03.13.2017
Daylight Savings
Ben Franklin created the idea of daylight savings
Ending of the world war 1 the standard time act was established on march 19,1918
It was meant to save energy, electricity
Now it’s up to cities to decide their time
States are not required to follow it
They MUST follow standard time
Arizona and Hawaii do not
Michael Brown Case
New footage emerges in michael brown case
A young african american was shot and killed in …
Two and half years ago
The video shows like he’s shoplifting
The new video shows he was actually looking around and took out money to pay for his items.
It started the black lives matter movement
August 9th 2014
BlackLivesMatter It began after trayvon martin’s death
They decide not indite the officer who killed Fergeson
December 3 - they decide to not indite the officer who put … in a chock hold even though the man was saying he couldn’t breathe
Bolitmore
Improve the trust
It started with the death of ferguson
Wire Tapping
Today is the deadline for Trump to provide evidence of Obama’s wiretapping
We continued the Politics Powerpoint
Natural Environment /Climate Change
Democrats
Strong regulations are needed to protect the environment
Believe climate change is occurring and problem is sped up by humans
Government needs to do more to help slow down
Young People are much more greener
Republicans
Strong environmental laws harm the economy
Believe climate change is more of a natural phenomenon
Government should leave issue alone as it can hurt business
Politicians are now using Climate Change instead of Global Warming
Global Warming is happening but its worse at the poles’
It’s going to cause the ice caps to melt
Now it’s more droughts, causing forest fires
Heavier flooding
Bigger Blizzards
Four Questions to COnsider
Is the globe warming?
Is the warming man made?
Is it a crisis?
Can we do anything about it?
HUman nature waiting for a problem to happen and then helping
03/14/2017
Tuesday, March 14
Steve King - Iowa Representation
Wilders
Somebody else’s babies - You can’t rebuild your population with someone else’s babies
Else’s babies - People of color
Intention -
English language “is a global freedom bringer”
Sean Spicer
Trump didn’t mean wiretapping when he tweeted about wiretapping
He meant to say the broad variety of cameras, and any other technological innovations
We continued the Politics Powerpoint
It’s definitely man made
Many democrats say it’s a crisis, while republicans don’t.
97% of the scientific community
Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change is occurring and rigorous scientific research demonstrates that the greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are the primary driver.” (2009)
A sure way of getting money under the Barack Obama administration was to say they were researching global warming.
From 1961 to 1990
DUring the industrical revolution, release of Co2 rose significatnly
Currently, as the Co2 rises the temperature rises as well.
As our ocean warms, sea level rises
Sea levels have risen about 8 inches since the begining of the 20th centerary
Our ocean absorbs more that 90% of the heat trapped by human-produced greenhouse gases.
Sea Level rise affects us all
More than 160 million people live sling coasts in the U.S
How much ice are we losing now
303 Gigiatons of ice lost from the greenland ice sheet in 2014
118 gigatons of
11 ways
Melting of the ice caps: Impacts animals
Drought
Wildfires
Coral Reefs - bleached and dying off
Food Prices wil begin ro rise
Pollen allergies will begin to rise
Deforestation
Montain glacers will melt
Enderager animals
Animal migration will mess up
Extreme weather
Lake Chad
Dries up because of overuse
Global Warming
If lake chad completely dries up it will lead to a drought
Plently of people with die, they depon on the lake for it;s water source
2 Degrees Celsius
A critical number for climate change
Minimum Wage
Democrats:
Favor/Increase the minimum wage to help workers
Republicans:
Oppose/Do not raise the minimum wage because it hurts businesses
Minimum Wage became mandated in 1936
It’s been ten years since we’ve changes the price of minimum wage
Parents then have to get two jobs
It makes parents get two jobs
Parents are never home
Which leads towards the older kids to take care of the younger siblings
Obama wanted $10.10
03.15.2017
He said this during the campaign: Trump’s tax returns were under audit
Once the audit is done he would release them
Then he said he wouldn’t release them
Last night Rachel Maddow claimed she had Trump’s tax returns
Trump paid 38,435,451 of taxes
A tax rate of 28%
2016 Federal Income Tax Brackets
DNC suggested he could be hiding something from the public.
Michelle Obama’s healthy school lunch program in jeopardy?
Minimum Wage
Started 39 cents during the great dpression
Australia has the highest minum wage average with 9.54
Mexico has the lowest minum wage with 1.01
The problems with increasing the minimum wage
Yearly
7.25
10.10
15
Business have to lay people off and are struggling mainting the cost
#1010 meas higher wages for 28 million americans. Its time for congress to raise the minumim wage from 6.25 to 10.10
Raising hte minium wage would
Benefit more than 28 milion workers, and directly boost the wages of 19 million workers from all types of households
The current minum wage is not enough fro eorkers and their families to fet out of poverty
Who’s helped by rausing the minum wage
Average age 35 yearsl olf
88 over are not teens
36-40
Claim raising the minimum wage is bad for business.
Healthcare
Democrats
Government should allow universal access to healthcare
The Affordable Care Act-March 2010 Obamacare
Republicans:
Private insurers are preferable to government controlled system
0.16.2017
We watched Snatched:...
03.17.2017
Fox News: Trump Interview with Tucker Carlson
Trump doesn’t know where they got his tax returns “it’s an illegal thing and they’re done it before
He wants to start with taxes, he wants to lower it
15% for businesses
Are you a supporter of Paul Ryan’s Health care bill?
Democratrs hate the repulcians so much they cant see straight
If we had the greates healthcare bill in history
And we needed 8 democrats votes they wouldn’t voe for it, they’re selfish
How did you find out about the wiretapping
He read articles, watched the news
Ther
Healthcare
Why is it important?
It's used to pay for your bills
Republicans never had a healthcare place, they only condemed obamacare
Stronger consumer rights and protections
More than 129 million americans with pre-existing conditions can no longer be denied coverage or charged more because of their health.
More Affordable Coverage
Insurance campanies have to spend at least 80 percent of your premium dollars on health care. If they don;t meet the standnard, they have to provide rebates to consumers- and millions of consumers have recieved $1.9 billion in rebbates
- Since the affordable care act was enacted, hea;th care prices have risen at the slowest rate in nearly 50 years.
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