Mon:
Australia map quiz
Health care
democrats:
- government should allow universal access to healthcare
- the affordable care act-march 2012-Obamacare
Republicans:
- don't agree with it
- are strictly against it
Stronger consumer rights and protections
- more than 129 mio Americans with preexisting conditions can no longer be denied coverage or charged more because of their health
- more affordable coverage
- since the affordable care act was enacted, health care prices have risen at the slowest rate in nearly 50 years
Better access to care
- more than 16 mio Americans have gained health coverage
- 5.7 mio young adults have gained coverage to be under parents' plan
Stronger medicare
Why Republicans hate Obamacare:
- once you start it's hard to remove people
- people rely to much on government and not on themselves
- people expect too much
- too socialistic
Martin O'Malley
democrat
- was born in washington, University of Maryland
- Mayor of Baltimore
- Governor of Maryland
- supports the middle class
- improve public school
- greenhouse gases
- stricter gun laws
- raise minimum wage
failures of the past
- thinks too much of numbers
- took away jobs
- plans of dropping crime have failed
ISIS
- Islamic state in Iraq and AL-Sham
Republicans & Democrats:
- US should use military force against ISIS
- group that tries to take iver Syria
- started in 1999
- money from oil fields/ similar to mafia
- russia airstrike on ISIS
- Sunni Awakening first part of ISIS weakened
- After Sunni Awakening moved to Syria where they gained a lot of power
Tue:
Asia map test
Wed:
Asia map test
Thu:
- Carly Fiorina
republican
born in Austin, Texas
attended many schools
attended school in ghana
made friends easily, couldn't stay connected
studied medical history and philosophy at Stanford
bachelor of art in 1976
dropped out of UCLA school of law after one semester
-> mad dad
bounced from job to job
worked as a teacher in italy
master of business administration university of maryland
became head of North America's sales
joined HP and became CEO -> didn't go well
2009 ran for US senat
easily became the republican nominee -> was beat in 2010 by Barbara Boxer -> California
May 2015 running for president for 2016
either 2nd or 3rd place in the polls
-pro life
- planned parenthood
- woman equality/rights
- "we need the biggest and most powerful army in the world"
The war in Afghanistan
- 9/11
- started October 7th 2001
Democrats
- Obama would have all troops out by 2014 had to expand till 2016
Republicans
- want to stand behind the Bush administration
- find weapons they migtht be making there
- want to shrink area of operation and destroy their leadership
result
- people freed from taliban
- taliban government began to fall
- bin Laden killed
Jeb Bush
republican
- born in Midland, Texas
- Philips Acadmeny high school, Texas University
- married wife Columba
- climate changes is real concern
-marriage between man and woman
- expand gun owner's rights
- cancel any nuclear deal
Ted Cruz
- born 1970
- lives in Houston, Texas
- father Cuban immigrant
- republican
- Harvard then Princeton
- went then back to law school at Harvard
- law clerk for J Michael Luttig
Fri:
-Medical is legal in 24 states, and Washington DC
- Anyone over 21 can smoke marijuana in Alaska, Washington DC and ORegon
- 53% of Americans think it should be legal
- major point of supporting marijuana
- medical benefits, benefits, not as dangerous as other drugs
- Majority of both parties still oppose the legalization of marijuana for recreational use
- democrats would be more likely to support
- legalization of marijuana for medical use
Death Penalty
- 1 414 executions since 1976
- 31 states have it including Indiana, Ohio, Oklahoma
- the ones that don't include Iowa, Nebraska
- takes 16.5 years
- Furman v Georgia
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