Response to, Where's my money, man?

I agree with you. I like how you pointed out how much money could have gone to each American household if it were given to the taxpayers instead of corporations. I think it’s funny how rich people complain about redistribution of wealth to the needy. The government just redistributed our money to the rich. In 2007, the median annual household income was $50,233.00 according to the Census Bureau. That means that most Americans don’t make $80,000.00 in a year. If people lost their jobs because these corporations closed they would have $80,000.00 to live on until they found another income. New companies with more responsible people could have taken the place of the failed corporations. People could have used the money to help keep their homes.

No marriage should be recognized by the Government

Our president was right when he said, “we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation”. We are a country of many religions and people without any religion. The first amendment in the bill of rights states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” Which means they shall make no law that is based on one groups religious beliefs. Christians argue that they own the word marriage and that they are protecting the sanctity of marriage. If marriage is a religious institution the Government should stay out of it. Therefore, I think that the Government should not recognize any marriage. Instead they should recognize the union of a couple to share property, responsibility, and rights granted to, what we now call, married couples. They should grant these rights to any consenting adult couple and call it anything but marriage. Couples could then have a ceremony recognized by their religion or customs. This way everyone will have equal rights, there will be a separation between church and state and marriage will be a personal commitment.
Even though this sounds like a good compromise, I think that this will not resolve the argument. That is because I don’t believe this argument is about the sanctity of a word. I believe it is about one group of people forcing there religious views on the rest of us, in order to deny another group of people from having equal rights. That is exactly what the first part of the first amendment is trying to protect us from.