Proposals from Current Events

Friday
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2011-03-17-food-costs-world-hunger.htm
-Problem is that there are soaring food costs this past year due to many economic reasons. This soaring food costs have put millions of people around the world into poverty. The scary thing is that these prices aren't expected to rally, but only get worse.
-Exigence- This is happening right now and affecting a huge number of people. A proposal is needed immediately to either limit the damage of these high food prices.

http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/health/medical/2011-03-17-kidney-transplant_N.htm
-This article already has a proposal in it, but I feel it could be expanded upon. The problem is that a patient receiving a kidney transplant contracted AIDS after the surgery. It was found that while the donor tested negative 11 weeks before the surgery, he contracted AIDs shortly after. This is the first documented case of its kind since 1980.
-Exigence- With the unbelievable science and technology the health care system has today, there is no way a error like this should be made. It was proposed that the donors should be tested right before the surgery to be absolutely certain they're clean. The exigence for this proposal is that this man's life has been ruined by a mistake that could, and should, have been avoided entirely.

Saturday-
http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/health/healthcare/doctorsnurses/2011-03-19-nurses_N.htm
-Problem. The less nurses that are working due to hospital economic issues, the more people that die.
-Exigence. In the dire economic times we are in, this is a very scary and important statistic. I would propose that we use more of the "robot" nurses that hospitals are beginning to use to do the mundane tasks nurses do that do not require human skills (carrying pills, ect.)

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/03/bill-nelson-2012-senate-race-joe-biden/1
-Problem. In my opinion it is a problem that Vice President Joe Biden is taking time off from his duties as V.P. to raise money for a democratic candidate running for election to the Senate.
-Exigence. This is happening right now and needs to be taken care of so that in the future our countries leaders actually do their jobs. I would propose that current members of all three branches (legislative, executive and judicial) not be allowed to campaign (verbally or physically) for someone else's election to another political office. Rather than spending their time and resources helping one of their friends get a job, they should be doing their own.

Sunday

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/health/policy/20health.html?_r=1&ref=health
-Problem. President Obama passed the "Affordable Care Act" last March making healthcare more affordable to millions across the U.S. The problem is that many states are requesting special waivers for lower standards (as many as 20 states are considering applying for one.
-Exigence. National health care insurance is a major strife in our country today, and clearly this law is not what the people and states wanted. Rather than try to keep track of millions of waivers and applications, I propose Obama's government amend the bill to what the people want.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/us/20budgets.html?ref=us
-Problem. In my eyes, this article brings to light a serious problem in the U.S. The article illustrates how historically, and today, we use the price of cigarettes as a chip to fix budget holes or increase spending. This shows that the governments real reason for not banning cigarettes is not public health, but because they get so much money from it.
-Exigence. Cigarettes directly and indirectly kill thousands in the U.S. every year because they are an addictive toxic to the body.  My proposal is a ban on cigarettes, which is not a new proposal but could be validated in a whole new light when the true motives behind its regulation is analyzed.