Group work - Presidential Election in the USA
Today is
the president election day in the USA. This is an important day, not only in
The US but also for the rest of the world. Because America is such a big and
important country with a lot of power will the result influence all of us. Today
the republican Mitt Romney and democrat Barrack Obama are fighting for the
throne. Many people are sure that Barrack Obama is the one who will win the
election this year too, as he did in 2008. Even though Mitt Romney is getting
more and more votes.
According to
Voting and Registration Data - US Census 2008, the United States of America
voter turnout was 58%. To compare with other countries, in Norway 76% of the
people voted. The best thing would be if
100% voted and used their right to vote. The politicians also use a lot of
money during their campaign. Obama spent 852.9 m $ and Romney spent $752.3 million on the election this year to get peoples votes.
Obama and
Romney have quite different opinions. Obama wants girls to have abortion rights,
he thinks it should be allowed to abort and girls should get the morning after
pill on prescription if they want to. Romney used to support abortion, but is
now against them. Furthermore Obama also supports gay marriage. In USA today
gay marriage is only legal in some states, if Obama wins he will make a
difference so that gay marriage is allowed all over the country. Romney is
against gay marriage, as a Mormon he don’t think it’s right to let people of
the same sex get married.
When it
comes to taxes Obama wants everyone who can afford it and earns a lot of money
to pay more tax so that the ones who are struggling can pay less. Obama wants
wealthy people to pay at least 30% of their income while Romney wants to drop
all the tax rates. He wants to lower the taxes.
They both
want to improve the education system in America and Obama says that he wants
the American schools to be the best. They also agree to a lot of things when it
comes to decisions about war, the military and they both want to get more
people jobs. Romney says that if he gets elected as president he will get
12million new jobs out on the marked.
Barrack Obama’s plans:
If Barrack
Obama gets elected for president, his first plan is to help people who were hit
by the storm Sandy to recover form it economically. This wouldn’t be a big
problem, he says, because USA is a county that gets back on its feet very
quickly after a natural disaster.
Obama has a
long- term economic plan that involves investment in education, small
businesses, clean energy and lower taxes especially for companies that brings
jobs back to United States of America.
He wants to
cut taxes by 3 600 USD for the typical American middle class family, allowing
them to get a paying of 50 00 USD per year. Obama’s long- term economic plan
also involves that USA has to use more of its own energy sources rather than
buying energy from other countries. This means utilizing the American made
energy to its maximum while the climate doesn’t get affected.
When
President Obama was in charge, America has experienced 32 straight months of
job growth, 5.4 million more private sector jobs, and nearly 479 000
manufacturing jobs since the year 2010. This is a clear sign that Barrack Obama
will make a good US President.
President
Obama was the one who ended the war in Iraq and returned US troops home from
Afghanistan. Now his plan is to use half the savings from the war to pay back
some of the debt and to invest in new building projects in the US. Another plan
is to help young and hardworking immigrants who were brought here as children
to get better healthcare and better paying, as well as less hard work.
Mitt Romney’s plans:
Mitt
Romney’s plans when it comes to economy are quite similar to Obama’s plans. Mitt Romney also
wants to lower the taxes, for instance. He wants to make a smaller, a simpler
and a smarter government by cutting the taxes for the typical middle class
families in USA and increasing the taxes for the rich people in the country.
However,
Mitt Romney’s plans don’t involve withdrawal of American troops in Afghanistan.
His further plans are unknown.
Another
negative thing about Romney as US president is that he refused to help
immigrants who came to USA as children.
Well, I
don’t think I have to say more about Romney’s plans because I’m 100% democrat. I
really hope that Obama wins the election even though I don’t live in the USA. I
think he made a very good progress the last four years and that he would make a
great American President.
We think
everyone is entitled of their own opinion and who they support when it comes to
the election. Obama is our favorite candidate and we hope to see him win and
become the president of The United States once again.
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