chash360
Outsourcing is undermining America at every turn. Fewer can afford higher education, nor desire it when your entire proffesion seems to be shipped offshore. Manufacturing products and doing real work, has real inherent value that builds an economy, not inflated profits and stock values that are pocketed by the few, that does nothing for the American people.
Offshore Outsourcing is basically selling America out. These corperations will rake in the profits of their cheap outsourced labor, to rake in more profits on their, now cheaper (and probably lower quality) products from the American consumer which is just scraping by wondering if their job will be there tomorrow. The consumer is not really saving that much, considering their job may be next to go.
The huge lie being told is covered up by the re-clasification of fast food jobs as manufacturing, and that unemployment rates only count those who are actively seeking unemployment benefits, it does not cover the huge numbers of people who do not have any unemployment benefits, or have run out of them.
The debate on this issue should be differentiated from domestic outsourcing verses offshore outsourcing, because domestic outsourcing is definately beneficial, provided it is not used as a method to take advantage of employees (inhibits worker unions). This also ties closley with Government-Corperate regulation.
And the difference from heterosexuals is?
The issue has many parts, one the religous aspect, marriage is a religous practice, does the government have a right to dictate anything about a religous practice? No, in my opinion, but does any single religon own marriage? Most religons have some sort of marriage practice, and so no single church or religon should be able to dictate it either.
The easy solution to the issue is to eliminate the wording of marriage, and replace with domestic partnership or civil union, etc. The special tax considerations given to married couples along with a myriad of other laws pertaining to married couples is quickly becoming a religous preferrence/discrimination issue.
If this does not occur then the Homosexual community could establish a church that can be legally recognized, and challenge the consitutionality of the Man-Women only marriage law, as it is clearly dictating the form of a religous practice, that is certainly not owned by any one particular religon.
In a truly free America that values and respects diversity and freedom, we should be accepting of even more possibilities, like domestic partnerships that may not even involve a sexual relationship, or communal partnerships, and multi-family households. These things are currently discouraged by our limited definitions in law that only recognize married or single, and will become ever more important as we continue to over populate the earth. (which is an argument in favor of homosexuality, without procreation)
My employer recognizes domestic partnership, my insurance does, etc. I am hetero, and not married, but do have a family. In today's age, looking at the divorce rates, and custody battles, etc. I am certianly not inclined to get married anytime soon, my family has done just fine without it for many years. If you are unmarried and run into problems you either work it out or split up, but if you are married there are many dollar incentives to get divorced (especially for the lawyers and courts). I honestly don't know why Gay people want to get married other than the legal recognitions/sanctions that should not be there in the first place, for a religous practice.
Although I do feel the blood test and 'marriage license porocess' still has valuable positive aspects, to prevent degenrative genetic diseases, and issues like AIDS and HIV. These things should not be lost in the debate.
