In the Presidential Election of 2008, we have the choice of two eligible candidates, but we can only elect one as President of the United States. In this essay you will receive facts on the two Presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain. Both of these Senators have a lot of knowledge and solutions about the issues that will face them as the next United States President. Some of the issues they will encounter during their discussions are the economy, the war in Iraq, same sex marriages, unemployment, and healthcare. Two issues that I think are the most important in this election are education and energy/oil prices, because they have affected my family in negative ways. Through these issues I have decided who is a better candidate.
School teacher do not get paid enough for all the things that they do. They educate the student, make sure the kids stay out of trouble, and sacrifice their personal time having tutorials and organizing extra curricular activities. Some schools could have better teachers if they could receive better salaries. A good teacher does not want to have a “crappy” check for all that they do for and with the kids. Other school have bad curriculum. They spend so much time teaching student how to take standardized tests, because with better test scores the school district gives the school a higher rating. With higher rating they get to keep control of their school. With this, the student does not have a “well rounded” education.
Both McCain and Obama have a lot to say about education. McCain want to support charter school and vouchers. A school voucher is also called an education voucher. It is used so that the government can pay taxes so that kids in one school district can go to a school in another. Obama also wants to support charter schools but not vouchers. On this particular subject you can see that McCain and Obama agree on supporting charter schools but not vouchers. They are both right for if we should support vouchers or if we should not support vouching. If America did support vouching then everyone would want to go to the good schools and it would take up a lot of room in the schools and cost more money which means greater taxes. But if America did not support the voucher system, good students that live in a school district where their neighborhood has low property value did not have good schools. They disserve to go to a better school.
McCain also believes that some teaches do not get paid enough for what they do for children. He thinks that the better teachers should get paid more and the not so good teachers should not get paid less. Obama also thinks that good teachers should get paid more. Senator McCain, Senator Obama and I agree that good teachers should get paid more for what they do. McCain says that bad teachers should get paid less. McCain is wrong because there should not be bad teachers teaching kids. This is the point I believe Obama was making. I am with Obama on this subject.
The last issue is energy and oil prices. In America gas prices are too high. In the last year, the price for gas has nearly doubled. It used to take only forty dollars to fill up my dad’s car; now it takes almost eighty dollars. Even forty dollars for a full tank of gas is too much. My cousin, who is twenty three, said when he started driving, gas was one dollar a gallon. In the year of 2000, the gas price was 1.27 and on 7/6/08, gas was 4.12. Gas has more that tripled in the span of 8 years. Even though gas is very useful in our day to day lives, our dependency on gas is not good. We should have alternative resources of energy like, solar, hydro, and wind. If we could find a way to harness the energy in solar, hydro, and wind energy, we would do more then save money, we would be saving the earth.
McCain has his own way of thinking. He does not want any subsides for wind and or solar power. He wants more domestic oil drilling and clean coal. Where he wants to drill. Obama wants clean coal too and he wants large subsidies for renewable energy research. Obama does not want offshore drilling either. They both support nuclear energy. I do not think that we should use nuclear energy because it is destructive. It takes years for an area to recover from nuclear activity. A few decades ago a nuclear plant exploded in Africa and to this day, people still suffer from that explosion. Even now, children are born deformed because of the nuclear explosion.
From those two issues, education and energy/oil prices, I believe it is difficult to choose one candidate over the other. The way I decided to make my choice was assisted by a quote from John McCain, “I have voted in favor for over 90% of what George Bush has proposed to congress.” So, if that does not make you vote for Obama, then you do not care for this country. I know I do
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Trey I am going to have to agree with you, education and energy are definitely two of the biggest issues. For decades, we have undervalued teachers and learning itself. I feel fortunate that I was able to get a good education, but there are so many who do not have that luxury. Also, the world will run out of oil by the end of this century, so petroleum prices will go nowhere but up. We are so addicted to gas and foreign oil that this problem will take decades to fix. Hopefully, you will be able to sit back one day in the future and tell your own children about oil dependency like it was a thing of the past.
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