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in 2012, Americans threw out over 35 million tons of food! This statistic is 20 percent more than what we threw out in 2000. Approximately a third of all food produced worldwide never gets eaten. This is not the biggest problem though, food landfills produce methane. This is at least 20 times more lethal than carbon dioxide.

Considering the fact that we are trying to solve a problem in America, we as the Americans should be the priority when making all these decisions. Forget amnesty and lets increase funding for protection of borders.

Newly released documents confirm what critics have long suspected-that the National Security Agency, a component of the Defense Department, is engaged in unconstitutional surveillance of Americans' communications, including their telephone calls and emails.

A person is much, much more likely to be killed by a gun in the United States than in any of these other countries, and it isn't remotely close. The gun homicide rate in the United States was more than 25 times higher than in other high-income countries, according to a new study in the American Journal of Medicine that examined death rates per 100,000 people.

I do agree with the fact that people in america are more likely to be killed due to gun violence. But i think it is because our country is more privileged when it comes to even having access to them.

The Edward Snowden leak case, which exposed some of the practical elements of NSA surveillance operations unknown to many Americans, has also revealed just how divided the nation remains over whether the government should be permitted to intrude on privacy to safeguard national security.

Americans think it is more important who information is shared with. While some think its more important as to what is shared

The right to vote is one which the majority of Americans protect and hold very Valuable. Although many people do not believe that their vote will make a difference, the numbers add up and in the end, they do make a difference.

Truuuue many younger people think their vote doesn't matter so they don't vote. And when a large amount of people believe that the numbers will show.

"More than 6 in 10 Americans now favor allowing illegal immigrants to eventually become U.S. citizens.There is said to be an estimate of 11 million illegal immigrants living in the united states.

"President Obama is suggesting that House Republicans on the issue of gun control appear neither willing to work with him nor inclined to listen to the American public on the issue."

This article discusses the mediocrity of public schooling and the how it stream lines the childs mind, not allowing creative thought. It compares the education of our founding fathers and their passion for learning with our modern day system which has lead to the American public being complacent about education and the state of our country.

This lengthy report by the ACLU discusses the Patriot Act and gives evidence of government overreach. It calls American citizens to demand their constitutional rights and for congress to do their duty and make the necessary changes.

(AP) WASHINGTON - As the income gap between rich and poor widens, a majority of Americans say the growing divide is bad for the country and believe that wealthy people are paying too little in taxes, according to a new survey.

I liked this article because it shows how if everyone payed the same tax rate increase it would add up to a much larger amount then if we just put the higher tax on the 2 percent of the higher income indivuals. It also shows how much the "rich" pay into taxes and how little much of the mid class pay at all. It was very informational.

In this article it explain how illegal immigrants do pay taxes, and how, and also most of which they might never get a chance to claim, and benefits the American citizens now.

Do students have a right to ethnic studies in this country? Students in Tucson think so.

This book written by James Smith discribes the affects of the estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in the Southwestern state of Arizona. Smith, an economist, describes the economic, demographic and fiscal problems facing Arizona.

Romney and Gingrich argue over illegal immigration. Romney wants the 11 million illegal immigrants that have jobs to go back to their country and let the legal Americans that need work to work. Gingrich agrees that something needs to be done with the immigration. Romney and Ginrich also argue over mortgages.

In this article, the author feel our constitutional rights are at risk with the new National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed by President Obama. She goes on to explain that the new act will let the government detain anyone who may be affiliated with terrorists, or the sources of terrorists without a trial, which is our Sixth Amendment.

The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop what is described as an "online persona management service" that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world. The project has been likened by web experts to China's attempts to control and restrict free speech on the internet. Critics are likely to complain that it will allow the US military to create a false consensus in online conversations, crowd out unwelcome opinions and smother commentaries or reports that do not correspond with its own objectives

This is the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) site that gives many different leads to Illegal Immigration.  Articles such Jobs that illegals consume, the DHS, and also how Illegals Arrive legally versus those who aren't.