My Comments on a Commentary

I agree with you Hyeseong An, your discussion “What US government should do?; who will pay for the ‘free’ service?”, which is simply about ‘free’ child healthcare and how we can make it work correctly has been a topic of discussion for many people. I completely agree with your statement “it is inevitable for government to use a tax, but the problem is limitation of using a tax… increasing taxes contradicts the purpose of the free child care policy that is releasing the economic burden of citizens.” The taxation would make it just discounted child healthcare, or healthcare people pay for regardless of if they have children or not. The one thing I don’t agree with is asking other parents at a children’s daycare to donate to lower income families, although some people may do it graciously, others may find it insulting. I feel like you are on the right track, maybe just creating a ‘healthcare for kids’ fund that takes donations at many different places, it will not be just for a couple of kids but for many different kids across the nation. I enjoyed reading your blog Hyeseong, thank you for the wonderful article.

Michigan Re-count

Many of us know President elect Donald Trump has accused Hilary Clinton of voter fraud during early voting, but once voting day ended and the result came out a lot of people now say trump is in the middle of voter fraud. Many people say this because he filed an objection to recount Michigan votes, which makes it seem like he is trying to hide something. If he wasn’t worried he wouldn’t have a problem with a recount because he knows it doesn’t matter. Some believe that Michigan shouldn’t worry about a re-count because it will cause too much commotion among the Electoral College, in an article I found in the Huffingtonpost said “Simply put, Michigan should not grant this lawless, insulting request,” it says, “and its voters should not risk having the Electoral College door knocked off its hinges, all because a 1-percent candidate is dissatisfied with the election’s outcome.” Which is understandable yet if a state wants a recount they deserve a recount no questions asked. A state shouldn’t even have to think about asking to have a recount it’s just not the way we should run an election, but in this evil corrupt society where people would shove someone in the dirt just be first place is a world war three waiting to happen.

my commentary on colleague’s commentary.

As I read through many different blogs this one stuck out to me a lot more than the others, the title caught my attention because it has been a discussion I’ve had with friends and family recently. I agree with you Aubrey that the Election Day needs to be changed to the weekend so we can get more people to vote. I never considered that the Election Day was biased to lower income and higher income people, but you have a very good point because of the ‘being able to get off work’ aspect of a higher income job. And the idea of making Election Day a national holiday is the best idea for America especially since we barely had half the population vote in this recent 2016 election. If the Election Day was moved to the weekend and was a national holiday there would most likely be a twenty-five percent increase in voter turnout, drastically increasing the interest of millions. The last sentence you said leaves me speechless, “Again everyone’s vote is supposed to matter but it’s honestly looking like the people who make more money are the only votes that matter.”

Direct link in case embedded link wont open.
http://aubreyreedy.blogspot.com/2016/11/elections-on-weekend.html

Snowball fight.

In the recent weeks, it has been a time for digging up secrets and sharing them with the world, well at least for the top two Presidential candidates, Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump. There have been various scandals uncovering the truth, or lies, which remain with the candidates of this election. Ranging from leaked e-mails to unpaid/unfiled taxes and from a sick opponent to a breaking the law opponent. This election is very messy, just about as messy as spilling a gallon of oil on the kitchen floor, it’s hard to know what to do and how to go about it. 

It seems like Mr. Trump and Secretary Clinton are having snowball fights in each speech in the campaign and-or debate in the recent months. At certain times neither of them really answer the question they just say things in a very vitriolic way toward each other. Even on social media the fight continues to remain between the supporters and the candidates themselves. And they hashtag it out day and night splurging their support, hoping it will make a difference. Some social media things make since and something do not. I was recently reading an article online on New York Times, that stated the 282 people and place trump has criticized over that campaign, like Iran and Mexico. A couple things he said about Mexico, “totally corrupt gov't”, “totally corrupt”, “we get the killers, drugs & crime, they get the money!”, “unbelievable corruption”, “not our friend”, “they're killing us”. And he said, referring to Iran, “doing many bad things behind our backs’”. The list goes on for a while stating just about all the things trump has said towards others or about others. Though he is fairly honest and tells you how it is, I believe one day he will be too honest about the wrong thing and end up hurting himself and others.

disappoint of media during elections

In a blog I found on, Americablog.com, John Aravosis talks about a guy on twitter who rants about how the media has been very disappointing this presidential election. This blog post is mainly intended for the social media thriving young adults. The twitter feed is written by a guy named Matthew Chapman, who is writer over at Blue Nation Review. He has 40+ posts (pictures of each post supplied by Aravosis) on twitter explaining his disappointment with the media’s roll in the election, which means not being supplied with proper information on the candidates’ policies, specifically Clinton’s. One very interesting thing Aravosis said was, “When is the last time you heard anything about what Hillary Clinton plans to do as president? You’ve heard a lot about the Trump campaign’s false claims that Hillary is ill and that she’s a “racist.” We’ve also heard a lot about the now-debunked Associated Press story about the Clinton Foundation.”. He said enough to catch my attention, because we have heard the media bash Trump so much we forget to bash Clinton. Well not really bash in the physical context, but in the verbal context. 

I agree that Hilary has somehow slipped out of sight from the mainstream social media’s evil eye. And Aravosis explains how Chapman says “they’ve done nothing to educate us on the candidates’ policy (especially Clinton’s). They are only barely covering the candidates’ records”, which it true in so many ways during the presidential debates. They ping pong back and forth between questions making you feel like the question wasn’t even answered, which leaves you puzzled and confused. Chapman explains in his tweets that if the media did its job we would all know about the policy platforms, and that Clinton puts disability rights front and center. And also she is the first candidate, ever, to have an autism rights platform. To me that is quite ridiculous, these platforms need to be able to be easily accessed by the mass majority of people.

TRUMP Talks for Hilary's ads

The article,"In Visceral Ads for Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Does All the Talking", from The New York Times, written by Nick Corasaniti, explains how Hilary Clinton uses Donald Trump’s voice in her campaign ads to persuade her audience of how evil Trump's words can be. He also explains that the tactic in the campaign was used in three separate ads, focusing on how three different groups might respond when shown some of Mr. Trump’s more caustic comments from his days as a reality television host and personality. The three different groups they used were veterans, young children, and recently young women. I agree with Mr. Corasaniti’s argument that it was a tactic used to shock and appeal to emotion. During the Clinton campaign she felt the only way to break through was to paint an alarming portrait of Mr. Trump, a very different approach. Mr. Corasaniti reports how Clinton has spent more than 20 million on three ads with Trump’s voice, and also that Trump has spent more than 15.8 million on the ads for the general campaign so far. After these recent ads and the Presidential debate Clinton’s monthly polls have ascended, showing the ads have worked in her favor, but Trump’s monthly polls have not been effect, surprisingly. A very big question among many is whether they will actually move ballot numbers among the swing voters. Many people, including Mr. Trump, have questioned the impact of the political advertisement used in this election cycle, especially when two people who are already well known to the public are the main candidates. I agree with Mr. Corasaniti’s when he said, “The Clinton ads have clearly struck a chord, but not always a positive one.” (Paragraph 20). I would advise you to read this article, watch the campaign ads, and form your opinion on the matter. Leave a comment below if it strikes your attention.