I am responding to an article on page 418 and 419 in the textbook. Right off the bat the title of the article is “What America Owes Its “Illegals”. I laugh at the title because I think we do not owe them anything and they owe a bunch of taxes because most do not have the right to live in the states that families that have developed and have a signature saying that we live and own property in the United States. However this article is saying that they deserve a bonus. This is because they have been doing the dirty jobs such as mowing lawns, cleaning offices, hammering nails, picking our valuable crops and many other dirty jobs we both do for low paying salary. The article is also saying that there are many minority workers who are working on these jobs that are nameless. One quote I found from the article is that “I’ve got to find myself a couple of Jose’s for this job if we are going to have that roof patched up by Saturday. I do agree that the minority workers who come in to this country and live without citizenship are being treated poorly while earning a paying job for them and the families that the workers might have. However I think that they take away jobs from other unemployed job seeking Americans and we suffer more than the Mexicans. Recently found by the San Diego ACLU is that immigrants do pay a lot in taxes which they should. But the older Americans get to enjoy their old age   and live off pensions, retirement funds and other such bills that aid them. I am saying that immigrants do take advantage of living in the US illegally while US citizens are unemployed and not working. This world is messed up in aspects that affect daily life.

I cannot believe it snowed in April. On Saturday I got a suntan at a track meet and just two days later we got snow. After this record setting winter of snow and below zero weather I am almost ready to move when I get older. No wonder older people move to live in Florida as they age. Everybody does not like the cold weather and I cannot imagine what people would feel if it snowed not very much but still snow in June would mean something would be wrong with this atmosphere on earth. This is why I do not trust weathermen because that is the only job you can be wrong a lot on and still maintain a job. They mostly say a fifty percent chance of rain or less but then it rains and they are fifty percent wrong or often times predict the wrong precipitation we get with all their fancy and high tech equipment. I looked it up on the internet and according to some sites science says that snow in the warmer months of the year means that it disproves global warming and we just get a random snow in our ecosystem. In Alaska it is freezing and cold year bound because of their positioning. Some states do not even have salt for the salt trucks because they never expect snow in the south. I do want to move south because of the warmer weather and less corrupt government than in Illinois. Stay warm Illinois and keep those roads clear.

I am responding to an article on page 412 and 413 in the book talking about making money readable to the blind. First of all I am in agreement because the blind rely on others to help them because of their struggle they have to deal with in their life. I think that there could be a braille system made for money that would tell them what the number is on the corner of the bill. The only problem with this is that it would be much more time consuming too make braille money and then the separate money for the people that are able to see. Some of the ways that the Treasury Department can make money available to the blind is raising the ink, modifying the size of certain bills and producing a tactile mark to indicate a bills denomination. However the Treasury Department has objected all these solutions claiming that the seventy five million price tag is simply too high. Spending more money to make money that is losing its value. What a crazy situation America is in that is making the dollar worth less than it is. However if this change would have been made years ago rather than fighting the blind in court for a separate money currency we could have saved our tax money towards a better cause. Seventy percent of the blind population in America are suffering from unemployment which is not a shock at all to me. If you can see it helps a lot in the business world and business are most likely to reject you if you cannot see. I would be interested in watching a blind person at a job to see what they have to do and feel. There are still credit cards that the blind can use.

According to CNN news there is a new technological invention roaming the floors of the ocean. That’s right it is a manmade crab. I find this very interesting because if they can make a crab for research who knows what ideas other companies will get to make other inventions that could help us research animal or even future homes, businesses, or cars. The crab which weighs over half a ton is intended for the most dangerous missions in the sea. Developed by the Korean Institute of Science and Technology This crabster will help to solve long standing problems in the ocean waters that humans most likely do not think about on a daily basis. While propeller-driven craft do not work well in fierce tides, and divers are limited to calm, relatively shallow seas, the new machine mimics the design of crabs and lobsters that live in stormy waters but are still able to control their movements. I wish that America’s sciences could make something like this to mimic other animals while still able to see problems on the ocean floor and fix them. I give props to the Koreans because they are much more hardworking than the Americans. CR 200 will help divers or work instead of them the divers. It could also assist in finding underwater resources. What a great idea this is. Technology is a great thing and has come so far now making animals that can blend in, not bother other animals and helps find resources. I wonder what is next or how much it will build. The future is certainly bright for technology and making life easier.