Money in Exchange for Insignificance

I believe that the article, Time to Take a Bite Out of Wasteful Spending, is an accurately written commentary in which the government is looked down upon by revealing the, evidently, pointless waste of money coming from their part. During conferences, the political employees are provided with food and luxuries that they do not need. This isn’t only unnecessary, but also very expensive and greatly hurtful to the economy. The author is able to inform the reader that in 1,832 conferences, held by the Justice Department, about $121 million were wasted. Money that should not have been spent. If they had not been held in extremely expensive hotels, with ridiculously pricy food, there might have been a couple of million bucks saved for possible emergencies or things that matter more than satisfaction for government officials. The author exposes “that the Obama administration is embarrassed by the revelations,” and they believe that the administration should feel guilt, I definitely agree with them. They also suggest that “those at the Justice Department responsible for such wasteful spending should be held accountable,” a statement that I completely concur with as well. It is wrong that during a recession like the one we are currently in, those that seem to be more financially stable are the ones that are making the economy decline.
The author is able to make the reader recognize a problem that has to be communicated to the public. They try to compel the reader into believing that the government is not handling their money right and something has to be done.

...With Injustice For All

While reading many articles of the death sentence for Duane Edward Buck I was impelled to read about the death penalty in general and Governor Rick Perry’s standing, or rather influence, on it.
I found an article by Brandi Grissom, Under Perry, Executions Raise Questions, in which she explains some of the history of Rick Perry’s numerous amount of times in which he refused granting clemency or other justice-prone requests. According to a spokeswoman for Rick Perry, he has disagreed only three times for clemency with accordance to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. However, there have been a good 234 executions under his governance, the highest number under any governor in the whole nation! Grissom also gives us examples of four different times in which the patient had either a mental incapacity, was a juvenile at the time of the murder, was not the shooter, or his counsel was questionable. None of which were given clemency, a sentence to life in prison, or a 30-day reprieve delaying the execution.
This article is extremely important due to the fact that so many people have been killed in a matter of 11 years, some having been innocent and not having a second chance by the government. The article also includes a Visualization in which it shows all the victims of the death penalty, their stories, and their last statements.