Show Us Our Money

Lets say in the workplace you are unknown to what your coworkers make compared to yourself. Would that bother you? Studies have shown that people want to know what they make compared to their coworkers. Lilly Ledbetter worked at Goodyear tire and worked up to a higher position with a couple of other male colleagues with the same tenure. She soon came onto that she mad significantlly less than her male coworkers. She then sued Goodyear for pay discrimination and it went to the supreme court. The court ruled in favor of Goodyear because that you have to sue within 180 days of the dicriminatory paycheck, and she missed the mark by about 20 years. She ended up getting stuck with a $3,165 bill from Goodyear for court cost. Lilly is now fighting for the law to be changed but no luck has came yet. Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton are for the amendment and John McCain is against it.

When Will They Be Ready

These is meaning when will the Iraqi troops be ready to hold their own, instead of having U.S. as a crutch. The U.S. has now been training the Iraqi forces for 5 years now and has spent over 20.4 billion on traing the Iraqi soldiers. Petraeus plans on withdrawing the last of the "surge" by July and return to the 130,000 troop mark. Many feel as if it will take years to get Iraq at a fully functioning military. The Iraq military is experiencing several problems with training these soldiers. One is that Iraqi soldiers do very little preparation in the training and need a more lengthy and stronger training. Second Iraqi troops lack motivation due to the relatively low salary they recieve. Third most of the military troops they are training are from the militia they are fighting and therefore there is the problem that the soldiers wont stay honest.

The Color of Loyalty

African Americans have long been perceived as unpatriotic. This is mainly due because they point out the imperfections of the U.S. Blacks have been apart of every war since the civil war. How is that unpatriotic? Shouldn't black leaders be more willing to point out the differences though. Afterall they wasn't treated the fairest and was working to gain freedom and fair rights.

Why China's Mad

Beijing is the city hosting the olympics this year. China is very honored to have this being done and are very angry that there are other countries that are protesting that they should not host the games. China is taking this very personal because they are among the worlds leading super powers. They feel these protests is a stab in the back and appauled at others that protest the games in Beijing.

The only reason I would be on the protesters side is because of the horrible pollution. The games should be held where the athletes competing are in no physical danger and can perform at their best.

Polygamists in Texas

On April 3, 2008 authorities raided a ranch in Eldorado, Texas. The authorities recieved the call stating a polygamists was going outside their already wacky nutshell. The polygamists were believed to be marrying young girls and and forcing them to have children. The law states that one can only marry one person at a time. The polygamists in Texas had their children taken away from them and are in foster homes for now. The controversary is over whether should the court throw all the polygamists in jail for breaking the law and seperate their children from them.

Well considering the law is being broken here, the cult should be punished and the children should be sheltered from that kind of lifestyle. Our government has laws and they are meant to be followed, if everyone just wanted to do their own thing this world would be a mess and in ruins.

Act Now or Eat Later

The world leaders failed to come up with a plan in the past about the hunger crisis in the poorer nations and economies. And now we have a global food crisis on out hands and a rough road to travel to make things right again. Some main causes for the hunger crisis is the use of crops for fuel. Countries unable to maintain a safe harvest and inability to buy decent seeds and fertilizers. Climate change as played a big role too. The good news is that this is able to be resolved but fast and globally.

Canada wants out

Canada has recently stated they have no grudge with Afghanistan and feel they are increasing their risk of becoming a target for the terroists. Canada has given 82 lifes to the cause and have a high fatality rate compared to the U.S. Canada has agreed to stay and fight untill 2011 and requested that their troops would be concentrated on training Afghan soldiers instead of the battlefield and the forces be reinforced with 1,000 troops elsewhere. Canada currently has 2,500 troops on the ground.