State of Union Speech

Watching and reading the State of Union speech, was really interesting and well said about what he talk about. Obama talk about job, economy, unemployment, immigration, and etc. something that was really big that Obama talk about was when he first talk about for the first time in nearly 20 years  that our oil is coming from the U.S. instead of it coming from other countries, which is kind of good just because we don’t have that much oil left in the world, and we don’t  have to fight over oil, which I think is stupid, if it not coming from us then why should we take other countries oil. I thought President Obama said was well. Also another thing that tide to this is when he said for the first time in a decade that the U.S. is now the number one invested place in the world. President Obama talk’s immigration reform, he says “Independent economists say immigration reform will grow our economy and shrink our deficits by almost $1 trillion in the next two decades.  And for good reason: when people come here to fulfill their dreams – to study, invent, and contribute to our culture – they make our country a more attractive place for businesses to locate and create jobs for everyone.  So let’s get immigration reform done this year”. That would be a good thing because these people will help strengthen the economy and give immigrate a better life to live, as long as they are doing good in the U.S. I don’t care what they do. But what really hit me on what he said during the speech was women take half of the workforce making 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, and that she should deserves a day to take care of kid or kids without sacrificing her job also with men too, but every women should have an opportunity that she deserves. Also what he attracted was no one who work full time should take of take care of their family in poverty, in which my mom is doing right now, she take care of me and my two little sisters and it still hard to get food and buy laundry for our clothes. So it hard for a single mom or dad or both parent to take care of a family and still be on that poverty line. So Obama had raised minimum wage for a lot of people for they do not have to struggle in these rough time. That fact that Obama is trying to help America is looking real good for future America if it go to plan.

What going on with Native American in the 21th Century!

http://www.thenation.com/blog/177800/florida-state-seminoles-champions-racist-mascoting#

("It’s easy to oppose the name of the Washington Redskins and call for owner Dan Snyder to change his beloved bigoted brand. After all, it’s a dictionary-defined slur bestowed on the NFL franchise by their arch-segregationist, minstrel-loving founder. When you have Native American organizations, leading sportswriters, Republicans as well as Democrats in Congress and even the president say the time has come to change the name, it is not exactly difficult to get on board.

But what about the Florida State Seminoles, whose football team on Monday night won the Vizio/Dow Chemical/Blackwater/Vivid Video BCS National Championship Game? The NCAA, since 2005, has had formal restrictions against naming teams after Native American tribes, and yet there were the Seminole faithful: thousands of overwhelmingly Caucasian fans with feathers in their hair, doing the Tomahawk chop and whooping war chants on national television. Their passions were stirred into a frenzy by a white person, face smeared with war paint, dressed as the legendary chief Osceola riding out on a horse. As Stewart Mandel of Sports Illustratedgushed, “Chief Osceola plants the flaming spear in the Rose Bowl. Awesome.” (Osceola was adopted after the school quietly retired their previous Native American mascot “Sammy Seminole.”)" -Dave Zirin

http://kunm.org/post/health-guides-work-convince-native-americans-try-obamacare

("When he learns that signing up for Medicaid will mean he can visit a nearby hospital in Española instead of traveling to Santa Fe for urgent care, the Native American man sits back in his chair, eyebrows arched. Then he smiles.

“Cool! Oh that’s good,” the gray-haired, middle-aged man from Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo says.

He explains that he’s never had health insurance. His entire life he’s visited clinics and hospitals staffed by the federal Indian Health Service (IHS) agency – a system of care for Native Americans whose director and others say is perennially underfunded. The federal government spends less per capita on health care for Native Americans than it does inmates.")-Byrant Furlow.