Political campaigns require a lot of resources people, time, transportation, and more importantly money. Money is what makes everything else that’s needed to come together. I read House, Senate Democrats Retain Cash Edge posted by Erin McPike on Real Clear Politics for Time.com. It was an interesting read to me because it gives a look at how much American Citizens feel their political committees are worth by how much money they back those committees with.
The article basically explained how much more money the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee raised in September and how their opposition the National Republican Senatorial Committee compared with their fundraising success. “The DSCC raised $15.5 million last month compared to the NRSC’s $8.3 million in the same time period.” As stated in the article is a clear example of how the two committees compared for the month. It’s also a prime example explaining why the author wrote this article with a Democratic overtone.
I feel that this article was written more to enlighten whoever takes the time to read it. I really don’t feel that this article was written for a specific group of people but more for everybody. Everyone should know how much money is being collected by their political parties. To me it’s just a good indication into how much effort can be put into campaigns that matter to you, and how much to expect in those campaigns. I can appreciate articles like this one because it reassures me that someone out there in the information world feels that the smaller issues of politics that are sometimes overlooked once down the stretch are still important to report about.
In my fellow classmates editorial blog titled, Unemployment Hurts he stresses on the pros and cons of the unemployment rates. I do agree with the fact that employment rates are slowly increasing from earlier years. In one of my recent blog’s, I researched the ways that the Recovery Act and many different tax credit programs are helping families and small business recover from the strains of the fallen economic situation that this country is in.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the political parties are pointing the finger at the opposing parties’ opinions, but merely as means of attack advertising to win more votes during the most recent elections.
Getting political leaders together as one government seems to be impossible because they would have to agree on every situation at hand and neither political party believes that the views of the opposing party would work. Political parties have different priorities they want to see accomplished when they are voted into office. If one party is in office for one term and loses in the next election, then the priorities will change.
I have to disagree with the argument that the stimulus program was just brownie points to win the favor of the public. I have noticed the economy slowly rising out of the shadows of the recession. For example, I have recently seen numerous construction projects, which to me is not a sign of recession but rather states using federal and state taxes to provide jobs to people that would probably be unemployed.
Unfortunately stimulating the economy will take time and has put stress and burdens on many families and businesses. I believe the Recovery Act has provided many different programs to help these families and business get through this tough economic time and as Isiah House has said, “only time will tell”.