By Zachary Rhine
Staff Writer The Keystone State decided it was ready for a change. This came in the form of a new governor being elected. The 2014 General Elections took place on November 2nd. While it was recorded to be a Republican landslide, Pennsylvania was one of the states that said goodbye to their Republican Governor and hello to a Democratic one. Enter Thomas Wolf. A former CEO of one America’s largest supplier of kitchen cabinetry turned politician, Tom Wolf confirmed the statistics that he would be victorious in the November election. Wolf was formerly a Secretary of Revenue under Governor Ed Rendell in the early 2000’s. Going into the race, Wolf also had the support of fellow democrats Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Having won his new position as Governor, Wolf has certain goals and ideas that he assumes will benefit Pennsylvania as a state. Some of these ideas include the desire to build a stronger middle class and the intent to restore money to the education system. Wolf wants to increase the minimum wage to 10.10 dollars an hour. He also plans on restoring the one billion dollar budget cut made by former governor Tom Corbett. Wolf is also an advocate for equal pay and other women’s rights. “Equal pay for equal work,” Wolf says on his Website, www.wolfforpa.com. “We want to end discrimination,” continued Wolf. In addition, he is also a supporter of LGBT.
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Forcing Americans to purchase government-issued health insurance may be the most unamerican thing about the Affordable Health Care Act.
By Shaylah Ponder Staff Writer ObamaCare is the health care act initiated by our President Barack Obama. Affordable Care Act was its original name. It was signed to reform the U.S healthcare system in 2010. Obama’s goal was to give more American’s the access to quality health insurance and to reduce the growth in healthcare spending. But is ObamaCare really fulfilling its goals? All through the Obama/Romney campaign, Obama pushed and pushed for the act to be considered by congress. Even back then people were not that pressed about it. Since 2009, Obama has said that people would still keep their insurance, but millions have lost their insurance due to ObamaCare. This evidently shows that this program is just not working. President Obama stated on November 14. in an interview with NBC news that “ We fumbled the ball.” The nonchalant sports analogy, seemed to lack a lot of sympathy towards Americans angered through this complicating process. ObamaCare is more of a burden than a blessing for some people. Yes does it give thousands of Americans the chance to receive health insurance,sure it does, but it also has insurance companies covering sick people and this increases the cost of everyones insurance. The simple fact that every American must be insured by Jan. 1 is rather absurd. In a country were we are the home of the free, it’s funny how we are being forced and required to be a part of this. Our money is being dictated by the government on what we spend and how we spend it, no penalty should be enforced. In my opinion this goes against everything that represents being an American and what it stands for. “I am sorry that they you know, are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me,” President Obama said last Thursday. ObamaCare is a policy that maybe should’ve been introduced at a better time for the economy. With people still recovering from the recession of 2008, now is not the time to be forced into a commitment to a system thats hardly even working. ObamaCare has affected everyone differently, but as the saying goes majority rules, and the majority of Americans can agree that ObamaCare needs to go. |
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