I Love YouTube

YouTube has become a huge platform for young artists to showcase their talent. I watch a lot of music videos on the Internet of artists trying to get their big break. In many cases it has worked out for them and for a lot it doesn’t. The fact that YouTube allows people to express themselves freely gives a person complete freedom to do what they want, even if it’s a corny idea. There are many great artists on YouTube and I don’t think they get enough recognition because I can honestly say that there are songs on YouTube that are better than the filth I hear on the radio. One specific genre that I see a lot of is hip-hop music. I see where people can make the argument that hip-hop music isn’t what it used to be, I can agree with that. I don’t think hip-hop will ever return to the way it used to be but I also don’t see that as a bad thing. A lot of rappers have their own style, which makes music more fun and unique. Keeping the same style gets old and listeners want more variety. I like that rappers are being more creative with their work for example featuring a rock group on a song. I think the blends of music together makes it that much more spectacular. Don’t get me wrong; it’s not only the rappers. Many artists are featuring artists from different genres and I personally find this kind of music to be the best. Classic hip-hop can never be replaced. Many artists use the same old school sounds in their music but it’s rare to hear a whole album that has an old school vibe. 

Is Obama a socialist?

Not even close. When senator Obama was running for president in 2008 he promised many things to the American people and the world. As soon as he won the election he was attacked by conservative news media Fox News simultaneously he was attacked by republicans in congress especially tea party republicans. They said economic policies were too liberal and too far left and that he was hurting the economy. The stimulus bill that was started under President Bush and continued under Obama is one of the many things they blame him for. I agree Obama’s stimulus bill failed but it didn’t fail because it was too big. This is where Liberals like me and conservatives differ. The stimulus bill failed because it was too small, if it had been bigger the economy would have rebounded and it would help people find jobs. The other reason it failed is one the republicans never acknowledge. Half of the stimulus was the Bush tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires. When President Obama worked on health care reform he made a huge mistake, he started the debate with the public option. The public option is government insured health care which means if you are an American and your coverage is too expensive and the health insurance companies are giving you a hard time you would be able to switch and receive the same care from your doctor or from any hospital and it would be affordable to you and would not put you in financial strain. If people like the insurance they already have then they would be able to keep it that’s why it’s called public option. Obama is a member of the Democratic Party and as a democrat he should have started the debate with universal health care. Universal health care is a single payer system like Canada’s health care system which means you don’t pay the government pays for the health care. Every western first world country has some version of this except the United States. Getting rid of the health insurance companies should have been his goal. These companies profit from people’s sickness raising rates and not covering patients for many diseases and cancers. If he started the debate from single payer but wasn’t going to get enough support in congress to pass the bill he could of then cut a deal and got the public option passed knowing that there is no need for a middle man for health care. If that isn’t enough to prove that Obama is not a socialist than this will. Big companies and corporations are supposed to pay taxes to the federal government. Exxon Mobile and BP are two of the world’s biggest oil companies. They pay lower taxes then middle class families and they receive tax cuts from the government. If Obama closed loopholes and stopped giving big oil companies the American peoples tax dollars he would save $4 billion over 10 years. General Electric (GE) gets billions in tax relief from the government but pays absolutely no income taxes. GE is the owner of NBC News and MSNBC. MSNBC is a leftist liberal network that supports democrats and extensively makes republicans look bad which makes MSNBC the equivalent of Fox News. Obama always gets good coverage and news reports making him look good and in exchange GE abuses the tax code and pays no taxes. The 2012 re-election campaign has started and Obama’s team estimate that they will get over a billion dollars in campaign contributions to defeat the republican candidate. Obama is democrat who has passed over and over again bills that are exactly what republicans want. Obama isn’t a socialist he isn’t even a democrat he’s moderate conservative he just happens to be on the blue team but would find himself surrounded with people just like him if he was on the red team.

For more detailed information on who donated to Obama’s campaign and who will donate this time around go to this website.   http://www.fec.gov/

By: Hussein M.