Friday, February 27, 2015

Netanyahu's speech to Congress



   Zev Chafets, a FOX news contributor, expressed his opinion about how our President's decisions are hurting our country and our allies trough his article "Natanyahu's speech to Congress..". In this article he is trying to inform us Americans the damage that has been caused by the decisions our President has made since he was elected, an example is when he decided to bring our troops back from Iraq although he had been told that this would lead to chaos, and now here we have ISIS our big threat now. Zev gives us many examples that are facts not just something he believes and also he uses the point of view of Israel's leader. 
   This is can be an eye opening for many Americans because this shows what many of us don't see, what our country has become, and what is being led to be. Zev believes that our President is hurting us without worrying what will happen after he leaves office and goes to leave a "normal" life. If things continue to go this direction we will soon be lost and may fall into a war that could have been avoided. 
    If we look at Zev's argument and analyse what is going on in our country at the moment we can see that our country is chaos, not only because we may not have a homeland security department but we are also in big threat by ISIS and our states are divided in a sense due to the immigration reform and our economy is not doing so good. Our country has gone from stable to being totally chaos within and out, and if our President doesn't do someting we will all go down.

Friday, February 13, 2015

Republicans struggle to avoid Homeland Security shutdown.
(Thursday, February 12,2015)

Republicans are struggling to pass a legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Securiy (DHS) due to the fact that they have decided to add some amendments to stop President Obama's imigration polices. This has turned out to be a big deal due to the fact that if the legislation is not passed the agency will be shut down after running out of the money by the end of February 2015. Why is this important? All those people who work to protect us like police officers, border patrol agents, will have to go to work without a pay and we will not be able to stay protected in case of a natural dissater or a terrorist attack, also many others would lose their job.

Even though the Republicans are trying to blame the Democrats claming that "The House has done its job" the Democrats keep insisting that they will only agree on a clean bill to fund the DHS. Although many Republicans and Democrats argue that they don't agree with the Presidents actions that they still believe it is not just to be playing with the DHS. If Republicans want to fight over the immigration polices they should do it separete from the funding for the DHS. 

The results for this legislation are unclear. They expect people to think about it more deeply to vote for a clean bill before the deadline February 27,2015. A fully funded DHS is necessary specially now a days, specilly with the problem with ISIS.