House Election essays

House Election essays The two main candidates who are running for the seat in the house for the Eighth District of Ohio are, for the Republicans, incumbent John A. Boehner, and for the Democrats newcomer Jeff Hardenbrook takes the place as their representative. Each has his own set of issues which that are known as big issues not just locally but nationally as well and they each show their viewpoints on them. Beginning with Democrat Hardenbrook, his key issues revolved around Health and its growing cost to obtain health car and it benefits. Social Security Trust Fund is another one of Hardenbrooks goals, which consists of stopping the efforts to privatize Social Security by gambling on Wall Street. His economic views lean towards re-examining million dollar tax breaks to millionaires and strengthening funding for education, and while on the topic of education, he feels that current education reforms focus on high stakes testing while reducing proven education winners such as fully funded Head start and special ed programs, putting more teachers in classrooms (and giving them higher pay), and increasing funding for improved infrastructure (both buildings and technology). Improving the technology available to schools he believes will help reduce the digital divide that is becoming more noticeable between minority and lower income students and their middle to upper income counterparts, who typically have ready access and an established comfort level with computers at an earlier age. He also believes that providing post-secondary financial support to students is imperative for the continued development of our workforce. This post-secondary support could be addressed through a national service organization which could help strengthen our information technology economy. His foreign views run along the lines of depending less on foreign sources of energy i.e. oil and of course improve relationships which grow representative democracy, human r...