Same Sex Marriage/Economy

Now that the state Legislature has taken a step to further the ban on marriage between same sex couples, it can go even further and ban interracial marriage or marriage between Jews and Catholics. After all no one is born a Catholic, it is their lifestyle choice just as being gay is.They can always marry other Catholics. I know for a fact that when an elderly man marries a young woman it is a threat on all people's marriage. When an Asian American marries a a woman from Mexico divorce runs rampant in society, affecting all marriages. We don't as a society want to undermine the definition of marriage by extending it to people of different races, faiths or ages do we? We as a society obviously can't allow any of these types of marriage, because what is next, marriage between men and trees? No we must make a stand. Oh, but gay marriage changes the definition of between a man and a woman, well why limit the arbitrary ways to limit the definition of marriage? As I pointed out there are so many other ways to do so. Gays must know that their marriages pose a threat greater than nuclear war does. So what that limiting the right of marriages intrudes on freedom of choice and happiness of the individual, that it indirectly violates the Establishment Clause by endorsing religious values through governmental policy. Anything less than stopping gays from marrying and we fail to show future societies what a bunch of intolerant, puritans we really are.


Economy:

Bush says his tax plan will spur the economy, but will it? Recessions happen because of low demand, such as lack of consumer spending because warehouses are full, so production is curbed, which leads to layoffs of workers who can't afford to buy merchandise. Supply-side economics or tax cuts don't address this issue, but demand-side cuts - such as tax cuts for the middle class, earned income tax credit for the working poor, unemployment compensation for those who spend more than they invest - do so in fact.Second, every dollar the federal government cuts it has to make up either two ways. Borrow, which means higher interest rates, because it lowers the amount of money that can be borrowed in the economy, or spending cuts, which sound good in theory. Of our $2 trillion federal budget, when you factor in defense, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, interest on the debt, federal justice system, those make up three-fourths of the federal budget. Social welfare spending makes up a few percent.