Courtney Kemp Mrs. Cooley Eng 3133-06 15 February 2012 Video Games Cause Violence: Fact or Fiction “Do Video Games Kill?” by Karen Stenheimer was a very interesting article. The main goal of the entire article was to inform the reader that congress has blamed the video game companies for violence that happens on a school campus. The article gives many examples to why video games are a threat to the younger generation. It also shows why the games lead to violence in the school setting. I personally do not agree with the article.
Both cases show people losing thousands to millions of dollars due to the fact that the product did not have a copyright. The growing problem in software piracy around the globe, every country is faced with the decision to stop copyright violations. The U.S Copyright Act is very detailed in the specifications of what rights are given to the artists. That’s not to say that U.S does not have its software copyright problems. Other countries are dealing with worst software copyright problems.
The economy today is far worse off than it should be. Unemployment numbers are as high as they have ever been. The avoidance of taxes and loss of jobs to undocumented peoples is not helping our situation in the least bit. According an article by John B. Judis 92, percent of all illegal immigrants has a job of some sort (Judis 8). Over ten million jobs that are meant for Americans have been taken by undocumented people.
Drug Trafficking in the United States Sharika Stewart English 112: English Composition II Prof. Kari Lomanno December 10, 2012 Drug trafficking in the United States is an invisible war that has been going on for over a century. Throughout those years we have seen limited progress on controlling our national borders, while drugs are still making their way into the United States. Drug trafficking is the most serious organized crime problem in the world today and choosing this topic is more of a personal reason because of all the unanswered questions. With that being said, the problem of drugs will affect all the countries in one way or another. Four presidents, Ronald Regan being the most aggressive, waged a war on drugs.
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) argues that illegal immigrants cost U.S. taxpayers more than 100 billion dollars every year. They say this is because of a variety of different reasons. First of all, illegal immigrants are undocumented workers which the government pays, but they don’t pay the income taxes back. The director for FAIR says that "The study of the fiscal effects of illegal immigration clearly demonstrates that it is a burden on the American taxpayer”. He also says that if more forceful implementation of immigration laws were put in, each U.S. household could save in the neighborhood of a couple thousand dollars per year (Fahmy, 1).
Gangs are responsible for a substantial proportion of this. The Same article also says that a single adolescent criminal career of about 10 years can cost tax payers between 1.7 & 2.3 million dollars. Since we are in such national debt already these criminals are only contributing to the downfall of the American economy. Secondly, these gangs are
Keeping marijuana illegal is quite expensive. By legalizing marijuana it will save the government a lot of money. According to a study done by George Mason University in 2007, $113 billion was spent on marijuana by U.S. citizens; all of which went untaxed and the government collected nothing from it (Armentano, 2012, para. 10). All of the government: federal, state and local participate in “War on Drugs.” Currently, Americans spend billions of dollars due to the fact that marijuana is not legal.
One reason America as a whole–as opposed to its brightest lights– is beset in international competition is that the country misspends. It infamously has done so on housing assets, probably does on motor vehicles and arguably is feeding a bubble in college expense. But through government it also is plowing too much into the low end of the human experience: prisons. In fiscal 2006, the latest year available, federal, state and local governments spent $68 billion on “corrections,” according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, an arm of the U.S. Justice Department. Ten years before, that total was $41 billion.
This is not something to be proud of. On top of that, America is also country with the number one suicide rate with 15 out of 100 people. Personally I believe the suicide rate is as high as it is due to the number of crimes here in America. They must be linked somehow. But with the success America provides for people, one would
The revenue from illegal drugs is a billion dollar industry and what the corrupt border patroller collect in a month is much more than the annual pay. If the U.S custom were to come to grips on illegal drugs something else is bound to pop up, millions of American are addicted to some form of illegal drugs and will go through great lengths to retrieve them, as I am