Welfare

Welfare can be both a blessing and a curse. Welfare in my eyes causes great benefits. Welfare can help unborn children and young children.  The WIK office can help unborn children and their mothers. The WIK office will provide expecting mothers with credit cards with around fifty dollars to spend on groceries. I think this can be very beneficial because groceries can be very expensive. This helps the child grow and help their future as a young adult. Welfare also helps unemployed people get back on their feet. Bill Clinton doesn’t agree with welfare. I think that if we didn’t have welfare we would have even more unemployed people.  I think we need to keep welfare.  Bill Clinton thinks that if we keep welfare people will stay lazy and won’t want to work. I think that is not true. I think that is stereotypical of people on welfare.  When most people think of welfare, they think the people are lazy and don’t want to work. Well that is not true, some people on welfare cannot work.  We cannot punish these people just because they can’t work. They still need help and need money. We need to keep welfare around today.

Can You be Civil?

In Lord of the Flies, there are several kids stuck on an island, after their plane crashes. At first they are civil and everything is ok. But, Jack, the oldest and manlier, decides he doesn’t like the way Ralph is running the island. So he and some others take off to form another group. This is like society because some people do not like the way our government runs the country, so they try and set up their own group. As the book goes on, there is little to no structure going on.  Soon the boys turn on each other and the savages in you come out.  What would have happened if there would have been girls on the island when the plane crashed? I think if there would have been girls on the island when the plane crashed, they would have kept everyone in line and civil.  Girls have different wiring in their brains than guys. Guys think about the small things first not the big picture. Girls come up with a plan before they start a project. That Is why, if this would have been girls on the island, the book would have been completely opposite. The girls would have made sure everyone is in order and nothing gets out of line.  Girls try to stay as civil as possible and not start anything. I think that girls are more likely to stay civil than guys. Girls we can talk things out that aren’t going to plan, as guys they just resort to war and violence to solve their problems.  That is why our world is made up with girls and guys, because if it wasn’t for the girls keeping the boys in line, we would have mass chaos, just like the book. So in our life we need to stay civil not matter what.

28th Amendment

For my amendment, I would propose to add the 28^th amendment would be to lower the drinking age to 18. Our legal smoking age is 18 also so why not make the drinking age the same. 70 and 80 countries in the world right now have the legal drinking age at the age of 18. Eighteen is our legal age where you become an adult, so we should have the right to make decisions about drinking alcohol or not.  Most people who drink before 21 feel like rebels and want to break the law. This would diminish the thrill of breaking the law. When the repeal of alcohol by the 21^st amendment, allowed each state to set its own laws on alcohol; the Supreme Court made the states that lowered their drinking age to rise the age back to 21. I believe that we should lower the national drinking age to 18. This could possibly stop some of the breaking of the laws.