Reply to Colleague's Blog (2nd)

This blog is a response to the Democratic Oligarchy Blog, titled Proposition 8.

I completely agree with you on everything you have stated in your previous blog. The GLBT community has been fighting for just basic rights to equality and marriage for a long time. It's more obvious now these days, as being a homosexual is more common.

And for the first time, since their movement they were giving rights in California to legally marry someone of the same sex, but not later than 4 months and that was taken away from them. How can the the state of California just give the GLBT community the right to marriage and then decide to let the public vote for it, when a decision had already been made and thousands had already walked down the alter? It's not just the document that make their marriage legit but it's those rights that come with that document that many of people take for granted.

I, a religious person, have always believe the religious community should have no say in this topic. As long as, homosexuals can get married, then it doesn't matter whether or not it happens in a church or in a courthouse. Many say marriage is sacred and should one be between a man and a woman. But if marriage is so sacred then why is divorce very common in the U.S.? People can go and get hitched in Las Vegas and they don't even have to know each other. Now they have even made it more convenient to were you don't even have to get out of your car, you can just do a drive-thru marriage.

If marriage is so sacred, then one you commit to it, it should be a life sentence no matter what!

Proposition 8 was a very controversy topic for the state of California and I'm sure it wont end there. I did watch some of those commercials were they fooled people into voting yes on Prop. 8
Many people did believe that if this proposition was passed that they would start teaching homosexuality in schools. But really? Why should that matter? That's part of life and kids need to learn that there are a lot of different people in this world and it shouldn't matter what their race, gender, age or sexuality is, what should matter is personality and integrity.

It's official, can you say Recession?

So even though the American community has felt the economic downpour in their wallets for the past year, its finally been crowned official. The National Bureau of Economic Research has stated the economic recession began last December. This is the same group that called the 1990-91 and 2001 recession just as it ended. But there is no way this recession is ending any time soon. “We have gone from recession into something that looks more like collapse,” said Ian Shepherdson, chief domestic economist at High Frequency Economics

As the day ended with the obvious stated, the Stock Market crashed once again by 679 points.

Amercian's aren't the only ones who are feeling the pain. In the past couple of months, the banks have been rescued, state and local governments are asking for more aid, and now recently the auto industry is asking for some help.

Most economists say that the economy must create about 100,000 jobs to keep up with the population growth. But instead we are going towards the opposite direction. President-Elect Obama has made this unemployment and job growth one of his top priorities. He also believes public spending with help a "dead-in-the-water economy" start moving again.

Now the N.Y. Times has stated the U.S. has lost 533,000 jobs in November. That's just in one month. “We are caught in a downward spiral in which employment, incomes and spending are collapsing together,” said Nigel Gault, chief domestic economist for HIS Global Insight.

Obama wants to aid his plan of public spending by enacting a stimulus package by late January that could exceed $500 billion over two years. Under the stimulus plan, more than half the money would probably be channeled into public infrastructure spending. Many economists consider such investments as an effective way to counteract the economy's downward spiraling.