Is it because the flag is made of cloth that makes it so dear to many people? Does it have to be colored? What is it about the flag that makes us want to save it so? Its nothing about the flag. It’s a symbol. But a symbol of something important. It’s a symbol of the American system, which protects and provides all sorts of “freedoms” to the people. They are ironically attacking the system that earned their freedom to attack it. Is there REALLY a reason why people do this? People who burn the flag are protesting against America, but none of them would leave because of their feelings. Sure, they’re happy to stay in free land and reap the benefits, while they spit in our founding father’s faces. That flag meant so much more to the early Americans, who gave their lives to see that a country was really free. None of them would even dream of burning the flag, a symbol of true freedom. People are so surrounded in comfort today. Their idea of freedom has been twisted. They are more free than African Americans were during the 1800’s. They are more free than the colonies in the 1700’s. They are more free than the churches in Europe, who were enraged by the restrictions on their religious freedom. The lifestyle we have today would be heaven for all of them. But human nature is selfish, and wants more and more. I believe in freedom, but not in getting everything that anybody ever wanted. If you don’t agree with one thing that’s happening in America, don’t burn the symbol that includes everything. If flag burners really had respect for America, they wouldn’t burn something like the flag, a piece of cloth or not.  

            If flag burners were smart enough, they would see that there is many better ways to get the attention they want. Marin Luther King made his point without harming anything, and he got positive attention. So did Gandhi. They were rewarded for their non-violence while protesting. Flag burners just mostly get negative attention, and nobody really pays attention to what they were trying to make a point of anyway.

            Should it be illegal? I think it should. Flag burners just promote more violence than is needed. Yes, they have freedom of speech, and yes it’s just a piece of cloth. But is burning a flag freedom of speech? No, its selfish people’s way of making their point across in a very negative, non-American way.

The Economy is slowly declining because people aren’t spending. When our economy is doing well people spend freely because they feel that they can make the money back easily without much problems. They know there’s money to be made out there and they figure they can make more if they need it. When our economy started declining I started looking at the facts. I’m still in school so money is tight and the thought crossed my mind “It wasn’t this way in the past, Why is it this way now?” After tossing and turning and clicking the mouse a million times I’ve learned why and I’m here to share it with you.

The Basics

Our economy is measured by GPD. The GPD is the tool used to measure the health of our economy. The GPD is figured like this. Consumers + Investments + Government Spending (+/-) Trading

Consumers- We are the consumers. The more money we spend helps the GPD making our economy healthier. if you remember the government gave money to the public a couple years back to stimulate the economy. Well, that was their plan. You see people took the money and paid off debt and saved the rest. This doesn’t help the economy. The more money you put in the bank the less that’s circulating. The more we spend the better our economy gets.

Investments- Investments are important because they help keep the economy at it’s best. When we stop spending this goes way down harming our economy. When the economy gets worse were like, I’m saving not spending cause the economy is doing awful. Don’t deny it… you know I’m right about that. When we stop spending it also means were not looking to get into anymore loans. When we stop taking out loans it hurts the Investment and consumers aspect of this.

Government Spending- When the Government sees something like this coming they try to stop it. They tried by giving back money but failed. Now there’s only one solution left, I don’t like it and I know you won’t either but we have to Raise Taxes. Here’s why, if the government raises the taxes then they are taking the money that no one is willing to spend and spending it. When they spend it the GPD goes up and the amount of money circulating that can be made increases. When the amount of money increases people feel better about going and buying that big screen TV or a house, or car etc… Thus it jump starts our economy.

Trading- Simple enough, our Exports (What we ship to others)(Sell) – our Imports (What we get from others)(Buy) if we Export (sell) more then we import (Buy) that increases our GPD making our economy better and more stable.

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The Plan

The plan is to raise taxes. This will help our economy and there for us. Our future and our kids futures and theirs are at risk here. They are going to raise taxes to the rich and lower it for the middle class. This is going to slender those bank accounts that are huge and fatten up those that are small. When this money comes around it will with it raise our GPD making our economy stronger, now we need to make sure when this finally happens that we spend money and do our part to keep the wheel turning.

Does This Sample Work?

I go into a car dealer, “I want to buy a Honda please.”

“Ok, it’ll be here tomorrow”

I go home and find out that I just got fired so I call them back tomorrow and tell them I don’t want the car anymore. So the car dealer calls his travel agent.

“Hi, it’s john I have to cancel my trip because a deal fell through and I need to save my money.”

The travel agent gets this and can’t take a loan to buy a new house. The mortgage broker that was going to give him the money now doesn’t have the funds to lend out to just anyone and Joe Smith calls.

“I fired 5 employees today so I can afford that house now.”

The Broker turns around and say’s sorry but we can’t give you the loan still your to much of a risk.

Joe Smith not meaning to just hurt the economy because, all that money that was going to float around and increase our GPD is now gone. This is why we can’t make stupid decisions. We have to consider the consequences of our actions to the rest of the world; if everyone was responsible then everyone’s lives would be better. We need to think of the effects before we act. I know there’s no way Joe would have saw this coming and it’s not his fault. Now you educated on this subject so you can help us better our economy and get out of this mess.