When I heard that the government was going to give out stimulus checks, I was very excited. I made over 7,000 dollars last year, which is 4,000 dollars over the minimum. I was looking forward to that check, and was going to put some of that money back in the economy. I soon found out that I am stuck in a loophole. Since I still depend on my parents, I am still filed under my parent’s taxes.
I personally believe that the Progressive U organizations should lower the word count for blogs that have to be posted. I believe that blogging is getting your voice out there and start the debate between people. Blogs are usually usually short and a paragraph or so. I blog for a newspaper where i live, i have to lower the word count of my blogs so the whole blog will be published in the paper.
Things you can do at age 18:
You can vote.
Men have to sign up for selective service.
You can go to war.
You can be selected to jury duty.
You can buy a riffle.
You can play the state lottery.
You can buy cigarettes.
First let me give you a background on where this blog is coming from. I blog for the newspaper in Nashville,Tn. We are in the bible belt and i am very liberal. Most of my blog i also put on this site also. I get published once a week. I talk on very liberal issues.
This next coming week is Islam Awareness Week at MTSU. A friend of mine who I met on my volunteering trip to Chicago is the president of Muslim Student Association. I am very excited to attend some of the events that she and her organization are putting on. I get really get upset when people want to protest Muslims in general?
While many college students are in Florida getting tans and partying, I decided to spend it volunteering. This spring break, I spent a week in Chicago giving back to the community.
The CDC recently conducted a study and found that 1 in 4 teenage girls are infected with some type of STD. That is equal to 3.2 million teenage girls nation wide. Also, in some places, 1 in 3 girls will become pregnant by the age of 20. That is an outrageous number when we have so many resources that we do not use properly.
Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed suit against the department of Customs and Boarder Protection for "lengthy questioning and intrusive searchers." There have been many instances where Customs has gone into people's personal computer and even made people tell them their passwords to get into their computer. I think that is too far!
