Blog Stage 3

       Today, I want to discuss this article "Elections Have Become a Game for Billionaires" posted on New York Times. The author is claiming that election is all about money, and people who have more money wins the election, and her intended reader may be people who care about politics.
      When I first read her article, I was kind of unsure about her argument since I was not that into politics. I thought that votes are from people who really vote for some representatives. However, the truth is that the win and loss of an election are almost made by money, not people who actually vote. The best example is 2017 election. Even though Hillary had more votes than Trump, the result was opposite. Donald Trump has the power of money that made him be president without people's vote. People may wonder how this can come true that money makes the president. This can be simply explained by income inequality. Top 1 percent in the U.S makes most of other 99 percent of the money that people actually make. Therefore, top 1 percent has about 25 percent of power among total  U.S Citizen has. If someone wants to be a president, he or she must close to some any billionaires since they have much more power than other normal citizens in the U.S. The author also mentioned that a quarter of money in the presidential race comes from the donation by billionaires. This gives us the fact that election is game played by billionaires. If there are any financial support form rich people, presidential race can't be processed. We can see that how money is important in an election.
      In conclusion, I think author's overall idea of an election is mostly true. Rich people actually rule the society, and there is no way to control them or regulate them without any power or money. I believe that Inequality in America should be fixed in future to prevent this kind of situation.

Blog stage 2

     This time I want to talk about this article "Government Shutdown Looms as Rand Paul Protests Budget Deal," published in Feb 8 2018. It is an article about the government shut down events from New York Times. People might not be aware of the term shut down. It is just meaning not working or in the computer system, it means stay off. Shut down term in government is the literary government not working since there is no proper budget planned to other organization. When the government shut down, then security by police, and firefighter, EMS, and other essential national services do not work. Therefore, it results in lots of problems due to lack of essential services. Moreover, more than 100 million government employees get fired, and other official testing centers are a force to shut down since there is no budget for them. This is creating critical economical damage not only in the U.S. and other nation. The research said that if U.S government stay in shut down for 2 weeks then U.S government's economic growth rate would decrease about 0.3 percent. Luckily, U.S. ended shut down in about 4 days after they shut down.

     Many people would question the reason for shut down. The main reason for this shut down is by immigration law concern. The new president claiming that building walls and other strict immigration law to Hispanic should be enforced, but another political party is disagreeing with this concern. Therefore, they result in shut down. It is important to colleagues to read this article since it explains why the U.S is having a hard time due to unacceptable immigration law. I hope this problem would solve in a wise way.