I’m expanding my approach to next week’s Wordfull Wednesday topic. Since the U.S Presidential Election is looming just a couple of weeks away choose which of the following issues most concerns you or you are most passionate about and tell us about it. Why is it important to you? I’m hoping we’ll get to see a wide diversity of topics and opinions expressed. And that everyone will be respectful but honest in their comments whether they agree or disagree with what someone has written. I’m also interested in reading the posts from those who don’t live in the USA. Reader’s Digest did a global poll to see what issues people in other countries were concerned about and how that differed from the US. Pretty interesting article!
Here are the choices of topics. Some do overlap somewhat.
Economy
Education
Immigration
Marriage (just between one man and one woman or should gays be allowed to marry?)
War (Iraq, Afghanistan, or war in general)
Put those thinking caps on and let us know what you think next week!
Fun! Like you said, it’ll be fun to see what other people think outside of my ‘bubble of people’ that I talk to!
I read that global poll.. the election is on tv here a lot.. in australia people dont care about the election half as much as you guys.. and it doesnt drag on for ever here.. we have the mainstream two parties (and greens and independents) and we vote for the party not the leader.. we are also required to vote so everyone does it… it is very different to the usa elections.. we actually follow yours because they are more interesting 🙂 and crazy.. we dont do parties or rallies here.. no one goes out to see the people elected.. I mean we see the prime minister but there are no rallys or money raising.. each party has a allocated amount (I think) and can not use private money.. so that is different..
and i laughed how noone here wants to move to the us 70%…. but most of us holiday there 🙂 and it must not include mormons because half of us live in the US 😉
but australia has free heath care and we get money to give birth ($5000 for each child) and we get weekly payment from the government to have children (I get about $200 a week because I have 3 children) and when my husband lost his job for a while we got paid unemployment benefits.. basically it is expensive to live in australia but we are looked after very well… so with all the bad new on tv I suppose people think Australia might be a little better and that crime is very low here and no one has guns (illegal- except if you have a license that is very hard to get)
anyways just some thoughts.. I love the US and I love Australia.. I loved utah when I visited and I loved loved loved upstate new york and vermont.. I want a summer house there.. because it doenst snow in Australia (my husband never seen snow)so I dont think I could hack the snow for months on end
ok I will stop now 🙂
I meant dont care about OUR election..not the american one…. your probably gets more press here than our local one 🙂
That poll was interesting. I’ve been keeping an eye on your Wordfull Wednesday topics… haven’t had time to do it so far. But I may have to see if I can do it this time, even though my pet “issue” is the Constitution.
Ritsumei,
Feel free to write about the Constitution too!