Monday, October 27, 2008

A year without "Made in China" written by Sara Bongiorni was a book teaching about how much good we sell in the USA that are manufactured by China. Sara Bongiorni learned from this experiment of only buying things from that were "Made in China" that most of the imports are coming from china, and as her being an American she wants to be able to buy things manufactured by her home country. This Book shows that the United States is taking in more goods than they are giving out, if China is over powering every other goods maker than how much longer will this go one. Or is China going to be the sole provider of goods to the United States. This is Showing the United States citizens that we are importing goods from other places, and also that we are giving away jobs that could be used in the United States for the people here, instead of just giving them up to the Chinese just because it's easier done. Sara Bongiorni learned from doing this, was that she couldn't go to certain stories because everything that they sold was china products, also she learned that most of the things that she normally buys are from China.


Most everything is manufactured by China, this is giving money, power and more jobs to them.
Why would the United States what to do this? Sara Goes around buying just "made in China", One example is she was looking for shoes for her son, his feet had out grown this old ones. She went out looking for these shoes and couldn't find any for over a week, everything she looked at was either "Made in China" or way to expense to buy for a really young kid. Sara Bongiorni still let things come in the house that were made from China as long as they were gifts, she let her husband have a pair of sunglasses that someone had given him. This would still be letting the money sent on something "made in China" come into there house. Giving more money out to China. Handing all of this money over to them is great for them, they pay there workers very little, and the rest is profit. Another thing that had happened to Sara was, she had puarched a Lamp out of a magazine when it said it was made from a country other than China, her thinking it was ok, she bought it after getting the lamp and looking it over, the lamp wasn't made my China but other parts that came with the lamp were. The significance of this from the book is that, our country is buying and selling alot of things that are made from china, this is giving out more jobs and more money out to the Chinese. Most people wouldn't think this is such a good things.

Somethings have always been manufactured in China, like Children's toys. But China has grown into a place where almost everything is being made. As the times have past most everything is being made there now. Even some United States company's have moved over seas. Before most everything moved over to China, there were more business in the United States, this has hurt our economy some by letting some of our jobs and money move to a different country. Things like this are hard to go through when someone here loses there job. Over the years China has grown from a very small country for manufacturing things to the top Country. This isn't a very good thing for the United States to let happen. This is giving money out that could be put into our economy. The more we buy from them the bigger there going to grown, and the smaller the United States is going to become as a exporting country. This is something most people don't realize, what they buy is effecting out country, the money that's being sent out of our country to be paid for these things they we all buy. The biggest part of this is that people don't even realize where the things that they buy come from, and more than anything they don't care.

My Option on this was it was a great experiment for someone to do, this shows that there are alot of things that can't be from made by another play than China. If you can't even find something like a simple pair of shoes that are not Chinese than how do you expect to buy something like a toy. This shows that there are to many things being just shipped over to China to be made, things that were being made here and just were given to China because they can make it for less money. China is going to sooner or later over power everyone else, and is going to control everything just because the United States and alot of other countries depend on them for the simplest things. I think that we shouldn't be just handing over our jobs to other countries, there is giving away jobs pretty much for free. My Perspective on this is that we should keep our jobs, our money and our independence, and be able to stay our own country.

Most everything is Manufactured by China, this is giving money, power and more jobs to them. Somethings have always been manufactured in China but as the time has past more and more things have been given to them just because they can make something cheaper. This is a major part in our economy, this shows that our country doesn't really care about who we give jobs money or power to. We just want it done the cheapest way. This is really important that people in this country realize these things, most people don't even know where they buy there daily items from. It's really hard to rebuild an economy when no one knows there's anything wrong.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Articles of Confederation

One of the big reasons that the Articles of Confederations failed, was because most people thought that the rules were making certain people above other people. There were some that thought that this was making the government the most powerful thing, and the people in it had all of the power kind of like the king did. And most moved from England just to get away for the rulers, which told them the only things that they could do.

After the Articles of Confederations had failed, the founding fathers held this big meeting called the Constitutional Convention which was in 1787. The major goal of this Convention was to find something that was going to work out for this country. They wanted to find another system of government that was going to work unlike the Articles of Confederation. Some of the states didn't want anything changed because they wanted to have as many rights of there own to decide on. This was one of the major obstacles that they had to make it through.

During this Convention they decided to add to the Articles of Confederation, this was going to be another system of government added on to the Articles of Confederation. This Consisted of a lot more rights and ways that the government was going to work, as in the way the system would work how everything between the brunches would be equal with not one being more powerful then another.


George Washington

At the time of George Washington becoming a president, there weren't any type of political parties. He was elected without being apart of a political party, and without having any in place. This ment that there was only one choice for president, he wasn't like everyother president we have had in this country. George Washington had a big part of the starting of the political parties, concitering he was the frist president of the United States. George Washington also believed that the political parties did not best serve the people's interests.

After is preidencey of George Washington there were two parties developed, the Federalists and Anti-Federalists. The Federalists believed in a strong government ruled by wealthy eduacted people. George Washingotn was in favor of the Federalists parties. The Anti Federalists were people who believed in not ratifying the Articles of Confederation and were not in favor of the same ideas as the Federalists, they didn't want weathly people controling the goverment. They wanted people that weren't going to take over. They thought that the Federalists had alot more power. Alexander Hamilton was the leader of the Federalist party, and Thomas Jefferson was the leader of the Anti- Federalist party.



Branches.

After the Articles of Confederations were changed, there goverment was formed into a three branch system, this would make it so that the one branch of the goverment couldn't over through and other part. So that every branch was equal in different ways. They made a congress made up of the senate and house of representives. The people of the house of representives would serve for 2 years, and be elevted by the people of the states. There should be 2 senators from each state, that should serve for 6 years, also have to be over the age of 30. The Legislative branch will have to Revenue Bills, Go through the process of having a bill pasted by the senat, but the president can alway veto the bill.

The Executive Branch is made up of the president and the vice president. Which both will have a term of 4 years, also have to be a born citizen of the United States to become the president. The president has civilian powers over the military, he also has his cabinet of people he has apointed. Also the president, vice president or any of this men may be Impeached for conviction of Treason.

The Judical Branch is made up of a supreme court, also some other courts. All judges get to hold there offices as long as there is good behavior. This means that as long as there are not convited of treason they will not be kicked out of office. These judges of the Supreme court and anyother court serve for life, unless convited of bad behaivor. Everyone is given a trial by jury, they are made there rights thought this branch. They also made it very had for someone to be convited of treason, saying that they would have to go to war if they were convited treason.