in Iguala. Months after they were taken, body fragments of these students were being found all over Mexico. Unfortunately federal police have stated that they believe these 43 students were victims of a  gang related war that has been ongoing in Mexico for years. Taking into consideration that these students were possibly mistaken as members of a rival gang named Los Rojos, this incident is still under investigation. Although Mexican officials stated that they do not plan on letting this unfortunate event go unrecognized. The families of these students still have hope that perhaps there is a chance their child will return home, being that only a handful of the 43 have been found.

Hello fellow American's!